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  1. Yeah, "premeditated" comes from some notion of common-law murder. Almost all crimes are now a creature of statute and the statutes vary widely from state to state. Some still require proof of premeditation for the more severe homicide crimes. Texas does not. For regular ol' murder, it's either an intent to kill or to inflict serious bodily harm by a dangerous act. Texas kind of hits "premeditation" in reverse, providing an affirmative defense to 1st degree murder reducing it to 2nd degree, when the act is the result of sudden passion provoked by adequate cause (by inference negating any premeditation, but not intent to kill or do serious bodily harm).
  2. He was not a citizen. A "senior ICE Agent" named Robert Cerna stated that he was deported in error because of an immigration bar on deportation. Based on that, the attorney for the government admitted on several occasions that the deportation was in error. One thing I have learned that's sorta shocking, but maybe not really, is how easily revoked a legitimate immigration status (visa, etc.) can be revoked, even following the law.
  3. The only thing that gives me hope that this makes a shit is those Iowa dirtfarmers eating out Grassley. But they're probably Democrats already.
  4. Ok, so you have the left, which is already convinced, the Trumpers who are also already convinced the other way. And then the dumb, but not quite brainwashed "middle." And between them and the Trumpers, they have a majority. So, I guess it's good we're not having elections that Democrats can't possibly win. And, I didn't say WHAT the messaging should be and didn't say anything about logic or relatable ideals. I just said they can't do what they usually do.
  5. The convincable middle is pretty fucking dumb too. See November 2024.
  6. There's being right and saying the right thing when something happens, which Democrats are kinda ok at. Then there's messaging that wins elections, which they suck giant green donkey dicks at.
  7. Yeah exactly. This is too easily dumbed down by the GOP into an immigration issue. Democrats are going to have to carefully message this.
  8. Well well well, might the lack of Chevron deference come into play here? In the lower courts, for sure. At SCOTUS hoist on its own petard? Or maybe major questions/nondelegation? Watching SCOTUS twist itself in knots should provide some amusement between the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
  9. I think Eddie has a point in that a lot of people that aren't hardcore Trumpers didn't like the immigration situation under Biden. They didn't know shit about it, just like they don't know shit about this either. They're broadly in favor of restricting immigration and deporting people, especially alleged criminals, and don't give a fuck how the sausage is made. So the lawlessness here will have to be carefully presented. The base gives zero fucks, the "middle types" don't know enough about law to care much.
  10. Reading comprehension.
  11. https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/breaking-down-the-immigration-figures/
  12. I know someone else that "hid behind due process" JD.
  13. One thing that's pretty shocking, the judgments from the Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals on A G's original removal case are shockingly thin. "Someone said he was in MS-13." Although they did state that it was a "known and reliable source," apparently the indicted cop above. So, that's the kind of due process immigrants receive here.
  14. Also Birchall, a Mormon fixer, harks back to Howard Hughes, Jr. Noah Dietrich and the rest of the Mormon Mafia. We need this era from Elmo sooner than later. I feel it's coming.
  15. That is, though, precisely the point. Until he is tried and convicted, or pleads guilty, he's not a murderer. It certainly appears that he is guilty of a homicide crime, most likely murder, but we don't know the full story yet, either. And some aspects of the full story could provide defenses that lead to acquittal or reduction of the crime to manslaughter. We don't convict people of crimes based on appearances. That statement seems to work better when the apparent facts seem more complicated than what we see here, but it is nevertheless just as true.
