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  1. Often, if a defendant is granted pretrial release, they will be left free on appeal. It's not the same standard for release, but often the way things go. The real standard for release on appeal is whether you have a highly meritorious appeal. And, a criminal defendant has almost no ability to sue any aspect of the prosecutorial apparatus unless the indictment is dismissed early on.
  2. Well, the other thing is $46k is an annual salary to these people, so it looks significant.
  3. The biggest problem with the legal/judicial system is delay. It is ever-present and can be exploited by a determined defendant. usually with money but there are tons of examples of poor defendants using delay to their advantage, and in some cases to force the system to work properly. See, e.g. death penalty appeals and habeas corpus proceedings. Delay is not completely inherent to the system, but is a byproduct of funding/resources. And, while the legal/judicial system ultimately failed, the failure was proximately caused by the failure of the political system. The legal system's job was not to see that Trump couldn't stand for or win a subsequent election, that was a potential byproduct. Had it had the time to reach its conclusion, he likely would have been convicted in the Mar-A-Lago case. The January 6 case was always a little hazier and left a lot of room for error. Indicting and trying him solely to keep him out of office would be a perversion of the system akin to what we're seeing now.
  4. Quite the opposite usually. A conviction is not final for trial and appeal purposes until the defendant has been sentenced. That's the first stage of final, meaning appealable because everything is concluded in the trial court. The final stage of final is convicted, sentenced, appeals exhausted.
  5. More than any other single thing, even the Supreme Court, the delay inherent to the system (even before you get to Trump's dilatory tactics), made it impossible to secure a final conviction, for anything, in the space of four years. Note that his NY conviction is on appeal and is thus not yet final.
  6. A conviction is not a conviction until it is final, meaning appeals are exhausted. There would first have to have been a final conviction and then likely a civil proceeding challenging the application of the 14th Amendment. That's about eight years worth of litigation in our system.
  7. Well, even so, the appeals process would have prevented that from being final, both of the conviction itself and the disqualification. And, in the meantime, it would have made no difference.
  8. That's fair. Certainly wasn't up to prosecuting Trump. Not like it would have made one tiny bit of difference.
  9. I did no such thing (assure you that the legal profession is not in crisis). I explained that the first duty to the client creates counterintuitive ethical situations. This has nothing to do with that. But yeah, with guys like Bove and Edward Martin violating all kinds of governmental if not ethical norms, parts of the profession are indeed moving to crisis mode.
  10. That plant is located in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma (pop. 44,000), which voted 79% for TFG. I see a leap of leopards coming their way. FAFO I seem to recall Trump squawking about bullets. Do we have enough bullets now? Seems like Biden might have fixed that.
  11. Gotta admit, I was startled by the trade imbalance comment. That's about 1000x more astute than I would have given most Trumpkins credit for, even if it is wrongheaded. The Publix imbalance was lulzy.
  12. That part is probably correct. But as for actually being hired, no.
  13. Some blatantly unconstitutional bullshit. Also probably inconsequential. Because I rather doubt PC does much business with the federal government. Also Soros and weaponization. Drink.
  14. Well, you know me, I'm of the opinion that it's always been all-Calvinball all the time, forever. But the willingness to change the rules of decision and rhetoric 180 degrees in a short span of time these days is remarkable.
  15. Tangentially related to the Supreme Court but likely directly related to Texas fascism and brain drain, Texas Law lost Steve Vladeck to Georgetown. Apparently a year ago, but geezus.
  16. Shit, let's have a less nuanced take on dictators and fascists. Even if there were such a thing as a "benign dictator," and that benign dictator was Trump, and he was doing this stuff in a more measured fashion, this is still horrific. The problem with benign dictators is, they're dictators. They don't stay benign very often and it's very difficult to strip them of their powers once they abuse them, and abuse them they will. It doesn't take a great student of history to know this. It's basically why all monarchies have failed over the last 300 years. It's why we exist. For all the talk of how shitty our democracy is, it's still better than all the rest, except maybe a parliamentary system for elections.
  17. Somewhat surprisingly, ACB does not seem on board with enhancing executive power. Alito's dissent is one of the most disingenuous supreme court writings I have ever read. Especially contrasted with some of his writings on shadow docket decisions against the Biden administration.
  18. Tell me genius, what does "executive power" mean? And contrast with this: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
  19. Come after them, breach their contracts, then have to rehire them, probably at worse rates/terms. But yeah, if there are any "government workers" that people should be pissed at, it's the Booz Allens of the world.
  20. Another good one. The average American's understanding of "globalism" is offshoring jobs and shithole countries with funny looking people and different religions gaining influence in various spheres. But the fact of the matter is that the economy is now global and there is no way for any nation to successfully withdraw from that economy (successfully meaning not becoming DPRK). Isolationism is even less practical now than it has ever been.
  21. Leave your body and soul at the door.
  22. Electronically, GCHQ is probably the best in the world. In no small part because they have never even pretended to respect civil rights.
  23. I mean what the fuck are Democrats or any other opposition to do when the incumbents win with baldface lies and idiocy.
  24. This guy has a PhD in economics from Harvard and has taught in the UC System (although not Berkeley or LA). And he is a MOTHERFUCKING IDIOT. The dumbest sonofabitch in the Trumpverse after der fuhrer himself.
  25. That's not quite the transgenic/transgender mice thing, but it's got about zero to do with transgender anything. What it is, partially, is testing to see what hormones, like those used in gender dysphoria, do to the body. And, it's eight million dollars.
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