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  1. Excellent points. Sometimes I think of legal education as the "ultimate liberal arts," but as you note, it can slide into deconstructivism.
  2. I'll say this for canned green beans. My mother and grandmother made real southern style green beans, from fresh, simmered for hours and seasoned with bacon grease and/or salt pork, among other things. It is much easier and quicker to near-duplicate that using canned beans than fresh.
  3. Right. Don't know how far the gubmint is going to go, but if the plaintiffs agreed to it, there seems to be something very good in it for Abrego Garcia. Maybe, given the abusive and capricious use of power everywhere in this, the gubmint has decided this isn't the greatest test case for executive foreign relations and national security power. Also, in the judge's discovery order, there was an allusion to some discussion with El Salvador.
  4. Yeah. But, that kind of thing is more or less the usual prerogative of a normal administration, but it's less performative than this. A decent bit of civil rights litigation stems from private plaintiffs rather than the government, at least that that leads to "landmark decisions." But, there's probably a good bit more "administrative" civil rights enforcement (EEOC, etc.) that influences corporate and institutional behavior without going to litigation, or very far in litigation. And a lot of this is judicially created law, so almost impossible to change "on a dime."
  5. Yeah, even if electric motors can propel even very heavy vehicles with aplomb, all that sprung mass is going to be difficult to make handle well. In the end, enthusiasts tend to value handling over raw speed and acceleration, and the latter is all EVs will offer for the foreseeable future.
  6. As someone posted, small business owners are the petit bourgeouisie and make up the bulk of Trump supporters. And the ones least able to withstand the tariffs.
  7. Digging around, the lawyer that signed the response, Mary Larakers, is a UH and St. Mary's graduate. She has been employed in the government since 2017, so she's likely just a civil servant. But the administration has put her in an awful place. That "no DHS personnel aboard" and "DHS did not direct DOD to deport" is pretty clearly saying the only things favorable to DHS in that situation. I'd be looking for another job is I was Ms. Larakers. Yikes.
  8. Xinis' order of yesterday, denying almost all of the government's objections to discovery, citing bad faith, and ordering answers. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69777799/100/abrego-garcia-v-noem/ I think you are correct, the government is just going to back down rather than push it much further.
  9. Unlike some of these TROs and injunctions, that one contained the magic language: Defendants, and all of their officers, agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors, assigns, and persons acting in concert or participation with them are hereby ENJOINED and RESTRAINED from: Judges need to sharpen up their orders here, that's standard shit.
  10. Yeah, I mean, Newton's laws aren't universally true, and that's acknowledged, but they form the basis of much of the study of physical science and engineering. STEM people are fully capable of critical thinking in most cases, but for a variety of reasons, some related to education, they're susceptible to not critically analyzing certain things. One thing that may be at work there is that they get so used to quantifying everything that politics, policy, and government seem impossibly squishy and impossible to quantify and analyze, so they dismiss.
  11. That's one he can't end unilaterally. It's a statute, only Congress can repeal a statute, or SCOTUS hold it unconstitutional. This does, however, direct executive agencies and departments with the authority to pursue discrimination cases based on "disparate impact," as opposed to proof of actual discriminatory intent or disparate treatment not to pursue those cases.
  12. I.e. Kyle Rittenhouse.
  13. Not after I stopped fitting in it.
  14. Well, I might say leave that to the PR people.
  15. Yeah, cakey cornbread, also sweet, was what Dad objected to. He and Mom were raised during the Depression on buttermilk cornbread, as was I, cooked in this skillet.
  16. I should have said non-lawyer civil rights advocates. But yeah, I guess it's the ones seeking the spotlight that actually are, pretty inherently, grifters.
  17. Congress has unwisely delegated much tariff power to the executive, originally preserving a legislative veto (a "veto" at any time based on a majority vote). The legislative veto was ruled unconstitutional in another setting, but Congress did nothing to curtail the delegated power. More here. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-congress-reverse-trump's-tariffs Some tariffs, like "anti-dumping" countervailing duties, are imposed by the International Trade Commission, with approval of the President. CBP is part of DHS, an executive agency, so they're going to do whatever POTUS tells them, or Congress, or the ITC (another executive agency), or what-have-you. The ITC is the US entity that imposes rational tariffs. They also publish a ton of reports on trade. usitc.gov
  18. Spirituality, or more free-form religion, and religion practiced well, is not only about how you treat others, it's about how you treat yourself and your feelings of contentment and rightful place in the world. In a cliched way "what's it all about." Treating others well is a good start to helping yourself, but it's probably not the end of the "story." Similarly, treating yourself well tends to result in treating others well. Often the focus on Christianity, or any other religion, is external morality, that is, how do they treat others. But spirituality/religion is a more holistic thing.
  19. Ok this is officially weird.
  20. My Dad had a low-intensity war going on with the cafeteria at Texas Instruments over sweetened cornbread. Every now and then, the cook or chef would change, or they'd get the wrong stuff from Sysco or whatever and the cornbread would be sweet. Dad would lodge his complaints first with the lunch ladies, who typically vehemently agreed with him. And there were just enough southerners and Texans employed that there was a majority agin' sweet cornbread.
  21. Well, he also doesn't want to run afoul of Texas' presumption of intent to distribute, which arises upon possession of six dildos.
  22. I am curious why it always seems that "civil rights advocates" constantly seem to have sketchy backgrounds and often seem to be taking advantage of those they represent. I think there's a need for such advocates and don't see that such a calling or occupation is inherently "grifty," but it inevitably seems that it is.
  23. Well, ackshually, we kind of didn't. We had norms that most or all Presidents respected. The Emoluments Clause sets a norm, but without a statute/law enacted pursuant to it, is basically unenforceable. One of our problems is that our do-nothing Congress has been lax in enacting laws that constrain the behavior of public officials, in no small part because they would constrain Congress as well.
  24. I guess is is as simple(ton) as Europeans pay more for their own goods than they charge Americans because of VAT. That's. Just. We tall did.
  25. What is the fucking deal with VAT? The only one with which I am familiar is Europe's, and it applies equally to domestic or imported goods purchased for consumption or use in Europe. I cannot figure any way in which it affects trade balances. I guess because it isn't charged on goods exported from Europe?
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