I don't care what anyone says... Ellis was bought off

[Rustyeye77]

Rediculous sentence.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Or possibly threatened....

[2naSalit]

2. He's a member of "the club"...nt

[elleng]

3. Right, that's all it takes.

Doesn't need $$$, As of 2018, federal district judges are paid $208,000 a year, circuit judges $220,600, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court $255,300 and the Chief Justice of the United States $267,000. All were permitted to earn a maximum of an additional $21,000 a year for teaching.

[Chin music]

6. +1!

PLUS benefits and all the ass kissing you can handle.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. No and no.

1) It is a ridiculous sentence, not rediculous. Much too short.

2) A ruling that doesn't go your way is not evidence that somebody is corrupt. In this case, I think it is white privilege and rich privilege that are swaying the Judge.

[SCantiGOP]

13. You're exactly right

but don’t expect truth to necessarily prevail.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. What's the evidence of that, besides the light sentence?

If Ellis had been bought off he might have granted a defense motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and set Manafort free - which he could have done - instead of sending him to prison for four years, don't you think?

[manor321]

7. He doesn't need to be bought off. He's shit. He thinks wealthy white conservatives are good people.

[Cicada]

8. His conservative ideology probably explains the light sentence

He was appointed by Reagan. I think he is driven by his far right political views.

[PJMcK]

9. Got any evidence?

Your charge is outrageously inflammatory! And "ridiculous" does not have an "e" in it.

In any event, I disagree with the sentence Judge Ellis imposed. My personal belief is the sentence should have been about double for these crimes. His Honor's commentaries during the trial-- many of which he later had to retract-- demonstrated his personal and possibly political bias.

Nonetheless, Manafort will spend a significant amount of his 70s in prison. He has no future. He's finished. And let's not forget the Russians he's screwed over.

The traitor will likely die in the can. That gives me a bit of faith in our flawed system.

[RockRaven]

10. These guys don't pay for stuff people are giving away for free.

He is ideologically pre-disposed towards letting Manafort off. He WANTED to let him off easy, just on his own, no pay-off needed.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

11. I bet he watches Fox

[ancianita]

12. Lawrence Tribe would say he's "unfit for the bench."

Let’s just say that you agree with Tribe.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Ellis has a history of opposing long mandatory minimum sentences, FWIW.

In April, confronted by a 28-year-old armed robbery convict facing a mandatory minimum 82-year sentence, Ellis' frustration grew so intense that he balked at imposing what he called a "very severe" sentence. Instead, the judge recruited a high-powered law firm to scour the law in search of some way to avoid imposing what is effectively a life sentence on Lamont Gaines, who was convicted of a string of robberies of 7-11 stores and a check-cashing business.

The judge appointed Daniel Suleiman, a former aide to Attorney General Eric Holder, to come up with any argument that might help Gaines win a more lenient sentence. Suleiman, a partner at Covington & Burling, set on one possibility: a Supreme Court ruling in April that invalidated a law very similar to the one requiring the lengthy sentence for Gaines.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2018/07/06/t-s-ellis-mandatory-minimum-sentences-697826