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Roger_Mudd posted:Lol. Said every person who received a jury summons. It's frankly astounding in this era of increased financial precarity that anyone can actually show up for jury duty that isn't retired. And of course being 70+ is an auto excuse out Edit to be clear I didn't care about jury duty until it impacted me which I'm sure is also true for everyone else, but those of us with decent hourly earnings and no PTO/benefits get insanely hosed over by it mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Jan 21, 2020 |
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In a just world, none of Trumps attorneys should get jobs after this embarrassment. I don't think they're being "unethical," they're just intentionally dumbing themselves down and pretending to be the densest pieces of poo poo in human history. A free market shouldn't let any of these guys off the hook.
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Sometimes I go back and reread pages of this thread, and I gotta say there's a lot of great posts itt. Just, abnormally high amount. I really recommend it. Yes, I do find this fun. It's how you can tell I'm a lawyer and terminally so.
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blarzgh posted:And before anyone gets the idea that I'm opining on the impeachment, understand:
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Pook Good Mook posted:In a just world, none of Trumps attorneys should get jobs after this embarrassment. In a better world everyone would learn that working for Trump is career poison.
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Jan 21, 2020 22:00
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Hopefully the Visicanucks will sack DC soon and put us all out of this misery Our problems are more reminiscent of the end of the Roman Republic than they are the end of the Roman Empire.
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homullus posted:Our problems are more reminiscent of the end of the Roman Republic than they are the end of the Roman Empire. If only Caligula had been Caesar’s heir and not Augustus
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Ani posted:If we're only in the Gracchi phase of the American Republic, then we've got another 100 solid years of "democracy", and then ~300 years of being a world superpower empire to look forward to. True, but it took them 800 years to get to the fall of the republic, and we've done it in a quarter of that time. Plus we've only had the accelerant that is the internet for maybe 10 years of ubiquitous coverage?
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blarzgh posted:True, but it took them 800 years to get to the fall of the republic, and we've done it in a quarter of that time. Plus we've only had the accelerant that is the internet for maybe 10 years of ubiquitous coverage? Check your timeline, brah, the Republic was founded in 244 AUC and fell in 727 AUC, making it a mere 483 years, although those years varied widely in length.
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Pook Good Mook posted:In a just world, none of Trumps attorneys should get jobs after this embarrassment. Having a trained ape who will dance for you is actually a very valuable asset, provided you name that ape after a famous attorney
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blarzgh posted:And before anyone gets the idea that I'm opining on the impeachment, understand: Shut up pleb
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Mr. Nice! posted:Trump's defense is dumb and it isn't an actual defense. Not only that, and not only has executive privilege not been asserted as opposed to a blanket stonewall, but ask an originalist where in the constitution you can even find the phrase “executive privilege.” (And do so in an extremely Scalia voice.) The only reason removal is a dead letter is because the Senate will always fail to use it, but they definitely can (and probably should do it at least 3-4 times per century as a matter of checks and balances).
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Phil Moscowitz posted:But but but the will of the voters I still wonder how many Republican voters (and Democratic ones for that matter) think that Trump getting impeached will immediately lead to a triumphal procession by HRC as she is enthroned by the backstabbers in the Senate as opposed to Pence being the one to take over.
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Today's Daubert hearing was more like a Flaw-bert hearing. I got nothing. It was kind of dull.
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I remembered my history for a bit and if anything was too conservative in my estimate. The world would be better today* if in the 20th century alone Wilson, Harding, probably Coolidge, Hoover, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton were all impeached/removed and in most cases you wouldn’t have to stretch to find a reason. * There were also grounds to impeach Bush I but it’s not clear the world would be better off with a Quayle presidency. Also a bunch of tankies would probably put early FDR on this list just to get Henry Wallace installed for a couple years. yronic heroism fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Vote Zombie Eisenhower, 2020
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Why Hoover out of curiosity? 'The Great Humanitarian' they called him, before he was elected.
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sullat posted:Why Hoover out of curiosity? 'The Great Humanitarian' they called him, before he was elected. Pure survival when the nation is saddled with a figure mismatched with the Depression. This impeachment would require some other pretext as opposed to most of the others. Ultimately there’s nothing wrong with the legislative branch clawing back the power between branches and sometimes that means showing a one-termer the door a little early. 
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yronic heroism posted:Pure survival when the nation is saddled with a figure mismatched with the Depression. This impeachment would require some other pretext as opposed to most of the others. Ultimately there’s nothing wrong with the legislative branch clawing back the power between branches and sometimes that means showing a one-termer the door a little early. I had no idea who Hoover's vice president was until a few minutes ago, and so yeah, I'd say impeaching Hoover would have been worth it at least for the first native-American president. Dunno if he would have pushed through Keynesian economics or not though.
