Russia now controls 30% of Ukraine. That is 150,000 sq km —roughly the area of England and Wales combined. But the Western mainstream media is feeding delusional lies to keep the flow of weapons and $$$/€€€, a lot of which involves kickbacks and slush funds.
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Canada announces Euthanasia for the Poor. The "euthanasia law" was originally intended for the terminally ill. Now it encourages the death of those "too poor to continue living with dignity."
The euthanasia law has made suicide an option for those deemed by the government to be a burden to society.
https://diariodevallarta.com/en/canada-le-abre-las-puertas-a-la-eutanasia-para-pobres/
we are already in ww3. fifth generation warfare.
Just as the title says.
Fighting wars with bombs, armies and shotguns is obsolete.
Ww3 is already happening and the battlefield is your own mind.
Fifth generation warfare (5GW) is a war that doesn't look like a war.
Misinformation campaigns, poisoning the population, making mental illnesses a cool thing between the teenagers, drugs being glamourised, psychological operations, make neighbours and family members fight with each other over stupid matters that the media made up, poisoning the food, fluoridate the water, dumb everyone with endless scrolling and tiktok, making people scared and afraid to hug their brother or leave their home.
Get everyone addicted on benzodiazepines and ssri, make the black people feel like the white people hate them and viceversa. Depression, anxiety, autism on the neverending rise. The average citizen is too dumbed down to care about the state of the world. Make them busy with the heard vs depp trial. Make them busy with stupid, unimportant things.
Tell all the women that all men are evil and narcissistic. Push porn and soft porn (instagram) into the face of men every single day so that he will have unreleastic expectations from women.
Tell the people that fat is healthy. Tell people that proposing a friend to get to the gym and drop the French fries is insulting and not because you care for their health. And then still show unrealistic beauties through unrealistic instagram filters so that the other women go through anorexia.
Destroy cultures. Destroy them through social media. Eat away people's precious life time with endless doomscrolling. With lockdowns. Make them feel scared to socialise. Make them feel scared to approach people. Social anxiety on the neverending rise.
Divide the left and the right and tell them that the other side is out to get them. Too busy to fight the common neighbour with a sticker on their car that you don't like to notice what's really going on. Hate more, you need to hate more. Hate whatever they're telling you to hate. Either you ate the antivax, either you hate the provax.
Divide people by age and tell them to hate each other. Boomers are just boomers and millennials are lazy. Give them infinite labels and sublabels so your identity is nothing more than a bunch of labels. So you can hate whoever is not a part of your identity made of endless labels and sublabels.
Boomer Christian Conservative he/him they/them transgender cis women demisexual millennial zoomer punk leftist conspiracy theorists antivax prolife influencer neurodivergent disorganised attacchment
All of these labels are fucking bullshit meant to fuck with your head and put your identity in a box that is supposed to hate and go against other boxes.
You are either with x or against x
The common citizen is too busy fighting their neighbour, too dumbed down and poisoned, too confused about themselves, too scared to socialise and leave the house, too busy making hot filtered selfies for their instagram followers, too busy looking good, too busy not going insane.
Then that's when they creep in. That's when they enter and conquer you, conquer the world. When they enter and buy up all houses, drive inflation like mad and nobody questions it or its too tired to fight against it. That's when they conquer you.
Sun tzu says that the best war is the one without a war. To subvert the enemy, confuse them, reduce their resources to a minimum so you can invade them and they won't even notice.
Ww3 is here and the battlefield is your own mind.
Stay alert, be a mind spirit warrior. Throw your smartphone in the fuckin bin and start taking control of your own mind. Spend time with your loved ones. Take care of your body, eat fucking healthy. Take your vitamins so you can stay away from doctors. Do meditation, go and have your life experience. Create, think, live, repeat. Be a source of inspiration for others, spread your love, don't spread hate. Grow yourself and evolve. This is the only way to fight this war and win.
New Logic Gates Are a Million Times Faster Than Those in Today's Chips
2017 Las Vegas shooting involving CIA plant Stephen Paddock (reposted with permission from Reddit-user: psy_raven)
People of Interest:
(This list is a bit hard to follow because of the long names. This chart : http://www.businessinsider.com/a-whos-who-of-the-saudi-royal-family-2015-2 will help you clarify who is who.)
