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    Thanks so much for the detailed answer, John!

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    Hopefully, in any prosecution, the evidence and intent is crystal clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the partisan leanings of the jurisdiction won't matter.

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    I admire your optimism. There's a two tiered justice system in this country. Political royalty, "intelligence" hacks like Comey, and deep state stooge never face consequences for flagrantly murdering the constitution, breaking the law, and doing God knows what else.

    But the plebs of this country get the book thrown at them for far less. Same reason felicity got 14 days but a homeless mother got 5 years for grand larceny after registering her son in a neighboring district.

    In our "justice" system we throw the book at a hypothetical mother stealing food from a grocery store to feed her starving child and don't prosecute a mother who robs the store to buy some luxury for her spoiled wastrel of a child.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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    Ten District Court Judges have died since March 5.


    Michael Anthony Telesca/ Senior/ Western District of New York/ March 5

    William Benner Enright/ Senior/ Southern District of California/ March 7.

    Albert Richard Caputo/ Senior/ Middle District of Pennsylvania/ March 11.

    Thomas A. Wiseman/ Senior/ Middle District of Tennessee/ March 18.

    Patrick J. Duggan/ Senior/ Eastern District of Michigan/ March 18.

    James Martin Munley/ Senior/ Middle District of Pennsylvania/ March 22.

    Stanley Sporkin/ Retired/ District Court of Columbia/ March 23.

    John Davies/ Retired/ Central District of California/ March 24.

    James A. Redden/ Senior/ District of Oregon/ March 31.

    Kevin Duffy/ Retired/ Southern District of New York/ April 1.

    The Middle District of Pennsylvania has had 6 of their judges die in the past 18 months.

    The Southern District of New York has had 3 of their judges die since February 3.

    Deborah Betts/ Senior/ February 3. Lawrence W. Pierce Elevated to Second Circuit/ died on February 5th and now Duffy.
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    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    I'm still finding it very odd that 8 judges died in the space of 19 days during a pandemic, yet they died of natural causes apparently.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    Coronavirus is a natural cause.

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    Having to die in an isolation ward isn't what I would consider a "natural cause" death.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    It would be no different from dying from naturally acquired anthrax or yersinia pestis. One could die accidentally of such causes, or of smallpox, if not careful in the laboratory, and were such agents to be weaponized, there would be a homicide on hand.

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    Tenth one to die since March 5th.

    Judge from Greenwich who presided over World Trade Center bombing case dies from coronavirus

    By Ken Borsuk
    Greenwich Times

    The town has suffered its first death due to coronavirus.

    Retired U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy, who served in New York’s Southern District, died Wednesday after contracting the virus, according family members.

    Duffy, 87, had been at the Nathaniel Witherell, in the short-term rehabilitation section, before he tested positive and was then moved to Greenwich Hospital.
    The hospital could not immediately comment about his cause of death.

    Duffy had been a Greenwich resident for the past several years and had continued to practice law in Greenwich at the firm of Duffy and Staab LLC alongside his son Kevin Duffy Jr., one of the firm’s managing members. Kevin Duffy Jr. confirmed his father’s death on Wednesday afternoon and said he had been at the Witherell recovering from a short-term illness.1

    Judge Duffy retired from the federal bench in 2016 after 44 years as a district judge in the Southern District of New York. He presided over the trial in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center as well as the trial of members of the Black Liberation Army who took part in a murder and armed robbery of a Brinks truck in Nanuet, N.Y.

    In his career on the bench, he oversaw a famous case involving $98 billion in gold from the Iranian government that was held by the New York Federal Reserve Bank during the hostage crisis. His son said he also presided over a half-dozen cases against members of the mafia.

    Duffy’s death is among the first deaths in Greenwich connected to the coronavirus. The town recorded three deaths on Wednesday, according to First Selectman Fred Camillo.

    Duffy is the uncle of Edward Krumeich II, a former member of the town’s Board of Estimate and Taxation and a current Superior Court judge in Connecticut.

    “When I was interviewed to be a judge I was asked if I had a legal hero and I most definitely did in my Uncle Kevin,” Krumeich said, recalling how his uncle had to be placed under 24/7 guard during and after the World Trade Center bombing case and other terrorism cases that came through his courtroom.

    https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/c...n-15172320.php
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    4% of the Senior Federal Judiciary have already died this year. This year is ontrack to be the deadliest.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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