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  1. Bigger picture, the balance of the equities was the government was defending what they admitted was an erroneous if not wholly unlawful removal of an individual to a very dangerous place potentially outside the jurisdiction of US courts and without due process. There's zero government interest to protect in that situation. They should have declined to review any aspect of it. And if they did review it, should have included some harsh language to the effect that the executive's "foreign relations" powers do not give him the power to ignore other aspects of well-settled law. Instead, they kept the "foreign relations/national security" masquerade alive for several more months.
  2. Of note, I believe that Rueveni guy has been sidelined for failure to lie to the court. The remaining attorney of record is a career civil servant (AUSA D. Md.) who received a civil advocacy award in 2015 and is a black woman. So, it doesn't look like there are any true believer hacks representing the government, here. I'm keeping my eye on that (civil servant DOJ lawyers vs. Trump hacks like Ed Martin). Oops, correction. The Maryland AUSA did not sign the motion for extension of time. A Jones Day hack named Yaakov Roth (https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/trump-dojs-civil-division-recruits-more-jones-day-lawyers) and an asshole named Drew Ensign that clashed with Boasberg repeatedly in the other gulag case. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99n84xdl4zo So, some lawyers finna be held in contempt.
  3. Well, I suppose I should take that back. I have had or been adjacent to some pretty unpleasant experiences with specific QE attorneys, and one that was not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Ramirez But QE is representing Abrego Garcia, so.
  4. That seems a little too transparent. Stated more succinctly, every alcoholic/addict suffers from "terminal uniqueness." Uniqueness because "I'm special, I'm not like everyone else;" terminal because this attitude can be fatal. Relatedly, almost every alcoholic/addict has an outsized view of their place in the world. What they control, what they can't; how different they are from everyone else. In some cases, that means "I'm super-important and blameless," in others, it's "I'm super-insignificant and it's all my fault." One of the things that AA, "done right," accomplishes is "right-sizing" the alcoholic/addict. It seems a lot of these "AA-alternatives" cater to terminal uniqueness.
  5. Government playing fuck fuck games. Xinis not having it, but gave them two more hours to comply with her order. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/57/abrego-garcia-v-noem/
  6. It's probably adequate for a youthful offender without a history of offenses against persons. It only appears short because we're conditioned to de facto life sentences. I think we should ratchet back to about 20 years for all but the most heinous crimes. And by heinous, I mean serial killers, rape killers, vulnerable victims, etc.
  7. All outdoor activities supported by REI with no environmental impact. And, of course, no doubt on private land.
  8. For a bit of perspective, those firms' "transactional groups" don't just draft contracts. They "paper" monstrous corporate deals like IPOs and acquisitions (e.g your Barbarians At The Gate scenarios). Their compensation model is a percentage of the deal, just like ibankers and others at the trough. There is an immense amount of work that goes into those deals, tons of man hours, but the compensation is equally immense, often leading to effective hourly rates of multiple thousands per lawyer, eclipsing the astronomical hourly rates of prominent litigation lawyers, e.g. 1000+++. And this for every lawyer on the team, from first year to Marty Lipton or Joe Flom. So, these cowards are financial cowards, trying to stay in the good graces of the Administration, which I don't think would actually impact their business.
  9. If this is true, it is only because you have been conditioned to accept unduly long sentences as "normal."
  10. A lot of money is made in the recovery business. Are they still offering something potentially useful for the alcoholic/heavy drinker, yes. For all of the things said about AA, it is free, and not very many have profited from it. With that, though, I spy some things that probably make it dubious. First, it's targeted at "high performers." I think that means people who perceive themselves as smart and busy, and don't have time for rehab or daily meetings and step work. To me, that is antithetical to recovery because you must have the humility to accept that recovery takes a pretty serious investment, of time at minimum and mental energy. Another thing "high performers" have is a lack of humility. They go into meetings and see people that have been destroyed by their addictions and think they're above that somehow, rather than seeing the commonality, and that something akin to that near-bum is probably in your future too if you don't get a handle on it. Finally, most of the for-profit recovery "systems," with the possible exception of Sinclair Method, teach most of the same stuff as AA for free.
  11. I did not realize Quinn Emmanuel had opened offices in Texas. They are becoming something of the antiChrist of law firms.
  12. Well I think there are signs of psychopathy that probably become fairly apparent in the criminal history of defendants. So you're not working off a single offense and sentence most of the time. And yeah I think property crimes should be treated pretty differently from those against persons.
  13. I tend to think 30 years should represent the upper bound for all but the most heinous felonies. One thing that seems pretty clear is that people start to "age out" of crime in middle age, and 30 years gets a teen or young adult pretty squarely there.
  14. In Texas, manslaughter and "sudden passion" murder are both second degree felonies, with a sentencing range of 2 to 20 years. So, to an extent, six of one, half a dozen of the other.
  15. The police report/arrest affidavit said something about finding it folded.
  16. Well, and has the most powerful economy on earth and the most valuable currency as a result. Start weakening those, and that debt may become a bit of a problem.
  17. The difference being that UT is getting it from both Trump and state government. I'm not sure what legal remedies universities have against this, if any. I'm not reading much about legal pushback on this.
  18. I feel naked without a pocketknife on me and have for a long time, going back to high school. I don't think carrying even a small knife was looked upon particularly favorably in my day, but it mostly depended on whether you flashed it around or not. This was before the days of metal detectors and at one of the whitest hs in the state. I likely would have been one of those depositing a knife on the table, unless I thought it would be confiscated.
  19. And, after all that shizz, expired for failure to pay second maintenance fee.
  20. That seems pretty unjustifiable, even under the constraints administrators are operating under today.
  21. I don't care if they do have a transactional group, those fucking Wall Street fucks like Skadden should all turn in their law licenses.
  22. The whole program has been obliterated, apparently, and recently too. Or maybe restyled without the "DEI" stuff. https://uthscsa.edu/biomedical-sciences/programs/certificate-pre-professional She was a researcher/student? Or an administrator? That's fucking disgusting.
  23. That's uber-petty. But here is something they did do. https://abovethelaw.com/2025/04/former-national-security-officials-take-aim-at-trumps-biglaw-executive-orders-in-amicus-brief/ The brief, filed by the Peter Gruber Rule of Law Clinic at Yale Law School and Susman Godfrey, takes particular aim at “the President’s attempt to invoke national security to justify this punitive, retributive, ad hominem Order.” Trump's attempt to create presidential power by encanting "foreign affairs" and "national security" over matters having little or nothing to do with either is probably the grossest abuse of his powers, notwithstanding its lack of effect on little people.
  24. On a related note, Dominion just won a judgment that Newsmax defamed them as a matter of law. Trump appointee McFadden enjoined the White House from keeping AP out of the press pool.
  25. Goddamn. They'd better. What did they do to draw Trump's ire?
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