Friday, September 04, 2020

All rise

We haven't looked in on the wonderful world of legal procedure lately.

Paul Rusesabagina has become vocally critical of the rule of Paul Kagame since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when he sheltered hundreds of Tutsi in the hotel he managed.  I'm sure that had nothing to do with his arrest on charges of murder, kidnapping and terrorism.  I'm equally sure his case is far from unique; it just got more attention because Don Cheadle played him in a movie.

Mehdi Rajabian is an Iranian musician who was arrested for collaborating with women.  That's all.  I read the whole thing and he hasn't killed anyone.  Maybe Cheadle should play him.  Iran's response to coronavirus has been nearly as incompetent as the Trump regime's, and with elections scheduled for next year the ayatollahs are cracking down on everything in sight.

Still no arrests in the killing of Breonna Taylor as she slept, but prosecutors in Louisville offered her ex-boyfriend Jamarcus Glover a plea deal on drug charges.  All he had to do was say the dead woman was part of his "crime syndicate."  He refused.

Jury selection has apparently begun in the trial of juvenile delinquent Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two people last week in Kenosha.  Rep. Thomas Massie says he should not be called because he has already decided to acquit.  Since Massie lives in Kentucky he should probably save his voir dire until it's time to acquit the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor.

Republican Policy Committee chair Gary Palmer of Alabama and Study Committee Chair Mike Johnson of Louisiana want Big Bill Barr to determine if Nancy Pelosi violated 18 U.S.C. section 2071 when she ripped up a copy of Trump's speech last February.  They have not asked him about Trump's habit of ripping up official documents (and even, according to Omarosa Manigault Newman, eating them).  I have no idea what the Republican Study Committee does, but if they help one another cram for the bar exam, they need to work harder.

Trump continued to press his campaign theme of "law and order" by urging followers to vote twice and by defending Kyle Rittenhouse's trip to Kenosha to self-defend some businesses by shooting people.  Both are felonies.  Maybe Palmer and Johnson would like to call the DoJ again.


















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