Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I'm saying that there should have been an ethics hearing/investigation in which he could have defended himself.

I do not know know what "should have been" means in this context.

I take you to be saying that your sense of fairness tells you that some process is due before he is punished. I don't disagree.

But he wasn't punished and the question was a political one, not a legal one. Politically, he was in an untenable position. Fairness and due process don't come into it.