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Bar Ran Dun posted:There is popular vote compact of states. That’s actually pretty close to getting the needed count I think. By numbers yea, but they’ve run out of states that would gain power and need to sign up some states that would lose it, which is a way bigger lift
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There is also an argument that states have broad powers to select and bind electors by any rules they see fit, so yeah, if it ever reaches the point where it might affect things it’s going to court for a very long time
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Aug 23, 2023 03:52
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Isn’t that a standard Trump strategy he’s tried in the past? Publicly attack the judge, then claim that they can’t possibly be impartial after that?
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Aug 23, 2023 18:48
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Xiahou Dun posted:Sidney Powell looks like Harrison Ford has been asking her why she won’t flip a turtle over for the last 45 minutes.  Deckard wasn’t in that scene, and when he administers the VK to Rachel he doesn’t ask the turtle question (although it was a very long session and if that was part of the standard question set it may have happened offscreen)
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Gyges posted:Gonna be one hell of an episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter. Bounty hunted like a dog
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Aug 25, 2023 03:35
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Aug 27, 2023 03:15
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Xiahou Dun posted:FASCHISTS Way more likely that that was a typo
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Aug 28, 2023 19:37
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zoux posted:Is this a "two Georgia state reps have filed a bill" story or an actual story? I tried to check but paywall. quote:We’ve seen that scowl a million times, but never before in this context: Donald Trump, the “strawberry blond” former president, was booked, fingerprinted, and mug shot in Georgia Thursday evening—the 45th president now inmate no. P01135809. “It is not a comfortable feeling,” he told Fox News Digital afterward. But once again, his Republican allies are rallying to his defense—seeking not only to run political interference for him, but also remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from office, potentially undermining the prosecution entirely. I think you have to be more familiar with GA law than random internet assholes like me to make an educated guess as to whether this will matter, but it doesn't sound like nothing
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Aug 28, 2023 22:26
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cr0y posted:Apparently the panel is something different, I can't keep this poo poo straight The panel is indeed something different. It's an independent body that was stood up by a law (which Kemp did sign) and was intended to function as a leash to tug if prosecutors got so woke as to fail to prosecute as much as the Republicans had hoped. It was not intended to force a prosecutor to stop prosecuting because they're prosecuting too much, or prosecuting someone Republicans don't want prosecuted. It starts up in October, but like Kemp says, it's already going to court
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Aug 31, 2023 20:30
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Wrong geographic origin, now it’s just sparkling intimidation
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Sep 1, 2023 18:30
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brb, pitching sitcom
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The Artificial Kid posted:Let’s not dignify Trump by giving demagoguery his name. It's a bit late for that, people were saying trumpism in 2016
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TheDisreputableDog posted:Legality aside, removing Trump from the ballot by fiat would be an incredibly dumb political move What if we removed him by due process?
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Sep 8, 2023 20:41
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I've never possessed the franchise. They have closed off every legal route to my preferred candidate, Mickey Mouse, becoming president
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Sep 10, 2023 01:12
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No one would be prevented from casting a vote. Hell, no one would be prevented from casting a write-in vote for Trump. He'd be that much less likely to win because a significant fraction of people who would have checked the box won't bother with the extra effort of a write-in*, but none of this is disenfranchisement *unless you're Lisa Murkowski, apparently
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On the other hand, if he's not allowed to serve, that means even if he wins the election his term cannot begin and he will not have a remainder of a term for the VP to assume. It may mean that any electoral votes cast for that candidate would be void and a different candidate would necessarily win
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BigglesSWE posted:What spicy nickname for Cannon can we expect tonight I wonder. Judge “Loose” Cannon
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At least he gave us the movie version of The Hunt For Red October
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Gyges posted:Lets not forget that most large banks were/are in the position of already being dumb enough to loan Trump millions of dollars, and thus are in the odd position where big boy business accounting indicates that giving him even more money is the best way to get some money back. If you can find a way to owe the money guys enough, they'll jump through nearly as many hoops to keep your business as if you were actually worth hundreds of millions. "If you owe the bank a hundred dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, the bank has a problem"
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mutata posted:If I was ever gonna root for the Streisand Effect to take off, it would be now. “The music formerly known as jizz”
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BiggerBoat posted:And why the gently caress does Trump want a jury trial? I thought he was bitching that he couldn't get a fair trial in NYC, DC, Fulton County or anywhere except West Memphis, Arkansas. It's still 12 chances to get a diehard chud in who votes not guilty* regardless of the evidence and causes a mistrial *I know it's a civil suit and so does he and so does the juror. He still votes "not guilty"
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Was Trump literally tweeting from the courtroom? Like, the judge is speechifying about important case business and he's just tap tap tapping under the table like he's bored in standup?
