Democrats just pardoned a judge selling kids to jails for cash. I understand he was old, but he should have died in jail from covid, those kids had their lives sold like slaves, we fought a war over people owning slaves for just cash - prison is a form of slavery, but theoretically it should only be used as punishment for guilty, so innocents going to prison is literally an unregulated slave trade. This isn't a "Republican" issue. This is Democrats too. When was the last time you heard about a rich kid getting the same treatment as a poor kid? Or when was the last time you heard about any judge selling warrants to innocent peoples homes, lives, and existences, in order to have the police/feds go searching for illegal material they HOPE is maybe there. If you haven't yet, you will. Pay real close attention to the ethics of judges over the next 5yrs, they are poised to anchor themselves as an unelected ruling class, not just stuffy bastards that don't have touch with the real world, let alone can get their heads far enough out of their ass their nose might get cold. If AI is good for one thing, its replacing judges. End of story. Then, if AI is programmed with hundreds of years of precedent, and each law is coded in to be applied equally, then and only then can we hope the rich bastard drunk driving gets the same as Jo Bob. An that the courts aren't just a playground for the 1% to pay a fee for their crime, while we face cold hard reality. You want us in prison? You rich fucks will be standing right next to us, wearing the same pink jumper, and we hungry. If all the feds can do is investigate you hoping harrasment will get you to commit a crime, they already lost, they just haven't had their asses kicked on the side of the highway to prove it yet. Their 1% masters will be next.

This reads like an opinion piece and not an article .

The real article he based his opinion on is here

https://news.gallup.com/poll/653897/americans-pass-judgment-courts.aspx

Why would I trust a branch of government who, amoung other things, said; president's rule like kings; money is speech; rulings from the 1600s supercede any modern day interpretation of law.

I wouldn't invite a person like this into my house non the less let them rule a branch of government.

Luigi Mangione has a higher favorability than the US justice system.

That's where we're fucking at.

Maybe catastrophic for democratic norms. But it's perrrrrrfect for fascists and their schemes.

Well, it’s kinda like they’ve given us every reason not to…

35% is far too high.

Blatant corruption, even in the highest court, will do that. Get Thomas out of there. Make Trump pay for his crimes. Otherwise, I guess it's plumbing time.

That sounds bad indeed.

Comparison: over here in Estonia, out of the general population, 71% trust the courts (an increase from 55% as measured back in 2013). Out of lawyers, 88% trust the courts here. A bit north of here, in Finland, 83% of the population "think that the courts are independent or very independent" (I failed to find a direct question about trust).

Dylan Roof kills 9 black people to start a race war. Luigi popped a CEO who was in charge or a system that killed thousands. Which one gets the terrorism charge and why? To send a message, so the serfs don't get uppity. Why would we trust the system? We all know the resources exist, but we still suffer and starve. Fuck the system and fuck the elites.

The US justice system has gone out of its way to make itself not trustworthy. It's surprising it's that high.

Trust in law enforcement has been plummeting for a long time too. Prosecutors are going to have a much harder time convincing a jury of much of anything.

For the life of me I'm baffled that's it's as high as 35%

When you have judges accepting cash for kids 35% seems outrageously high.

Won't trust it until Trump is in a cell.

There's two justice systems. There's two classes. Until this bullshit ends, it's the same as it ever was.

It's always that same 30 to 35 percent and yet it's the immigrants they want to deport.

i trust them to not have our best interest at heart

30% lost faith when we prosecuted Trump.

35% lost faith when Trump walked.

Seems to track to me!

The Supreme Court is corrupted, so every court in the country is corrupted

Supreme Court.

Trump.

Now split this data out by income and you’ll get a much different set of data.

Hard to trust something that is not set up or built to work for or protect you.

Where have those 35% been? It’s been demonstrated rather publicly and blatantly that only power and money matters.