Can anyone make me feel better about my tax dollars defending Trump defaming a rape accuser?

@Thinkerbell I agree that the tort system needs an overhaul, but I'd be careful with an across the board "loser pays" policy without researching it first and seeing how it works in other countries that have it.

Many lawyers won't take cases on consignment anyway unless they're already certain of victory and the potential payout is big enough.

@LeopoldBloom Guys, lawyers don't take cases on consignment but on a contingency fee arrangement, and state bar associations, courts and legislatures have monkeyed with them a little bit, but I haven't heard of anyone seriously talking about getting rid of them now completely for years.

Getting rid of the American Rule and making losers pay the others costs and attorneys fees is actually more feasible, at least in some instances, like defamation, which is what SLAPP laws are about.

@MistyCee I meant contingency. I think autocorrect changed that. However, lawyers generally don't like contingency unless they have a good chance of winning a large amount, so it favors class actions or where the plaintiff was clearly wronged. For anything else, you're out of luck unless you can pay out of pocket.

@Viper Trumpism really does seem to be de novo and we've likely crossed the Rubicon in terms of expecting judicial appointees to apply some kind of different uniform non-political philosophy to their decisions after appointment is my take.

Roberts' balls and strikes thing, even though I got it, always seemed a little desperate and I'm, quite frankly not sure what the whole judicial appointment thing will be like given the fact folks like Cannon sailed through and the turn we took with Hobbes and Bruen.

The whole process has been a mess since at least Bork, but we've now got a bunch of gals and guys on the court buying into the idea that they can and should play an active role in social and political policy, only without the caution and respect for the process that we had with the Warren, Burger and Renquist Courts.

@sunsporter1649 Whoops, I was thinking of Tara Reid I guess.

@AthrillatheHunt Nah, Donald Trump raped her, but we're providing his defense.

@AthrillatheHunt Nah, but the US endorsed raping her, basically.

@LordShadowfire Sadly, I've got friends and relatives who do.

@MistyCee I'm still friends with somebody who supports him. I haven't dared ask what his opinion is on the treason or insurrection charges. And I'm pretty sure most of my biological family supports him, but I wouldn't know.

@MarmeeMarch He did and it was tossed out.

@MarmeeMarch Judge Middlebrooks' ruling points out that Trump's lawsuit was basically incoherent and offered no evidence. He was on strong legal ground if you bother to read it instead of assuming that everyone's out to get your orange savior. Same with the judges who overruled Judge Loose Cannon's stay of the DOJ investigation, two of whom were appointed by Cheeto Benito himself. Believe it or not, most judges aren't mindless shills or on the take. Some of them actually base their rulings on the law and the evidence before them.