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Marine Le Pen should be in jail

Marine Le Pen should be in jail

A brief response to David Broder's latest in Jacobin.

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Carl Beijer
Mar 31, 2025
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David Broder, in Jacobin:

The Paris court ruling on Monday, with a sentence applied immediately, means that [Marine Le Pen] cannot stand for election or hold office for five years...No one is above the law, and the court could not rule based on Le Pen’s personal popularity. But banning candidates from running for office due to financial crimes is highly …

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