>>7320811

Yours is a common, even prevailing sentiment. And while the multi-tier legal system is a reality (connected people have always received favorable treatment, with a few counter-examples created to prop up the "rule of law" myth), people should also reject the idea that the law is powerful or wise enough to keep society ordered. It is not.

The law is arrogant, and it wants you to believe it is even handed and capable of holding society together. But some bad things men do are well out of reach of the law. Most of these bad things are small things. Some are huge.

Manipulating public belief and perception through propaganda, for example, that is PROTECTED, not punished - by the law.

Non-violent and unethical attempts to undo election results by players inside the legal system are of course going to be protected by the legal system. The boundary for this incessant and unhealthy self protection is when the legal system reaches an awareness that it, the legal system, is about to be rejected by the public. When the public views the legal system as a threat to society, and not a benefit to society, only then will the system show even a smidgen of correction.

The law is FIRST, self-serving. It is cold and heartless. It will lie to protect itself. The power of the people to reign this in is called the jury.

>>7320996

Just to reiterate my view of the law, people should reject the idea that if something is "legal" it is "okay."

By design, the law gives massive leeway to inside actors on the presumption that they are honest. The law is loath to admit its own failures and frailty, so protects all but the most egregious offenders.

It is generally LEGAL to act outside of accepted social norms. That fact, in spades, for actors INSIDE the legal system, which is the entirety of the FBI, CIA, Congress, etc.

A couple technical points. No warrant is ever needed to plant a human inside an organization. Warrants are supposed to be obtained for wiretapping, sure, but there is no such thing as a warrant for planting a human informant. It is legal for law enforcement to lie to suspects and to the public - not just legal, this is NORMAL, EXPECTED practice.

So, the FBI and CIA could plant people and false information into a political campaign, without a warrant, and THIS IS LEGAL. Shaheen's question sidesteps the reality by focusing on the word "legal," implying that if nothing illegal was done, then no wrong was done.

This is deliberate subterfuge by the Senator. She is inside the system, she knows how it works, and she will do all she can to defend it. Only when the public demands better, and FIRES these assholes for abusing their power (which is by and large not illegal), only then will the system improve.

>>7321005

Jury is the power of the people in a narrow venue - to defang bad criminal law, and to defang (partly) rogue prosecutors. I say partly in the latter case because prosecutors know that the process can be the punishment. You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride. See Waco bikers cases for an example of this.

Juries have no power outside the courtroom. Liberals gained the upper hand in the legal system by infesting it. They need to be removed and replaced. Part of this can be had by the public holding the legal system to ridicule - I mean seriously, why does SCOTUS, which literally HALLUCIANATES (homo marriage is ->right there<- in the constitution) deserve any respect at all? These people are literally nuts.

>>7321022

"Trust" is not an all-on/all-off thing either. Trust Wray to not pull a Comey against Trump, sure. Trust Wray beyond that? Not me.

>>7321101

Technically yes, but why would he? Easier to get power by hostile takeover than by startup.