“We don’t just charge people criminally and then say, ‘Oops, my bad,’” he said. “I’m at a loss how the U.S. Attorney’s Office thought this was an appropriate charge in any court, let alone the federal court.”
But Pirro pushed back against Faruqui’s comments.
“This judge has a long history of bending over backwards to release dangerous felons in possession of firearms and on frequent occasions he has downplayed the seriousness of felons who possess illegal firearms and the danger they pose to our community,” Pirro said in a statement to NPR. “The comments he made today are no different than those he makes in other cases involving dangerous criminals.”
Pirro should be disbarred for these statements. They have no attachment to the meaning of justice as the constitution presents it.
The President has usurped the Constitution with SCOTUS approval.
Yes, piss off judges. That’s a winning strategy.
They started firing lawyers who wouldn’t endlessly lie to the judge. Then the other lawyers who want a career that will last longer than the Cheeto man’s body quit en masse
So by the power of natural selection, they are now understaffed, with only lawyers who are bad at their job and willing to piss off judges
We’re going to see a lot more of this…
Their hubris seems to be expanding even faster than their power. Saving grace for us, maybe.
It won trump the election apparently. This is a stupid world.
Dismissed because they had no business searching him in the first place, but he remains in custody for violating terms of his previous release.
A federal judge dismissed a weapons case against a man held in the D.C. jail for a week — concluding he was subject to an unlawful search.
The judge said Torez Riley appeared to have been singled out because he is a Black man who carried a backpack that looked heavy. Law enforcement officers said in court papers they found two weapons in Riley’s crossbody bag — after he had previously been convicted on a weapons charge.
