What's been clear for some time, our justice system isn't designed to hold billionaires, and oligarchs accountable

[dlk]

They can do pretty much whatever they want without facing any meaningful consequences. There are occasional exceptions but not many.

[Irish_Dem]

1. The US system of justice was designed to hold everyone accountable.

American judges refuse to apply rule of law to the rich and powerful.

[dlk]

2. That supports my point

A system where judges can randomly refuse to apply the law, is a system that doesn’t hold billionaires and judges accountable.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes, lazy, incompetent, corrupt judges are tolerated and even encouraged.

[malaise]

4. Michael showed us

In his classic. Democracy for the Few

https://www.michael-parenti.org/book-democracy-for-the-few

Democracy for the Few tries to strike a balance; it tries to explain how democracy is incongruous with modern-day capitalism and is consistently violated by a capitalist social order, and yet how democracy refuses to die and continues to fight back and even make gains despite the great odds against popular forces.

[Autumn]

5. They system was designed to hold every one accountable. The courts and some

politicians chose not to.

[Horse with no Name]

6. Notably the only exceptions

Are generally meted out when one billionaire screws another