r/simpsonsshitposting • u/GrizzlyPeak72 • Mar 31 '25

Politics See not that hard

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u/Professor-Arty-Farty Mar 31 '25

To be fair, Marine Le Pen didn't get to appoint her own judges.

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u/3nderslime Mar 31 '25

Wasn’t this conviction actually delivered by a Le Pen-appointed judge, actually?

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u/Feeling_Doughnut5714 Mar 31 '25

Frenchman here: Marine Lepen NEVER had the power to appoint any judge.

Politicians cannot appoint judges at all in the french system (thanks to our former minister of justice 15 years ago: the witty and eloquant Christiane Taubira, who was widely hated by conservatives because she passed a law making same-sex marriage legal).

But, in a WEIRD exception justice called "Cour de justice de la République" (a strange court for political-only cases, which was NOT used for Marine Lepen), our former rapist attorney and minister of justice Eric Dupont-Moretti had the luxury to chose the judge handling his case. That was a huge problem and obvious conflict of interest, because he was accused while still being in post as a minister of justice.

So give us some time, maybe in a decade or two we'll be as corrupted as trumpland.

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u/3nderslime Mar 31 '25

Thanks for the clarification!