Originally published at: You Don’t Need to Be Found Guilty for the Justice System to Ruin Your Life - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This excerpt is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. A central question at the center of our political moment is what happens when state power operates without meaningful accountability? We are living through a period of profound distrust in institutions, from courts to law enforcement to political leadership, and in…
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Love an underfunded legal system that slowly grinds down people of modest means for simple mistakes or bad advice and refuses to address the horrors perpetrated by the wealthy and well-connected.
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I hate to be a broken record about this, but “the process is the punishment.” All that’s needed is to bring a baseless case against somebody a (wealthy) person wants to punish or harass, and let the system go to work on them.
And if you think this is a bad thing and maybe ought to be fixed, txlawyer will pop up and accuse you of being a lawless unprintable, with many a curse and insult. Which is something Democrats and lefties are very susceptible to. And so the gravy train rolls on.
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