Stinking Badges

 The most likely goal is not to convict them.   Not even.  The idea is to cause economic harm by having to navigate Just-Us.  Going to trial is a 1/4 million dollar minimum win lose or draw.  The public defender route almost never works out.  The goal is to publicly shame and to economically break the company or individual.  It is a common tactic that has been documented time and again. [More]

Or to riff off our old amigo Gold Hat:

Constitutional legitimacy? We ain't got no constitutional legitimacy. We don't need no constitutional legitimacy. I don't have to show you any stinking constitutional legitimacy!