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  1. Yep, that place has 124 families and despite being depicted as solidly middle class, the demos spell Papa Whisky Tango. 324 people, 50k median income, 98% white.
  2. Well reputational risk is not really an ethical question is it? And no you don't have a right to counsel in a civil case, a legal obligation doesn't exist at all and any sense of obligation to provide a defense isn't really there other than pro bono work for the indigent. It becomes mostly a matter of money versus reputational risk versus any publicity is good publicity. That starts to look like a bit more like an ethical question, but again a personal rather than professional one. You cited this apparently in support of the ethical crisis yet acknowledge that it isn't an ethical question. You're kind of all over the place here. The only unpunished court fraudster I am aware of here really is Sidney Powell and she was subjected to discipline although failed discipline for reasons mostly unrelated to the gravity of her offense. It would have been really nice and changed the outcome had the trial court found it had been defrauded or otherwise subjected to her unethical conduct. And that usually requires the opponent to move for sanctions, which Elias types seem mostly reluctant to seek.
  3. Why would there be a "white person's slot" but for systematic exclusion of non-whites from the spots in question? For the longest time, there was nothing but "white person's slots."
  4. Not a bad question. First off, I think it depends on how/who in government takes equity. If it's a sovereign wealth fund, that seems more transparent than opaque parts of Commerce or Treasury. And, ownership even without voting rights still implicates some ability to a) influence management unduly (as in big sell off to tank the stock price) and b) conflicts of interest between the administration and corporate governance, e.g. "winners and losers." And those aren't really present in the case of grants, maybe loans. Again, a sovereign wealth fund, independently managed might mitigate this. But, it is currently well-nigh impossible to have an independent agency in these United States.
  5. As is the appointment process as a whole.
  6. The election mechanisms are the hardest part. The Senate should be devalued like Lords. Or maybe just unicameral. But the notion underlying Article III is an independent judiciary, which I think, along with other separation of powers/checks and balances, is a good thing. But the respective powers need to be better delineated.
  7. That might be the only legitimate debate left on the topic. Not that conditions were and are deplorable for minorities because of racism, but whether some prospective curative can actually do anything to remedy the horrendous past. But before you debate on the latter, you must acknowledge the former. I mean really, seriously acknowledge slavery and that we kept fucking with them for another century. Not just "ooh, slavery was bad, but."
  8. Maybe it was pervasive unwholesome thinking! And what exactly did Chuck's comments promote?
  9. What's the latest on Loomer? Also missed the Bagram thing. That's rather interdasting in that there's virtually no scenario that that doesn't require American boots on the ground and in harms way. That's going to be interesting in that we all know Trump has no qualms about war and acts of war, but I think there's a pretty hefty segment of Trump voters to whom that is a single-issue.
  10. Are you suggesting, then, that Richards Layton should face discipline for representing Candace Owen? Or are you referring to some sort of personal ethics of the type generally answerable only to a higher power? I wasn't questioning "their" ethics really so much as their judgment. Given that your usual lawyer ethics complaint is tied to discipline and disbarment rates and dressing poorly and not answering phone calls, I'm going to assume that you think they should be disciplined or disbarred for representing Owen.
  11. Well, Kirk was an exceptional manipulator of the machine as were a bunch of others, like Parscale, no longer associated with the regime. You may be right, but I think the machine needs to be aided by an actual human figure to work. See 2020.
  12. It was 3am and I was up to deal with a hangry cat. I think I was gonna edit but fell back asleep. Anyway, he's probably right about the third paragraph. Still, I think our Constitution is structurally pretty sound. There are some huge, obvious problems with the text as written, drafting deficiencies, and Article II is way too vague. I'm kind of mentally re-drafting the thing, redlining the existing text to fix a lot of the problems.
  13. Huh? Right now, I am extremely irritated at the political question/emergency powers thing. This is s
  14. I'm not but ackshually anything. I'm starting to consider what needs to be done post-Trump if there is a post-Trump. One thing, Congressional gridlock and inaction and general chickenshittedness is really coming home to roost. And delegating emergency powers without guardrails and/or having their legislative veto overruled and then sitting there with their collective thumbs up their collective asses needs to fucking stop. Also, you seemed to elide the word "excuse" in my original post on this subject matter.
  15. Lindsey Halligan made her first appearance in federal court in 2022 and has never handled a criminal case on either side of the docket.
  16. People are irrationally afraid of Trump. I suppose because of how he commands his base and the recklessness with which he'll turn the state against his enemies. I don't see anyone else being able to or really even inclined to do similar things.
  17. Alpha Phi hasn't had a chick that skinny evar.
  18. Rhinos will charge your ass.
  19. Goddamn. Lookit you Arch.
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  22. Careful, ol' Jase is on your team.
  23. You know right now the excuse for even some of the lower courts is that when the pres is given unfettered emergency discretion, the courts can't review it? Even when the "emergency" is clearly counterfactual. Although the Fifth Circuit just couldn't bring itself to do it.
  24. thetvapp.to with a plus that you're not giving money to enablers.
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