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Meanwhile Pam Bondi's brother is a lawyer who's firm represents clients with cases against the justice department, and those cases keep getting dropped. - http

by simonw 9mo ago

Meanwhile Pam Bondi's brother is a lawyer who's firm represents clients with cases against the justice department, and those cases keep getting dropped. - https://www.newsweek.com/trump-doj-handling-pam-bondi-brother-cases-democrats-question-11221215 https://www.newsweek.com/trump-doj-handling-pam-bondi-brothe... - https://abcnews.com/US/doj-drops-charges-client-ag-pam-bondis-brother/story?id=125073335 https://abcnews.com/US/doj-drops-charges-client-ag-pam-bondi...

FireBeyond 9mo ago
Ahh, Brad Bondi, who it is widely rumored to be attempting to join the Bar in DC for the convenient benefit of being able to wield influence in the event of anyone trying to push for disbarrment against Pam...
mothballed 9mo ago
Yeah this is basically a thing everywhere. I was criminally charged in a certain mid-sized town, all I did was search through the court records to find the lawyer who always gets the charges dropped, hired them, and they went away for me too. Unfortunately that's the way the just us system works.
- neaden 9mo ago
  Well what you're describing could just be finding the most skilled lawyer in town. What the other person is describing is bribery and nepotism.
  - mothballed 9mo ago
    Maybe Brad Bondi is the most skilled lawyer in town. It's certainly not in the interest of the clients to have any material knowledge otherwise, nor for it to be revealed to them.
    - Eisenstein 9mo ago
      It is, however, in the interest of the American public not to have a corrupt justice system. Thus, we should not rely on far fetched assumptions instead of investigating corruption where it appears.
      - deleted 9mo ago
        [deleted]
      - rubyfan 9mo ago
        The lack of the later leads to the former.
  - pc86 9mo ago
    It likely is nepotism (and maybe bribery depending on your definition, but very unlikely to meet the legal bar of bribery), but I'm not sure what about the GP's comment makes it so obviously clear to you that it is both of those things.
    - adgjlsfhk1 9mo ago
      is it doesn't meet the legal bar for bribery, it's only because the supreme Court has made most forms of bribary legal (presumably to prevent Thomas from being arrested for taking lots of bribes)
- arcanemachiner 9mo ago
  That might actually be a pretty genius strategy.
  - seg_lol 9mo ago
    Spoiler, that attorney supplies the list of people to charge.

by simonw 9mo ago

FireBeyond 9mo ago

Ahh, Brad Bondi, who it is widely rumored to be attempting to join the Bar in DC for the convenient benefit of being able to wield influence in the event of anyone trying to push for disbarrment against Pam...

mothballed 9mo ago

Yeah this is basically a thing everywhere. I was criminally charged in a certain mid-sized town, all I did was search through the court records to find the lawyer who always gets the charges dropped, hired them, and they went away for me too. Unfortunately that's the way the just us system works.

neaden 9mo ago
Well what you're describing could just be finding the most skilled lawyer in town. What the other person is describing is bribery and nepotism.
- mothballed 9mo ago
  Maybe Brad Bondi is the most skilled lawyer in town. It's certainly not in the interest of the clients to have any material knowledge otherwise, nor for it to be revealed to them.
  - Eisenstein 9mo ago
    It is, however, in the interest of the American public not to have a corrupt justice system. Thus, we should not rely on far fetched assumptions instead of investigating corruption where it appears.
    - deleted 9mo ago
      [deleted]
    - rubyfan 9mo ago
      The lack of the later leads to the former.
- pc86 9mo ago
  It likely is nepotism (and maybe bribery depending on your definition, but very unlikely to meet the legal bar of bribery), but I'm not sure what about the GP's comment makes it so obviously clear to you that it is both of those things.
  - adgjlsfhk1 9mo ago
    is it doesn't meet the legal bar for bribery, it's only because the supreme Court has made most forms of bribary legal (presumably to prevent Thomas from being arrested for taking lots of bribes)
arcanemachiner 9mo ago
That might actually be a pretty genius strategy.
- seg_lol 9mo ago
  Spoiler, that attorney supplies the list of people to charge.