Scott McFarlane
speaker
543 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jun
Scott McFarlane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Grand jurors do not live in a bubble.
And this gets more and more difficult for any arm of the Department of Justice to make a case the more times grand jurors stand up and say no.
And trial jurors are pretty good at that too.
I'll go back to that sandwich throwing monstrosity of a case from 2025 in Washington.
Grand jurors said no.
Trump administration did an end run to get that case charged anyhow.
Then a trial jury said no, like in minutes, like at the time that it would take to eat the free jury lunch.
They went back and said no.
So there is a barrier.
They all had sandwiches in beautiful irony.
What's the incentive structure for the next person, the next president to unilaterally surrender power that Trump has just taken from the other branches of government or just taken for himself?
Like these pardons, these pardons of the famous, these pardons of the rich, these pardons he's given to his supporters before they even go to trial, which is not the system for pardons.
Why would the next person give that power back?
Will the next person not want to just unilaterally build ballrooms for hundreds of millions of dollars and get donors to give the money to pay for it?
A lot of this is difficult to restore.
I think what concerns me and what keeps me up at night is how do you rebuild this shattered stuff in democracy?
Probably takes generations and it's really dispiriting to our kids to watch.
I think people are underestimating how fragile legacy and linear media is right now.
I'm not sure some linear media organizations make it years from now, maybe a matter of months.
I'm wondering about that third and fourth TV station in some American cities or the last standing radio station in American cities.
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