Yep. Because he’s a rapist. But a liberal rep wanting to disenfranchise someone elected by the public is a problem. We need to stop calling for punitive action first.

This line so fucking tired. Portlandia makes fun of uppity people, people who take themselves too seriously, and people who are too dumb to advance the ideas they want to advance.

Please stop interfering in our attempts to be offended on someone else’s behalf. If you keep this up, we’ll have to post something in the comments about how we were just “putting this out there” and you “shouldn’t read anything into” this.

I recall that there were plenty of people who said maybe we should pump the brakes on this story since parts of it aren’t adding up. Granted, those people were tarred and feathered on Jezebel and Gawker, but they certainly existed. One particular person was roundly ridiculed for daring to question the story and…

This attitude - submitting people to abuses like castration or rape threats because they themselves are abusers - is just law and order conservatism. There’s nothing remotely progressive about it. Progressives used to understand that inflicting evil on evil people does not make you good; it just drags you down with…

Threatening to rape people and threatening to castrate them are incompatible with any kind of moral authority. The idea that those things can be made good by circumstance just shows how far things have fallen.

I’m sure the people calling for castration and camo-clad assault rifle enthusiasts will act only as a force for good.

He follows the recommendations of the probation officers. How the hell is he “incapable of objectively sentencing?”

I bet all of the black young men who get ridiculously harsh sentences because the judge is afraid of being pilloried in the press will really appreciate this victory.

“It’s nothing short of disgraceful to the entire human race that Jones and others who face abuse for the simple fact of existing will have their entire lives up-ended all because a handful of basement neckbeards can’t find anything better to do with their time.”

The awfulness of this as a precedent should be obvious to any reasonable observer. Judges should not recuse themselves, or be expected to recuse themselves, based on nothing more than public criticism of their lawful decisionmaking. If you think Judge Persky should recuse himself based on the public criticism of him,…

“Please see Donald Trump’s Twitter comment that Hillary’s campaign is paid for by Wall Street, which will demand that its investment pay off, and then immediately look away.”

The answer is this affects federal prisons only. From Jezebel’s vague article, I think the writer doesn’t understand that and wanted to keep it unclear.

Why is it “spectacularly fucked-up” for non-violent offenders to be jailed? It should be obvious that there’s plenty of “non-violent” ways to harm victims, such as theft and fraud. Moreover, there’s plenty of “non-violent” albeit antisocial behavior, which harms society as a whole, such as tax evasion and political…

Rob one person, go to jail. Rob 1,000 with some banking scheme and you can go home and think about what you’ve done?

The phrase to describe the mentality around here - and elsewhere - is “criminal justice reform without criminals.” It’s all good in the abstract. Once actual criminals are involved, well, you see how it goes.

I don’t understand how people who claim to want to be part of a movement for criminal justice reform can insist that even someone who was acquitted has to carry around the burden of guilt for the rest of his life so that the accusation defines him forever. Restorative justice - the idea that we want to rehabilitate…

Jezebel is reporting this rape in a very different way than it usually does.

What I find grossly hypocritical here is the softly-softly approach in this piece, discussing at length whether and how the rape charge should be factored into how the media approaches Parker, whereas when it comes to, for example, Woody Allen, it’s not just him but anyone who even goes near him (Blake Lively, Kristen…

It doesn’t actually surprise me that Broaddrick is more focused on Hilary than Bill. She can’t derail anything for him at the moment. Plus, the current conversation is about Hilary Clinton and her record of service.