She’s in a very difficult position, of her own creation, nonetheless.

https://deadline.com/2026/08/david-hearn-reflecting-pool-jeanine-pirro-charges-dropped-1237015186/

More legitimacy theater.

I know that the courts are still ruling against Trump and the Republicans fairly regularly, but then I hear about situations where they’re simply ignoring the courts’ rulings and little seems to actually happen as a result.

There has to be a mechanism of enforcement for an order to having meaning. For non-lawyer disobeyers, normally what a judge would do is hold someone in contempt and have federal marshals or sheriffs arrest the person. In this situation, no federal judge is going to request the US Marshals arrest a member of the Trump administration because it would create a constitutional crisis and because the executive legal team would immediately appeal it to his Supreme Court who would overrule them. So a smart judge doesn’t want the crisis and knows they will get overruled and won’t use federal Marshal arrest power. As a result, there is no mechanism for non-lawyers. A lawyer like Janine Pirro may have to deal with an ethics complaint, but most of the people in the executive branch doing arguably illegal things aren’t lawyers. So then what? There’s no solution to this, it’s uncharted territory and a complete disaster.

I don’t know the circumstances, but occasionally judges toss trivial things to punish DAs for messing up. It rarely impacts cases with larger punishments. You’re likely referring to a misdemeanor case where the defendant may have gotten a plea deal for 6 months and had a good job and time in jail would have messed that up and resulted in a waste of county resources. Also, things like this occasionally happen to create the illusion of legitimacy. I am not sure if this is a case you read or if you witnessed the judge’s ruling, but the fact that you’re using what is likely a case that carries less than 365 days max time as an example of how a judge will destroy a DAs entire case is in itself revealing.

Have any circuit court examples of cases carrying 10 years? 20 years? Life? No? Oh, I wonder why. Are you a clerk? Assisting an ADA? You’re completely biased and want to see things working. Go read about how impossible it is for the harmless error rule to get overcome on appeal, go read about how structural errors are essentially ignored or the remedy isn’t even release but just go back to start. There’s plenty of articles about this.

https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-131/harmless-errors-and-substantial-rights/

https://columbialawreview.org/content/criminal-procedure-rights-and-harmless-error-a-response-to-professor-epps/

I also once saw someone steal a soda from a store and was going to get a month in jail but the judge tossed the entire case because the DA made a procedural error! The system must work!

Go learn about the harmless error rule. You are incredibly naive. DAs and cops break the rules ALL THE TIME because once there’s a conviction the burden of proof shifts and a defendant, now convicted, in prison has the burden of proving (somehow, while behind bars) that in a theoretical other version of reality they wouldn’t have been convicted had the error not been made.

It’s a nearly impossible standard to meet, especially difficult after conviction, and the remedy is not even necessarily release, merely a new trial.

Not only that, even if a judge and DA and cops violate a defendant’s rights OVER AND OVER they still almost always apply the harmless error rule. Even if the trial is essentially infected with bias and procedural corruption (what could be deemed structural error), courts do not care.

Many decisions the court makes are just denials without opinions also, so it’s not like the court always even justifies why they ignore a convicted person’s request. In other words, the appellate cases you’re reading as a law student showing one defendant got released over an error is a cherry picked case chosen by the court either to create the illusion of a fair functioning system or chosen because the situation is so egregious (that means terrible) that courts will look bad if they don’t overturn it.

But no, there’s nothing functional here.You’re privy to nothing if you don’t understand that things haven’t really been functioning for a long time, primarily because the harmless error rule allows corrupt DAs cops and judges to do almost anything.

It’s shocking to me someone would want to watch this.

Harry Potter was never good. Why would someone even want to read a Harry Potter book obtained before 2020???

The TERF stuff didn’t make Harry Potter bad. It always sucked, and people only realized after the TERF stuff.

I am not trying to argue this, but some people will say “It just looks like a linux distro that is designed to be more agentic friendly, even if some of its backers have unscrupulous pasts.” What is the response to this? Because I’m sure it’s vibe-coded and insecure, but there aren’t really linux distros that are agentic first distros and some computer enthusiasts really like AI. And yes, people can just install Jan or LM Studio on their own in another distro, but some people may want open source code and linux designed for AI. I know people on Lemmy often hate AI, so please don’t hate me for writing this. I just don’t totally get the reasoning aside from some people involved in the project seem to be assholes… or is that the reasoning?

To be honest, if not for security concerns I’d probably try this distro if it weren’t somehow linked to anti-trans things, which makes anything completely toxic. But I looked at the Omarchy page just to see what it looked like and conceptually for people interested in agentic stuff, it didn’t look that bad, it seemed sort of interesting.

Trans people are some of the best network engineers and coders out there and greatly help the open source community. Any open source project that isn’t kind to trans people should be ignored. Maybe that’s the point? That normally a project like this linked to anything anti-trans would be rejected by the open source community and it’s only through soulless corporations and right wing tech bros that this is existing?

There are also rumors, which may be untrue, of a Majestic 12 committee making deals with aliens in exchange for tech. It may be that advances in semi-conductor technology are the “trojan horse,” with AI being a natural and probable consequence of that which was genuinely discovered after the chip advances or with AI first being developed by government and then leaked to the public later via papers and then commercially made public, with the end result making the earth uninhabitable for humans. We also don’t know if aliens and UFOs are merely biological life/advanced travel or if they are some sort of technological/bio hybrid. It’s also possible that these are crazy rumors made up by people who can’t fathom science. I understand the statistical and computational logic of AI, so that doesn’t seem that crazy to me, but sudden semi-conductor advances seem impossible to fathom; but I could just be ignorant. One flaw in an analysis like this is that even without UFOs, aliens, and computers, humans were doing a great job of exponentially obliterating the normal natural environment just based on pollution emissions from cars and other processes.

Who knows?