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  1. Bit of perspective, for whatever it's worth. Although the Constitution (Art. 1, s. 9, cl. 2) provides for suspension of habeas corpus in times of invasion or rebellion, both times it has been suspended in the US were pursuant to acts of Congress providing the president with authority to do so. Lincoln's attempt to suspend it without Congressional authorization was ruled unconstitutional by Chief Judge Taney of the Supreme Court in a procedurally oddball decision. Also, the Phillipine thing was kind of a one-off, it was authorized by the governing body of the Phillipines at the time. Similar situation in Hawaii. Neither was a presidential suspension of the writ. So, despite the language of the Constitution, there's no precedent for it. That, of course, means jack shit, but still. And yes, it is an hideous threat of a dictator, Lincoln notwithstanding.
  2. Probably one big caveat here. A lot of the time biglaw clients are ostensibly some big-name partner's clients. But in some cases, a more junior partner or senior associate is doing the real work and interacting with the client, along with a herd of other juniors. So, sometimes a partner leaves and not all or not that many of his clients go with him/her, staying instead with the more junior person that actually does their work. To avoid this, partners and groups of partners will take most of a "section" or "practice group" with them when they leave.
  3. He might think it easier to get something done with the dumbass simply because he's not Congress and he's malleable as hell. But likely anything emanating from the executive on this is going to be damn near useless and unenforceable.
  4. What is probably true is that non-capitulating firms are using this to harvest clients. So, even if a GC or BoD isn't inclined to question it on their own, they're being seriously prodded by competing law firms to do so. Yes.
  5. Worse still, that's one of the firms that capitulated without ever being targeted. And, AFAIK no reason to be targeted.
  6. The more recent Caddys have a) touchscreens b) buttons that do all the frequently used functions and c) the rotary dial/wheel thing for scrolling and selecting on-screen options. Pick your poison, but it's a decent way to do it. And yeah, I'm not sure I like replacing the gauge cluster with a free-standing screen.
  7. She's an interim or acting. Not sure that means he's going to put her up for the post on a permanent basis. But make no mistake, he values those "high ratings" about as much as anything except maybe wealth.
  8. I guess then de minimis would have exempted small purchases. Not quite sure how that would work.
  9. Nah, Campbell. I was familiar with his oilpatch exploits and Tceh bagman, not sure why I'm surprised he's Tim Dunn, Jr. And I guess he's ackshually a big shit.
  10. I flew/drove my MIL from Vegas to Ridgecrest CA last June to visit her dying sister. Turns out I drove right by Yermo, didn't notice. That whole area of the Mojave makes west Texas look like a verdant rainforest with infinite variation in topology and geology. God Almighty, that drive was hallucinatory.
  11. No imports at all! NIAA! Fuck your coffee, your Scotch and Irish whiskey, your krautwagens and British loudspeakers.
  12. From what I can tell, "functional medicine" is a broad and vague term that does indeed encompass quite a bit of quackery. The basic notion of metabolic health seems sound. This Means quack would be a lot more credible if she'd studied endocrinology or a similar field.
  13. If the de minimis exception was helping you out, Austin, your business was a pile of shit.
  14. At least it appears not to be one of those overgrown electronic switches.
  15. Probably doesn't extend much beyond her Twatter followers.
  16. Somewhat ironically, though, Christians, and I assume that includes Catholics, in a lot of those brown countries are pretty hardcore reactionaries.
  17. Well, as you probably suspect, all prison phone calls are recorded, and there's usually ample warning that that is taking place. I believe the best practice with prison calls to attorneys is to make arrangements beforehand that such calls a) are not recorded and b) don't take place "in public," ie common areas of the prison or jail, so there's no issue of invasion or waiver of privilege. That should be SOP both from the lawyer's standpoint and prison/jail operations. AFAIK, the prison call recording system keeps a database of all the recordings that prison staff and prosecutors can call up and listen to any/all prisoner phone calls. The whole prison call thing is a bit scandalous, both as to privacy and cost, and also fairly sophisticated. A call with a lawyer should never be in that database. So, I'd think a first level of blame would be with Luigi's lawyers for having a call over the standard call system. And to some degree with Luigi himself. But, if you're conspiratorially minded, the prison/jail was recording calls it should not have and making those recordings available to prosecutors.
  18. Wouldn't you know that little shit is a Trumper. Another instance of Trump, and many others, confusing wealth with competence. Fuckin Tceh people are gonna ruin everything.
  19. And it appears I am incorrect on ENTs. There apparently is a fairly heavy surgical aspect to their training. For various reasons, the docs I know best are anesthesiologists and orthopedic surgeons, so one type with, one type without.
  20. She does not appear to have had a surgical residency, unless it was correcting deviated septums. I am skeptical how much metabolic health has to do with the work of an ENT and was any reason they weren't "getting better." Her patients while she was a resident, that is.
  21. I mean, I guess it would be cool if I didn't have to spend any money. But I think my life might kinda suck.
  22. Well, the sex trafficking involved Jerrah, who does live in HP, and a couple of other dudes including a McKool lawyer that lives in Longview. But of course, sex-trafficking-central is Comet Pizza. Also drenchrome harvesting.
  23. What's going on with that brake apparatus? I missed most of BMX, but am pretty familiar with bikes.
  24. Well, being a Jew, and more importantly an atheist, Laura wouldn't know shit about Jesus and how he was pretty woke, and a bit Marx-like. Well, probably pure luck they aren't Ju-88s.
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