Knowing this administration, it could be all part of the plan.

Yeah, this sounds like a way to turn a certain portion of would be rapes in to murders. 

Not really. He could have said Eric Trump.

So another tough-titty right-wing blowhard ignoring decades of data and statistics in furtherance of fealty to the cult of death agenda. Sounds like an ideal Trump appointee (a younger Jeannine Pirro, who'll parlay a year's tenure in this position into a contract at Fox).

As is this: (brb crying)

And Trump’s magical knack of choosing the absolute worst person for every position continues unabated...

Like many entities that are enabled or strengthened simply by being acknowledged as existing, continuing to ignore it seems to be the best strategy.

Yeah, I think I just realized that about myself, too.

It’s like if 2002 Maddox stripped away any semblance of irony and 2005 Simmons maxed out the Sports Bro persona to run a sports blog together in 2019.

Oh yeah, there’s no lie there. It’s just that my brain first read it as Donald Trump, and thought “yeah that’s fair.” Then the Jr. registered and I had to pause because, damn, true but harsh.

Also the most accurate.

But also the most spot-on.

I’m such a Deadspin fanboy that I hate Barstool Sports despite the fact that I’ve never visited their site.

a site for boys who wanna grow up to be Donald Trump Jr.

Well, it depends. Over-charging is most certainly a thing, but it’s a lot less effective if you don’t have at least some evidence to back it up. If an offense requires proof of A, B, and C, you need something to check off those boxes. It doesn’t have to be good evidence, it doesn’t have to be terribly convincing, but…

I know you spent a lot of time explaining that there’s a lot we don’t know about this investigation. Still, if police thought these women were sex slaves, videotaping them giving handjobs for 6 weeks so they could charge a bunch of people with misdemeanors seems awful callous, even for cops.

That sometimes seems to be the case, but most states don’t let you take the bar exam with a degree from the Google School of Law. 

Lawyer here. The fact that police or the district attorney do not charge a thing does not mean such a thing did not occur, nor that they have no evidence whatsoever of such a thing occurring. It means they don’t think they have enough evidence to secure a conviction. Oftentimes this is because the way a statute is…

The broadest reading of the statute is that if an escort took a cab to see a john, the cab driver is in violation of the statute if he knew he was driving an escort.