To me this whole thing feels like lawfare. Regardless of whether what he’s doing is legal or not, the only reason this DA in Philadelphia is suing is because he or his office want to attack those who are in the opposing political camp. They have so many other priorities that are higher, like actual physical crime. But suddenly they have all the time and money in the world to focus on this? No the bizarre choice to put this first is politically biased, and that makes it lawfare - an abuse of power.
Setting that aside - it seems entirely unreasonable for a court to expect that the executive of a major company can just randomly appear the next morning. I think that’s unreasonable for anyone who isn’t living locally. How does that even work?
It's called checks an balances. Their motivation doesn't matter. If you don't take the time to uphold democracy, why even bother with physical crime?
They don't expect him to randomly appear, it's a direct consequence of him personally engaging in election interference.
> Setting that aside - it seems entirely unreasonable for a court to expect that the executive of a major company can just randomly appear the next morning. I think that’s unreasonable for anyone who isn’t living locally. How does that even work?
Are you aware of the existence of aircraft? Even after splurging on Twitter, Musk can probably stretch to buying a last-minute ticket.
Like, generally, when you're accused of doing illegal stuff, you don't get to choose when you show up.
It's an abuse of power to prioritize a high profile case in which there was (suspicion of) interference with the election process? what?
I don't understand how the "why now" conversation takes priority over the "why should it be allowed" conversation. Maybe you can answer the latter before the former?
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 23.2 ms ] threadSetting that aside - it seems entirely unreasonable for a court to expect that the executive of a major company can just randomly appear the next morning. I think that’s unreasonable for anyone who isn’t living locally. How does that even work?
Are you aware of the existence of aircraft? Even after splurging on Twitter, Musk can probably stretch to buying a last-minute ticket.
Like, generally, when you're accused of doing illegal stuff, you don't get to choose when you show up.
I don't understand how the "why now" conversation takes priority over the "why should it be allowed" conversation. Maybe you can answer the latter before the former?