That's the title of my latest piece in The Hill, which you can access here.
Here's how it starts out:
Cheating to gain an advantage against your opponent is as old as competition itself.
In the last few weeks alone, we have seen cheating scandals in chess, poker, and even fishing.
Magnus Carlsen, the world’s top chess player, has accused Hans Neimann, a 19-year old rising star in the chess world, of cheating. Neimann admitted to previously cheating in online tournaments, after which Carlsen said: “I believe that Neimann has cheated more — and more recently — than he has publicly admitted.” Neimann offered to play Carlsen naked in an attempt to refute the allegations. The website Chess.com conducted an investigation of Neimann’s online play and has concluded that he cheated in more than 100 games, including in matches where prize money was at stake. He has been banned from playing on the website.
Just last week, poker had its own cheating scandal — Robbi Jade Lew was accused of cheating when she called Garrett Adelstein and bet $269,000 even though her hand was a lame jack high. Lew returned the money but has denied cheating. She has challenged him to a heads-up game. The casino where the match took place is taking the allegations seriously — it has hired a law firm to conduct an investigation, which may include a polygraph test and a third-party cybersecurity firm.
Poker and chess, fine. But fishing? Yes, even fishing. At the Lake Erie Walleye Trail tournament in Cleveland, Jacob Runyan is accused of inserting weights into fish so he could win a $30,000 prize. He was disqualified, and an investigation has been initiated over his past three tournaments, which he and his partner won.
We’ve also seen cheating in ice-skating, baseball, and even paralympic basketball where the winning team faked IQ tests so that they would qualify to compete. Jaw dropping, right?
But when those folks cheat, there is a real investigation and they are punished (and of course, their victims do not end up in jail).
Not so when prosecutors cheat: No one really investigates; they are almost never punished, and their victims can spend years in prison.
Please let me know your thoughts.
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But they are doing God's work. And, the whole system has problems. We have more ideological judges than ever., the FBI can't be trusted. And the media no longer employs journalists
I honestly can't tell if 2:17 is being sarcastic or not.
If you ain't cheating you ain't trying
Anyone remember Kurt Marmar?
Anyone remember Alzate!
Aside from fighting perceived "cancel culture" with cancellation, how is this okay?:
"Judge Elizabeth Branch on Friday said she would join the boycott launched in September by fellow Donald Trump-appointed Judge James Ho, of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Branch — who serves on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta — told the National Review that she has “legitimate concerns about the lack of free speech on law school campuses, Yale in particular.”
“Like Judge Ho, I am gravely concerned that the stifling of debate not only is antithetical to this country’s founding principles, but also stunts intellectual growth,” she told the conservative outlet.
“Accordingly, I accept Judge Ho’s invitation to join him in declining to consider students from Yale Law School for clerkships with me, with an exception for past and current students.”
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Canon 5: A Judge Should Refrain from Political Activity
(C) Other Political Activity. A judge should not engage in any other political activity. This provision does not prevent a judge from engaging in activities described in Canon 4.
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"The goal of cancel culture is to make decent Americans live in fear of being fired, expelled, shamed, humiliated and driven from society as we know it"...
- Donald Trump, 2020 Republican National Convention
"Cancel culture, censorship & runaway wokeness have placed us on the edge of a “Cultural Revolution” where, like Mao, the goal is to destroy the “four olds” - old ideas, old customs, old habits and old culture."
- Marco Rubio, Twitter, March, 2021 (also see his ad currently playing)
There are too many others to quote, but you get the idea. The right has made this a political issue for the past couple years and are actively campaigning on it - fine, that is there prerogative. But, two sitting federal judges should not be wading into the fray and announcing their positions publicly in the form of politicized statements.
Saying you're not going to hire them isn't really cancelling. Cancel culture tries to destroy transgressors and make it so no one will hire them, permit them on social media, or allow them to speak.
9:50 am
Your welcome
@950 - I fail to see the difference between what you described and what is being done. A federal judge publicly saying I won't hire X person or group of people for Y reason is just that.
1:21 it's actually worse. These judges are punishing innocent YLS students from certain clerkships to punish YLS apparently for failing to discipline students who disrupted a speech by a conservative speaker from a purported hate group. By doing so Ho and Grant show how hypocritical they are.Go back to your FedSoc cave.
Yeah, the judges should have taken the high road and just declared YLS grads a hate group. That's the correct way to do it.
And defense attorneys have no rules and can bend the RPR for the sake of their clients! Everyone knows that in the SDFL!
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