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  1. Noice. Shutout would have been nicer, but wth.
  2. Yeah, except that's not what I said. I said the Twitter take, like most twitter takes, was shit. Because Twitter is shit. I don't really care for counterfactuals from either side. In that respect, we have to be better.
  3. Here's the thing. Full search and arrest warrants in compliance with the 4th Amendment are signed by a judge/magistrate on a showing of probable cause that a crime was committed (both types of warrant), and for search what premises are to be searched, for what type of evidence, and how the premises and evidence are connected to the crime. Both include the ability to enter personal property for the search or arrest. Administrative warrants are for less-than-criminal proceedings, of which immigration is one. The 4th Amendment doesn't apply to non-criminal proceedings, per se. They do authorize officers to make arrests in public places, but in a nod to the 4th Amendment, don't permit entry on private property without consent. They're not the same as a criminal search or arrest warrant. But then again they have no application in criminal matters. And immigration is not a criminal matter in most cases. But yeah, since they cant' come on private property, you can tell them to fuck off if they knock on your door. The lawfare article I cited goes through the case law that state officials have no duty to assist federal officials and that extends so far that states can make laws forbidding state officials from cooperating or assisting. Ironically, Dugan is charged with 18 USC 1505, the Trump 1/6 statute, which the Supreme Court ruled pretty much applies only to documentary/evidentiary obstruction, narrowing the case against Trump, and making it non-viable against Dugan. The other statute is harboring a fugitive, which probably means something more overt than what she did. She probably would have been better off to order the agents not to come in her courtroom. Ultimately what she did didn't hamper his arrest much.
  4. Which is what I said. They are effective to authorize ICE officers to make arrests. I think there's some confusion about search vs. arrest warrants.
  5. That's a Twitter opinion. Such a warrant is fully effective, but doesn't allow officers to enter private property without consent. Nor do they permit or require non-federal officers to execute them.
  6. How's your 401k homeshank?
  7. Kind of interesting. One of the articles I read said that a judge was indicted by DOJ for something similar, but the charges were dismissed once the judge agreed to submit herself to the state's judicial conduct commission. I'd be interested to see how that turns out.
  8. Any prosecutorial body, state or federal, theoretically could bring charges against the AG. Federally, that's rather impracticable, because the AG ultimately controls charging decisions if the chain of command is followed. The conflict of interest there would demand a Special Counsel and even then. But the AG is going to have a lot of immunity for things resembling the official duties of the office, like charging people.
  9. Never said it wasn't. But the first question you have to ask when criminal charges are brought is: can the defendant be convicted. Because if an indictment alleges an offense on which someone can legitimately be convicted, most other shit goes out the window. Now, given the incompetence of the Trump administration, a deep dive into documents and statements might actually prove a political motive and selective prosecution, but those aren't notoriously successful motions to dismiss because intention is usually very difficult to prove and very easy to pretextualize. Also note that this wasn't, apparently, because Judge Dugan had ruled against the government in immigration cases. She's a Wisconsin county-level judge who wouldn't rule on most anything approaching an immigration case. It was because of specific actions she took with respect to a specific party before her court. Nonetheless, it appears that the charges will not stick.
  10. Most government officials have some form of immunity from suit in their personal capacity. The AG is sued in official capacity probably every damn day.
  11. That's another one he didn't write. Demand of the hour. Fuck you.
  12. Well, what would you prefer me to do? Rant and scream about something completely ineffectual? Or provide useful information that explains why the charges won't actually stick. Of course it's intimidation and it's bullshit. But at least this class of victims has the knowledge and likely wherewithal to challenge this. It is conceivable, but probably unlikely, that a federal judge enjoins ICE from attempting to enforce these statutes against state officials, who cannot be commandeered to enforce federal immigration law. I told you people that you'd come to love due process of law once the tables turned.
  13. Nonetheless, when these actually wrongful, weaponized indictments are brought, the same tools Trump used and abused will be employed to great effect by these defendants. Something I predicted more than a year ago. It sucks the double dog dick that these people can beat the rap but not the ride, but at least there's a remedy.
  14. Yeah, it's intimidation. Once the indictment is dismissed, suit should be brought for malicious prosecution.
  15. I will say that these obstruction of immigration charges likely won't hold up, as noted above and elsewhere. And, yeah, the judge should be permitted to test that by motion to dismiss the indictment. That whole due process thing that people were so pissed off about. Cooze.
  16. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure how to interpret exactly what he said. He's a middle aged white dude, small-medium business owner, Fort Worth suburb. Probably Trumpy. His comment could be interpreted as I'm one of the orange mongoloid's loyal soldiers fighting it out against Jynna and our other enemies. Or, I'm getting fucked in a trade war that we and I didn't want and didn't start.
  17. So, I have multiple clients that I am quite sure are being fucked over by this massively. I am a bit afraid to ask, though. Part of it is I don't want to know, and I fear too that many of them are members of the Leopards Eating Faces party. But today I wrote a client reminding of some things he needs to send me and he said "I've been busy fighting a trade war."
  18. Ironically, the low-information "free shit army" that people, including me, used to decry on these very boards now constitutes the base.
  19. It is, but I don't think the charges are sustainable. https://www.justsecurity.org/106723/sanctuary-policies-federalism-1324/
  20. This and the CFPB. Could there be any more blatant signal that Trump and his government do not give one single solitary fuck about consumers?
  21. Just like grocery price, lowering inflation, gas prices and IVF?
  22. He didn't write that, or major parts of that. Also ironic that he tries to make Obama look weak for not starting or fomenting an armed conflict, when he himself seems to think we should not be involved in any armed conflicts, including this one.
  23. You'd not really think there's much hellacious "racing" in DFW, but DORBA does this heinous, disgusting thing called Judgment Day. To complete it, you do 70 or 100 miles on prescribed parts of local trails in 24 hours. In July.
  24. And, given the ever-changing circumstances of life, continuing to seek the teachings of Christ is a fairly essential part of how to be. To increase or maintain your conscious contact with your higher power, as it were. it's not and cannot be a "one and done" thing. Like, I really need to work on my forgiveness of dispensationalists.
  25. Pears and mayonnaise is gross as shit, no question. Pretty much anything and mayonnaise, if it's slathered on there and dripping is gross as shit. I can tolerate a thin layer of mayo on a burger or sandwich or something, but if it's dripping, I'm out.
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