That’s already been done in Pennsylvania, thanks to an election law there.
Subheadline: “If a candidate dies, Pennsylvania state law only allows replacement candidates to be submitted if ballots have not yet started printing”.
Mel Carnahan famously beat John Ashcroft back in 2000 (?) for a Senate seat from MO despite being dead. Unfortunately, Dubya then picked Ashcroft for Attorney General, so that didn’t exactly work out the way we had hoped.
I do, in one particular case:
When his Twuth Social goes public, I expect the results will be totally consistent with the previous time he took a company of his public: He will make millions, and the company will bleed money for years with a total loss of over a billion dollars, and eventually declare bankruptcy.
Organic is defined by national government regulations that vary between nations, change over time, and, in the U.S., allow some synthetic insecticides, but not others. Because of that, I thought it was a bit, uh, strange, that the government accepted his claim that his religion requires food to be organic.
Ah but that’s consistency on his actions not his words
brent bozell has been sentenced to nearly 4 years. the bozell family have been big names in conservative activism. his grandmother is a buckley another big name in those circles.
the prosecution was asking for 11 years, mr bozell was sentence to 3 years 9 months.
from the article:
More than 1,350 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 850 of them have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds receiving a term of imprisonment ranging from a few days to 22 years.
Interesting strategy: the defendant expresses remorse in front of the judge, while his old man screams about liberal bias. Screaming about liberal bias has been the Bozell family business for generations.
WFB would be so proud.
Sounds good to me:
6+ years for andrew taake.
A Donald Trump supporter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray and a metal whip — and who was arrested thanks to a woman’s sting operation on the dating app Bumble — was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday.
Jan. 6 rioter caught in a woman’s Bumble dating app sting sentenced to prison (msn.com)
I had to read that headline three times before I realized that the “sting” occuring on “bumble” was just a coincidence.
I didn’t even catch that!
So it was a “honeypot”?
ISWYDT!
It’s also sometimes referred to as a “honey trap”, or a “10 attack” (think Bo Derek.)
Here is the story about the sting:
So a private citizen set up the sting and then turned evidence over to authorities:
So maybe bumble/sting was a coincidence. Or maybe she deliberately picked Bumble because of the name. Or it is even possible that the app name helped give her the idea. I do not think we’ll ever know.
I have negative feelings about volunteer crime investigation. I hope it does not become common.
I’d have more of a problem with this if law enforcement had instigated the sting. Or if anyone had broken laws. (Is there any evidence of that?)
And since I’ve had first-hand experience with right-wing law enforcement actively enlisting and pressuring private citizens, I understand your concerns.
I’ll wait to see what comes out.
What Witness 1 did sounds legal to me.
I’m not saying it was wrong. My negative emotional reaction may be irrational.
If people start doing this to expose other crimes, eventually someone will make a mistake in setting up their VPN and/or burner phone, lose anonymity, and get murdered by the perp. So please do not try this at home!
Could bee…
But then we’d be menaced by all the criminals who’d been caught by Jessica Fletcher and Batman…
I concur, but this seems more like catching someone we already knew was guilty, just that we didnt have a name, just video.
the supreme court limits obstruction charges in jan. 6th case. the supreme court is sending it back down.
from nbc news:
The court concluded that the law, enacted in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the Enron accounting scandal, was only intended to apply in limited circumstances involving tampering with physical evidence.
The court sent the case back to lower courts for further proceedings on whether the Justice Department could still prosecute Fischer under the new interpretation of the law.
The statute in question, 18 U.S. Code 1512, carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
To what extent the ruling favors Trump remains to be seen. Prosecutors in Trump’s case said that even if Fischer wins, Trump’s conduct would still be covered by a narrower interpretation of the statute.