• CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honest question, is that a defense that has ever actually worked for crimes this serious? I can understand something like “Your honor, I totally thought I could park there because a police officer said it was fine, but then the parking enforcement wrote me a ticket!” But not “Your honor, a very Bigly smart man said I could totally disenfranchise all of America and it is very cool and very legal!”

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      1 year ago

      It can work but probably won’t in this instance. There was an article about it posted yesterday that talked about it.

      I think his actual strategy is to delay as much as possible and either have his own AG drop the charges, or, have a GOP president pardon him.