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Ani posted:If we're only in the Gracchi phase of the American Republic, then we've got another 100 solid years of "democracy", and then ~300 years of being a world superpower empire to look forward to. When does Lindsey Graham get beaten to death with a table leg?
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Lol https://twitter.com/hlcentrists/status/1219684001566248961?s=21 Also all those times you rubbed your lil pasty weenus on some poor girl’s clothed backside after you stumbled back to the dorm completely faded from funneling  all night
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I need to get a stamp to slap on client's piles of emails and poo poo that says "You look lovely in this too." I can count on one hand the amount of times the claim "this is super useful and shows so and so is the worst" actually panned out.
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My kid brother used to play intramural basketball against Harvard law student teams. He said they were by far the most competitive but least athletic group of people he had ever met playing sports.
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Yuns posted:My kid brother used to play intramural basketball against Harvard law student teams. He said they were by far the most competitive but least athletic group of people he had ever met playing sports. He should come watch the annual Home Court game between Georgetown profs and members of Congress. (It raises money for the DC Legal Clinic for the Homeless so everyone should, but goddamn those are some sad basketball games.)
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Eminent Domain posted:I need to get a stamp to slap on client's piles of emails and poo poo that says "You look lovely in this too." I can count on one hand the amount of times the claim "this is super useful and shows so and so is the worst" actually panned out. That reminds me of every family law case I ever had.
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In a pay to publish article some lawyer bemoans his client not being admitted to the bar because of $900,000 of student debt, is 59 years old, disabled, and only works part time as a paralegal. And really buried the lede about her filing 60 frivolous lawsuits. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2020/01/23/court-denies-bar-admission-to-new-lawyer-due-to-student-loans/ Edit: here’s the opinion from Ohio: http://supremecourt.ohio.gov/pdf_viewer/pdf_viewer.aspx?pdf=876632.pdf
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Top Hats Monthly posted:$900,000 in student debt is remarkable Hers is only $300,000 or so (It doesn't say if she went on to get an LLM). Her husband's must make up the rest.
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There reaches a point where you're basically Constantine chain smoking cigarettes because the end is certain, it's really just a question of when.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Trump's defense is dumb and it isn't an actual defense. This is precisely right. Trump's conduct was impeachable because he was impeached for it. So that debate has been settled. Besides which, all of these erstwhile originalists seem v confused about the fact that "misdemeanor" in the 18th century just meant general bad behavior and not a particular class of minor crime.
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Yuns posted:My kid brother used to play intramural basketball against Harvard law student teams. He said they were by far the most competitive but least athletic group of people he had ever met playing sports. When I was in computer science grad school I played left field on our IM softball team, because I was one of the few CS grad students with baseball experience and people tend to hit the ball to left field on the reg. One day, we played a law school team, which quickly jumped out to a several run lead. With a runner on first, a righty stepped up to the plate and mashed one deep to left-center. I broke into a sprint and--thanks to a lack of warning track--slammed into the chain link outfield fence knee-first as I made the catch. When I noticed my kneecap had been (painfully and disgustingly) dislodged from the front of my leg, i fell to the ground screaming and neglected to get the ball back to the infield. I was later told the runner tagged from first and scored. Lawyers.
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I have had my knee cap realigned more than once and I will likely have a knee replacement before the age of 40 due to playing pointless high school football Being a lawyer is just continuing that quest for self inflicted pain
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Kennel posted:1997 Viivi & Wagner
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EwokEntourage posted:I have had my knee cap realigned more than once and I will likely have a knee replacement before the age of 40 due to playing pointless high school football I'm so glad I hosed up my knee the summer before Freshman year, avoiding this problem.
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Man, this case against the former minister of justice's girlfriend is just  To recap, the (at the time) sitting minister of justice's girlfriend attempted to frame a theater production that had made a play about authoritarian assholes (includin moj) for threats against the minister and other officials, including making threatening letters, damaging their house, tagging their own property, badly attempting to set their car on fire. Seeing as this was threats against a member of government, the police poured massive amounts of resources into the case, the prime minister went national about the evils of free speech and threatening to shut down the theater. Police couldn't find poo poo. They were stumped. They set up cameras, surveiled the poo poo out of people, spent millions. The party surrogates and the minister and his girlfriend criticized the police publicly for incompetence. Turned out, she staged the whole thing. Badly. Once video surveillance couldn't find perps, they looked inside the house and yeah. So the minister of justice got resigned, she's charged now and the case is coming up. The charge? Obstruction, frameup, and attack on the highest state authority which is basically the biggest bitch slap of all threat statutes. Carries a max of 10 years in a 21 year prison sentence limit society. loving ouch. This is gonna be good. Being rich and white helps a lot less over here.
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True. Though I will say Oslo west is still next level rich and white, like a goddamned cheese cake.
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Nice piece of fish posted:True. Though I will say Oslo west is still next level rich and white, like a goddamned cheese cake. Lol I like “cheesecake” as a derogatory term...rich, white, and dense
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