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Celeste Ng

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Thinking today about my lawyer friend Jermaine, who —when I asked him legal research Qs while writing a dystopia—told me “Well, with a sympathetic judiciary, anything is possible.”

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Alyssa Harad's avatar Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social
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This does mean it can go the other direction too!

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Future-President Perky's avatar Future-President Perky @perkyforpresident.bsky.social
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I’d like to think all juries will be sympathetic toward me.

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mikevagomikevago's avatar mikevagomikevago @mikevago.bsky.social
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There's a reason Putin took over the media and the judiciary his first two years in office. Our fascist party did exactly the same thing, just quietly and over a longer span of time.

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Lezurko 's avatar Lezurko @lezurko.bsky.social
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Not only a sympathetic one but an almost all powerful one as to overturn the Court's decisions takes a constitutional amendment or changes in the Court's composition by death during a time when the opposition holds a majority in Congress and has the presidency, expanding the court has same problem

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