Biden Just Introduced The Uke President Zelensky As Putin!

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You must have missed the word "illegally."
Try to read ALL the words ok.

Influencing the election was the second crime that made the first crime a felony.

But influencing an election is not a crime.

You must have missed the word "illegally."

I was mocking the "illegally" claim.

It's illegal to illegally influence an election. LOL!

What about the statute’s reference to “unlawful means”? Merchan and Bragg interpret that merely to state, literally, the means by which the conspirators seek their objective. The criminal law distinguishes a conspiracy’s end from the means by which conspirators seek to achieve it. It is the end — the objective — on which jurors must unanimously agree; they need not be unanimous as to means (the latter are often not even alleged in a conspiracy indictment). That was Merchan’s rationalization for instructing the jurors that they needn’t be unanimous regarding the “unlawful means.”

Alas, while literalism is usually desirable in interpreting statutory text, here it invites error. To repeat, “to promote the election of any person” cannot be the objective of a criminal conspiracy because it’s not a crime. The reason the jury must be unanimous about the objective of a conspiracy is that the objective is the intended crime. In §17-152, however, there is no intended crime unless what the statute confusingly calls “unlawful means” are factored in. Ergo, the so-called unlawful means are not really means; they are ends. Simply stated, what the statute labels “unlawful means” are the most essential part of the objective — the activities that make the agreement illegal, that make it a criminal conspiracy.
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
 
Influencing the election was the second crime that made the first crime a felony.

But influencing an election is not a crime.

You must have missed the word "illegally."

I was mocking the "illegally" claim.

It's illegal to illegally influence an election. LOL!

What about the statute’s reference to “unlawful means”? Merchan and Bragg interpret that merely to state, literally, the means by which the conspirators seek their objective. The criminal law distinguishes a conspiracy’s end from the means by which conspirators seek to achieve it. It is the end — the objective — on which jurors must unanimously agree; they need not be unanimous as to means (the latter are often not even alleged in a conspiracy indictment). That was Merchan’s rationalization for instructing the jurors that they needn’t be unanimous regarding the “unlawful means.”

Alas, while literalism is usually desirable in interpreting statutory text, here it invites error. To repeat, “to promote the election of any person” cannot be the objective of a criminal conspiracy because it’s not a crime. The reason the jury must be unanimous about the objective of a conspiracy is that the objective is the intended crime. In §17-152, however, there is no intended crime unless what the statute confusingly calls “unlawful means” are factored in. Ergo, the so-called unlawful means are not really means; they are ends. Simply stated, what the statute labels “unlawful means” are the most essential part of the objective — the activities that make the agreement illegal, that make it a criminal conspiracy.
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
Guilty on all 34 counts.
Period.
 
The room gasped at his words. Several people in the room called out Zelensky's name to Biden to point out his error. Hearing them, Biden clarified: 'No, we're going to beat Putin.'
What sickens me is all the Euro trash politicians who support the lunatic and take orders from him, well i say him but it's clear he isn't in charge of anything the dark people in the shadows who really control things are.
 
Influencing the election was the second crime that made the first crime a felony.

But influencing an election is not a crime.

You must have missed the word "illegally."

I was mocking the "illegally" claim.

It's illegal to illegally influence an election. LOL!

What about the statute’s reference to “unlawful means”? Merchan and Bragg interpret that merely to state, literally, the means by which the conspirators seek their objective. The criminal law distinguishes a conspiracy’s end from the means by which conspirators seek to achieve it. It is the end — the objective — on which jurors must unanimously agree; they need not be unanimous as to means (the latter are often not even alleged in a conspiracy indictment). That was Merchan’s rationalization for instructing the jurors that they needn’t be unanimous regarding the “unlawful means.”

Alas, while literalism is usually desirable in interpreting statutory text, here it invites error. To repeat, “to promote the election of any person” cannot be the objective of a criminal conspiracy because it’s not a crime. The reason the jury must be unanimous about the objective of a conspiracy is that the objective is the intended crime. In §17-152, however, there is no intended crime unless what the statute confusingly calls “unlawful means” are factored in. Ergo, the so-called unlawful means are not really means; they are ends. Simply stated, what the statute labels “unlawful means” are the most essential part of the objective — the activities that make the agreement illegal, that make it a criminal conspiracy.
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY

The "means" were conspiring to commit a crime to influence the election.
 

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