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yesss, I guess we’ll have toooo

*laughs awkwardly in totally not already vegan*

“Dey took ur jerbs!” 😡

“Ew, not those jerbs.” ✋😒

Trump inadvertently tackling climate change by making animals unsafe to eat.

Just to add, if it’s found that evidence was destroyed, beyond potential seperate charges for the destruction itself, a judge would also typically give an averse inference instruction to the jury. That means the jury should assume that the destroyed evidence would have been damning to whomever destroyed it.

What that tells me is, assuming google acted rationally in the destruction, either they think they have a reasonable chance that they can beat the evidence destruction charges, or that the evidence is so damning that the reality of the situation is considerably worse than whatever adverse inferences might be drawn.

(I am not a lawyer, so please take my interpretation with a large grain of salt.)

It’s judge arrests all the way down!

Some people are just fine being horny on main, I guess. And hey, what’s wrong with a bit of free advertising? 😏

It definitely takes a bit more guts to do it under an oppressive regime, though.

I mean… maybe? Could an EO be used to just dismiss an existing case? Maybe. It’s kinda make believe land over there right now, so it’s hard to say what is and isn’t in the realm of possibility.

And I don’t know the legal system well enough to say for sure how he could go about it. Presumably some bureaucracy would have to be intervened in to stop the case from proceeding normally. Whether or not he could do that legally seems to be a bit contentious:

https://hls.harvard.edu/today/what-power-does-the-president-have-over-the-federal-bureaucracy/

However, there’s also the question of could he just have some cronies walk in to the place with a bunch of dudes in black suits and do it anyways? I think the DoJ would be pretty pissed if he tried that, but he’s already been flirting with contempt of court and we haven’t seen any judge pull the trigger on that yet, so we’ll see, I guess.

There’s also the fact that nobody’s given him incentive to do it yet. They’ll probably wait and see, as Trump would likely need a sizeable reason to step in, so why pay potentially more on Trump whithout knowing what the damages will even be, right?

I think you’ve got keep in mind that the cogs of the justice system turn slowly.

This is the district level damages decision which will finalize a ruling that was made nearly a year ago. After that, it can be appealed which can be heard by the circuit courts, and then finally the Supreme court, which is ostensibly where Trump has the most sway.

If there’s no play here, it’s because it still hasn’t got far enough through the system for him to want to interfere at this point.