Second corroborating article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/luigi-mangione-judge-married-former-211332729.html
I’m going to nitpick here. The main reference for this Yahoo/daily Beast article is OP. That’s not corroborating.
Honestly the data in the article is the reference so yeah
Yes, but they add context to the source so you don't have to trust that the blog is reputable. Secondary source.
Once against proving we have a two tiered justice system.
Yikes. Incredibly messed up.
Definitely good reason to get them swapped out for a different judge but are they going to oversee the whole trial or just the pretrial?
Also, they were an executive at Pfizer, not an insurance firm.
Pfizer isn't exactly in the good graces of the public either.
For profit healthcare is the problem. It's not the doctors, or nurses, or phlebotomists, or pharmacists that are trying to save lives. It's the people who handle the money fucking around with people's lives so they can make more.
Right now it's the largest pharmaceutical company in the USA maybe on earth, so definitely can't be morally upright. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It's the magistrate judge doing the pretrial hearings, not the trial judge. Not great, but not quite as outrageous.
This motherfucker was chosen specifically because of his racist and homophobic bias. Endorsing him is endorsing his prejudices.
Go on, you pieces or shit. Defend this horrifying bastard. It just places you on the same disgusting level as him.
She.
Give them a break. They only saw the headline and the picture of a man before commenting.
I did. I saw that they hadn't read the article and simply corrected them.
Just leaving this link here for no particular reason:
Could've known fair would not be on the table
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