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  1. ESPN can suck 100% of my ass.
  2. Error Code 83 again. Cheap but not worth it.
  3. Yeah, I think that's accurate. These decisions are not intended to be precedential, or really all that big a deal, mostly procedural. But, they have tended to become something else over the last few years. These stays are supposed to balance the likelihood of winning/being right on the law against the irreparable harm that results if they are wrong on the law. So a high likelihood of winning "trumps" great harm, while great harm can outweigh a shakier case. One kind of unusual thing recently is that the Court has recognized the harm that results to people if they are deported without due process. That harm is so great that even if the government is right, they're gonna stay it because of the harm. That sort of factual sensitivity is actually somewhat unusual from the Supreme Court, especially this one. Jackson basically concedes that the government is going to win this on the merits, but argues that the harm is so great that the district court decision should remain intact until the government pretty inevitably wins. A great humanitarian position, but I'm not sure such a great one on the law itself. The simple fact of this is that these parole programs are created by fiat and can be ended by fiat. That's one of the several flaws in our immigration laws. Raises the question whether the Supreme Court should correct or mitigate all wrongs or just the ones that rise to the level of violating the constitution.
  4. Except for that whole streams suck the dickity dick part.
  5. The ABA is one of a very few national law dog organizations for "general purpose" law. Most others are either "practice-related" (e.g. American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association, American Trial Lawyer's Association) or more or less advocacy groups. Therefore, it made sense that it would weigh in on nominees. I think their ratings were pretty fair and they'll still be able to do them on the basis of publicly available information. That a judge nominee doesn't make herself available to the ABA on a voluntary basis should be a black mark against them (it won't). Most information about judicial nominees, including the questionnaire they fill out for the Senate Judiciary Committee, is publicly available, as is almost their entire judicial record, if any. So, this is, as usual, pretty performative. They very well may be able to sue over this as it is clearly viewpoint discrimination.
  6. More evidence that he's a useful idiot to the more insidious conservative movements.
  7. They hear appeals of patent cases from the PTO, District Courts and ITC, and Merit System Protections Board appeals, and appeals from the CIT. They're mostly patent-types. With a couple of international trade types. There's not a lot of turnover. Unlike regional circuit judges, their expertise makes them apolitical, and they're drawn from a nationwide "pool." They administratively stayed the judgment of the CIT pending a real stay request in the CIT followed by one at the Federal Circuit. As much trauma as we have from the "shadow docket" and things like administrative stays, this is pretty routine. Nothing to read into it at this point.
  8. And I thought MAGAts were opposed to expensive wars abroad? But Trump sent weapons to Ukraine when Obama wouldn't, until Russia convinced MAGA that we shouldn't spend any money on Ukraine. Or that it was a "proxy war" or some other bad shit.
  9. Oh he did it because Maduro was a nasty commie and VZ was in deep shit at the time. That's old news, and they're brownish and from down south. Also TdA. And, I think ultimately, Trump wants numbers of deportations. It's going to be hard to do that with just border-crossers.
  10. KLUV was the longest-lasting radio station between Dallas and Austin. I enjoyed it anyway, but listened to it a lot because of that. Pretty educational.
  11. Fuck ESPN in the goat ass. I hate their goddamn shitass streams and fucked up apps. Pile of fucking shit.
  12. Look at this fucking drivel. https://steube.house.gov/press-releases/rep-steube-introduces-make-autorail-great-again-act-to-rebrand-dc-metrorail-as-wmaga-and-trump-train/ “WMATA has received billions in federal assistance over the years and continues to face operational, safety, and fiscal challenges,” said Rep. Steube. “In the spirit of DOGE, this bill demands accountability by conditioning federal funding on reforms that signal a cultural shift away from bureaucratic stagnation toward public-facing excellence and patriotism.” Rebranding WMATA as WMAGA and the rail system as the Trump Train represents more than a name change; it is a mandate for performance and transformation. “Like any struggling institution, WMATA needs a fresh identity that aligns with efficiency, service quality, and renewed public trust. These new names serve as a bold rallying point for much-needed reform,” Steube added.
  13. The restitution part is the really offensive part. And measures what kind of crooks they are.
  14. That is, apparently, the FBI gym at Quantico. Y'know Kashyap's fantasy is to turn the FBI into an MMA league.
  15. No, I don't think so. It's a possibility, but pursuing a trade requires getting off your ass and getting on with it. Much like college. The problem with young men is they're not getting off their asses and getting on with it. Young men have been steadily losing privilege for quite some time. There are an awful lot of people out there who want to stoke the grievance without providing productive alternatives. Many of them are found on social media and in gamer-adjacent "fora." All of us here of all ages probably knew gamer "veges," even 40 years ago. It's just that much worse.
  16. Anyone who lived through their brief spurt of wins over us in the late 80s pretty much hates them. They were insufferable.
  17. Regardless, it's just a word game at this point, so if you can accomplish the same noble and agreeable ends without the words, please do.
  18. True enough. But it was super-foolish to delegate so broadly to the executive and when their kill-switch got overruled, they should have undone it immediately. I have a longstanding beef with the US Congress, #bothsides.
  19. Well, to be fair Congress surrendered it's tariff powers here in 1977, although it attempted to retain a legislative veto. When that was overruled indirectly, Congress went Goatse in 1985. But, it was by going Goatse that made this an impermissible delegation.
  20. https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf Nondelegation doctrine hoists Trump on his own petard. Federal Circuit, the most apolitical court of appeals in the US, you're up.
  21. I think it's poorly written because it stopped after "students," and then someone realized that was probably unconstitutional.
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