Attorney General Pam Bondi was so furious with six federal prosecutors who announced they would resign rather than prosecute the widow of a Minnesota woman killed by an ICE agent that she fired them before they had a chance to give their notice.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was so furious with six federal prosecutors who announced they would resign rather than prosecute the widow of a Minnesota woman killed by an ICE agent that she fired them before they had a chance to give their notice.
I’m sure I read some suggestion of charging her with felony murder; as in she committed a felony (anyone’s guess what that would even be) and as a result her wife got shot, which somehow makes it her fault.
Almost certainly the felony murder rule. This is a first-year law school concept that they are twisting and perverting - par for the course for this administration - but it basically means that a group committing a felony are all liable for any murders that happen during the course of that felony.
The idea of using it on an innocent murder victim’s wife to feed into an already ludicrous narrative that the victim was the perpetrator is outright evil. It’s not surprising that these people resigned, because if you have morals, you will feel your skin crawl at the very idea of doing that.
An utterly moronic law in the first place. I remember reading a case where a cop responding to a bank robbery negligently discharged his firarm, killing a colleague, and the robbers got charged with that murder instead of the cop.
Imagine being able to kill a coworker you don’t like and someone else goes to jail for it. I’m not saying the cop who pulled the trigger did it on purpose, but this is literally precedent if you wanted to.
It is asinine, but the person convicted of felony murder doesn’t take the place of the actual murderer, it is in addition to. The felony murder has no impact whatsoever on a person more directly responsible for the death.
Since ICE was there in the first place and shouldn’t have been, shouldn’t we charge them with the murder?
I mean if we’re playing cutesy baby games with the rules, those motherfuckers shouldn’t be operating armed terror squads on US soil and they have no jurisdiction over US citizens, so any assault they make on a US citizen is 100% a felony so I think we should charge Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi right away
Oh, I think that’s what all reasonable people agree on. ICE, and at least Jonathan Ross, the murderer, should be charged. But qualified immunity is the reason why this guy and ICE more generally hasn’t already been charged.
Edit: I misspoke, see TipRing’s explanation below.
Qualified Immunity is a protection against civil suits. Committing crimes never falls under its protections. The current issue is that the Federal Government can use the Supremacy Clause to pull any criminal proceeding into Federal Court by making the argument that Ross was executing his duties as a federal agent, if successful the co-opted DoJ can just spike the case or Trump can pardon the crime.
The state has to prove to the court that apprehending a US Citizen is not within ICE’s jurisdiction so the Supremacy Clause should not apply, this is a largely untested situation so we can probably guess how our current Supreme Court will rule on this.
I stand corrected, thank you.
As I understand it, by law there should be an investigation into any time an ICE officer fires a gun.
Naturally, the Trump DOJ has refused to even investigate any instance.
I guess they should have used that one on tramp’s many crimes…but instead they need RICO?
It’s always different for them. For some reason. Somehow.
It’s Wilhoit’s Law:
That doesn’t mean they’re not accountable for their actions.
Im preaching to the choir, I know.
Technically it does, since the law not binding them would mean total impunity but yeah, we’re agreed that it SHOULD bind them 🤷
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_state_(model)
Morals aside, I’m not sure on a practical level what felony they would be able to even try and argue the wife was committing here.
Attempted murder of a federal agent.
The exact same completely bullshit story that they lead out with.
Also felony murder is a bullshit law exclusively used by power tripping assholes. John Oliver did a story on it and how there was a guy who let his roommate borrow his car for a night, his roommate committed armed robbery, and the guy who unknowingly lent his car out went to prison for life.
Wait so by that logic every motherfucker with Ross should be charged with murder
Who is that?
Damn hes got a great hairline
A reporter that asked trump some easy, direct questions during his first term and got substained crazy back. His expressions have been memed.
HBO reporter that interviewed Trump a few years back
Be warned, it’s extremely painful to watch: https://youtu.be/NmrEfQG6pIg
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donald-trumps-2020-axios-on-hbo-interview
https://youtu.be/NmrEfQG6pIg