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None more creative than that found by District Judge Linda Parker, who recently ordered Republican Party attorneys to undergo it a sanction for “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process” when their vexatious claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election came before her court.<ref>[https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_3.pdf ''King v. Whitmer judgment transcript]</ref> | None more creative than that found by District Judge Linda Parker, who recently ordered Republican Party attorneys to undergo it a sanction for “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process” when their vexatious claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election came before her court.<ref>[https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_3.pdf ''King v. Whitmer judgment transcript]</ref> | ||
It is interesting to contemplate the theory of justice | It is interesting to contemplate the theory of justice at work here. It can hardly be restorative or distributive, nor corrective — it axiomatic that one leaves a CPD session no wiser than when one entered it — so we conclude it was motivated by the desire to mete out ''punishment''. | ||
But ''twelve hours'' of it? And it might be more even than that: there were multiple charges; the sanction applies to each; the judgment does not state whether they are to be served concurrently or consecutively. | But ''twelve hours'' of it? And it might be more even than that: there were multiple charges; the sanction applies to each; the judgment does not state whether they are to be served concurrently or consecutively. Since one of the other sanctions is a reference to local professional regulators with a view to outright disbarment, whatever your view of the constitutional impact of the plaintiffs’ behaviour, this is surely cruel and unusual punishment. | ||
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