I had an interesting discussion with Grok yesterday about the Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia deportation case, and it got me thinking a lot about the public discussion and why it is so bizarre to me.
Grok helped clarify the basics about the standards of proof required in such cases, the legal niceties, and why people are making arguments that due process was not completely followed. My own uneducated judgment is that the case against him is relatively cut and dried, although I don’t know whether it would hold up in a criminal trial.
Politically, though, all that is a sideshow. Thousands of complicated legal cases go on every day, and many are resolved in ways that are deeply unsatisfying because complicated legal cases are rarely as cut and dried as they appear on TV. When you get into high-stakes, politically charged cases, they never are perfect.
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