King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud (King Saud. Deceased) : King of Saudi Arabia (1932-1953)
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Deceased) : 5th son of King Saud. King of Saudi Arabia until his death in 2015. Successor is King Salman
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Henceforth King Salman): Current King of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). 8th son of deceased King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud.
Mohammad bin Salman (Henceforth Crown Prince Mohammad): Son of King Salman. Currently next in line to be king after King Salman.
Muqrin bin Abdulaziz (Former Deputy Crown Prince. Henceforth Muqrin) : 9th son of deceased King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud. Was next in line to be king if King Salman had died before being crowned king. IS THE FATHER OF Mansour bin Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud! THE MAN KILLED IN THE HELICOPTOR CRASH ON 11/5/2017.
Mansour bin Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Henceforth Mansour) : Son of Muqrin bin Abdulaziz. Died 11/5/2017, the day of the failed coup on the throne of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Alwaleed bin Talal (Henceforth Talal) : Billionaire businessmen. Grandson of King Saud. Has ties to DNC, Clinton, Podesta. Arrested 11/4/2017 for corruption. Owns The Four Seasons at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas (Four Seasons occupy the top floors of Mandalay Bay) Owns shares in Twitter as well as other high-tech silicon valley companies. Has had spats with Trump in the past.
I know that's a mouthful of names, but bear with me. Just remember 4 names: Salman, Mohammad, Muqrin, and Mansour.
Do you remember how President Trump visited Saudi Arabia back in May of 2017? Do you remember how warmly he was greeted by King Salman? I do. It was a spectacle. Why was he greeted so welcomingly? After all, President Obama's reception was... shall we say, less than grand. Do you remember how after Trump's visit, Saudi Arabia started becoming more open in their policies? Women can drive there now. Did you notice how the Syrian rebellion became quiet? Did you notice how quickly ISIS was crushed after the visit? Why did Saudi Arabia suddenly want to get their oil companies listed on the NYSE? What could have caused this?
To answer this, we have to look a little further back. Back to around 2010.
It all goes back to fracking. You see, the Kindom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has always relied heavily on its vast petrol reserves for wealth and prosperity. And they were ruthless. OPEC. The cartel of gasoline. You can't count the number of times throughout history that OPEC used its power to crush governments, manipulate prices, control supplies, and fund activities. If there ever was a international group of bullies, OPEC was it. And at the head of this organization was the mighty KSA.
Then came the fracking boom. Suddenly, the world was no longer at the mercy of OPEC. This made them nervous. So, they did what they always do. They pumped out more petroleum, driving the price of gas to lowest in decades. What was their objective? To bankrupt these fracking businesses. KSA is rich. Very rich. They figured, we'll just drive gas prices unbelievably low and take the loss until all these fracking business startups crumble. Do you remember how cheap gas got between 2013-2016? It was ridiculous, wasn't it? But what they didn't count on was just how cheap fracking had become. So many of these business didn't go bankrupt. So they took another step. To convince the world that fracking was bad for the environment. So they lobbied and supplied funds to the Democratic party. Why? Because the leftist are usually the ones who support ANY and ALL environmental regulations. Do you remember all the legal battles that fracking had to go through? Hell, it's still illegal in most blue states. Do you now understand why the Saudis donated so much money to the Clinton campaign? She was HEAVILY favored to win and if she did, you can bet your ass that illegalizing fracking would have been on the top of her list, returning us to dependence on arab oil. But... this didn't work either. Fracking continued. And then, a shitstorm of reality hit them hard.
You see, KSA had vastly underestimated the amount of total shale reserves in North America. They had no idea that so much of this stuff exists. They thought maybe they could ride it out if the reserves would dry up in a decade or so. But nope. We have enough shale to supply us for at least 50 years. Hmmm... big problem.
So, if you're King Salman, what do you do? Well, there's only one thing you can do. Give up the reliance on oil production and try to use existing wealth to stay wealthy. To modernize its trade to include more than just exports of oil. They would need to build an entire industrial country from scratch. To do that, he needed the help of the USA. And that's where President Trump comes in.
You see, the May 2017 meeting between Trump and King Salman (and his son Mohammad), was not just another meeting. It was a business meeting. King Salman asked Trump for help. Trump was more than willing to give it (like listing the oil companies on the NYSE) but his help would come with a price. Liberalization and the stop of illegal funding. No more contributions to American politics. No more supplying funds to terrorists or splinter groups. King Salman took the deal. All of a sudden, women were allowed to drive. ISIS was retreating. Syrian rebels suddenly ran out of ammunition. Yay. All good up to this point.
