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Epstein pivoted to trafficking adult women to evade law enforcement - After his 2008 conviction, Epstein deliberately targeted legal-age women to avoid the same level of scrutiny he received for crimes against minors.
“As long as they're of legal age, he felt that that would mean that the authorities wouldn't come after him. And unfortunately, he was right that he didn't get as much scrutiny because he was sex trafficking adults.”
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Victims were trapped through institutional and personal leverage - Epstein maintained control by funding modeling agencies to manage women's work visas while simultaneously using compromising photos and financial dependency as 'kompromat.'
“Svetlana was trapped, not just because she worked for Epstein or because he had these compromising images of her, but also because he controlled her visa and immigration status through the modeling agency that he funded.”
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The operation functioned like a psychological pyramid scheme - Epstein coerced his victims into recruiting other women, using the resulting feelings of complicity and shame to ensure the original victims wouldn't go to the authorities.
“People who are involved in the case have called it similar to a pyramid scheme. Several of the victims that are public even now, they have admitted that they also recruited and brought in other girls, you know, into his scheme.”
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“People who are involved in the case have called it similar to a pyramid scheme. Several of the victims that are public even now, they have admitted that they also recruited and brought in other girls, you know, into his scheme.”
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Trump’s presence in the courtroom signaled a rare executive branch power play - as the first sitting president to attend an oral argument, his appearance was seen as an attempt to personally witness and potentially pressure the justices deciding his birthright citizenship order.
“The first sitting president to be in the Supreme Court courtroom for an oral argument and to be sitting there as the justices were debating birthright citizenship.”
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The administration's legal argument rests on a narrow definition of domicile - Solicitor General John Sauer argued that the 14th Amendment's 'jurisdiction' clause requires an intent to stay and legal status, excluding children of undocumented immigrants from automatic citizenship.
“In 1884, this court recognized that subject to the jurisdiction means owing direct and immediate allegiance. The clause thus does not extend citizenship to the children of temporary visa holders or illegal aliens.”
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Chief Justice Roberts expressed immediate skepticism toward the government's theory - by labeling the administration’s interpretation of the 14th Amendment as 'quirky,' Roberts highlighted the significant legal hurdle of overturning a century of settled precedent.
“You obviously put a lot of weight on subject to the jurisdiction thereof. But the examples you give to support that strike me as very quirky.”
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