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  1. You're kind of making his point, y'know. There are a lot of church organizations that do a lot of good in the social services area, and yeah, they take federal and state funding made available to them like secular agencies. Catholic Charities is the best of the RCC. That doesn't insulate the RCC from criticism, nor should it expose Catholic Charites to more. Afaik, in Dallas at least, they are the number one resource for charitable immigrant services.
  2. Christ on a crutch. Competing with Paxton for the most performative and ineffective.
  3. If serious, a private sector at-will employee would normally have no cause of action/lawsuit for wrongful termination or breach of contract if fired/laid off for budgetary (non-discriminatory) reasons. However, one under a resignation/severance agreement probably has a lawsuit/cause of action for breach of that agreement, even if, in the absence of the contract, they could have been fired at any time for any (non-discriminatory) reason, the usual hallmark of at-will employees. Federal employees are not strictly at-will, I don't believe, but continued employment depends on continued funding of their employer by Congress. A contract for severance pay would seem to alter that relationship into one governed by the contract, but there are all kinds of problems with suing the federal government even on a contract.
  4. As O.W. Holmes said, paraphrased, payment of taxes buys civilization. I think we're about to find out what a civilization refund looks like.
  5. That lawfare article I think addresses all of these issues including the causes of action screwed employees may have and the weaknesses thereof. I disagree that this is truly voluntary in the sense that I think many that take the deal are essentially being defrauded, but time will tell. However, like Bevo in VA, many do seem to be going into this with their eyes open so to speak. And those may be the biggest brain drain of all.
  6. Not an employment lawyer, but those that resigned and took severance are no longer at-will employees, but governed by a contract to pay severance for a set term in order to terminate employment. At minimum, there's a promissory estoppel/detrimental reliance problem for the employer. You seem to imply that before resigning for severance, they were at-will employees and could have no expectation of continued employment/salary. The resignation/severance agreement changes all that. As noted in the lawfare article I have posted twice, that's not a clear thing with the federal government as an employer.
  7. More than anyone wanted to know on this. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/will-employees-who-resign-have-a-remedy
  8. So, I think like "weird," this messaging style may work. Call em weird dicks then follow up with some real, pithy criticism. The problem for Democrats is that they have to counter an opponent that is collectively lying its ass off and Democrats probably don't want to have to lie their asses off.
  9. Shit getting real in Westlake, yo.
  10. Yeah, although I was thinking more in terms of criminal prosecutions. I think it's easier to be an incompetent ideologue buffoon in a civil setting than criminal prosecution. But of course USDOJ is really almost primarily a civil institution, like the Texas AG. One thing, though. Historically, the AGs office has been a decent landing place for those without great grades from the lower tier law schools (note that I am not saying they're shitty lawyers, just not Order of the Coif from UT). Therefore, I suspect that the AGs office still has a lot of apolitical civil servants, despite its politics. USDOJ has never been a landing place for anyone. Always competitive and requiring a certain desire to do that kind of work at reduced salaries, because almost everyone at DOJ could be gainfully employed elsewhere at probably double the salary, or more.
  11. Weirdly enough, I know or knew a lawyer in Dallas named Emil. Not pronounced ay-meel, but emmel, like emmett with an L. Crusty sumbitch, not exactly country, but fairly Texan. Guy has a fairly standard DOJ/white collar resume, and, was involved in investigation and prosecution of 1/6 defendants. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-feared-doj-enforcer-secret-investigated-jan-6-rcna191796 While it would take a special kind of asshole to represent Trump, I am a bit shocked that he would be such a complete and compromised toady. What's going to happen here, I suspect, is that they are going to run out all the decent trial lawyers at DOJ and be left with a bunch of incompetent ideologues. Expect the federal conviction rate to plummet over the next four years.
  12. A noisy resignation is all these people can do. They can't really buck the system from within.
  13. You appear to be correct. https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/insulin-cap-medicare-unaffected-by-trump-order-prescription-drug-costs-2025-01-28/
  14. Oh, there are principles and philosophies involved. Bet. Your. Fur. Dominionism. Integralism. Common good constitutionalism under other names. And so on and so forth.
  15. Well, if you really want to get technical about it, 28 USC 2201 and Rule 57, Fed. R. Civ. P. authorize the courts to entertain disputes such as Creative 303, subject to some discretion. They would not authorize hearing something like a presidential assassination, assuming it didn't actually happen.
  16. You must give the drunk/addict/Magat the dignity to suffer the consequences of their own actions.
  17. Yeah, that kind of trauma is crazy-making, for sure. Daddy issues and related things are not a joke. Or entirely a joke.
  18. To the extent it was a declaratory judgment based on acts that highly likely would happen but did not actually happen, it was a hypothetical, yes. Also, something that would help here is if Congress would go ahead and legislate a bunch of things the President, and other high officials, can be prosecuted for. Fat fucking chance, but still.
  19. It's weird. I went to an "elite" public high school. The course offerings today are much broader than they were in my day, going deep into AP, whereas we had Calculus, Chemistry, Biology and English (and added physics on my way out). Of course, AP has many more course offerings than it did back then, too. Nonetheless, my friends who now live in the district say the quality of education has deteriorated from our day. Seems mostly to do with teachers and their tenure. They're not as good as they used to be and don't have the years of experience they had back then.
  20. Also, irrelevant to any congressional proceeding and prima-facie defamatory. But made in a congressional speech, so immunized under Speech and Debate.
  21. Well, I see it somewhat differently. The Commander-in-Chief power is not an exclusive power, it's shared with Congress in the war powers, including issuing letters of reprisal and marque. Thus, it would be only presumptively immune, if that. Sorry Obama. But your evidence point stands and it is the most objectionable and objectively wrong part of the decision.
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