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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If you hear all the evidence and opine about something beyond the scope of that on which you were supposed to rule....
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So now a federal judge is not "supposed" to discuss the facts of a trial in her courtroom? That's a novel legal principle. Did you just pull it out of your ass, or is that something that anyone has every said about another judge in a similar circumstance, ever?
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To use the word “cover-up,“ you necessarily suggest there was some illegal or unethical act being concealed. The person Berman suggests was engaged in that act is the president. However, she does not know that there was any unethical or illegal activity which was covered up.
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To the contrary, she just presided over a trial where there was extensive evidence about Stone's lying to Congress, so she is quite familiar with the evidence about his lying.
And how do you know what she knows? What have you done to familiarize yourself with the evidence in the trial?
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She could not know that, as Mueller was not even able to conclusively state that.
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To the contrary, whether the President acted unethically or illegally was outside the scope of Mueller's report, since DOJ guidance held that he could not indict the President. You would know this if you had been paying attention or were otherwise temperamentally inclined to take the view that Trump should not have to obey the law.
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When you use a loaded phrase that you didn’t need to use, and offer an opinion on an issue that was not before you, you can’t help but raise the suggestion that you are biased.
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You keep using that word, but you don't understand what it means. If you are to perform an interpretive dance for me, and I announce before you start that you are going to suck, it could well be bias, for I have not seen you dance. But if I watch you dance and then tell you that you suck, that's my judgment, not bias. Your comments about the judge make sense if you completely ignore that she is a judge and that she just spent many months presiding over a case, culminating in a full trial, in which Stone was convicted for lying, something that put her in the position to judge his lying.
