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Lorry Collides with Pickup and Car in Pattaya, Driver Trapped in Wreckage A road crash occurred opposite the Shell petrol station on Sukhumvit Road, North Pattaya, involving a small lorry, a pickup truck, and a car. The collision left one man severely injured and trapped inside his vehicle, requiring emergency rescue efforts Full story:https://aseannow.com/topic/1352595-lorry-collides-with-pickup-and-car-in-pattaya-driver-trapped-in-wreckage/ -
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A few friends of mine have made the move to Africa...
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Well, for many outsiders, there are aspects of the American justice system that are curious; this issue about prosecutors and sheriffs running for election, and you are probably right; it affects professional judgement. So I suspect you are equally scornful about how the DA, who was running for office, was particularly keen to "get " Alec Baldwin, merely because he was a celebrity, and it would look good in her campaign. https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-special-prosecutor-alec-baldwin-rust-case-campaign-report-2023-3 (not the original piece, which appeared in the New York Times, which is paywalled) Justice, as you intimate, should be blind. It is not blind where you institutionalise a process that politicises the entire judicial process, and force judges, DAs, sheriffs to declare themselves for one of the two main parties (and hardly or never it seems for any other party or as an independant). Hence ou now have this mess of the Supreme Court being completely political, when it should be apaolitical, as the ultimate arbiter. Judges should not be in the pocket of any President. The United States is the only country in the world where voters elect prosecutors. But it wasn't always that way. The American prosecutor did not start as an elected official. After the Revolutionary War, most states gave their governors, judges, or legislators the power to appoint prosecutors. Starting with Mississippi in 1832, however, states adopted new constitutions, statutes, or amendments that made prosecutors elected officials. By 1861, nearly three-quarters of the states in the Union elected their prosecutors. "Packing the Court" is not new; Roosevelt tried it in 1937. If this particular President wants to be remembered in history, depoliticisation of the entire judicial process would be a brave step. Reform starts at the top, so he needs to impose term limits on those judges, and possibly follow a model instituted by Idaho in 1967 which successfully removed judges from politics. I could forsee genuine bipartisan support from that (and opposition from both parties). It needs a change in the Constitution, so it woul be a considerable challenge, but lasting.
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