Now comes the bad
Not all the royalties in KSA are into this. They don't like losing the power they once had. What's worse, they don't want to become liberal. They now start resenting King Salmon. They start plotting against him. At the forefront of this movement is none other than the previous Deputy Crown Prince, Muqrin, and his son, Mansour (the man killed in the helicopter crash of 11/5/17).
October 1, 2017. The top floors of Mandalay Bay isn't Mandalay Bay, but is Four Seasons, owned by billionaire Talal. Who was occupying that whole floor that night? I can't remember where, but I heard that the whole floor was reserved for that week. Now, no one would do that unless they were Saudi royalty. We don't know for sure, but my guess is Crown Prince Mohammad. We know it wasn't King Salman, because he was in Russia at the time. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/05/saudi-russia-visit-putin-oil-middle-east
The plan is to take out the crown prince. Then kill King Salman. With the King and the Crown Prince dead, who is next in line? Yup. The former deputy crown prince, Muqrin. So, posing as terrorists who wanted to buy the guns for some terrorist attack, they dupe the CIA or FBI to supply the guns to the death squad. Their real plan is to climb the stairs right after the deal and kill the VIP in the floors above them. This is why the weapons cashe was located on the 32nd floor. They would only have to climb a few stairs or take the elevator up a little to start the killing. Now, here's what happened that night:
With the post from kneejerk55, I have modified the events of the night. I think it fits much better
Paddock is the contact man to supply the guns. He meets a couple of assassins ahead of time (remember, the shooting starts at 10:05). At this point, Paddock is thinking this is a gun deal. Only a few magazines are loaded. He merely wants to show the customers how to load the chamber etc... What he doesn't know is that the advance team was sent to secure the floor. That all but one entry point to the floor would be barricaded (crucial since the reason Campos becomes suspicious of the blocked doors is what ultimately leads him to investigate) The reason for the barricade is that once the assault starts, the assassins want to make sure to impede the authorities as much as possible from reaching the top floors.
CIA/FBI (or Trump's own intelligence) got wind of the assassination that was about to take place. Immediate action is taken to round up the assassins. Remember, we're talking about an army of assassins here. You can't kill a Crown Prince who's protected by 30 armed bodyguards by pulling a Jack Ruby. I estimate at least 20 assassins in total.
What the assassins didn't know was that the prince had disguised himself as a regular dude to enjoy the nightlife in Vegas. (Saudi princes have been known to do this) He had slipped away from the Mandalay and was at the Tropicana playing some cards. As soon as the FBI (or some other agency) learned of the assassination plot, they stormed the Tropicana and extracted the prince. The video can be seen here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVHmshtmDqo They lead him out of the casino and escort him to the nearest helipad to be picked up. BUT, on the way, they encounter some resistance from a few assassins. Hence the firefight at the airport. Eventually, he makes it to the chopper and is whisked away. This explains the flight radar reports you see all over the net.
Meanwhile, the FBI has gathered up as many of the assassins as they can. A few are armed with sidearms. They don't have rifles yet because the rendezvous with Paddock hasn't occurred yet. Hence the random firefights at various casinos that night. A few are killed. Hence the Laura Loomer videos of covered up dead people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oxAZIpSUuM
The assassins already in Paddock's room gets a call. They are told that the Prince is not in his suite above. That he's being escorted out of the Tropicana. They start panicking. If they get caught in this plot to assassinate the crown prince, not only are they dead, but their employer is dead as well. They come up with a plan. They will kill Paddock and start firing on the crowd below. They're gonna make him a crazy lone gunman. So they kill Paddock. They break a window. They pick up a rifle and start firing at the crowd below. After a couple of mags, they realize that the other mags aren't loaded! Holy fuck. They start reloading as fast as possible. This is why the average time between bursts of fire is over 40 seconds. One of them gets an idea. Let me go to the other room and break that window and shoot at the fuel tanks at a nearby airport. This will draw the police away from the Mandalay and they can escape. So he goes and attempts just that. Unfortunately, the tanks do not blow up. By this time, Jesus Campos is knocking on the door. So they just unload on him. This is why there are (supposedly) 200 shots through the door. Campos escapes a lethal shot and calls in security.
