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  1. An on-point article at just security. https://www.justsecurity.org/110614/fox-problem-deporting-international-students/ Also notes that a lot of this may be driven by AI "analysis" of visa-holder's social media and online presence. Seems to be working with the accuracy that we rightly attribute to AI. But, again, we should note that all due process is not created equal. Criminal defendants get the most due process, followed closely by those being deprived of a fundamental right. In ordinary civil proceedings not protecting a fundamental right (a job, a driver's license, a visa most likely), there are far fewer due process protections. This is not a new, fascistic development, but has been a feature (or bug) of American law for a long time, through administrations and philosophies progressive and reactionary.
  2. All valid questions. One thing, though, I'm not sure how much due process visa holders are really entitled to. But yeah, they seem to be using the same playbook for all of them.
  3. "White Americans have been suppressed for generations. We have been told to sit at the back of the bus...We are standing against Black violence against white Americans." — Jake Lang, PWA organizer and J6er. Do not kid yourselves, this kind of baldfaced lie is exactly what underlies "DEI, CRT, woke" bullshit and who and what it appeals to. This is not a reasonable debate over the merits of affirmative action (which actually may have been a thing once upon a time in America). Why can it not be couched this way? Because affirmative action is now legally dead in most respects.
  4. I think what you're driving at is that a habeas corpus petition, which we have been informed is the exclusive remedy for challenging deportation under the AEA, and maybe many other bases for deportation, is properly venued where the petitioner/detainee is detained. The administration has been playing whack-a-mole here by moving detainees around so that the venue of their habeas petition is incorrect. And also to venue the habeas petitions in friendly courts in the Fifth Circuit. Venue, though, unlike jurisdiction, doesn't affect a court's power to rule, but incorrect venue may cause reversal of the court's final order or conviction because it was ultimately the wrong place for proceedings. Thus a court in its discretion can transfer to a proper venue. So, Sessions, rather than transfer venue from Vermont to Louisiana, ordered her returned to Vermont, where she was originally detained.
  5. Well, he's LDS and I imagine based Mike Lee had something to say about it.
  6. Somewhere I saw that Boasberg's moves toward criminal contempt in the JGG case had been slapped down by the DC Circuit. Anyone have any further info?
  7. That article is, uh, remarkable. It pretends there is a standard of competence, defends the indefensible, and yet still calls out Hegseth as incompetent.
  8. Good to see. I sensed, without knowing for sure, that the integralist types didn't represent the global RCC.
  9. Texas Monthly calls him a lay preacher. First I have heard of it because he lacks any formal theological or religiosity degree, even from quack theological or divinity schools. Even an ordination from one of his congregations.
  10. Laaast night. I got loaded. On a bottle of wine. On a bottle of wine.
  11. And, if you are inspired by liturgy, often the small services have it, but in a more intimate setting, with people you get to know or already know and often a pastor/minister with whom you have a relationship, or build one.
  12. So the poster can get monetizable clicks. Similar messages when it's adult in nature.
  13. Does your church have a smaller service? One of the past ministers of my church declared the Easter Service a day for ladies to show off their pretty hats and advised the spiritually devout to stay at home. Easter and Christmas Eve/Day services are somewhat outliers, but the "big" service, especially if it has tinges of "rock Jesus," is not necessarily for people who are spiritually engaged, it's an effort to engage people that they might otherwise become spiritually engaged. And often, it's not much more than a social spectacle. It sounds like you are engaged and are looking for something more meaningful. Smaller services offer just that many times.
  14. This is what happens when you put very unserious people in very serious jobs.
  15. It does. A lot of folks, me included to a degree, have to remind them/ourselves that food is sustenance. It can be pleasurable, but that's not the main intention or necessity. Making that an intrinsic part of your eating habits can make a big difference as to food choices and portion control.
  16. I stopped drinking and stopped being a drunk. Didn't lose much weight. I was 30 though.
  17. When your income is social security and any income beyond that is insufficient to render the SSI taxable, you do not have to either pay tax or file a return over 65.
  18. PA really is kind of a test case or bellwether of the dying of the traditional American economy. Between the 'burgh in the west and Philly in the east, you had a lot of coal-mining and iron-steel and medium to heavy, but not very technical (here I mean a lot of value-add like cars, not software, things like knives, tools, tool and die, plastic injection molding) manufacturing. In other words, a lot of the shit that got offshored and has probably in some cases been replaced by importers of the same or similar products.
  19. Their branching out into financial services seems to correlate, if not have caused, their downfall.
  20. So, it looks like we're going to see exactly what exerting (or not exerting) soft power around the world looks like. He's ceding Africa to China and Russia.
  21. Yeah, I keep thinking that at some point, the supremes are going to have to uphold their own power, and that of the lower federal courts, no matter how badly they want to support or enable Trump or the executive more broadly. To date, they have mostly endorsed the accretion of executive power at the expense of Congress, but now they're having to confront it at the expense of their own power.
  22. Also love weak and ineffective judges that are stopping him at every turn, except the compromised and feckless political hacks at the Supreme Court.
  23. He really is fucking Damien.
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