She absolutely must be held accountable. That diplomatic immunity bullshit was not mean for this type of tragedy.

Either the law means something or it doesn’t. She has immunity under the law.

The law is intended to prevent political prosecutions. It is not meant to be a get out of jail free card. It isn't meant to protect people from such obvious wrong-doing. Would you like them to grant immunity to drug smugglers? it can, and should be in this case, waived by the US.

Using it in a cases like this only weakens it for times when it is really needed.

It sounds like a terrible accident, but she must face the consequences.

This is not that different from killing someone while driving drunk. There might not be any intention to kill anyone, but there is a disregard for the risk and consequences of their actions when they picked up a drink.

Driving in a country with a different road system is really challenging and I'm curious whether the woman had driver's training, passed tests, took any measures to deal with the opposite-side-of-the-road configurations. This woman was obviously unprepared to drive in England, and she killed someone. Let the courts decide the appropriate sentence for that lapse of judgment.

The issue is do we abide by the law or change the law? Ignoring it is not an option.

JFC stop it.

It's not that difficult - if you keep alert all the time and pay attention to what you're doing (which you should do while operating a vehicle in the first place). Parallel parking can be a challenge, but for the most part you just translate everything from left to right and follow what the local traffic does. (It did help that my first experiences with right-hand drive was in Tasmania, where what people there are tend to drive in the middle of the road )

The British government is asking the US to waive diplomatic immunity.

It's been waived before in cases where people were killed, raped, abused, etc.

Did you mean to sound like Trump? It sounds like you are saying, "Well, everyone else does it."

That is not the way you lead. Of course, I guess we can choose to give up all pretense of being a leader in the world now. We have Trump as an excuse. I would hope we're better than that.

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She and her husband were here only 3 weeks. Strange how they claim this is a diplomatic posting.

The "he will speak to the White House "'personally'" line from the OP article's ITV News tweet, was the opening round to get those illegal favors going...

And of course one big "favor" might end up being a huge obvious one that would probably be related to Christopher Steele.

I know at one time we didn't as a general practice. We would prosecute them here in some cases, but we didn't waive immunity for anyone.

I don't think that anyone really thinks the UK is problematic in this situation, but what happens if a questionable situation arises in a non 5 eye's country where we think there is undue influence (say Italy or Greece)? Does waiving immunity here put us in an untenable position later?

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Five figures? Six figures? That is what you get when you sign on with Trump.

Unless your name starts with P and ends with N, tRump's got no fucks to give about anyone else.