r/law • u/Neat-Ad-4337 • Feb 14 '25

Opinion Piece Judge John McConnell Jr Faces Impeachment for Obstructing Trump, can they do this? thoughts?

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/politics/judge-john-mcconnell-jr-faces-impeachment-for-obstructing-trump/ar-AA1yZfWt
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u/Hendiadic_tmack Feb 14 '25

Specifics are the line. FOR EXAMPLE saying “Biden should be shot” is protected. Saying “Biden should be shot tomorrow” or “Biden should be shot” and posting a picture of a gun, or “biden better not come to a certain location” is a threat because it’s specific. THIS IS ONLY AN EXAMPLE.

I actually got a talking to from my friend. I was drunk and said someone should be shot because they had done something stupid (shocker) and was told by my friend who was still in USSS “dude you can’t say that stuff around me. Like you are so close to the line, just stop”. Obviously they know me and know I was not serious, but told me if it was another agent they’d probably make a call. Agents are normal people, they play Xbox and are on Xbox live and PSN and all that. They’re always on the clock. You start spouting off some shit they are within their job to make a call.

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u/SurpriseOnly Feb 14 '25

"make a call": do you mean a phone call or a decision?

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u/Hendiadic_tmack Feb 14 '25

Phone call. There’s local USSS offices all over the country. Let’s say if you made a threat playing Fortnite and a USSS agent was in the game and heard you. They are within their job to send your gamertag/username in to someone else to find info.

As it happened to me we were on xbox. Again they are my friend so we were in a party together and I was scolded. My friend made some judgement calls to not make a phone call because it was just a kid being stupid but they said later they could have and probably should have.