[underseacables]

This seems lite on facts. Even if I wanted to arrest a sitting judge, it would have to be an act of gross malfeasance to motivate me to even consider arrest. The only thing I can think of… Is, if the judge swore under oath, affidavit, or something like that, that she did not do something when in fact that she did. But even then…

If Patel does not come back with some thing on that level or better, then this was a horrible farce.

[jldugger]

> Even if I wanted to arrest a sitting judge, it would have to be an act of gross malfeasance to motivate me to even consider arrest.

This logic projects rationality onto an administration that does not merit such assumptions.

[mbrumlow]

I think it’s more weird that the person being a “sitting judge” is any party of the equation. At the end of the day judges are just people. I would be more worried about a system that proceeded differently because they were a judge.

[crooked-v]

A judge who's literally in the middle of an official hearing is absolutely a special case.

[prepend]

I would hope it’s not.

I would like for cops to be more humane in arresting people and stop going to place of work to grab people in front of their coworkers. But this seems like just as rude when they go to a “regular” person’s office in the middle of the day and arrest them.

The argument is that if they notify the accused beforehand they may flee. But I don’t buy this as many people will likely turn themselves in if notified. I’m guessing an ai could predict with 99% accuracy people who will self surrender and save everyone embarrassment (and money).

[jibal]

The discussion is about ICE arresting a sitting judge on a bogus political premise ... it has nothing to do with what you're talking about.

[prepend]

I’m talking about the reason why ICE was unable to arrest the suspect that is the nominal reason the FBI arrested this judge.

It seems as if the facts that the suspect was in the judge’s court and then not arrested by ICE at that point aren’t contested. And that seems like a weird thing to happen.

[mbrumlow]

I do t think a sitting judge means what you think it means.

A sitting judge is a sitting judge even when they are at home sleeping.

[GuinansEyebrows]

Judges are "just people" that make up the only one of three branches of government that seems interested in maintaining a system of checks and balances.

[MyOutfitIsVague]

Our system has already proceeded differently based on peoples' statuses. Dozens of lawsuits were canned or dropped due to this election.

[whoknowsidont]

This makes absolutely zero sense. She was arrested because of her actions (or rather, alleged inaction) in court, as a judge.

She is not "just a person" in this case.

I'm struggling with the dishonesty on grand display by some of the comments in this thread.

[jibal]

She ... her ... She

[whoknowsidont]

You're right. Bad habits are bad. Thanks!

[kbelder]

Wasn't the judge female?

[mring33621]

"I would be more worried about a system that proceeded differently because they were a president"

[jibal]

She would not have been arrested if she wasn't a sitting judge on a case involving an allegedly undocumented person. This is all about the Trump administration's ideology and whipping boy.

[mycatisblack]

Psychological projection is a very apt choice, thank you for that. I’ve read a lot of people referring to “sanewashing” when the media tries to explain the mechanism behind the madness but this captures it much better.

[jldugger]

It's a kind of fundamental error we make as humans: we judge the actions of other peoples by the standard of how we would behave, rather than the other person's past conduct or personality. And then we often work backwards from the action we see, guessing at what would have to be true for _us_ to act that way.

[jibal]

That's not what sanewashing is. It's when the media hides someone's insanity, often out of a misplaced notion of "balance". This applied especially to their failing to talk about all the crazy stuff Trump said at his rallies, and their constantly reframing of the unhinged things Trump said in much more sane terms.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/sanewashing

[mycatisblack]

You are correct. Let me rephrase my statement: what I see attributed to sanewashing falls in the projection category.

[jibal]

Some of it may be, but I think most of it is whitewashing driven by media corporate policy.