  16. He's actually quite a successful con man.
  17. FamILy VaLUeS! What a weird, arrogant motherfucker.
  18. So, I found this book series on Kindle Unlimited by an English guy named Andy Maslen. It's the Gabriel Wolfe series of books. Wolfe is kind of your British ex-SAS Reacher-type guy, but there's some extra interest because of the English setting and also Hong Kong. So I finished the Wolfe Series and enjoyed them as light leisure reading. And started another series by the same author featuring an English female detective, who winds up doing a bunch of Reacher-type shit herself, not quite as extreme. Less extreme I suppose because she wasn't an SAS trooper and is a chick. But I'm not enjoying it as much. I don't know if this is latent sexism on my part, or maybe the author doesn't write women as well as men. I can't put my finger on it. The two series were written pretty contemporaneously, so I can't really attribute it to some development in the author's style. EDIT TO ADD: Before the Wolfe series, I read a three-book series by the same guy, also featuring an English cop, but male. But less of a badass than either the Wolfe guy or the female detective, more reliant on smarts than fighting ability. So it's not the sort of military vs. civilian milieu. Maybe I'm just a pig. Anyone have a similar experience?
  19. Well, I guess you can say he never should have filed that declaration or let that guy say that. But, that starts to involve a lack of candor with the court. As brisket often says, when you have an evidentiary shit sandwich, like the fact that Abrego Garcia's deportation was in error, you take a big bite right at the outset, you don't try to hide and ignore it.
  20. From a more realistic perspective, how the fuck am I supposed to "focus for now on winning this"? I didn't start it, I didn't want it. I have no control over it. I have even less control over China than I do of Donald fucking Trump and his fucked up policies. To win this, I have to rely on Trump and his circus of clowns to win this. I don't have much confidence.
  21. He's Venezuelan, so there is even less "regularity" to his being deported to El Salvador. I believe he is a plaintiff in the other case before Boasberg. I was just reminded that during Trump I, there were these agreements with ES, Honduras, and El Salvador where US asylum seekers could be and were removed to those countries to seek asylum there as alleged "safe countries." And UK had one with Rwanda of all places, but no one was removed there before it was declared unconstitutional. https://saisreview.sais.jhu.edu/el-salvadors-controversial-offer-housing-u-s-criminals-in-its-mega-prison/
  22. Probably important to acknowledge that, other than diplomatic protests or actions, the US has no say over what Bukele does with his citizens, like Abrego Garcia. Or very little. And, accordingly, it would be problematic/impossible for a US court to order or otherwise force a foreign leader to return a foreign citizen from his home country. Trumpco is trying to pretend that that is the end of the inquiry. Of course, Abrego Garcia is there because a) we sent him there b) not merely as a returnee to ES to wander around and for Bukele to try or jail or whatever but c) specifically that he be imprisoned there, for which we are paying, and apparently retain control over the "final disposition." It should also be noted that the lawyer did not make the admission on behalf of the government, an ICE Agent did, by sworn declaration. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/11/3/abrego-garcia-v-noem/ 6. On March 15, 2025, two planes carrying aliens being removed under the Alien Enemies Act (“AEA”) and one carrying aliens with Title 8 removal orders departed the United States for El Salvador. Abrego-Garcia, a native and citizen of El Salvador, was on the third flight and thus had his removal order to El Salvador executed. This removal was an error * * * 15. Through administrative error, Abrego-Garcia was removed from the United States to El Salvador. This was an oversight, and the removal was carried out in good faith based on the existence of a final order of removal and Abrego-Garcia’s purported membership in MS-13
  23. And, even if you have a rational belief that tariffs are the solution to all our ills, or even just a component of a better trade strategy, they'd need to be phased in over a period of time to give domestic companies time to adjust, no matter how badly you want to punish our counterparties. So even if his tariff strategy wasn't stupid as fuck, the implementation is horribad. And that's even before you get to tariff one day, no tariff the next. Indeed, the on-off nature of them virtually proves that they should have been phased: oops too many unintended but entirely predictable consequences.
  24. The "Get help now" is an amusing late night TV approach. Conspicuously missing from the Biden site. https://web.archive.org/web/20210730041951/https://civilrights.justice.gov/
  25. https://www.mlb.com/glossary/idioms/tootblan Also seems reminiscent of the French tout blanc, meaning all white, but don't see any connection.
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