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It's not corruption that is the problem in this case but fear.
by Scarbutt 6y ago
It's not corruption that is the problem in this case but fear.
- gruez 6y agoof what? The CIA renditioning them?
- Scarbutt 6y agoSure. A judge may fear dealing with the consequences(to him and to his family) for "siding" with a company from a foreign rival country, in case this company claims are valid and should be granted whatever they are requesting.
- jaywalk 6y agoA judge may also fear a Chinese assassin if the reverse happened, but enough with the fairy tales.
- stale2002 6y agoThis is ridiculous. This is not how US courts work. The US government does not go after a judges family if they make the "wrong" ruling.
- aaomidi 6y agoWell they do go after congress people: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cia-interrogations/cia-accused-of-spying-on-u-s-senate-intelligence-committee-idUSBREA2A0XY20140311 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cia-interrogations/ci... I'm pretty sure there are cases of them going after the judicial branch as well, i'll just have to look for it again.
- liability 6y agoIf American judges are being threatened by the executive branch, that seems a severe form of corruption to me. It also seems unlikely in common scenarios.
- Scarbutt 6y agoI guess is debatable whether the judge should be called corrupt or not.
- liability 6y agoIn this scenario the judge would be a victim of the corruption. If they capitulated to the threats, they would then simultaneously be participants in and victims of the corruption. From what I understand it's common for participants in criminal organizations to be victimized by those same organizations, so this apparent contradiction isn't really unusual.