discon2000.bsky.social
Career Public Defender, retired 2019. Former Trial Supervisor at @bklyndefender.bsky.social. Former @legalaidnyc.bsky.social. Former adjunct at NYLS & St. John’s. Lifelong Brooklyn Boy, Happy Grandpa of two.
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Question I wish some reporter would ask one of these clowns:
“Where exactly in the Constitution or in a statute does it say a pardon has to be signed?”
Hint: it doesn’t. Perfect handwriting, autopen, X mark, or no sig at all. Doesn’t matter. If the President says you’re pardoned, you’re pardoned.
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I agree with your sentiment, but let's be clear: Jesus (assuming he actually existed) was a Jew and a Rabbi. While he obviously never read a New Testament, he certainly read the Bible as it existed in his time - i.e. the Torah and other Jewish holy books.
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The bill of attainder clause is contained in article one and is addressed to the legislature. For it to apply to Trump, an EO would have to be held to be quasi legislative. Which I believe it to be, but would SCOTUS vote that way?
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Just to be accurate, Trump’s dad Fred was born in NYC, though moron Trump has incorrectly stated his dad was born in Germany. That was his dad’s dad, a German draft dodger. Not a one of them has ever served.
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I call them “faux progressives.” I used to let myself get drawn into arguments with them on the hellsite. They liked to attack me as a “centrist boomer” LOL. They were proudly anti-racist but ageism is cool. Many were not much brighter than the MAGAs.
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Donnie Dimwit
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He’s simply searching for opportunities where he can appear in public and people will be too polite to boo him, as much as they may want to.
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I predict the kompromat will come out after his death. It will be Putin’s way of pissing on Trump’s grave after he’s no longer useful to him. It’ll mark him forever as a traitor. His final legacy.
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Absolutely. I am opposed to the death penalty in all situations, but if they have to do it, or if I had to make the choice for myself, firing Squad every time. Those lethal injections are torture.
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I haven’t done legal research (OK it’s Wikipedia,) but it seems law firm cases fall squarely under Lovett.
The only question, & it’s a large one, is whether a bill of attainder has to be from the legislature to be unconstitutional. These EOs are quasi legislative. I would say it’s worth a shot.
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Class actions aren’t my area but seems to me arguable to name a class of firms and individual attys who’ve investigated Trump or are associated with those who have. ONLY those attys being punished. Clear retribution and arguably illegal.
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Someone whould ask him to name any 5 countries in the EU. I'd bet he'd have trouble getting past France and Germany, and would probably start with "England."
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Not to mention actual military leaders. Duh!
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Ouch! Also, maybe JD should work on distinguishing South Africa from South America.
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Exactly why I finally left that shithole.
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I wish you were right (which would be a pretty low bar in this case,) but I just don't think there's a bottom. I believe he could have all of their spouses lined up and sent to El Salvador and they'd just say how grateful they are that Dear Leader let them say goodbye first.
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Everything comes around again. A decade or two ago Port Authority bus station installed those things. Leaners instead of benches. I’m not sure how long they had them, but I doubt if it was more than a year or two. Long gone. But back again!
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When the judge issues a “verbal” order, there is a court reporter writing down everything the judge says. At that moment, the order is in writing. There is actually no such thing as a verbal order.
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There’s nothing in the constitution that even requires a pardon to be in writing. Let alone signed or hand signed. Not required.
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In Brooklyn, when you go to a barber and say, “Make me look like an asshole,” this is the haircut you get.
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Wouldn’t matter anyway.
Pardon power comes 100% from the constitution and the constitution does not say that pardons even need to be in writing, let alone signed, let alone signed by hand.
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I would ask this moron to point out the place in the constitution where it says that pardons even need to be in writing, let alone signed, let alone signed by hand.
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Unfortunately, any court would recognize his pardon. The presidential pardon power is pretty much absolute, as far as federal crimes are concerned. State crimes and civil cases are another story.
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Nothing requires judges to appear. Rather than being humiliated, most would laugh off sham impeachments. MAGA clowns would be humiliating themselves, as usual.
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That’s criminal contempt. Trump can pardon them in the blink of an eye. Judges need to haul officials into court and throw them in until they obey court orders. Civil contempt.
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Criminal contempt is meaningless when Trump can pardon them. We need judges to bring officials before them and hold them in civil contempt until they obey court orders. Fine them or throw them in. Or both.
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I’d bet he couldn’t even tell you how many grandkids he has.
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Another asshole blocked!
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He especially seems to hate “anti-senimism” whatever that is.
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His only lane is being an asshole, so I guess he actually is in his lane.
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OK the price is great, but 10? What happened to a dozen? Come on! That's carrying this metric system stuff too far!
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Punishing Maine because the governor talked back to the Big Baby? Or are they just going to enact this ridiculous burden nationwide?
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Trump is actually playing Tic Tac Toe, though unfortunately he doesn’t understand the rules.
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How about proper use of “me” and “I.” Non-MAGAs could use to improve on that one also.
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BREAKING! Tremors reported in Simi Valley centered on Reagan Presidential Library. "At first we thought the vibrations were seismic tremors," said a spokesman, "but it turns out not to be so. After extensive evaluation we now believe the tremors are from President Reagan rolling over in his grave."
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It is a fact that there will one day be statues of Zelenskyy, a courageous hero. Trump and Vance are more likely to be memorialized as figures in a wax museum, next to other monsters, such as Jack the Ripper and the late, great Hannibal Lechter.
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Exactly.
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She’s a democrat, not a republican.
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This is what Nazis do.
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Maybe we should just call him President Krasnov.
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Kompromat + stupidity + cruelty.
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Trudeau should always refer to him as assistant president Trump. Or maybe just as musk‘s assistant Donald Trump.
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So to Anglicize it a bit, Germany’s new chancellor is Fred Merz. Am I the only one hoping his wife’s name is Ethel?
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One of my favorites! I’ve loved this book pretty much my whole life.
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Does this dickhead have any law-enforcement experience at all? Like maybe before he became a professional asshole?