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Oct 3, 2023 20:11
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More practically, it means the DOJ and all the state DOJs have veto power over presidential campaigns, which is not a good direction to go in
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Oct 5, 2023 20:52
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Trump right now asking anyone standing near by what “turbulent” means
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:For the million true bad things that can be said about Trump he’s never been against the vaccine, has he? He just takes all the credit for it. He may never have specifically said "do not get the vaccine" but he also pushed all the quack poo poo like ivermectin, refused to mask and ordered others not to mask, and said covid wasn't a big deal to begin with so he doesn't get net points in his favor for not being antivaxx
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Oct 24, 2023 17:49
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Donald a Trump should definitely flip on himself
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Meow Tse-tung posted:Imagining an x-men style magneto prison that no tweet can penetrate 
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Off to shoot someone on fifth avenue before losing his chance forever
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Devor posted:Twitter threads are not available to anyone who isn't logged into Twitter (it's just a link to one post), so if there's anything important you care to share, this link is effectively a blackhole. The selected tweets you included are visible, though. You can always try dumping a twitter link into ThreadReader or similar tools, if it's a popular salient thread it will usually be able to pull it up https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1718998982674788622.html
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Can you use an insanity defense in a civil suit? Asking for a friend
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Accountants right out of central casting are running up with tears in their eyes
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Blind Rasputin posted:Could someone clarify, just what is the role of the law clerk and why do they “pass notes to the judge”? I know nothing about courts. I almost got to testify in a medical hearing once as the physician on duty but the case was dropped. Is it normal for a law clerk to pass messages “hundreds of times a day?” What are the messages? I always end up wondering if the truth is somewhere in the middle, which got me imagining that like.. defense yells objection, Engeron goes silent for a minute looking around aimlessly, and then the law clerk passes a slip of paper under his elbow that says, “sustained” and then he replies to the court, “uh sustained!” In my extremely basic understanding, the clerk is sort of the judge's secretary and/or executive assistant. If the judge needs to know something that requires significant research, they can pass it off to the clerk without interrupting their judging (and eliminate the multi-minute silence while everyone is held up). They can also do this ahead of time so there's no delay at all. If the judge gives a verbal order, the clerk will write and publish the boilerplate legalese that makes it official. The clerk also manages all the piles of paper involved in a case so the judge doesn't have to have all that up on their bench doing it themselves. They pass notes because most court proceedings involve a third party talking nonstop haveblue fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Cimber posted:Uhh, if they haven't revealed it yet then they never will, since that committee is dead and gone. It could be reconstituted the next time the Democrats have control of the House. I don't know what progress it could make on the Jan 6 investigation since that would be 2025 at the earliest, but if the existing evidence hasn't been outright destroyed it could be released
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We're finally going to get a proper successor to "is this your handwriting?"
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Edward Mass posted:He's got an indoor voice? He probably has some base level of awareness that he should avoid extremely cut-and-dried contempt of court even when he feels he's totally in the right to keep talking. Same as a middle schooler realizing they're a few smart remarks away from detention
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Wouldn’t want the language to get too weirded
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Really curious how that would work practically with no military allies and no loyalty from the secret service We might have actually gotten a Trump frogmarch video
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Is “the president is not an officer” one of those legal shortcuts like “corporations are people” where allowing it is easier than updating all the laws to say “person or corporation” or “all officers except the president”?
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Deteriorata posted:Trump's fraud trial in NY is not going well for him. Looks like somebody didn’t see a certain clip from The Wire
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InsertPotPun posted:hey i was told that the disolving of trump's company was inevitable and could not be stopped even during appeal and...that was wrong. so...were you guys wrong or did the rules shift? What made you believe that it has been stopped, just now?
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