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wildcat09

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  1. Not everyone. Some will have been hanged outside gas stations.
  2. Ana: "Any day now he's going to announce the greatest trade deal ever known to mankind!"
  3. Left NIMBYs are some of the most annoying dipshits on the planet.
  4. I'm lukewarm on TLOU2. It's more for a game thread, but I respected what they were trying to do more than I genuinely liked the execution of it. I think the thing I'm most interested in the show for is to see how Mazin adapts the story and what he changes.
  5. Anyone remember that video that went viral a few years ago of some really aggro dipshit in a Costco who was clearly carrying a concealed gun trying to pick a fight with someone to give himself an excuse to shoot them? As if he thought that if he got them to push him he'd be legally justified in shooting them? Chainsaw seems to think like that guy.
  6. "See the master negotiator at work" - Ana
  7. Why'd this get moved to CR? nm: thought this started in DT for some reason
  8. Refs are trying to keep the Warriors in this.
  9. Ana: "See? Trump got the deal he was always aiming for!"
  10. A whole generation trained to gamble on the stock market by ZIRP has been, uh, not great.
  11. I don't think Trump directed Vance to call them peasants. That's just Vance being a stupid asshole. Trump prefers to flatter Xi.
  12. Thank fucking Christ that wait is over. First three episodes go hard. Andor’s little pep talk to the mechanic spy at the beginning alone was some of the best tv in years.
  13. But Ana assured us the tariffs were just for negotiating purposes!
  14. Seems to me that priests should be allowed to marry, but that doesn’t have anything to do with the whole pedophile problem the Church has.
  15. Hey buddy, what's the 88 in your handle for?
  16. Are you telling me that there are more insane Catholics in this world than American tradcaths?
  17. He does exactly this about once a year regarding whatever the biggest SCOTUS story is at the time.
  18. There’s not actually any ambiguity about it at all. The reason there isn’t a bunch of precedent is because it was understood on the level that “water is wet” was understood. There’s literally no scholarship supporting an anti-birthright citizenship reading of the law, which is why there’s three or four “originalists” pretending they suddenly found historical support for that position after Trump took office and writing op eds about it instead of actual scholarly work. You really don’t fucking gotta play devils advocate for every position, man.
  19. One fun little angle on this is that the Court didn't act through Alito. For those that don't know each circuit has one justice "assigned" to evaluate appeals from that circuit, who can act individually and/or refer the appeal to the full SCOTUS for consideration. Typically in a scenario like this, you would expect the assigned justice (in this case, Alito) to issue an administrative stay to give the court a couple of days to figure out what it wants to do. But the order doesn't mention anything about Alito having referred the case to the court, so it's possible (if not likely) that he refused to issue a stay and pissed off the rest of the justices. The other possibility is simply that he wanted to delay the order so he could waste a week writing a dissent, giving Trump time to render a few thousand more people to CECOT and the other justices told him to get fucked.
  20. Well, if Roberts has flipped and is suddenly going to decide that he was wrong that "deportations" under the AEA can only be challenged via individualized habeas actions, that'd be the quickest "we fucked up" in SCOTUS history. They usually wait at least ten years before even implicitly admitting they fucked up. Since this is an administrative stay, my guess is Roberts wants a little more time to figure out how he can better define the notice requirements they established under J.G.G. two weeks ago. But that was when he fucked up and, short of openly admitting that order was wrong and Boasberg's TRO was appropriate, I don't see how they can fix the problem Roberts walked them into. Boasberg's TRO was clearly necessary and that challenge under the APA should've been allowed to proceed. But Roberts wanted to give Trump enough wriggle room to mass deport people without it looking like Trump was clearly violating both court orders and human rights (knowing that even with notice, most of the detainees wouldn't be able to effectively file habeas actions), and lacked the foresight to understand how the administration would respond to the nice clever little loophole Roberts had given them. So he's basically back where he started, but now trying to figure out a way around his own ruling from two weeks ago that rewrote a whole lot of law on the fly, wholly based on political considerations and without putting any real thought into the legal implications. Maybe Roberts actually is just genuinely a dumbass.
  21. Well he's only lied about both the facts and the law. I guess we're supposed to pretend he's not doing that?
  22. Until SCOTUS stuck its dick in this beehive, habeas actually wasn't considered the appropriate remedy to contest a wrongful removal because habeas is for contesting wrongful detention, which Abrego Garcia's attorneys weren't contesting. SCOTUS intervened to try to save Trump from himself and in the process butchered the applicable law, something they fucking love to do these days.
  23. Oh, after several libelous allegations of specific facts you acknowledge you don't actually know what the fuck you're talking about? Holy shit, we're making progress.
  24. As a reminder, this is JBJ's legal wisdom: There's no point arguing with this idiot unless a client is going to pay you to do it.
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