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Originally Posted by highthief
I don't see it that way - the justice system and the legislative bodies are meant to be seperate. I understand in the US this is not strictly true, as your judges are elected, but in this instance, particularly, it's about a criminal athlete, and little more.
She's not going to jail because she's black, or because she's a woman, or because she voted for the other guy.
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The Justice System is a branch of government, all government is a matter of politics, and the judges on the federal bench are appointed, not elected.
Whether doping should or should not be legal and what the punishment for it should be, and whether that should apply differently to men and women, mothers and not, this is a legislative matter - politics.