Originally Posted by
time4fun
Do you know anything about Ellis?
Let me clue you in- he's had NUMEROUS complaints filed against him. In particular, he's well known for being VERY unprofessional towards the prosecution. At one point in the Manafort trial- he implied that bank fraud in a loan application was only illegal if you actually got the loan. Hint: that is 100%, factually incorrect. Prosecution had to file a complaint, and Ellis was forced to give a half-hearted retraction to the Jury because he mislead them on a key point of the law.
And the Appellate Courts are generally loathe to reprimand Federal Judges, and they hate vacating judgments based on inappropriate behavior from Federal Judges even more so. And if you think about it- it makes perfect sense. They're afraid of opening up the floodgates if they do. So a Federal Judge has to SERIOUSLY misbehave for the Appellate Courts to intervene. It's incredibly rare.
So there are these things called facts. And they matter. And sometimes reality doesn't comport to what you want it to be. So, for example, you may express intense skepticism at a critique of, say, a Federal Judge. But that doesn't mean the critique is invalid.
It may actually just mean that you're woefully ignorant of the issues and yet, inexplicably, feel that expressing strong opinions is appropriate.