# The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making Part Deux (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083 "2020-06-22T03:36:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5340
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083/5340 "2020-10-22T18:45:47Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > A judge has dropped third degree murder charges against Derek Chauvin. I’m sure that’s going to go over well on the streets of Minneapolis tonight. As **kenobi\_65** notes, this charge was dropped precisely because it didn’t fit the circumstances of Floyd’s death. And, in fact, many criminal justice folks had been saying, all along, that a third-degree murder charge was inappropriate in this case, and that a second-degree charge was the correct one. I [posted about this](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/15889) way back at the end of May, when the charges were first filed against Chauvin, linking to a [Boston Globe op-ed](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/31/opinion/minnesota-prosecutors-charges-might-lead-an-unjustly-easy-sentence-george-floyds-killer/) on the subject by two respected criminal lawyers. But, maybe just as importantly for this thread, what does the decision of a state judge, in a state case, have to do with the clusterfuck that is the Trump administration? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-a-clusterfuck-in-the-making-part-deux-part-1/911083)._