Why state-level legal minutiae impacts what words are used to describe the former president's criminal conduct.

District Judge Lewis Kaplan has said it multiple times: Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Kaplan wrote it in May 2023, when he presided over one of the trials against Trump. And he reminded jurors of the rape this week, during the latest proceedings in the multi-layered, winding rape and defamation cases brought against Trump by Carroll.

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
    4·
    10 months ago

    I’m trying to highlight shit that is wrong in the world. You’re just trying to say I’m wrong because I’m talking about things that are wrong

    If your comment here was about atrocities happening in Palestine the reaction would have been the same. Yes, it’s wrong, but it’s off topic.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      How is it off topic to highlight that NY isn’t alone in its legal definition of rape?