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Hospitalist. Real estate investor. Entrepreneur. Objectivist.
Sponsor of 49 Venezuelans in the humanitarian parole program. There's nothing more magnificent than changing someone's life.
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Something else I wonder: any chance the judge lets him out on bail?
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When they inevitably make a motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution, can they depose the attorney who resigned over the case? Seems like this is very pertinent to the propriety of the whole case.
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He is an Obama appointee. Suggests to me it is unlikely he will look kindly on the way this whole episode went down; he will probably judge this case impartially and also be highly skeptical of the government here.
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They aim to obtain a criminal conviction on the basis of a traffic stop where the officers didn't even think they had probable cause for an arrest?
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So the case is going to fall apart, potentially quite rapidly. This seems like textbook vindictive prosecution. I wonder what venue it will ultimately wind up in...
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If you're trying to have AI think for you, you are going to have problems. If you use AI to help you develop your ideas, stress test them and help generate new ideas, you are probably going to benefit.
It isn't AI that is the problem; it is over-reliance on AI.
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This is so stupid. But hopefully they waste lots of FBI and DOJ resources on this. Better that they run in circles over stupidity that cannot ever actually result in a successful prosecution than pursue cases with a chance of success.
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It was a major error for the administration to push so hard, so fast on nationwide injunctions in the particular case. They couldn't have picked more unfavorable terrain upon which to fight this battle.
But what kind of a ruling we get is still not clear to me...
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I would vote for Pritzker/Polis in a heartbeat
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It amazes me that these people exist. They're awesome.
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They will declare Habeus Corpus suspended, and then within hours lawsuits will fly and courts will enjoin the declaration.
What they do at that point is not entirely clear.
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I suspect the ACLU has got lawsuits written already, just need to fill in a few details, and a very good plan to force this to SCOTUS very rapidly if he tries it.
Of course then we will find out what he will do once SCOTUS slaps him down, probably 9-0.
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This is interesting because I recall hearing a story about how Jeremy Kaufmann got mad at her because she expressed admiration for Nelson Mandela and had a picture of Mandela in her house...
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Wow they really hate this ruling, don't they!
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You should be afraid of a competent, soft-spoken and experienced nominee who Trump sees fit to appoint.
You're not going to get good government; effective appointees will mean only that they're effective in violating rights.
You should *want* him to appoint a dumb and loud bozo.
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You're not going to get that from Trump. You're going to have to settle for someone whose bad behavior degrades their own power; that's the best case realistic scenario.
Jeanine Pirro should be great; lots of transparent hot air and near-zero ability to effectively persecute or intimidate.
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Donald Trump seems to be making great arguments for globalization in his dreamed rant about Canada. You don't need to annex a country to have free trade and movement of people....
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This is so strange. 300 agents to bust an unlicensed night club? That is local code enforcement stuff.
I'm guessing the press releases are mostly sensationalized bullshit. Let's see what comes of this, almost nothing is my guess.
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Correct that this isn't a policy debate. I don't care if someone is a progressive or moderate or whatever. We just need to fight. We can bicker over the details of liberal democracy if we manage to ever get it back.
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Doesn't this make any charges that stem from the investigation vulnerable to vindictive prosecution defenses?
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One thing they can do is simply begin holding many more hearings virtually. Give more defendants the option to attend court virtually, those with immigration issues will definitely accept that.
Then, become much more generous about issuing continuances while this stuff gets litigated.
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English is my native tongue, but I would say on an average day I actually speak a little more in Spanish than I do in English.
If you don't speak both languages in today's world, you are inevitably missing out on a lot. The brown shirt in the elevator is a great example of that!
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As his popularity erodes, so too will his power. He will flail about with executive orders, but will never get any major bills through Congress. As he becomes frustrated by his impotence, he will do something desperate and we will have a major inflection point.
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Moronic thugs indeed.
This is going to backfire so spectacularly on them and they are going to make conservative judges dramatically rethink their world views.
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I love the way you talk and think.
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It is being used to imply they were doing something wrong, trying to plan an escape without the agent understanding. The reality is the client probably doesn't speak English.
Just a way they write these things to smear people with implications.
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I'm kind of surprised that they were released. I thought ICE would find another pretext upon which to hold them...
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It seems far-fetched right now because the GOP controls the house/Senate and you need a supermajority to convict.
But the Overton window can, and probably will, shift.
GOP primary voters are a hell of a problem, though.
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Big question I have is if this prompts him to re-visit some prior assumptions about the assholes who put him on the bench.
Is this a one-off, or is this an inflection point for him? At some point you see the rotten core of the ideology and you no longer want to eat other parts of the apple.
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Sorry, I should have put this link that describes things in more detail:
kvia.com/news/border/...
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All of the other news articles I could find describe conduct that is non-criminal. Harbouring is not the same as housing; and none of the news articles that talk about harbouring mention any attempt to conceal them.
As far as I can tell, this is an evidence-tampering case.
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I cannot find the charging document. But I combed through media coverage looking for mention of what actual crime they were charged with. Simply providing housing, even to a TdA member, is not a crime.
Here's the news article I found that actually makes sense:
kfoxtv.com/news/local/f...
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I believe an ordinary prosecution of someone like her in a case like this would not involve handcuffs and a perp walk at the county courthouse.
Whether the charges are valid or not, it is quite clear that is is intended to send a message.
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Nope, tampering with evidence. Allegedly destroyed a cell phone. But you would never know that reading the news about this case. Stunning, really, that the media gives such inaccurate portrayals of this stuff.
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Ah now that I have dug into it, it is actually that he allegedly destroyed a cell phone and his wife agreed in a monitored phone call to delete a Facebook account.
Tampering with evidence.
The charges have nothing to do with them housing people.
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The thing I don't understand about this case is that the news article doesn't actually cite any conduct that appears criminal. It is not a crime to house someone whose papers are not in order.
What is he actually being charged with?
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I wonder how a journalist sitting in prison to protect their sources will play in today's political environment. You know, the one where people are wondering whether the administration is trying to create a dictatorship.
They're going to create millions of new civil libertarians.
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There is no way they're going to lock this judge up.
But they did just piss off almost every judge in the USA....
This is a huge unforced error.
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If you want judges to have more empathy for criminal defendants, one way to do that is to invite them to imagine themselves in the shoes of a criminal defendant.
The administration just invited every judge in America to imagine themselves in a defendant's shoes.
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Every judge in the USA is watching this. Later, many will have to rule on matters involving the administration. I can't imagine this juvenile attempt at intimidation is going to make them more likely to rule in the administration's favor.
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If she wasn't headed to the state supreme court before this, she may be now.
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In your view, how easy or difficult will this case be for the judge to defend?
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There are two branches of Christianity: the one that uses it as a tool of exclusion and maintenance of heirarchies, and the branch that treats it as a call to do good in the world.
I am a bit of a fan of the latter, and an avowed enemy of the former.
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They are basically going to try any trick they can to avoid judicial review. I'll bet they're looking for a third country that will be willing to "receive" people before transferring them to El Salvador.
They'll fly people to Hungary and then give Bukele cash to charter a flight to CECOT...
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Reckless if you want the DOD to be run competently.
A stroke of genius if you want Trump to fall on his face.
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This is a preview of what will happen every time there is turmoil and turnover in any department. They turn on each other so quickly.
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In Ex parte Merryman, the courts held that only Congress, and not the President, may suspend habeas corpus. Of course, we know what happened after that....
But this situation is very different, and Congress isn't going to sign off on that.
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I would suggest that Judge Boasberg open an inquiry into whether Ensign lied or was lied to.
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Ex parte Merryman comes to mind, both the decision and the aftermath.