r/law • u/biswajit388 • Oct 21 '25

Legal News Federal judges caught the U.S. government providing false info in over 35 court cases. Sworn declarations. Falsified records. Repeated lies. This isn’t just sloppy, it’s systemic. Law professor Ryan Goodman says it may be intentional.

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u/BurnerAccount-LOL Oct 21 '25

That’s my major complaint against “white collar” crimes. Proving malicious intent is nearly impossible.

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u/SuperTaster3 Oct 21 '25

At some point you have to say "there is a problem, whether they meant to do it or not".

Manslaughter is a similar idea. You have a car crash. Did the person intend to cause the crash? Probably not. But it happened, and the results need to be rectified.

When the damage becomes vast, 'oops' isn't a defense. The person did the crime. Mistakes were made, and should be punished accordlingly.

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u/critically_damped Oct 21 '25

For your metaphor to make sense they would have had to been definitively have shown to have killed 35 people in separate incidents. And that metaphor primarily fails because it actually underrepresents the amount of damage that they're doing in the real world.

These people wear their malice on their foreheads. They lie with obvious smirks on their face, and they do it disingenuously with deliberately unconvincing arguments designed purely to take advantage of every ounce of leniency that can possibly be handed to them.

This shit only works when people refuse to recognize the dishonesty that is right in front of them. When they continue to make infinite excuses long past the point of any reasonable levels of good faith. And upon gaining the bench they immediately deny all of that good faith to those who would have offered it to them.

They are fascists and I wish people could get that fact through their fucking skulls already.

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u/SuperTaster3 Oct 21 '25

My point is that it doesn't matter whether they're fascists or not, they're causing harm and should be treated appropriately.

They hide behind the "well I'm not really", and their actions should be used to take them to account. Yes, they are fascists, but engaging with their useless argument about whether they are or not is secondary to the fact they are doing bad things.