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Bageled Mind Virus's avatar

and now we wait.

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I asked some lawyer friends doing the impeachment, and I'm legitimately curious.

I watched the...events leading up to Jan. 06, and later I saw Trump's defense team lean heavily on Brandenburg, and my first thoughts were basically that from my non-lawyer understanding, doing back to the understanding of Brandenburg I was given in high school, it didn't seem like the strongest defense for Trump's team? I'd like to ask some lawyers honestly....

because I know that it's a high standard. You have to basically incite something specific, with intent, and then the person/mob has to do that specific criminal thing you told them to do, then. Which is a high standard, but also pretty much the case study I was given in high school was "shithead tells a crowd to violently burn down a building which they proceed to do, threatening the lives of Congress Critters and the VP in the meantime, and bashing a cop to death with a fire extinguisher..."

but then when I saw his legal team brining it up I thought to myself that I may be missing something and should ask some lawyers, ....

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