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DDD Dad

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  1. You don't have enough (I know I definitely don't).
  2. The most troubling aspect of what I’ve gleaned from this ruling is the placement of the burden of proof on the government to negate a presumption of immunity. What evidentiary standard must they meet? Beyond reasonable doubt? On something that should be an affirmative defense? SMDH. Official corruption has essentially been legalized.
  3. Username and avatar check out.
  4. Jesus that’s a wall of words. Are you just posting shit from Chat GPT?
  5. Shit I couldn’t do that now (and I’m 59). Couldn’t do it at 30 either.
  6. I’m at Mi Cocina. Baseball game is on. Not
  7. I don't think so. However, I completely forgot about him in In Bruges, which I loved as well.
  8. This is some serious fan fiction.
  9. Yep. I am going to watch tonight. We binged Sugar last night.
  10. So FX tonight and then Hulu tomorrow? One episode per week or whole season dropping?
  11. Perhaps a rule similar to the one in most federal courts limiting parties to a single summary judgment motion? Maybe something along the lines of a local or F. R. Crim. P. rule requiring all motions of a particular type (suppress., e.g.),. be brought in a single motion X days before trial. The difficulty with anything along these lines in the criminal context (as opposed to civil) is the constitutional limitations and requirements for fair trial, etc.
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  13. Really glad I stopped reading this thread after this post. Just powered through the entire season. I actually called the twist a couple of episodes before the reveal but still enjoyed it unfolding. I wasn't a huge Colin Farrell fan before Banshees but he's really grown on me, especially after that movie. I thought he did a great job on this show, and would watch a second season if it is made.
  14. I believe the quote to which I responded contended that the ORIGINAL gerrymander was in the Senate. The makeup of senate seats is in the Constitution, which predates the 1889 Omnibus bill by a few years, and I'm pretty sure (although I haven't done the research) that the original states and signatories to the Constitution weren't admitted to specifically to balance slaves versus free states but instead were all separate British colonies. The ORIGINAL gerrymander got its name from Gov. Gerry, in a newspaper article that described the district that was drawn as looking like a salamander, and hence coined the term gerrymander. I don't dispute that subsequent to the original gerrymander there have been political grounds for the drawing of state lines (all of which had nothing to do with providing representation in the senate to citizens based on the relative population of each state), but that's not gerrymandering. Pedantic thread drift over.
  15. Wut? (Original gerrymander was done by Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry's administration in drawing up STATE senate districts. While there has been SCOTUS case law involving gerrymandering involving senate seats (how votes were counted in Georgia Democratic senate primary, Gray v. Sanders), U.S. Senate seats are specifically incapable of being gerrymandered so long as they are elected statewide and each vote counts.
  16. No one's impeaching her for this. She faces no consequences beyond whatever the Chief Judge of the Southern District or the Judicial Conference somehow takes action (a la John McBryde). As of 2017, only 15 federal judges were ever impeached and only 8 convicted following impeachment.
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