I mean, if they left for battle any time before their 19th birthday, they wouldn’t fit the rule, and there were a lot of drafted 18-year-olds.

Wouldn’t any defense, other than where you can say, “It wasn’t me, I wasn’t there,” kinda boil down to that, though? You’re saying that the accuser is not telling the truth.

Its literally his lawyers entire job to present the best defense he possibly can. He can be disbarred otherwise.

It should be noted that saying “she’s lying” and “she wanted to have sex” is the legal defense for rape. It is “her claim is not true” and “she consented.”

Is disputing the allegations a legitimate defense in your mind? If not, why?

Yeah! And fuck that 6th Amendment! Jury system - get bent! Anyone accused of a crime should be strung up in the city square, trial be damned!

If you represent the accused, why on Earth would you bring up the settlement in the civil case? That makes you look guilty, not innocent. I doubt if they would even let that into evidence.

How is he a piece of shit and his lawyers as well ? You do understand how the american judicial system works ? Each lawyer (prosecutor and defence) are supposed to do everything legal to get their client off (or convicted if prosecutor). Thats their job and the expectation when you pay them. Its a shitty system ..…

The article’s not 100% wrong. But it’s close.

Why is the lawyer a piece of shit?

I never said it was “impossible” because it’s obviously not intended to be.

How dare a lawyer defend their client

I mean, that’s probably what any good defense attorney would do in this situation. They can’t argue that these things didn’t happen, because they did and that’s been well-documented, so the only thing that’s left is attacking the credibility of the accuser and claiming that the events in question were consensual. The…

If u don’t have any hard evidence the defense is going to go hard on the credibility of the accuser.

Casey Affleck was accused of sexual harassment not rape or assault.

Yea, um we’re supposed to be outraged because someone is defending themselves in court?

this is the lawyer’s job. I’d be shocked if someone who was supposed to represent a defendant was like “nah fuck it lock em up”

But, but, but a tech company has it in the hub of San Francisco. There can’t possibly be companies outside of the hub.

TLDR; Board works for shareholders; Travis has all the shares.

Realistically Democrats are going to need majorities in the Senate and House to accomplish anything anyways. Increasing party polarization has made it much, much harder to do cross-party deals on anything that isn’t defense-related or really banal (like ceremonial holidays).