I don’t really get the Republican-adjacent label that’s been attached to the show. It’s storylines talk about issues like indigenous rights, rural development, political corruption, water rights, many of which aren’t really being discussed in other pop culture... It also honestly has a bit of a ring of bias to it?…

JFC. I get that lawyers are required to check their humanity at the door and defend their client, but this isn’t defending the client. This is just being fucking ghoulish.

I think Weinstein is doing what I think Warren Jeffs did: he knows he’s going to lose anyway so he directed his attorney to re-traumatize witnesses all over again as punishment for speaking up.

She voluntarily identified herself as Jane Doe #4 to the press. The court is still required by statute to identify her that way because of the nature of the offense, the press is not. No violation of ethics here.

“Sir, what you’re doing today is exactly what he did to me.”

Haley is is the go to female GOP moderate. Yet, here she is using “Go back to where you came from” racism. Casual racism is the standard of the GOP.

If Raphael Warnock, the eleventh (!!) born son of two Pentecostal Pastors who were presumably born in this country and who’s ancestors probably came over on slave ships in the 1800s as far as I can tell should be deported then what should we do with someone who’s a measly 2nd generation immigrant?

I’m still flummoxed that she was supposed to pay restitution to his family. My memories of Contracts have pretty much gone since law school, thank god, but I’m pretty sure restitution is the value of something you’ve lost. In stabbing the sex trafficking rapist, surely she wasn’t really depriving anyone of anything?

I’ve read some of the comments made by people conceived by rape, and typically given up for adoption - their attitude towards their birth mother is frequently chilling.  Essentially they are glad she was raped because they are more important and more valuable than she is, and anything she had to endure is acceptable…

Conservatives don’t ever seem to consider or mention that the vast majority of unwanted and unloved children go on to lead anything but great and inspiring lives.

Yeah well...Anne Frank’s story might make her feel bad. REALLY bad, not, you know, three-months-of-vomiting-and-then-childbirth-and-then-giving-your-baby-away-to-strangers bad. 

Cherry on top: she knows it’s healing because she’s talked to children of rape.

The good news is, if a woman does not want to abort a child conceived of rape, they don’t have to.

The disconnect there is astounding! And talking like she knows many kids fathered by rapists, gag, the BS coming out of her mouth. She lies.

What I found truly bizarre after they came back and read out the final decision was that they found that she’d defamed him with actual malice (which is knowingly making false statements to damage his standing) and awarded him $15m from that which would at least be consistent... but then they also found his lawyer had…

You’re allowed to not like someone.  Track isn’t like the Trump cult.

There is not a better argument for defunding or abolishing the police than this video (not to mention what happened at Parkland). What are police for, as presently constituted with guns, bulletproof vests, any amount of offensive and defensive military gear, and authority to use all of that at the drop of a hot, if…

Yeah it’s really confusing. In the UK she could definitely be sued and sued into oblivion for this sort of thing - literally she’d be bankrupt with this sort of insane stuff and the potential reputational damage. I know the US has stronger free speech but I’m pretty sure defamatory speech is excluded.

no consequences for them. for anyone on the “left,” there absolutely are.

Yeah in basketball with the court size and rim height being the same the size and speed differentials really stand out. I do try to watch the WNBA playoffs each year and it’s just not even close to even a regular season NBA game when the pace gets frenetic and there has never been anything like the NBA’s epic playoff…