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  1. Yeah true. And he will. I'm more sympathetic to Letitia James, but I honestly think that case may have to go to a jury. The only real question is how embarrassing is this going to get for the DOJ?
  2. Exactly. And POTUS may have that immunity, but the rest of em don't.
  3. Did this actually happen? I know we didn't have a spring game. But don't recall hearing this until fairly recently. If so, it may go a long way to explaining why Sark thinks he has a better team than he's got, and maybe also why the team isn't that good in the first place.
  4. Goddamn. That has got to be unconstitutional, even in the Fifth Circuit.
  5. Quiet, piggy.
  6. There are multiple questions going on, but this precise one is that they are contending that the indictment, having not been actually heard and true-billed by a grand jury, is defective and should therefore be dismissed. That is a separate question from many of the others that are now or will be under consideration. like vindictive prosecution, grand jury misconduct, etc. One of the critical questions is that limitations has passed, so at first glance, the government cannot just re-indict him correctly this time. But, a statute provides a six month tolling of limitations when an indictment is dismissed under certain circumstances. https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual-655-statute-limitations-and-defective-indictments-superseding
  7. Yep. First off, I think it is highly unusual for federal prosecutors to bring an indictment when someone has gone to the trouble of writing a declination memo. About the only real justification for that is if new evidence comes to light, making the memo inaccurate./Lebowski. But in the circumstances in which a declination memo exists in an active prosecution, I might think it would be exculpatory material required to be disclosed by the government under Brady. We're not quite at that point yet, but the government here is making noises that it intends to violate Brady. And that is the most unforgivable prosecution error that can be made, especially when it is intentional. Well, short of fabricating evidence and suborning perjury, which I would not put past this bunch.
  8. James Boasberg, DC District Judge, continues to doggedly pursue contempt of court against Trump's DOJ for lies told about deporting immigrants subject to an injunction against deportation. Related: As pointed out in the replies, lawyers drafting declarations is common. But good lawyers make damn sure the witness/declarant understands and affirms everything in the declaration. My favored practice along those lines has been to have the witness write what he wants to say and than transform that into a declaration. Witness there also looking to the government lawyers for help. Lulz.
  9. Well, that's a colossal mistake. DAG Blanche just hasn't gotten around to shutting that down yet and dismissing the US Attorney.
  10. It doesn't really matter. The point is the offense isn't able to routinely do things Sark thinks it can. From practice, or something. The players aren't necessarily affirmatively bad, but for whatever reasons, just not performing. And it's not like they utterly cannot run the offense, they just miss it by . . . this much. The pass is off. The route is a little off. A missed block. Drops. The glaring exception being the OL. I'll say it again, last year's OL just wasn't all that, despite the draft picks. The offense was good enough overall that it seemed like kind of a nitpick, but its lack of push in the run game kept our offense under wraps. Of course, now, it's a glaring, massive defect that probably drives everything else wrong with the offense: Arch struggling, not establishing with the WR, and obviously the never-quite-gets-going run game. Even the penalties, which seem most disastrously to center around an OL that is more than half-likely to get bitched on any given play. They're so nervous they jump, and then hold when they do get bitched; if they manage to engage a rusher at all.
  11. They might actually realize that, in addition to horrendous self-dealing. the law enforcement practice of obtaining call records of suspects and witnesses is so routine that this would create a huge litigation burden from a huge number of people.
  12. If anyone is unaware, AP is one of the straight-arrow sources that doesn't flinch or pull punches. Highly recommended.
  13. In 1993 a redpot was cited for bringing 53 beers to the stack site after midnight. Lol wut? 48, sure, 72, sure; 42, 54, but 53?
  14. And the Senate is supposed to be the more mature legislative body.
  15. It's weird though. With the exception of the OL, most of our touted players like Wingo, even Arch, flash some serious potential. And sometimes they even come around like Worthy, and Arch. Worthy got a raft of shit on here for the better part of a year. It's not quite the same animal, I don't think, as Mack's highly touted recruits that just disappeared or busted. Or Herman's. I have been saying for a couple of years now, it's like he overestimates what his players can routinely do. And you're saying it too. I've asked myself "well is it really just that his player suck?" and the answer to that is mostly no, I think. There's some kind of weird disconnect there.
  16. Well, remember, one of Trump's chief problems is that he is in office. The goldfish brains aren't going to forget that while he remains in office. America was sick of his shit by 2020, but forgot about it by 2024. They're sick of his shit now and will likely stay so.
  17. It's not politics to observe that Bill Pulte is unethical as shit.
  18. Probably belongs in the Loomer thread, but
  19. Those are great little airguns, especially considering all the plastic and stamped (not even die cast) parts. Back when I was a kid, I chose a Crosman 760 for my big boy pellet gun because it seemed more substantial. While the 760 is a classic in its own right, I think the Daisy is a better gun. I have the single-stroke 10m target version today and it's a tack driver.
  20. Nope I was wrong, it was Silk Stalkings, and some other stuff. And she used her real name, had forgotten that. AmyLindsay.com Bahaha, she was in a Ted Cruz ad that they pulled because she's a dirty bitch. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/soft-core-porn-actress-in-new-cruz-ad-choosing-between-him-a (I would have spared her the dirty bitch comment except she said she's a Cruz supporter).
  21. I believe that is literally true. She presented the second, revised indictment only to the foreperson, not to the grand jury. But yeah, there's other stuff behind the scenes that probably has her in an ethical jackpot beyond accepting a legal matter for which she was not competent.
  22. I think we may have discussed this before, but there's a late 80s/early 90s UT grad, a DG, that was a staple in those things. Although Red Shoe Diaries rather than Silk Stalkings.
  23. Well, Pam, which is it? Any ordinary public figure's credibility on this would be shot to fucking shit. But Trump.
  24. The actual prosecutors are doing their job, basically, see post 494. The problem with them is that they for some unfathomable reason stepped up to handle a case where they knew or should have known that the government/administration would put them in difficult ethical positions. See also post 494. So far, what Halligan has been shown to have been done is incompetence, which is an ethical violation, but is usually addressed by malpractice litigation rather than lawyer discipline.
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