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  1. Different CEO signed the letter and retired.
  2. Generally probably not. And, I don't think this is "with" the government. It's government-approved stuff. I'm sure the firms figure they can game or slightly adjust existing pro Bono efforts to satisfy the Administration. I'm not so sure about that.I suspect the administration is going to insist on some homophobes that don't want to bake cakes for teh gheys and shit like that. But this whole thing is geared to chill biglaw from suing the government, lest they get on some shitlist. I did read some apologia from capitulating firm chairmen. They apparently had clients threatening to flee because they didn't feel like the firm could represent their interests before the Trump administration. I suppose that's potentially valid, but I doubt that capitulation much improves the attitude of the administration if the firm comes up against the government or agency. And also that other firms were exacerbating this fear among potential clients in an effort to steal them. Still, the refusal to fight something so clearly morally and legally wrong and unconstitutional should reflect very poorly on the firms.
  3. Can we put the influencers in there with them?
  4. Good question. Is it exercising sovereignty over its own citizens? Is it acting as a contractor to the US Government for incarceration services? That they are being paid tends to indicate the latter rather than the former. And the former has no application with respect to non-ES citizens.
  5. Unlike the Venezuelans, there is a level of difficulty here that he has been returned to his home country. The Venezuelans may have a better case here. Nevertheless, the "you put him there, you get him back" makes an awful lot of sense. in the first instance, this is an exercise of executive power over immigration that is not an inherent power, only delegated by Congress. It is not an initio either a foreign affairs or national security matter. That is something arbitrarily engrafted onto it by Trump. And even then, he acts pursuant to an act of Congress, the Alien Enemies Act. At some point, though, the agreement or treaty with ES to take unlawful immigrants comes into play, and some of that may be covered by executive privilege. In a criminal prosecution of a citizen, that privilege would yield to the rights of the accused (US v. Nixon). Here, in a civil or quasi-criminal proceeding against a non-citizen, I'm not so sure. One would have to think that the agreement itself would have to come into evidence, if not the negotiations that led to it. And one might think that such an agreement might constitute a treaty, invalid without the advice and consent of the Senate. It's a messy thing.
  6. Seems rather miraculous that this isn't far more common. It's getting harder to believe that college football involves any sort of personal loyalty or school pride, if it ever did.
  7. Well, I can certainly buy that we need to do something other than incarcerate people in Thunderdomes for excessive terms. Also, the article notes that the BJS statistics quoted include both arrest (without conviction) and probation/parole violations as recidivism. Given the environment into which most long-term sentenced are released and their no-doubt marvelously developed social skills, it's a wonder the numbers are as low as they are.
  8. Checking the dates, the original Easton aluminum bat came out in 1978. The Black Magics were newfangled at the time, but we had em, both in school bat bags and as personal bats. So, I guess they were getting pretty long in the tooth by the mid 80s, which was our time, certainly my time. And yeah, the couple two or three that broke did so right above the handle. I would later learn as an engineer that aluminum is highly subject to fatgue and cracking, especially if a tiny defect or a stress riser--like where diameter starts to change rather abruptly.
  9. I used to call him The Donald. It was a term of contempt derived from Ivana's pidgin references to him.
  10. Seen several, including the barrel from an Easton greenie hurtling toward me on the pitchers mound.
  11. If the people of Collin County elect jackwagon judges, and the people of the state elect jackwagon AGs and Supreme Court justices, and the lege doesn't fund the bar well enough to hire better lawyers, well I guess I can piss on a spark plug.
  12. Uh, I have thought Donald Trump was an assclown from jump. I have a pathological hatred for self-promoters, though.
  13. The existential threat is also an external threat. The government, not the legal profession, sets up the legal system and the judiciary. Lawyers don't elect the government, the Congress, the President, we don't appoint or elect judges, If those external to the legal system choose to disrespect it and kneecap it, there's not all that much we can do. Right now, again, the legal system and profession is the ONLY thing standing up to Trump, again. It may not ultimately succeed, but that failure, should it occur, is at least as much a fault of the government that set up the legal system, as it is the system itself.
  14. Not if it's trying to be the smallest importer on the planet.
  15. It may not be a mistake that just happens, but most murderers don't in fact recidivate as murderers, or even other violent offenses. https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/a-new-lease-on-life/ And that despite our crime school prison system. And they do get out, but you can rest assured that they're probably nowhere near you.
  16. Those cunts are having an ethical crisis. Susman, Perkins Coie, and Covington are not having an ethical crisis. The rest of us are just fine. I wouldn't call what Trump is doing an "ethical crisis," it's something else entirely.
  17. And that ruins her for me, tbh. Starts making me wonder what else is fake and pumped up, including that pic. Therefore, respectfully disagree on smoking hot. Maybe underneath all that shizz, but I can't get past the shizz.
  18. Well, their client in this case is the United States of America, not Donald J. Trump and his minions. And I don't think they're trying to advise Trump or anyone else, they're trying to get away with as much as they can..
  19. Appears that the judge will require daily updates until Abrego Garcia is returned. On the one hand, that gives the government more time, on the other, it puts them under the gun to explain their actions, or inactions. It seems clear that the government hasn't done shit but they don't want to tell the judge that.
  20. Well, he remains the self-interested, arrogant sumbitch he revealed himself to be during the M$ antitrust trial. And he's not giving until it hurts. His wealth continues to grow, very intentionally.
  21. Two of the four (Shearman, Simpson) are Wall Street firms. At this point, I think we can count on all of them to knuckle under, although I think that's a gross miscalculation on their part. Kirkland kind of "goes both ways" politically, but of late seems to have been home to a lot of GOPers. I doubt they would have been the subject of an EO. Latham I don't really get at all. There have been a few of the less political appointees come from Latham (Commissioner of Patents Iancu).
  22. Conveniently ignoring the fact that they were governed by the district court's order for three days (April 4-7) and it was only stayed for three days.
  23. That is exactly why the Court shouldn't have said a word, here.
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