[combusts from sheer rage] slate.com/news-and-pol... - ThreadSky

On the bright side, at least your firm wasn't cited as one of the three.

Regardless of what social media platform Ken is on, there's always someone joking about RICO, and worse someone who isn't joking.

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jmlevass.bsky.social•9 days ago

Sure looks like a RICO to me… [ducks]

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zaynewhite089.bsky.social•7 days ago

#News 🌏🌄🏙 I Knew China’s Military Was Overrated. India Just Proved It.

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daveneste.bsky.social•9 days ago

Is civil RICO the superior RICO?

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packratt.bsky.social•9 days ago

RICO = Rage Induced Combustion Object?

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gila-1.bsky.social•9 days ago

He's holding his bribe-fest gala at Mar-a-Lago tonite on "personal time." Can he be legally charged with defying the U.S. Constitution?

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crazyeivan.bsky.social•9 days ago

They should and they won't

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luckydoghotsauce.bsky.social•9 days ago

It’s never RICO.

You, Hat, alright?!

I LEARNED IT BY FOLLOWING YOU!

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meyerweb.com•9 days ago

Do you ever feel like this era was constructed specifically to test you, Ken?

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kre8tive.bsky.social•9 days ago

Ken, is this that RICO stuff I keep hearing about?

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blagueplague.bsky.social•9 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3kEPT_N-s

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nilesstuck.bsky.social•9 days ago

Probably RICO

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scottdunsmore.bsky.social•9 days ago

🎶Oh, RICO. RICO, RICO. RICO.🎶
https://youtu.be/luVpsM3YAgw

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trippnasty.bsky.social•9 days ago

I've been following you for so long I can't remember how the "everyone make jokes about RICO to Ken started."

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offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy•9 days ago

@kenwhite.bsky.social you know, leaving aside the content of the article, what the actual fuck is going on with the chum at the bottom of that site?!

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john304.bsky.social•9 days ago

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rednecklefty.bsky.social•9 days ago

I gather you wouldn't be representing the plaintiff in any such suit then.

You're missing out on your chance to argue before SCOTUS, though. 😢

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mrborelli.bsky.social•9 days ago

One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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emer.net•8 days ago

I saw this and was going to activate the pope hat signal but I’m not quick enough.

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coolrickjd.bsky.social•9 days ago

Maybe the real RICO was the friends you made along the way.

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jlucianblackwell.bsky.social•9 days ago

Person who wrote this is a professor of law at UCLA school of law? How low their standards have become.

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jlucianblackwell.bsky.social•9 days ago

I also don't know how to inform the GOP once they strip the legal precedents of holding anyone accountable legally, well it will become a free for all for everyone to do, well whatever. Oh boy, here comes the 2nd amendment remedies I have been waiting for for so long.,

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deegc.bsky.social•9 days ago

What IS happening with Fani Willis these days?

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staidwinnow.bsky.social•9 days ago

I guess she's about to be indicted by Pam Bondi, even in her current state of irrelevance.

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tootall64.bsky.social•9 days ago

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unamuno1898.bsky.social•8 days ago

Totally tip my cap to you. However you might want to look at how Mayor Nagin in New Orleans was brought down. IIRC there was a civil RICO suit & the rest followed, including eventually federal conviction.

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hayes77519.bsky.social•9 days ago

Just don’t combust in a crowded theater! No one will be able to call for help!

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mjk4mj.bsky.social•9 days ago

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2btruthful.bsky.social•9 days ago

Call your Senators especially Red and Purple States this Bill will add 200 to 300 BILLION DOLLARS! Besides all the other toxic consequences! PLEASE DO SOMETHING!

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itinfer.bsky.social•9 days ago

Since that _Slate_ piece thirstily reads,

"Courts have described civil RICO as 'an unusually potent weapon—the litigation equivalent of a thermonuclear device,' because it stigmatizes the defendant as a racketeer...",

I couldn't help thinking of this _Simpsons_ bit:

https://youtu.be/E5_Sem03i4Q?si=47GObl1k6b-u_jbq

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grungehamster.bsky.social•9 days ago

How do they square this attempt with Trump v. United States saying any use of official powers of the presidency, even if illegal, are unjudiciable? Not even approaching the deference given while the President is in office.

"We want a big expensive show of opposition to get crushed" I guess.

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