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Austin, Texas. Rice Grad.
Attorney; Board-certified in Civil Appellate. Huge USWNT fan. DS9 remains as the best Trek ever.
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Almost certain that there are. Almost certain we'll never know where.
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I don't think Trump cares that much one way or the other about those who have improperly entered the country.
What he's known for years is that he can use "illegals" as a means to attract support. It's not a crisis until he sells it as being one.
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Deliberate targeting. That won't play well anywhere.
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Yes.
Not me. But cruelty and the prospect of violence are central to Trump's appeal to his core support.
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It's the problem with saying "Trump just wants to impose martial law." It's a huge country with large urban areas. The U.S. Army has 450k soldiers. Maybe 60k are combat troops.
They're not trained for police work. They have other jobs to do. They rely heavily on technology. It would be a stretch.
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What's not working is Congress. The R majorities have abdicated their Constitutional roles as legislators and as a check on the Executive.
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Points for the reference to Bosnia.
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I can't explain the Trump mystique, but it's nothing Vance has.
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They have a presence here in Austin. (TX).
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I.e., Government censorship of the press.
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Speaker Johnson is a young-earth creationist who holds to the view that the Earth is but a few thousand years old and the "The Flintstones" is a documentary.
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They will never understand that the freedom of which the flag is but a symbol includes the right to burn a flag you own as an act of political expression, if that's what you want to do.
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A rational approach would conclude that the costs, both direct and indirect, of these deportations efforts aren't worth it.
So something else is happening. I think Trump et al. are doing the classic "Set up scapegoats to justify seizing more power."
Hitler targeted Jews. For Trump it's "illegals."
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It's problematic. There just aren't that many combat troops (about 300k). It's a huge country. They has other jobs to do. They're a highly technology force designed to fight other military units. They are not good police. Not everyone will act against other citizens. It's quickly very expensive.
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Echoes of the Third Reich with some Soviet Union mixed in. Dictators of all stripes love this stuff.
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I think we can conclude from that that prosecutor Schrader was unwilling to see a case proceed with little or no evidence to support it.
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With both the Attorney General and the President proclaiming him guilty, the prejudice (literally "pre-judgment") they're imposing may lead to a dismissal of the prosecution.