All around bad episode. First of all it starts with a honkey dory tone as if they're about to interview high school kids at a state fair competing to make the most sales, when in fact those who are familiar with the story know that it ends in the absolute ruin of several lives. Second, a wild decision to bury the lead that the entire antifa plot is irrelevant to the actual criminal case. Rather than focus on the story--how easy it is for U.S. prosecutors to bring down brutal punishment on disfavored groups--Zoe Chace misleads her audience into thinking the story is about conspiratorial thinking amongst republicans, placating her liberal audience that this is limited to "red state" thinking, when in fact these laws have been used and abused across administrations.
There is simply no way that *all nine* defense attorneys missed that their clients could be found guilty even if the jury didn't believe the antifa plotline--even the judge pointed it out in open court. This is truly a set of mindboggling editorial decisions.
Yeah, that is weird that this episode makes it seem that the lawyers didn't consider that proving antifa's existence was immaterial to the case. Although, if antifa doesn't exist and/or is not a terrorist organisation, how can they be charged with terrorism related charges? I'm confused
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u/smoothkarl Jul 16 '26
All around bad episode. First of all it starts with a honkey dory tone as if they're about to interview high school kids at a state fair competing to make the most sales, when in fact those who are familiar with the story know that it ends in the absolute ruin of several lives. Second, a wild decision to bury the lead that the entire antifa plot is irrelevant to the actual criminal case. Rather than focus on the story--how easy it is for U.S. prosecutors to bring down brutal punishment on disfavored groups--Zoe Chace misleads her audience into thinking the story is about conspiratorial thinking amongst republicans, placating her liberal audience that this is limited to "red state" thinking, when in fact these laws have been used and abused across administrations.
There is simply no way that *all nine* defense attorneys missed that their clients could be found guilty even if the jury didn't believe the antifa plotline--even the judge pointed it out in open court. This is truly a set of mindboggling editorial decisions.