robertv3 wrote:
It's mainly the difference between common language and legal language. When one wants to be understood by common people, one speaks in common language. When one wants to press a legal case, one has to use legal terminology and navigate legal ramifications.
A crowd, stirred up by Trump, tried to stop a t***sition of power to the newly elected president, because that's what Trump wanted it to do. They and he were doing a wrong, bad thing. In common language, what they did could rightly be called an "i**********n" or an "attempted i**********n". Legal language is sometimes something else.
I speak from personal experience, not about i**********ns but about common language versus legal language (and occasionally pseudo-legal language, maybe):
I was in a legal case, in a court, before a judge; I had evidence to show, and I had a constitutional right to be heard. That's how it is, in common language. The words in this little paragraph are common language.
In the language used (variously, not necessarily consistently) by my first attorney and the judges during the next few years, it was a "pseudo-legal" proceeding they were doing, "constitutional rights" did not apply because this was (at least part of the time) in "Family court"; and at least one of the judges wasn't a real judge (rather, an "administrative judge"). The word "evidence" provoked scorn in some attorneys and the first judge; and yet later my first attorney said I was a hero in my evidential presentation and that my evidence worked. My very experienced third attorney told me I had done the right thing by getting my second attorney to subpoena records as evidence (and I was glad to hear it because the second attorney, who was also a very experienced one, didn't seem to have a clue for what I was trying to do in the case -- or, perhaps having a clue, had immediately given up on it as hopeless -- it was a right thing but hopeless in the system as he understood it). The system (courts or wh**ever they want to call themselves) did approximately what I asked it to do, it just took four years to do what I had ready for them to do in two months.
For some things, a legal system is _really_needed_; and for some other things, common language is _really_needed_, and for some things, BOTH are _really_needed_.
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What a narcissistic blowhard.