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To: Alberta's Child
If an accused criminal is awaiting trial and the courthouse is shut down under the orders of a governor or president, then what happens? He can’t be detained indefinitely. Is the prosecutor forced to drop the charges?

Yup. The law is the law, or it's not. If they can't bring the accused before a judge, he should be freed. When the government overreacts and becomes arguably insane, there are adverse consequences. Let them contemplate that while they are declaring that we are nothing but serfs to be ordered about at will by any level of government that has also lost it's collective mind.

57 posted on 03/22/2020 12:58:34 PM PDT by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: zeugma

That’s exactly what is driving the DOJ here. They’re asking congress to establish — by law — some kind of process that addresses the simple dilemma facing Federal courts right now.


58 posted on 03/22/2020 1:01:09 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Oh, but it's hard to live by the rules; I never could and still never do.")
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