Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
During Biden the investigation was still ongoing, Maxwell was sentenced and was appealing.
SCOTUS for some "strange reason" extended her appeal time until 2025, essentially putting seal on the files.
I can't say what Biden was or wasn't planning to do, but releasing files was not an option because of SCOTUS.
To be frank as long as the investigation was ongoing there was a chance that charges would be pressed (you might argue that would never happen, but that's a speculation)
What trump did though is when he took office he shut down the investigation, said there's nothing to investigate, no charges to being and basically portrayed that Epstein was just that guy living in basement and downloaded tons of CP.
This is why people demand files released. If there is no investigation ongoing and no charges were placed, let us see them and decide ourselves if that conclusion is reasonable.
Non-lawyers have zero capacity to do that, though. There's a big difference between what any one person wants the law to be and what it actually is.
True, true. Child fucking is tricky legal territory.
I'm sure we can find few lawyers outside of DOJ.
Besides, lawyers exist because courts have strict requirements regarding interpretation of a law in order to sentence someone.
You don't need to study law to be able to tell that somebody did something heinous or not.
A lot of heinous things aren't necessarily against the law. For example, there's an email in the file from a law professor advising him on legally trafficking minors to states with lower ages of consent.
Cool. Don't care. In the wood chipper. As with anyone in the files. We can sift through the ashes afterwards to determine guilt.