[ExI] Perjury

[Darin Sunley]

"This makes accusation a weapon." this. A thousand times this.

It's Harry Reid dismantling the filibuster all over again. What is with
politicians, usually Democrats, lobbing nuclear hand grenades and
destroying legal infrastructure that has, and will again, protect them when
they're in power, just to win one little battle?!?

It's like Chesterton's Fence means nothing to these people.

If the Democrats don't think the weaponization of un- or barely-
substantiated accusations won't be used against them when the shoe's on the
other foot, they're out of their minds. Are they really so short sighted?

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 3:01 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Perjury
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> >…The Supreme Court is far more relevant to a H+ agenda than the president
> ever could be…But honestly, I replied to this because I agree with John for
> once and I wanted to relish the moment before it was gone.  (I wish that
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> Ja I am with you there.
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> The reason I take interest in this particular train-wreck is in the legal
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> We think of the confirmation process as a job interview.  But now we have
> what appears to be an innovation, a scary one: where a candidate can be
> accused of a crime to influence the interview.  We know the standards of
> proof necessary to convict of a crime.  If a job candidate has been tried
> in court and found not guilty, we must presume innocence of that person,
> and disregard the accusation.  But if one is accused, tried, found not
> guilty, then the accusation and trial form a kind of second-class evidence
> of some guilt, we cross an important legal line: a person becomes slightly
> guilty upon accusation, even if found not guilty.
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> That makes accusation a weapon.
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> Libertarians in general are watching this case closely.
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