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TwiceHorn

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  1. As is the appointment process as a whole.
  2. The election mechanisms are the hardest part. The Senate should be devalued like Lords. Or maybe just unicameral. But the notion underlying Article III is an independent judiciary, which I think, along with other separation of powers/checks and balances, is a good thing. But the respective powers need to be better delineated.
  3. That might be the only legitimate debate left on the topic. Not that conditions were and are deplorable for minorities because of racism, but whether some prospective curative can actually do anything to remedy the horrendous past. But before you debate on the latter, you must acknowledge the former. I mean really, seriously acknowledge slavery and that we kept fucking with them for another century. Not just "ooh, slavery was bad, but."
  4. Maybe it was pervasive unwholesome thinking! And what exactly did Chuck's comments promote?
  5. What's the latest on Loomer? Also missed the Bagram thing. That's rather interdasting in that there's virtually no scenario that that doesn't require American boots on the ground and in harms way. That's going to be interesting in that we all know Trump has no qualms about war and acts of war, but I think there's a pretty hefty segment of Trump voters to whom that is a single-issue.
  6. Are you suggesting, then, that Richards Layton should face discipline for representing Candace Owen? Or are you referring to some sort of personal ethics of the type generally answerable only to a higher power? I wasn't questioning "their" ethics really so much as their judgment. Given that your usual lawyer ethics complaint is tied to discipline and disbarment rates and dressing poorly and not answering phone calls, I'm going to assume that you think they should be disciplined or disbarred for representing Owen.
  7. Well, Kirk was an exceptional manipulator of the machine as were a bunch of others, like Parscale, no longer associated with the regime. You may be right, but I think the machine needs to be aided by an actual human figure to work. See 2020.
  8. It was 3am and I was up to deal with a hangry cat. I think I was gonna edit but fell back asleep. Anyway, he's probably right about the third paragraph. Still, I think our Constitution is structurally pretty sound. There are some huge, obvious problems with the text as written, drafting deficiencies, and Article II is way too vague. I'm kind of mentally re-drafting the thing, redlining the existing text to fix a lot of the problems.
  9. Huh? Right now, I am extremely irritated at the political question/emergency powers thing. This is s
  10. I'm not but ackshually anything. I'm starting to consider what needs to be done post-Trump if there is a post-Trump. One thing, Congressional gridlock and inaction and general chickenshittedness is really coming home to roost. And delegating emergency powers without guardrails and/or having their legislative veto overruled and then sitting there with their collective thumbs up their collective asses needs to fucking stop. Also, you seemed to elide the word "excuse" in my original post on this subject matter.
  11. Lindsey Halligan made her first appearance in federal court in 2022 and has never handled a criminal case on either side of the docket.
  12. People are irrationally afraid of Trump. I suppose because of how he commands his base and the recklessness with which he'll turn the state against his enemies. I don't see anyone else being able to or really even inclined to do similar things.
  13. Alpha Phi hasn't had a chick that skinny evar.
  14. Rhinos will charge your ass.
  15. Goddamn. Lookit you Arch.
  16. Cast lvl 7 cock of the infinite
  17. thetvapp.to SD but clean and reliable.
  18. Careful, ol' Jase is on your team.
  19. You know right now the excuse for even some of the lower courts is that when the pres is given unfettered emergency discretion, the courts can't review it? Even when the "emergency" is clearly counterfactual. Although the Fifth Circuit just couldn't bring itself to do it.
  20. thetvapp.to with a plus that you're not giving money to enablers.
  21. Was that a DEI TD? I missed most of last week.
  22. "When asked if the Macrons would be supplying pictures of Brigitte pregnant and raising her children, Mr Clare said they existed and would be presented in court where there are rules and standards." I don't blame her for not doing this outside of court, that just invites a whole raft of further conspiracy theories, as would any DNA-type test. But I am assuming that the Macrons will provide such test results under attorneys-eyes-only protective order to conclusively prove the falsity of the allegation. Owens has real lawyers, at least local counsel, in the form of Richards, Layton & Finger, a pretty old-line Delaware firm. Really a bit surprised they'd associate with her.
  23. Fair enough. To the extent it's an actual H-1B visa fee, which it apparently is not, it would go as I stated. So this is one of those things that needs to be purged from future Immigration Acts, if any, most Rikki tik. If the rationals ever get power back, they need to purge all presidential emergency powers and/or put guardrails on them and provide for judicial review of those guardrails.
  24. Well, given that the original probe occurred under the Biden Administration, observing norms and oldlaw, you wouldn't hear about a criminal investigation until and unless an indictment was filed. Special Counsels and politicized prosecutions and leakers have created an abnormal expectation among the public for information about criminal investigations before charges are filed. Even Special Counsel don't reveal much about their investigations, but the nature of the thing reveals more than what's normal, with the reporting to the AG and to Congress.
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