• mosiacmango
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    1 year ago

    The issues are 3 fold:

    -His co-conspirator had a habit of making up lies about his enemies. He had serious credibility issues.

    -The 17 year old they both raped took a settlement and apparently refuses to testify againt him. I personally cant blame her for taking the money and running instead of becoming a target for her whole life, ala Lewinsky.

    -The DOJ is outright chicken shit. The rumor is that they are afraid to take him to trial because of the above and because of his status as a congressman/ties to trump.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Qualified Immunity is the root issue since it extends to all government workers, the elected officials as well as the officers and adminstrators, and the weirdest thing is that QI is actually illegal under the original wording of statute 1983 of The Federal Code. It just got illegally modified in 1874 by an archivist, and no one noticed until recently. If you look up section 1983 in The Congressional Record of 1871 it has 16 words that weren’t copied into The Federal Register in 1874. The modified law was what was presented to the 1982 SCOTUS in Harlow V Fitzgerald. They made a mistake, and even questioned why the 1871 Congress was so clear about everything except the clause that was removed illegally.