Supreme Court declines to overturn exception to double jeopardy

Washington Examiner ^ | June 17, 2019

[DNME]

But those “separate sovereigns” only apply to peasants like us. The Elite don’t have to worry about mere courts and such drivel.

[Dr. Sivana]

I seem to recall this is what happened to the Rodney King cops, cleared in CA, but retried by Feds after the “wrong” result.

[Spunky]

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[pghbjugop]

This is about Manafort. New York state is going to prosecute Manafort as soon as Trump pardons him just for spite. What a shame what happened to that guy, who was simply brought in for a few months to help Trump with the delegates, when Trump was winning primaries but losing delegates in the caucuses. Cruz had done the homework to figure out how to win the delegates and Trump, not even really expecting to get that far had done none of the groundwork. Not to diss either candidate, it is what it is, just a shame that Manafort was hired to do a temporary job and got creamed for crimes that everyone in his world are guilty of.

[CA Conservative]

Funny how SCOTUS has no problem applying other amendments such as the 1st, the 14th, etc., to the states (even though they are “separate sovereigns”), but will not apply the whole of the 5th Amendment...

Either the Constitution applies to the states, or it doesn’t. If there are exceptions, they must be in the text of the Constitution or the Amendments, not invented by SCOTUS.

[i_robot73]

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Funny how SCOTUS has no problem applying other amendments such as the 1st, the 14th, etc., to the states (even though they are “separate sovereigns”), but will not apply the whole of the 5th Amendment...

Either the Constitution applies to the states, or it doesn’t. If there are exceptions, they must be in the text of the Constitution or the Amendments, not invented by SCOTUS.
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No ‘funny’, it’s a F* travesty. Course, if govt were consistent then you’re looking @ lose of ‘power’, selective enforcement (friends, family, ‘connected’) and a YUGE drop in the ‘law-lawyer-court-ruling’ turn-style of law-making we have in the U.S.

I doubt ‘void for vagueness’ has passed any lips in over a century.

[monkeyshine]

Well, Ginsburg and Gorsuch were correct on this one.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The answer is clear.

We all need to move to some Red State, turn it the deepest possible Red, and then have our AG start bringing every conceivable state charge against D.C. swamp monsters.

[dpetty121263]

Remember you get all the justice you can afford...One of my lawyer’s told me that and truer words never said...

[ro_dreaming]

I just don’t understand how so many conservative judges voted to uphold this, as “not double jeopardy”?