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Re:Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked... by watwut on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:25AM (#47945985)
> it's just suddenly defense attorneys care because of the immigration/deportation angle instead of just someone losing their home, job, car, life.

1.) This has nothing to do with defense attorneys who are not available in these cases nor dealing with them.

2.) The scale of it is massively larger.

3.) The defense attorneys were actually talking about it for years, I know because I read about similar issues for years. And I am not particularly interested in legal system.

There is that rhetorical trick where people just assume that since they just learned about something, professionals dealing with these issues were oblivious too.

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Re:Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked... by _DeadFred_ on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:30PM (#47954153)
The key word in 'it's just suddenly defense attorneys care' being 'care'. Nowhere did I say defense attorneys were oblivious.

Defense attorneys could boycott the system and force reform. How old is the saying 'you can beat the rap, but not the ride' now? You are right, defense attorneys have known that the justice system can destroy anyone just for being a target, for a very long time. I guess I should have written 'they suddenly have energy to challenge it'.

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