Ron Franke<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Dominion" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dominion</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/legalsystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>legalsystem</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>politics</span></a></p><p>My wife Kathy is an attorney and I own a software business. We were talking about the Dominion case and Clarence <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thomas</span></a> on the Alie walk this morning.</p><p>She, as many people have done here regarding Dominion, argue "this is what the law says and this is how the courts work".</p><p>Being a software guy, we look at broken and arbitrary processes (the law is a process) and try and find fixes that make the process better and less arbitrary. Here I'm referring to business software primarily.</p><p>What I see with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Fox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fox</span></a> and the Dominion settlement is a good example of a legal system that is broken and arbitrary.</p><p>The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GOP</span></a> and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> on <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a>, as well as the Federal judge <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Kacsmaryk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Kacsmaryk</span></a> in Texas, and many other examples, have proven that laws can be written and interpreted in ways that fit a political narrative.</p><p>The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DOJ</span></a> showing with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> and the classified documents case that the investigative process and decision to investigate is arbitrary and subject to politics.</p>