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Judge to Alex Jones “You are already under oath to tell the truth and you have violated that oath twice today” (packaged-media.redd.it)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/publicfreakout@lemmy.world

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[–] leftenddev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The judge knew that he would want that. AJ's whole bread and butter is persecution fetish. He wanted a fire to draw media attention and eyes on infowars for traffic revenue, and to use it as a prop that he's being directly attacked by the justice system for "the truth". The judge did not give him what he wanted and let him make a fool of himself fishing for a reaction like the petulant child and bully he is. This also makes it that much harder for any appeal on her decision to succeed from his team, since by all accounts, she clearly wasn't going as hard at him as she could have, so the ruling looks more than fair

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, you're probably right on all counts. Contempt charges are only an effective deterant if the person is scared of being charged with contempt. In this case, contempt charges were probably what Alex was aiming for and the judge was smart enough to not play his game.

The fact that changing Alex with contempt could lead some to think the judge was biased makes me think that, maybe, there should be another way for contempt charges to be levied. Maybe the presiding district court should be able to step in when circumstances dictate. I know that's probably a dumb idea for many reasons.