Now the assassins are getting nervous. They realize that someone in the hotel knows that someone is firing. They fire as much as they can. They are thinking as soon as this barrage is done, we run. But the swat team starts knocking on the door. Fuck. The assassins realize they're screwed. So the first one shoots himself. (This is the first of the single shots you hear at the end). The second assassin isn't so sure. He doesn't want to die. So after 10 seconds of courage gathering, he shoots himself as well.
The SWAT team bursts in and finds 3 bodies. They start asking questions. But because the FBI is already there (remember, they extracted the prince) they take over. They quickly assess the situation. They realize the implications. They remove the 2 assassins bodies, take a picture of Paddock lying there, and release it to 4chan to solidify their narrative.
Paddock is made the patsy. Why? Because if a failed Saudi assassination attempt was responsible for the deaths, if the FBI/CIA had supplied the guns that killed 58 innocent people (not counting Paddock since he's an asset), then two things would happen. One, we would demand that we go to war with Saudi Arabia. And two, which ever organization that Paddock worked for would be utterly dismantled.
Wew lads, I know. Quite a story. Now, let's fast forward to one month later.
We know a missile was intercepted by the Saudi military on November 3 or 4th. This was probably the final effort by the anti King Salman group. This was their last ditch effort to kill him. OR, it was staged to give King Salman the excuse to round everyone up in retaliation of the assassination attempt. We know that MASSIVE raids and the rounding of Saudi princes took place on the 5th. I will guarantee you that all these people are anti Salman/Mohammad. And who was just killed? Yes. The son of Muqrin, Mansour. Mansour's death was retaliation. I have no doubt of it. He was executed.
Ok, now that this has happened, what's next? Well, my guess will be that we will learn all of the funding that has been coming out of Saudi Arabia for the past decade. It will expose their connections to the DNC. We will learn that they have been at the root of all the turmoil in the Middle East. Then, they'll all be executed.
P.S. The story works just fine with Paddock as a private illegal guns dealer, meaning the FBI/CIA only helped to foil the assassination attempt. He doesn't have to be working for an alphabet agency. However, given the clues from his life style (or the utter lack of it), I'm betting that he was an asset.
Trump-promoted 'Alien DNA' doctor says Joe Biden is dead and his body was replaced by demonic clone
After Roe, Supreme Court may do away with affirmative action. Here's how it could happen
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CERN/LHC, Alien prediction on May 24, 2022, & WEF/Davos
SS: Just a thought.
On April 22, 2022, CERN reactivated the Large Hadron Collider. It received “upgrades” to increase its power before this reactivation. Since then, the Earth’s Schumann resonance (based on certain frequencies) has been presenting alarming anomalies that can be reviewed here(look for videos about the Schumann Spikes).
Last year, there was a prediction of sorts that claimed the first sighting of aliens on Earth would be on May 24, 2022. Honestly, I wrote this off as bs.
However, I thought it was interesting that the WEF usually holds their annual meeting at the end of Jan, and the LHC was supposed to be reactivated in Feb of 2022. Both events were pushed back and both are in Switzerland.
With the media pushing the monkeypox narrative days before the WEF meeting, everyone is focused on the global pandemic treaty, but what if that is just a misdirection?
The Armageddon Coming for Our Modern Banking System
“The U.S. Is Run by a Selfish Oligarchy, a Ruling Elite with a Pretend Democracy & Free Market”- Great talk by Lewis Lapham from 1993
WEF World Govt. Summit Plan to Rule the World in Broad Daylighit
FULL SHOW 5/23/22- Live Coverage of WEF World Govt. Summit in Geneva Switzerland - MUST WATCH
WEF World Govt. Summit Plan to Rule the World in Broad Daylighit
The Wall Street Journal, admits the truth.
Ginni Thomas’ e-mails deepen her involvement in attempt to overturn 2020 election
US military has VIDEOS of them attempting to SHOOT DOWN UFOs
House Ethics Committee investigating cryptocurrency and sex allegations against Madison Cawthorn
Florida Can't Stop Social Media From Banning Politicians
Child sexual abuse is rampant in Christianity
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Pentagon to send troops to protect US Embassy in Kyiv?
