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  1. Did anyone ask him how Elmo and Petey Thiel got rich despite being autistic?
  2. Ever looked at most habeas opinions? Granted, the district court that hears any habeas petition is likely to be highly pissed at the administration. I think his proceeding is styled habeas, so it's probably Xinis. But it's a civil thing, not a criminal thing. The Immigration courts provide due process most of the time. Those are just examples of what works for civil due process in the immigration context. It ain't all it's cracked up to be outside of criminal court.
  3. I'm not talking about Fox viewers. I'm talking about the lesser numbskulls that swung the election because economy, immigration, and letting trans play on girls teams.
  4. Yeah, I think what people are failing to understand is that there are and always have been varying levels of due process of law. The highest level of due process is in a criminal case and failure to deliver it generally voids any conviction. And that means basically indulging every procedure and inference in favor of the defendant. Civil due process basically means notice and a hearing. You don't get it, you get a do-over, not nullification of what just happened. Look at the judgments of the Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/11/1/abrego-garcia-v-noem/ and https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/11/2/abrego-garcia-v-noem/ Now, Abrego Garcia did have counsel, the same one he has now, but without benefit of some of the evidence he has now. Giving him due process, and the others, may not change the outcome much. Also, I'm not sure any district court anywhere is going to directly order Trump to bring him back. They can maybe sniff all around it, and SCOTUS isn't going to let them do much more. So, yeah, convincing Trump somehow it's in his interest to bring him back should be a consideration.
  5. Which is pretty much what I was saying.
  6. Yeah, "premeditated" comes from some notion of common-law murder. Almost all crimes are now a creature of statute and the statutes vary widely from state to state. Some still require proof of premeditation for the more severe homicide crimes. Texas does not. For regular ol' murder, it's either an intent to kill or to inflict serious bodily harm by a dangerous act. Texas kind of hits "premeditation" in reverse, providing an affirmative defense to 1st degree murder reducing it to 2nd degree, when the act is the result of sudden passion provoked by adequate cause (by inference negating any premeditation, but not intent to kill or do serious bodily harm).
  7. He was not a citizen. A "senior ICE Agent" named Robert Cerna stated that he was deported in error because of an immigration bar on deportation. Based on that, the attorney for the government admitted on several occasions that the deportation was in error. One thing I have learned that's sorta shocking, but maybe not really, is how easily revoked a legitimate immigration status (visa, etc.) can be revoked, even following the law.
  8. The only thing that gives me hope that this makes a shit is those Iowa dirtfarmers eating out Grassley. But they're probably Democrats already.
  9. Ok, so you have the left, which is already convinced, the Trumpers who are also already convinced the other way. And then the dumb, but not quite brainwashed "middle." And between them and the Trumpers, they have a majority. So, I guess it's good we're not having elections that Democrats can't possibly win. And, I didn't say WHAT the messaging should be and didn't say anything about logic or relatable ideals. I just said they can't do what they usually do.
  10. The convincable middle is pretty fucking dumb too. See November 2024.
  11. There's being right and saying the right thing when something happens, which Democrats are kinda ok at. Then there's messaging that wins elections, which they suck giant green donkey dicks at.
  12. Yeah exactly. This is too easily dumbed down by the GOP into an immigration issue. Democrats are going to have to carefully message this.
  13. Well well well, might the lack of Chevron deference come into play here? In the lower courts, for sure. At SCOTUS hoist on its own petard? Or maybe major questions/nondelegation? Watching SCOTUS twist itself in knots should provide some amusement between the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
  14. I think Eddie has a point in that a lot of people that aren't hardcore Trumpers didn't like the immigration situation under Biden. They didn't know shit about it, just like they don't know shit about this either. They're broadly in favor of restricting immigration and deporting people, especially alleged criminals, and don't give a fuck how the sausage is made. So the lawlessness here will have to be carefully presented. The base gives zero fucks, the "middle types" don't know enough about law to care much.
  15. Reading comprehension.
  16. https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/breaking-down-the-immigration-figures/
  17. I know someone else that "hid behind due process" JD.
  18. One thing that's pretty shocking, the judgments from the Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals on A G's original removal case are shockingly thin. "Someone said he was in MS-13." Although they did state that it was a "known and reliable source," apparently the indicted cop above. So, that's the kind of due process immigrants receive here.
  19. Also Birchall, a Mormon fixer, harks back to Howard Hughes, Jr. Noah Dietrich and the rest of the Mormon Mafia. We need this era from Elmo sooner than later. I feel it's coming.
  20. That is, though, precisely the point. Until he is tried and convicted, or pleads guilty, he's not a murderer. It certainly appears that he is guilty of a homicide crime, most likely murder, but we don't know the full story yet, either. And some aspects of the full story could provide defenses that lead to acquittal or reduction of the crime to manslaughter. We don't convict people of crimes based on appearances. That statement seems to work better when the apparent facts seem more complicated than what we see here, but it is nevertheless just as true.
  21. He's actually quite a successful con man.
  22. FamILy VaLUeS! What a weird, arrogant motherfucker.
  23. So, I found this book series on Kindle Unlimited by an English guy named Andy Maslen. It's the Gabriel Wolfe series of books. Wolfe is kind of your British ex-SAS Reacher-type guy, but there's some extra interest because of the English setting and also Hong Kong. So I finished the Wolfe Series and enjoyed them as light leisure reading. And started another series by the same author featuring an English female detective, who winds up doing a bunch of Reacher-type shit herself, not quite as extreme. Less extreme I suppose because she wasn't an SAS trooper and is a chick. But I'm not enjoying it as much. I don't know if this is latent sexism on my part, or maybe the author doesn't write women as well as men. I can't put my finger on it. The two series were written pretty contemporaneously, so I can't really attribute it to some development in the author's style. EDIT TO ADD: Before the Wolfe series, I read a three-book series by the same guy, also featuring an English cop, but male. But less of a badass than either the Wolfe guy or the female detective, more reliant on smarts than fighting ability. So it's not the sort of military vs. civilian milieu. Maybe I'm just a pig. Anyone have a similar experience?
  24. Well, I guess you can say he never should have filed that declaration or let that guy say that. But, that starts to involve a lack of candor with the court. As brisket often says, when you have an evidentiary shit sandwich, like the fact that Abrego Garcia's deportation was in error, you take a big bite right at the outset, you don't try to hide and ignore it.
  25. From a more realistic perspective, how the fuck am I supposed to "focus for now on winning this"? I didn't start it, I didn't want it. I have no control over it. I have even less control over China than I do of Donald fucking Trump and his fucked up policies. To win this, I have to rely on Trump and his circus of clowns to win this. I don't have much confidence.
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