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Let's say a justice drops dead this afternoon. What happens? Does the seat remain vacant until the election or does Obama approve of some bullshit "moderate Republican" nomination? Can the Senate nominate someone without them being dragged through a purity test by Ted Cruz?
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So question for the D&D lawyers Let us imagine a hypothetical fully refundable tax credit with the qualification criteria of "did you vote in this year's general election". Does this stand to be challenged in equal protection grounds from those disenfranchised by other laws (prisoners can't vote, voter ID laws) and if so does it fall or the restriction. Followups: is there existing precedent on such a thing, and what are other possible avenues for it to be challenged?
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Nov 6, 2015 20:10
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Radish posted:Is Ginsburg more liberal than Sotomayor? Sotomayer and Kagan are both 5's, Ginsburg is a 10. This works for pretty much everything by the way.
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Zeroisanumber posted:The victim was a Muslim. On the plus side, they've already slapped Burchard-Risch with a felony assault charge and after an investigation she'll get hit with a hate crime charge too. How many years is she looking at for this? In Oregon, where I live, I think she'd be looking at 7 minimum for the assault (Measure 11 minimum sentencing) and another 5 (I think?) for the hate crime component. So 13 years minimum before she'd be even eligible for parole. I assume Michigan is more lax on violent crime though? Fox Ironic fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Nov 6, 2015 |
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Ooops! Intelligence officials are now saying those two Hillary emails thought to contain classified info actually weren't classified. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/hillary-clinton-email-no-highly-classified-215599 quote:The U.S. intelligence community has retreated from claims that two emails in Hillary Clinton’s private account contained top secret information, a source familiar with the situation told POLITICO. Wonder if this will get as much coverage as the rest of the email accusations.
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A Winner is Jew posted:Sotomayer and Kagan are both 5's, Ginsburg is a 10. Sotomayor is better than Kagan.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:11
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When one Justice dies, the rest should be forced to die with them.
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^^ this idea is good imomcmagic posted:Sotomayor is better than Kagan. Not at softball.
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Chalets the Baka posted:When one Justice dies, the rest should be forced to die with them. I'm imaging the Justices pulling some Weekend at Bernie's-style shenanigans with the dead one to escape this, at least for a while. If Kennedy was the one that croaked, it would probably be a while before anyone noticed.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:14
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Sotomayor and Ginsberg are the best justices in a long time.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Here's a good article from Mike Lofgren detailing the current relationship between conservatives and factual reality. Fachidiot is my new favorite word.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:17
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Nov 6, 2015 20:19
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Luigi Thirty posted:In other news, a woman was arrested at an Applebee's in Minnesota for smashing a mug in the face of a Muslim for speaking Muslim.  This is the face of impotent white rage.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:23
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zoux posted:I defy you to find a hotter take than this. 
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Nov 6, 2015 20:23
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I dunno why we're so worried about foreign oil, we can generate all the steam we need from these scalding hot takes.
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Aliquid posted:Let's say a justice drops dead this afternoon. What happens? Does the seat remain vacant until the election or does Obama approve of some bullshit "moderate Republican" nomination? Can the Senate nominate someone without them being dragged through a purity test by Ted Cruz? The senate has an awful lot of time next year that they're taking off. They have to be off at least 10 days for a recess appointment, and there are quite a few huge gaps in the senate's 2016 calendar. Justice Brennan was a recess appointment.
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So is the scandal implicit in "Hillary said it was a video instead of a terrorist attack" that Democrats are too afraid to call out radical Islam? Or something else, because like HRC, I think what difference does it make.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:28
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zoux posted:So is the scandal implicit in "Hillary said it was a video instead of a terrorist attack" that Democrats are too afraid to call out radical Islam? Or something else, because like HRC, I think what difference does it make. The Republican theory has always been that if only Americans realized it was a planned terrorist operation and not a spontaneous response to a video they would realize that Obama is weak on terror and would have voted for Romney instead. And that the administration knew this and that's why they "lied" about it being caused by the video.
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Joementum posted:The Republican theory has always been that if only Americans realized it was a planned terrorist operation and not a spontaneous response to a video they would realize that Obama is weak on terror and would have voted for Romney instead. OK so then the current scandal is that Hillary lied for her own party's political advantage? Also do they think that the video of him saying it was a terrorist attack in the Rose Garden the next day is fabricated?