Americans becoming less supportive of punishing Moscow...
Ethics law offers possible path for Trump prosecution...
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Rush for Cash on Wall St...
At Davos, CEOs Fret Over Economy, Start to Plan for Downturn...
Durham Drops Another Bombshell, Reveals FBI Lied About Hillary Clinton-Supplied Disinformation
Trump posting about civil war on truth social. Possibly the most divisive figure in the history of modern politics.
Wants to start a civil war because his ego cannot fathom that so many people dislike him. And sadly, his followers have abandoned their logic and morality….. for the record, it would be a much shorter civil war than the original but the outcome would be the same…..
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Child sexual abuse is rampant in Christianity
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The minerals we need to save the planet are getting way too expensive
Supreme Court throws out 6th Amendment for state defendants
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The Supreme Court on Monday issued a decision that effectively prohibits innocent people from proving they were wrongly convicted, imprisoned, and possibly set to be executed by a state court.
In 2011, the Supreme Court held that state prisoners may raise claims of ineffective counsel in federal court, regardless of whether the issue was first raised in state court at either the trial or post-conviction stage (Martinez v. Ryan). The ruling protected a defendant’s 6th Amendment right to effective counsel.
As the 2011 majority (Kennedy, Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito, Sotomayor, and Kagan) wrote, “A prisoner’s inability to present a claim of trial error is of particular concern when the claim is one of ineffective assistance of counsel. The right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial is a bedrock principle in our justice system.”
Where, under state law, claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel must be raised in an initial-review collateral proceeding, a procedural default will not bar a federal habeas court from hearing a substantial claim of ineffective assistance at trial if, in the initial-review collateral proceeding, there was no counsel or counsel in that proceeding was ineffective.
That’s the legalese way of saying that the federal courts can hear a defendant’s claims of ineffective counsel during the state portion of their case no matter the state procedure for presenting such evidence.
Now, under the rightwing's Supreme Court rule, a new majority hollowed out this constitutional right to effective counsel.
Like Martinez v. Ryan, yesterday’s Supreme Court case also originates in Arizona, where two death row prisoners—David Ramirez and Barry Jones—allege they received ineffective assistance of counsel. Their stories are just as much about the funding crisis for public defenders as they are about the intricacies of the law. Keep the following in mind as you read about their cases:
The indigent defense delivery system in the United States is in a state of crisis. Public defenders routinely handle well over 1,000 cases a year, more than three times the number of cases that the American Bar Association says one attorney can handle effectively. As a result, many defendants sit in jail for months before even speaking to their court-appointed lawyers. And when defendants do meet their attorneys, they are often disappointed to learn that these lawyers are too overwhelmed to provide adequate representation. With public defenders or assigned counsel representing more than 80% of criminal defendants nationwide, the indigent defense crisis is a problem that our criminal justice system can no longer afford to ignore.
Barry Jones was convicted and sentenced to death on charges that he sexually assaulted and physically abused a 4-year-old girl, causing her death. Jones’ federal lawyers presented evidence that the girl sustained the injuries during a time in which Jones could not have inflicted them—evidence that trial counsel and state post-conviction counsel failed to uncover and present to the court.
The federal district court held that Jones did, indeed, suffer ineffective assistance of counsel, writing that there was a “reasonable probability that the jury would not have unanimously convicted [Jones] of any of the counts” if Jones’ trial counsel had “adequately investigated and presented medical and other expert testimony to rebut the State’s theory” of Jones’ guilt.
Jones’ post-conviction counsel was just as woefully inadequate, as Justice Sonya Sotomayor explained: “Arizona state law sets minimum qualifications that attorneys must meet to be appointed in capital cases like Jones’, but the Arizona Supreme Court waived those requirements in Jones’ case, and the state court appointed postconviction counsel who lacked those qualifications… In short, Jones’ postconviction counsel failed to investigate the ineffective assistance of Jones’ trial counsel.”
The Ninth Circuit affirmed that Jones did not receive effective representation and remanded the case back to the state courts.
The following is an excerpt from the Ninth Circuit opinion. The state’s expert witness, forensic pathologist with the Pima County Medical Examiner’s office Dr. John Howard, admitted that he knew that the injuries the girl sustained did not occur during the time period in question, but didn’t inform the jury of this fact: “Dr. Howard explained that if he had been asked the right questions at Jones’s trial, he would have testified truthfully that in his judgment the injury was most consistent with having occurred prior to May 1, but he admitted that he did not make this finding clear to Jones’s jury.”
