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With no birth control or abortions, conception will become legally-binding marriage.
Women tend to flee areas like that. Ask China how it worked out with the one child policy.
"Well that's easy to fix! We just have to prevent them from leaving without a male guardian's permission."
– Conservatives, probably
I guessing a spike in fathers/husbands being hammered to death in their sleep. Let me do jury duty for those cases. We'll be home by lunch.
"Jury trial for a feeeeeemale killing a man? Don't be ridiculous, that's immediate capital punishment"
While I'm being facetious, there's probably a reason why Project 2025 is specifically pushing for more and faster capital punishment
Fuck everything attached to that wish list.
It's more than just a wish list.
Yeah, that's the Republican TODO list for what will happen when / if Trump wins
Jury nullification. Prosecutors and judges hate it, but it's not illegal!
...and admitting that you know it exists is grounds for you not being allowed on a jury.
But yeah, judges judge the law, juries judge the facts. so the judge can corral how the trial proceeds and explain to the jury what criteria they are supposed to be following and what evidence they are supposed to consider but the jury can decide what it wants and their decision cannot be challenged - which means if they decide that someone is guilty/not guilty for reasons wholly unrelated to what the law actually says then that's what it is.
It's why I was surprised that Trump was found guilty on all counts in the NY trial - I was expecting a mistrial due to hung jury before the trial even started because I was expecting at least one hardcore supporter/opponent of Trump who was going to vote based on that regardless of the evidence making it impossible to have a unanimous agreement.
Anyone that hardcore is easy to filter out. They would check the Facebook of any potential jurors before starting.
Looks like it's time for Utah to share it's Mormonism.
I’m sure they’re counting on it being rather difficult to flee from most places in the U.S.
And with child marriage looking to make a comeback, you can bet your ass that arranged marriage will also return.
Turns out the full Biblical definition of marriage is again, women and girls have no say in who they marry. Just wait. First they legalize child marriage, then they legalize arranged marriage. Got a debt to pay off? Just offer the guy you owe money to your daughter. Want to move up the social ladder at work? Have your daughter marry into a higher class. Don't worry about what she wants. Marriage isn't about "love", whatever that is. It's a tool for moving up in the world. /s
But it's almost like they want European-style feudalism back. The CEOs and billionaires become the new nobility, and we all become serfs, and we are basically already there. But, I have a plan. I'll join my liege lord's army and hopefully I'll serve honorably enough that he shall award me a fief and small parcel of land. Then y'all can move in and become my serfs!
We're bringing back the shotgun weddings, boys!