Pentagon Found in Contempt in Gitmo Case

dt3 said:
There's a lot of ways to answer this question. Maybe it hasn't happened in other states. Maybe other states judges will see the ruling and realize they're in the wrong ethically. Maybe the case will get appealed all the way to the Supreme Court and become a national law one way or another.

But you're damn right it's only in Florida right now. Florida has no right as a state to make laws for the rest of the country. This is how our country works.

Why are you always so damn quick to jump on anything the US does? This shit isn't even relevant to the thread at ALL. I'll take the ethics of Florida, or any US state, over your oppressive regime any day of the week.
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Hey, this is just for the sake of debate. Nothing against anyone :)
 
kelvin070 said:
Hey, this is just for the sake of debate. Nothing against anyone :)
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Power in the US is decentralized - dispersed through the state legislatures, to help prevent abuse of power (though more and more has become centralized in Washington lately). Often one state will take an action or make a law that will prompt others to do the same. Watch this over the next months and years. You might find that it will start a trend that will sweep across our nation.
 
Accountable said:
Power in the US is decentralized - dispersed through the state legislatures, to help prevent abuse of power (though more and more has become centralized in Washington lately). Often one state will take an action or make a law that will prompt others to do the same. Watch this over the next months and years. You might find that it will start a trend that will sweep across our nation.
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Got it.
 
Accountable said:
Makes sense. That's straight-up ethics, imo.

Question: Relevance??
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dt3 said:
That makes perfect sense. Ethics in any profession are kind of a big deal. What if a judge had the prosecutor as a friend, and a defense lawyer was able to get a conviction over-turned because of it?
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Like to share with you guys some other people's opinion petaining to this matter:
While we understand that conflicts of interest are a serious matter in the judicial realm, a recent ban on friending between judges and lawyers on social networking sites does seem a bit extreme. The ruling, from the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee arm of the Florida Supreme Court, would prevent judges from adding lawyers who may appear before the judge as “friends” and vice versa on social networks like Facebook, MySpace, et al
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Florida to Judges: Do Not Make Friends With Lawyers
Read the comments at the bottom of page too.
 
kelvin070 said:
There are 1001 other sites (not social networks) which carries the news. Google it pls.
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Unlike you seem to, I don't have an odd compulsion to read everybody else's opinions on things before expressing my own views. I have a functioning brain and I use it to form opinions based on the facts as I see them, not as some random blogger wants me to believe.
 
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