People Are Lying To You About The Trump Indictment

Ken White · 2 Aug 2023 · popehat.substack.com ↗

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Our reading
Anyone who tells you a contested legal question has one obvious answer is lying to you rather than analysing it.

Their wordsHere’s the point: there are legal and factual defenses to this indictment, but anyone telling you that it obviously, inarguably violates the law is lying to you.

Interesting
Our reading
The way to tell legal analysis from partisan lying is to distrust absolute certainty and to trust conceded ambiguity.

Their wordsBe skeptical of absolute certainty not backed up with proof. Be skeptical of pronouncements that there’s only one way a court will ever possibly interpret something.

Interesting