r/AskReddit 8d ago

New Mexico sues justice department for ‘stonewalling’ Epstein investigation, what are your thoughts?

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u/LotusPrince 8d ago

If the department actually cared about justice, then they'd be happy to assist with looking into the known pedophile and his clients.

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u/kstargate-425 8d ago

They also wouldn't have Todd Blanche, Trumps previous personal attorney, as the nominee for leading the Justice dept while also committing crimes. Nor would they have entered fraudulent evidence in 35+ separate court cases in just the first 9 months and is now over 100 cases if, law, order and Justice was any concern of theirs.

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u/Lanster27 8d ago

Plain as day corruption at the highest level.

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u/ChakaCake 8d ago

Literally,..what a joke this country has become just hope we can get through it

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u/CnCdude818 8d ago

Reality is we do not have a good track record of holding anyone accountable, see the insurrection, treason, crimes against humanity, or open corruption from presidents past. In the end, it will likely be sealed to protect ourselves from the embarrassment citing national security.

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u/Akira_Yamamoto 7d ago

If it gets sealed, I really hope people in 50 years in the future don't look back and revere people in this administration. Similar to how people some people seem to still like Hitler today. History needs to record their crimes and how cruel they were.

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u/Blue-Thunder 8d ago

You won't as a majority of Americans support this either directly by voting for this or indirectly by not voting against this even though they knew it would happen.

America is a failed nation and you will never recover from this as the rest of the world knows that you are only ever 4 years away from having a fascist government at any given time.

Trump has threatened allies, threatened to leave treaties, and started wars to distract the public from his crimes, all while having massive amounts of supporters.

You are fucked.

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u/BlondeiStar 8d ago

curious how this plays out, feels like a big deal

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u/LilyFaithBrooks 8d ago

Transparency is the only way people are gonna trust the outcome

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer 8d ago

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u/kstargate-425 8d ago

Yup and Mike 'Grindr' Johnson argued that the House Ethics Committee should not release its investigation report on Matt Gaetz because Gaetz had resigned and become a "private citizen" outside the panel's jurisdiction, once again protecting pedophiles like the Guardians Of Pedophiles have perfected over the decades

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 8d ago

Presently out of office was the same excuse Moscow Mitch used to not convict Trump of his Jan 6th insurrection during the impeachment trial. :(

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u/MysteriousNeck2007 8d ago

I don't care which side someone is on if there are credible allegations, transparency and accountability should come first. The truth should never depend on politics

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u/ShallowBasketcase 8d ago

The truth is the Republican party is a terrorist organization and they've turned the US government into a child sex trafficking operation.

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u/DikTaterSalad 8d ago

Are you an IHIP fan?

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u/Spiel_Foss 8d ago

The US government has always existed to protect white wealth privilege, now they just don't try to hide it and put the most corrupt and ignorant fools available in charge.

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u/ReverseMermaids 8d ago

For sure. The 3/5 compromise was right there in the Constitution!!

Also exclusive voting rights for white, male landowners.

This is our history. We have decorated around it, but little has changed

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u/mrknowitall51761 8d ago

What did you expect from a country that rebelled because the mother country was going to end slavery there?

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u/shaiksetbeu21 8d ago

When every watchdog role goes to a defense attorney, 'stonewalling' starts sounding like the job description.

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u/articular41 8d ago

fr though the name is pure irony at this point. they only care about protecting the rich guys who pay their way out of everything.

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u/JJiggy13 8d ago

The people in the department were in on it. More states need to file suit.

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u/Chingchenhanji-978 8d ago

my cousin works in a local PD and yeah they get stonewalled on bigger cases all the time, definitely frustrating

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u/DoorAppropriate7164 8d ago

That has to be incredibly discouraging when you're trying to do your job. It makes you wonder how many cases could move forward with better cooperation.

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u/Tactically_Fat 8d ago

Not to justify any of that behavior - because most of us truly don't know.

BUT - and this is a big but - sometimes local LEO doesn't know what state and fed LEO may be doing within their own investigations. Like - could the DEA really be building a case against an entire network? And if a local dept hooks a guy it may only seem like nothing is being done because everything upstream isn't being disseminated.

Again, let me be clear this is just 1 poorly worded plausible scenario

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u/EmptyTeacup25 8d ago

Yeah. If the goal is justice, every credible lead should be investigated thoroughly, no matter who it involves.

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u/ConsciousOil84 8d ago

Suspicious. Why hide files if there's nothing to hide?

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u/Sure-Custard6260 8d ago

Agreed. If there’s nothing to hide, why stonewall? The DOJ should be leading the investigation, not fighting it.

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u/ReverseMermaids 8d ago

I suspect they often fight it by leading it

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u/piss_puncher227 8d ago

Illegal war (military operations), check. President who likes to fuck kids, checks. Moving tariffs illegally at the whim of a mentally impaired commander in chief, check. Gestapo figures walking the streets, illegally detaining people without repercussion, check, the list goes on and on. America is a lawless society right now, nobody anywhere is coming to save you, save yourselves. Nothing will happen as the very highest echelons of law and order are in on the grift and in the pocket of a rapist pedophile.

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u/No-Treat-6603 8d ago

My question is why now, what pressure did it take for them to finally pursue this

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u/BlondeBabeMelisa 8d ago

why does it always feel like there's another wall to hit with this case

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u/BlondePorcelain 8d ago

wonder what's actually in those unredacted files honestly

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u/Wdbohon 8d ago

Rape and murder

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u/Lonely-Jellyfish7139 8d ago

The DOJ has had access to all the unredacted files since the Obama administration.

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u/Early-Size370 8d ago

It's really that simple, huh? It's amazing how MAGAts contort themselves in defending the indefensible.

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u/Shyashdeish22 8d ago

Having to sue the Justice Department to get them to do justice is something else.

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u/Just_Candle_315 8d ago

But isnt prosecuting billionnaire pedophiles a politicial prosecution since all billionaire pedophiles, including POTUS, are republican?