While listening to the podcasts on the election, it does seem, that there is a weird disonance between understanding the legal system.

Some people believve, that a law has inert power, that is interpreted by a judge, who then just reads it, understands it and makes a ruling.

On the other hand, there are people who believe, that a law is written as a sentence, that a judge has the inert power to interpret and decide what the correct ruling is.

And I am not comfortable with this gap in understanding.

@LukeAlmighty 1st is how it is supposed to work, 2nd is how it actually functions.
Never mind stupid systems like the EU, where there's these international courts that can supposedly overrule national ones.
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Well, the point was related to the "insurrection" 4 years ago.

One side says, that Trump did act based on a belief, that his interpretation of law would be justified in court, while the other one says, that he BROKE the law, hoping that the judge would change the law by interpreting it.

And that is an insane duality of the same action.

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@LukeAlmighty I don't think Trump thought about law at all regarding Jan 6th.
Maybe when someone told him to back down and leave his supporters hanging, was the closest you'll get to that.

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I am talking about the entire "fake electors" stuff.

The entire protest stuff is just retarded cope without excuse.

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Also, I seriously don't care about the real mental state of Trump in this case, but about the mental framework of people reading the news.

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