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zoux posted:
Hahaha, gently caress you Heartland Institute. Go defend the tobacco industry some more.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:31
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CommieGIR posted:Hahaha, gently caress you Heartland Institute. Go defend the tobacco industry some more. Putin and all the mullahs of Iran upon hearing today's announcement 
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Nov 6, 2015 20:32
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zoux posted:OK so then the current scandal is that Hillary lied for her own party's political advantage? Act of terror =/= terrorist attack or something.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:32
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zoux posted:Putin and all the mullahs of Iran upon hearing today's announcement Not really, Putin has basically made the EU distinctly aware they have to get off Russian supplied gas and coal through his actions in Crimea and Ukraine, Iran MIGHT benefit from it, but not anytime too soon.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:34
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Fox Ironic posted:How many years is she looking at for this? It's actually Minnesota. Right now she's charged with 3rd degree assault, which carries a possible 5-year sentence and up to $10000 fine. If they decide to charge her under the hate crime laws (and I don't know why they wouldn't) then that will bump it up to 2nd degree assault, which carries a possible 10-year sentence and fines of up to $20000. She probably won't get the maximum unless she's on probation or has a long record, but she'll definitely do some jail time and catch a stiff fine.
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zoux posted:OK so then the current scandal is that Hillary lied for her own party's political advantage? He didn't say it was a "terrorist attack" in the Rose Garden. He said it was "an act of terror". This was the point that tripped Romney up in the second debate and led to, "Proceed, Governor..." The Republican theory of the timeline is something like: 1. Terrorist attack happened. 2. Obama and Clinton told about the attack, decide to do nothing. 3. Obama and Clinton go to sleep. (This was the point of Martha Roby's "Were you alone all night?" question) 4. Obama and Clinton realize the next day that it was a terrorist attack and that this could mean President Romney because they hosed up. 5. Obama and Clinton tell the CIA to manufacture talking points saying it was a spontaneous attack caused by the video. 6. Clinton repeats the line from the talking points at the Rose Garden event. 7. The CIA points are given to Susan Rice who repeats them on all the Sunday shows. 8. Obama is re-elected and we enter a thousand years of darkness.
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CommieGIR posted:Not really, Putin has basically made the EU distinctly aware they have to get off Russian supplied gas and coal through his actions in Crimea and Ukraine, Iran MIGHT benefit from it, but not anytime too soon. Excuse me are you saying that the Heartland institute is lying about the foreign policy implications of not building the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Nov 6, 2015 20:35
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They had no loving clue where they were going with it from the get go, only that they needed someway somehow to make the standing Democratic Presidency look weak somehow on foreign policy after they got clowned on OBL
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Joementum posted:He didn't say it was a "terrorist attack" in the Rose Garden. He said it was "an act of terror". This was the point that tripped Romney up in the second debate and led to, "Proceed, Governor..." Hmmm I think these people might be crazy. But anyway that's the best summary of what's going on I've read because no one who isn't a right wing radio adherent can figure out what the gently caress is supposed to be the Benghazi scandal.
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I don't think that President Obama get's enough credit for the incredibly ballsy move to go after Osama Bin Laden. Like seriously can you imagine the poo poo storm if it was a unsuccessful mission.
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RuanGacho posted:They had no loving clue where they were going with it from the get go, only that they needed someway somehow to make the standing Democratic Presidency look weak somehow on foreign policy after they got clowned on OBL 
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zoux posted:Hmmm I think these people might be crazy. I think that's what has continued to lead them to make unforced errors in prosecuting their case: they think that people outside of their closed media loop (1) care about this at all, (2) have any idea what the gently caress they're talking about.
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Hollismason posted:I don't think that President Obama get's enough credit for the incredibly ballsy move to go after Osama Bin Laden. Like seriously can you imagine the poo poo storm if it was a unsuccessful mission. President walks to podium, "We got him." later... White man on TV glares angrily, "You didn't get HIM "Sir", WE DID!!!"
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Nov 6, 2015 20:41
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Yeah that image got me to burn the few conservative fb friends I had at the time.
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The right wing spin machine is in full force on the Carson story. They're trying to paint politico as the new Dan Rather. I think it will work:
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pathetic little tramp posted:The right wing spin machine is in full force on the Carson story. They're trying to paint politico as the new Dan Rather. I think it will work: The right wing spin machine can make up anything it wants and their followers will believe it.
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Rep. Tony Cardenas' press shop is having fun on a Friday.
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DemeaninDemon posted:The right wing spin machine can make up anything it wants and their followers will believe it. You guys keep forgetting that the right wing spin machines of the Trump, Rubio, Cruz, and Bush are going to be hammering him on this. Wait until Trump starts tweeting about it.
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DemeaninDemon posted:The right wing spin machine can make up anything it wants and their followers will believe it. They have have already won the 2016 presidential election. Just as they won 2012.
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DemeaninDemon posted:The right wing spin machine can make up anything it wants and their followers will believe it. This one is pretty amazing since it seems so clear cut. Is my timeline accurate on this? 1. Carson writes a book in which he claims he got a scholarship to West Point 2. Journalists look into it, find that he never applied to West Point, according to West Point 3. Politico calls his campaign, campaign manager says he was told he should apply but decided not to, confirming 2. 4. Politico writes story stating this 5. Carson campaign claims Politico is lying. I have to say, one of the scariest things about the last couple of election cycles has been watching campaigns realize that they can just straight up deny stuff like this and not pay a price for it with their constituents.
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