c/politics · by TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 137d

Supreme Court paves way for dismissal of Steve Bannon contempt of Congress case

https://thehill.com/homenews/5817721-supreme-court-steve-bannon-conviction/

They’re all going to get away with everything, aren’t they?

162 points · 14 comments · view on lemmy.world

14 Comments

kescusay@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 137d (4 replies)

A bitter lesson in all of this is that the universe isn't fundamentally fair or just. Sometimes, bastards like Bannon get away with shit and never suffer any consequences for it, and there isn't even a hell for him to suffer in after he dies on a mountain of booze and ill-gotten gains.

And that's why it's up to us - always up to us - to impose fairness and justice on the universe.

It's also why the price of freedom is vigilance. Somewhere along the way, a huge chunk of us became apathetic. We stopped voting. We stopped giving a shit. Which is exactly what the Bannons, the Trumps, and the rest of those shitheads wanted.

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 137d

The idea that they’ll suffer in hell really is a convenient one, isn’t it? You virtuous people are to bite your tongue and bide your time, for god has a plan. Meanwhile the rich traffic and fuck our children because they believe they’re allowed to.

GraniteM@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d

The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. "We ignored Hitler," he said. "We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all."

They thought of the government as "They." The only possible route to a clear conscience in politics is to accept political responsibility, either as an active member of the party in power or as an equally active member of the loyal opposition.

--Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d (1 reply)

Everyone has just enough to not fight back. We aren't there yet.

Well, except Luigi.

Sassinake@mastodon.social · 3 pts · 137d

@chalupapocalypse @kescusay allegedly

ClownStatue@piefed.social · 14 pts · 137d (2 replies)

Making sure I understand this: All the SCOTUS has done, really, is accept the DOJ's abandonment of the case? Not getting into whether or not he is guilty (he is), or whether or not the DOJ is doing this for purely political reasons (they are), but if the DOJ no longer wants to prosecute the case, isn't this just the SCOTUS saying, " OK?" which was probably a foregone conclusion after the Solicitor General told them they were abandoning the case back in Feb?

Don't get me wrong, it absolutely sucks, and I'm not at all surprised. But didn't we all know this was going to happen? Just like we all know Bannon, and likely Navaro), will successfully sue the DOJ for some absurd sum that they will "settle out of court for undisclosed amounts." Right? Everyone knew this, right? This is/will be another example of the taxpayers paying Trump's henchmen.

TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 137d

Yep, if he wins this I am sure he will turn around and sue for wrongful imprisonment.

8oow3291d@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 137d

if the DOJ no longer wants to prosecute the case, isn’t this just the SCOTUS saying, " OK?" which was probably a foregone conclusion after the Solicitor General told them they were abandoning the case back in Feb?

Courts can refuse to dismiss a case, though it is rare. In https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/434/22/ lower courts had refused a dismissal, though that was overridden by the Supreme Court with the argument that dismissal

cannot fairly be characterized as "clearly contrary to manifest public interest."

In the case of Bannon, it seems to me that it is very much contrary to public interest to dismiss. We are in extraordinary times, and this is an extraordinarily corrupt dismissal. So if we think it was a foregone conclusion, then it is only because we know SCROTUS is corrupt, right? Not because the law said so.

crandlecan@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 137d

Computer says yes!

orlyowl@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 137d

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 137d (1 reply)

We can make it right

jonesy@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 137d

... By invoking the gods of chaos?

TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 137d

Well, at least he served a little jail time

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d

Because Congress isn't already neutered enough..