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  1. Do you really need to ask?
  2. Cross him off then. Never really liked the sumbitch anyway.
  3. Some of those old trademarks and logos and whatnot are actually abandoned by the university owners and sellers try to go royalty-free. UT really was one of the first institutions to monetize its trademark IP heavily, so hardly anything is abandoned and everything is subject to licensing and royalties.
  4. You see that pretty often when it's a manufacturer sale. All the vendors on Amazon are resellers and didn't get that discount from the manufacturer. I have the Amazon Visa, which gives me "bucks" to spend. Sometimes I'll see a manufacturer sale on something that doesn't filter down to Amazon, and its a dilemma whether to use actual money and get the full discount or Amazon play money and pay more.
  5. Ah fuck it, let's just go straight simple Jack. Sec. 31.03. THEFT. (a) A person commits an offense if he unlawfully appropriates property with intent to deprive the owner of property. A racially neutral statute. Can this be enforced in a racist manner? Or conversely, because this is a facially neutral statute, is any enforcement of it racially neutral?
  6. The issue in the trial is, did Comey lie to or otherwise obstruct Congress. Anything that doesn't bear on that may be excluded. If Comey were guilty or in danger of being found guilty (all signs here are no), then he might fight to create some "improper motivations" sideshows to distract the jury. I'd tend to think if they do just go straight to trial, it will be a simple presentation where Comey probably doesn't even call a witness and wins by directed verdict.
  7. And no Harpie Murray.
  8. That about sums it up.
  9. Well, if he's footing the bill, its a lot faster and several hundred thousand cheaper to go to trial. But I think there's reason to believe he's not footing the bill and Fitzgerald came out of retirement for special reasons, that might include fucking with the Trump DOJ.
  10. You could also argue that both are instances of "the state" attempting to influence education policy. But to do that, you have to go hypocrite because you've been saying that the feds (DOE) should have no role in education policy because LoCAl cONtrOl. If the state is to have a role in education policy, it should be the State of California, not POTUS.
  11. Yeah, it is, but there's still a bunch of inference and innuendo. This risks making it all extremely explicit. Unfortunately, this kind of dismissal is hard to obtain. After you prove the vindictive motive, you also have to prove that the results are different, that is, that similarly situated defendants were not prosecuted, so the vindictive motive was the proximate cause of the prosecution. And that can be really tough and nigh-on impossible. So, it's a dilemma for Comey/Fitzgerald: pursue a low-percentage motion that will be very embarrassing for the administration/DOJ, or just go directly to trial ASAP and pants Halligan.
  12. A question on the above is, if Comey/Fitzgerald pursue the vindictive prosecution angle, how public will the evidence become? An aspect of it is that a motion to dismiss the indictment on this ground requires an evidentiary hearing, meaning witnesses may be called and documents introduced. There may also be depositions of witnesses so as to avoid the necessity of live testimony, which is usually preferred in criminal cases. Evidentiary hearings are not the norm in motions to dismiss, which are usually decided "on the paper." The government will resist this discovery with everything they've got, I'm sure, including a lot of lying and dissembling. And will also try mightily to keep the fruits of the discovery from public view. But Fitzgerald has the reputation of pursuing this kind of thing to the bitter end and is just the guy not to capitulate to the government's shenanigans. And Halligan is one of the least likely attorneys to be able to defeat him. The judge, Nachmanoff, is a Biden appointee and served five years as a magistrate judge and prior to that was a federal public defender. So, salty as fuck on criminal stuff and not inclined to defer to the government at all. There's a really good chance this turns into a complete shit show for the Trump DOJ.
  13. Also fun fact. EVERYONE was a licensee of John Browning, Remington, Winchester, Savage, Browning. He never actually owned or was part of any arms manufacturer. Browning Arms was nothing but a patent/design licensor until acquired by FN.
  14. A role-reversal of sorts with us and them and now and then.
  15. Yeah, my grandfather had one, too. But my cousin has it.
  16. Oh, right, but he's not my guy. It's crazy, when Abbott was on the Supreme Court, he was relatively moderate. Kind of a milquetoasty Cornyn type. But he quietly went satanic as AG.
  17. So, extrapolating from the above, Comey is probably going to be able to get discovery on vindictive prosecution, which means Fitzgerald will be able to delve into questions like: Why did Erik Seibert resign What was Lindsey Halligan told to do upon her appointment Why are no other AUSAs appearing in this case All communications between Main Justice and the Eastern District of Virginia concerning James Comey So, this could be quite embarrassing for the Administration, to the extent it is capable of being embarrassed. But, I'm not sure it will lead to dismissal of the indictment. Will Comey and Fitzgerald do this dance in the public interest, even though it is unlikely to result in the dismissal of charges? Or will they just press for an early trial date and stuff Lindsey Halligan through the hoop?
  18. Possibly very true insofar as Alexandria is probably populating with Trumpist strivers. However, I think the usual reasons a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich is that a) the standard is low and b) they generally trust the government and prosecutors to do the right thing, a variant of the presumption of regularity. It's becoming clear that, as in the trial courts, and especially in "put upon" jurisdictions, Trumpist prosecutors are not enjoying any presumption of regularity. So grand juries don't trust the prosecutors in front of them. Alexandria is just far enough removed from DC itself, demographically, that the "normal rules" still apply. Still, for petit/trial juries, I imagine the government would like to be even further away.
  19. Walz seems like the kind of guy that shoots a Ted Williams or Ithaca pump in real life, that was grandadddies that's actually IC despite being marked MOD . Or on special occasions a Remington A5 from 1940. These fucking newfangled eyetalian goddamn machine guns confuse him.
  20. Ok, and I am the one making shit up? About 39 million Mexicans decamped to the US? When was this? I don't need evidence that the "average American LEO is racist." The administration is racist and the administration is driving this unprecedented and unprincipled roundup that is theater for a hideously racist bunch that support it.
  21. Whiskey Pete makes CPT. Sobel look like Audie Murphy. And, I have to guess or hope that if Trumpco tried this with an active duty combat unit instead of guards, we'd start to see some revolt. I think most of Trumpco's "army games," including drone strikes on south Americans, are not using actual "war fighters" and who are sufficiently outside the chain of command that they aren't provoking the military establishment.
  22. If the people enforcing laws are doing so motivated by racial animus, then they are racists and the enforcement is racist. The only times in American history we have had these sweeping efforts to deport people, that are so unprincipled and unmoored that they commonly sweep citizens, lawful immigrants, and unlawful immigrants, they were some of the most shameful racist incidents in our history. https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-exhibit-refuses-to-forget-one-of-the-worst-periods-of-state-sanctioned-violence/ When we're not only deporting people, but reversing humanitarian immigration policies (TPS for Venezuelans, among others) enacted by the same President, we're getting goddamn near racist territory. Tell me with a straight face that Stephen Miller isn't the most blatantly racist American politician since George Wallace.
  23. Not sure what your point is here. But to you and brisket, there have been a number of instances of people on record saying things to the effect of "I thought he was just deporting the criminals," notably from a goodly number of Latin-Americans, and expressing dismay at ICE tactics and the deportation of non-criminal immigrants. For the MAGAts, there's almost no question it's cover for racism. But Democrats lost some non-MAGAt votes to people who were concerned about immigration and seem to have bought the notion that a large percentage of immigrants are criminals.
  24. Also sort of related, Abrego-Garcia clears the first hurdle in a vindictive prosecution claim, entitling him to discovery from the government. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kilmar-abrego-may-have-been-vindictively-prosecuted-by-trump-administration-us-2025-10-03/ Fitzgerald is going to have some fun with this one.
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