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minus-squareBrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up70·17 hours agoLying to a judge? Is that legal all of the sudden?
minus-squaresnooggums@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·17 hours agoApparently lying means you get away with whatever you have done before they figured out you were lying, but you just have to not lie in the future. Just kidding, you can keep lying in the future as long as you are one of the fascists.
minus-squareN0t_5ure@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·15 hours agoAs an attorney, my recollection is that lying under oath is perjury, but what do I know?
minus-squareSabinStargem@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 hours agoI think Trump’s lawyers are all graduates from the Von Karma’s School of Law.
minus-squareC4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 hours agoI’m not an attorney but that was also my naive understanding based on a life of intermittent consumption of law-themed fiction
Lying to a judge? Is that legal all of the sudden?
Apparently lying means you get away with whatever you have done before they figured out you were lying, but you just have to not lie in the future.
Just kidding, you can keep lying in the future as long as you are one of the fascists.
As an attorney, my recollection is that lying under oath is perjury, but what do I know?
I think Trump’s lawyers are all graduates from the Von Karma’s School of Law.
I’m not an attorney but that was also my naive understanding based on a life of intermittent consumption of law-themed fiction