• ZeroCoolOP
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    I would still encourage the people of Alabama to be highly skeptical of any assurances made by these Republicans in the state. Their word is worthless.

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      At a minimum, it’s dependent on who’s in office: if they have the info, someone else can come into office and charge you until the statute of limitations expire. And if they decide it’s murder, the statute never expires.

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    Selectively enforcing laws is unjust and discriminatory. It’s why it took so long to get gay marriage on the books. Pigs and prosecutors would only target poorer people and those who couldn’t defend themselves and cherry pick cases unlikely to win on appeal.

    This is being used so Alabama shitheels like Steve Marshall can persecute through prosecution all the people he doesn’t like while letting his buddies off. All laws should apply to all people equally.

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    Wait, so fertilized eggs in a uterus are living beings with souls and should be protected all costs (up to executing women who seek abortions) yet eggs fertilized in a petri dish are just discardable medical waste? We’re up to “God has to blow the breath of life right up a woman’s vagina or else it doesn’t count”?

    As the saying goes, if it weren’t for double standards Republicans wouldn’t have any standards at all.

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    Your Supreme Court says they’re children, and you’re pre-emptively saying you’re not going to prosecute crimes against children? For shame.

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    }set foxworthy -on

    If yer Attorney General is saying “I swear I won’t enforce the law - it’s just too crazy!” . . . Yuh just might be a redneck

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    It doesn’t matter what he says now. He lacks the legal authority to grant pardons or indemnity or whatever. And prosecotors lie, especially for political gain.

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      Florida and Georgia and I’m sure other states have already put forward legislation that can punish prosecutors for not prosecuting crimes. Really these are thin veils to give legal justification to remove prosecutors who are viewed as liberal. As I see it, removal of elected officials unilaterally is voter suppression and should not be allowed.

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    The US constantly makes everything illegal, then picks and chooses what it wants to prosecute for whom and when. It means you’re never safe. You can always be arrested or have your life ruined depending on the mood of the police, agents, and DA at various moments in time.

    And these moods and choices vary greatly depending on your socioeconomic status and skin colour to name a couple things.

    It’s a disgusting practice. Write better laws if you don’t mean it.

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      Yup, it’s the Russian-era autocratic way. Nominally be a society of laws, but the laws are so rigid and unfair that everyone breaks them, which gives cover for political will to entirely decide who goes to jail.

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    He’s saving it for a rainy day when he needs leverage over someone dealing with infertility.

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    When the laws have gotten so bad, the only sane option is to just not enforce them.

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      when the laws have gotten so bad, that the a nutjob AG who’s totally down for enforcing other forms of abortion bullshit; is saying it’s too crazy to enforce.