Further reading: "Arizona doubles down on murder theory as the evidence crumbles," The Intercept.
David Ramirez was convicted and sentenced to death on charges that he murdered his girlfriend and her daughter. During trial, Ramirez was represented by a public defender who never tried or even observed a capital case and admitted that she was ill-prepared to represent Ramirez. His counsel did not conduct a thorough investigation that would have uncovered evidence that Ramirez is intellectually disabled and had an abusive childhood. His post-conviction counsel likewise did not present such evidence, something the state itself admits was “deficient” assistance of counsel.
Both trial counsel and Ramirez’s expert witness now assert that their methods were flawed and insufficient:
[The public defender] noted that “[t]he mitigating information that we did present was very limited,” and remarked that had she had the information later presented by Ramirez’s family members with first hand knowledge of his childhood, it “would have changed the way I handled both David’s guilt phase and his sentencing phase.”...
[Psychologist] Dr. McMahon also submitted a declaration, indicating that he did not receive Ramirez’s IQ scores or school reports…He also stated that he would not have administered the PPVT IQ test, which is not a comprehensive IQ test, but rather “would have given Mr. Ramirez a comprehensive IQ test.” In addition, Dr. McMahon would not have concluded that Ramirez was not intellectually disabled, because the scores of 70 and 77 on the “more comprehensive WISC IQ test[,] . . . would have indicated to me that Mr. Ramirez may be retarded and it would have greatly expanded the nature of the evaluation I did conduct.”
For these reasons, a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit found that post-conviction counsel had failed to raise a “substantial claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel.”
In 1996, Congress passed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), a provision of which bars people sentenced in state court from presenting new evidence in federal habeas proceedings—no matter how exculpatory—if the defendant didn’t “develop” that evidence in state court first. Arizona argues that the Ninth Circuit erred by allowing Martinez and Jones to present new evidence (ineffective assistance of counsel) in federal court because it violates the AEDPA.
According to Arizona, the Supreme Court’s 2011 Martinez opinion conflicts with the AEDPA; the state asked the court to resolve the issue.
The Court’s six-member conservative majority held that there is nothing a federal court can do when a defendant received ineffective assistance at their trial and during post-conviction proceedings. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority overturning its previous Martinez precedent and upholding the AEDPA provision:
Respondents’ primary claim is that a prisoner is not “at fault,” and therefore has not “failed to develop the factual basis of a claim in State court proceedings” if state postconviction counsel negligently failed to develop the state record for a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel. But under AEDPA and our precedents, state postconviction counsel’s ineffective assistance in developing the state-court record is attributed to the prisoner…
In our dual-sovereign system, federal courts must afford unwavering respect to the centrality “of the trial of a criminal case in state court.” …Such intervention is also an affront to the State and its citizens who returned a verdict of guilt after considering the evidence before them. Federal courts, years later, lack the competence and authority to relitigate a State’s criminal case.
In other words, if a state wrongly sentences you to prison or death, you’re shit out of luck because the state must be respected.
Justice Sonya Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justices Breyer and Kagan, writing that the majority’s ruling “makes illusory the protections of the Sixth Amendment.”
The Sixth Amendment guarantees criminal defendants the right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial. This Court has recognized that right as “a bedrock principle” that constitutes the very “foundation for our adversary system” of criminal justice. Today, however, the Court hamstrings the federal courts’ authority to safeguard that right. The Court’s decision will leave many people who were convicted in violation of the Sixth Amendment to face incarceration or even execution without any meaningful chance to vindicate their right to counsel…
This decision is perverse. It is illogical: It makes no sense to excuse a habeas petitioner’s counsel’s failure to raise a claim altogether because of ineffective assistance in postconviction proceedings, as Martinez and Trevino did, but to fault the same petitioner for that postconviction counsel’s failure to develop evidence in support of the trial-ineffectiveness claim. In so doing, the Court guts Martinez’s and Trevino’s core reasoning.
Barry Jones, David Ramirez, and others like them will be put to death despite their innocence or intellectual disabilities due to six un-elected people's lack of compassion.
Insurrectionists May Be Barred From Office, Appeals Court Rules
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