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Trump's request to suspend E. Jean Carroll's $83M verdict swiftly denied by judge
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The legal system is bananas. Appeals are one thing, an "administrative stay of enforcement" 25 days after the judgement is just confusing. I don't understand why that would get approved in any scenario.
It gets approved often, especially if the remedy is something other than monetary compensation. For example, if the remedy is that the court granted specific performance of a contract by a non-performing party, that's not like money where if it turns out to be granted by mistake it can be given back
There was zero chance it was going to be granted in this case and any competent lawyer would know that, especially before Judge Kaplan.
Banana republic
That's not what that term means.
Banana dictatorship
"A banana republic is a politically unstable country whose economy depends on the export of one product in limited supply, such as agricultural products like bananas or minerals"
The literal first sentence from wikipedia. It's a specific kind of exploited state. Using it as a catch-all for unpopular or unstable governments dilutes the terminology. Which is what's happening, as shown by the rest of the wiki page. It's not, like, an official classification and you're not the only one to denigrate the US with that label but it seems dishonest and reductive. Our problems are largely internal and would exist with no foreign influence or global economy.