Inside Todd Blanche’s audition for attorney general | CNN Politics Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche traveled to Florida on Monday where he met with a new prosecutor tapped to handle one of the most important cases to President Donald Trump — the investigation int...

Yes, it’s that. CNN is also going along with the bullshit, framing Trump’s demands as difficult, rather than obviously corrupt.
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But Bluesky is 100% to blame for the total nonsense of not simply *naming* the jurisdiction in the message to the user.

The last formal procedure I have adopted is to include my pronouns in my signature line on all my written opinions, unpublished and published. Assuming the practice reflects an authentic commitment to equity and inclusion, imagine how powerful a statement it could be when Ninth Circuit Court judges do this. And dare I dare to imagine when U.S. Supreme Court justices include their pronouns? Over the last year I’ve had many uncertain experiences with pronouns. Admittedly my footing has not always been steady as I’ve tried to navigate this landscape. So why do this work? As a judge in our federal courts I have a responsibility to find ways to ensure access to our courts. When people are not seen or heard, they have no real access to the courts. When people feel unsafe coming into the courts because of their gender identity, there is no real access. When we deny someone their identity, we have the power to erase them. That is horrifying. But when we can acknowledge gender, a name, and identity, we exercise the power to honor a person’s dignity. When we do this we say, “I see you, I hear you.” That is how we can break the silences between us. U.S. Magistrate Judge Mustafa Kasubhai of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon is based in Eugene. SUMMER 2021

"The last formal procedure I have adopted is to include my pronouns in my signature line on all my written opinions ...
When people feel unsafe coming into the courts because of their gender identity, there is no real access."
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True gourmet is not just irrational, it’s transcendental.

Where did you learn this verb? I can’t find any info on it.

I'm perplexed. If the consideration of the stay motion has been consolidated with the merits, and the administrative stay therefore lasts until the merits decision, then haven't they granted the entirety of the relief requested in the stay motion? ....

Nobody wants to work anymore.

... What's the point in not just saying the stay has been granted, but the appeal has been accelerated? (A course of action the appeals courts sometimes take, and sometimes makes sense to do.)

I'm perplexed. If the consideration of the stay motion has been consolidated with the merits, and the administrative stay therefore lasts until the merits decision, then haven't they granted the entirety of the relief requested in the stay motion? ....

This clip has a little bit of his theory of Pharisees as the OG nattering nabobs of negativity.
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Yeah, I guess you're right. I suppose the old-fashioned solution would be to have the first lady forge his signature on a resignation letter and everybody politely agrees not to question it.

Yes, and I think I agree that it would be okay to charge a horrible-but-insane act as a misdemeanor. But I think a coma would be a case where only XXVth is legit. It would've been unfortunate if a pre-XXVth Pres went comatose and had to be tried and convicted for the misdemeanor of "not waking up".

Impeachment is solely for "crimes and misdemeanors", while XXVth is for being "unable". If you really believe Trump is insane (which I don't), then he is incapable of committing crimes and incompetent to stand trial for past crimes, and thus XXVth would be the only legitimate process for removal.

04/15/2026 Petition for review denied; disbarred The petitions for review are denied. The court orders that John Charles Eastman (Respondent), State Bar Number 193726, is disbarred from the practice of law in California and that Respondent's name is stricken from the roll of attorneys. Respondent must comply with California Rules of Court, rule 9.20, and perform the acts specified in (a) and (c) of that rule within 30 and 40 calendar days, respectively, after the date this order is filed. (Athearn v. State Bar (1982) 32 Cal.3d 38, 45 [the operative date for identification of clients being represented in pending matters and others to be notified is the filing date of this order].) Failure to do so may result in denial of any future application for reinstatement. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 9. 20(d).) Respondent must pay monetary sanctions to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund in the amount of $5,000 in accordance with Business and Professions Code section 6086.13 and rule 5.137 of the Rules of Procedure of the State Bar. Monetary sanctions are enforceable as a money judgment and may be collected by the State Bar through any means permitted by law. Costs are awarded to the State Bar in accordance with Business and Professions Code section 6086.10 and are enforceable both as provided in Business and Professions Code section 6140.7 and as a money judgment, and may be collected by the State Bar through any means permitted by law. Any monetary requirements imposed in this matter shall be considered satisfied or waived when authorized by applicable law or orders of any court.

Here's the full text of the order for John Eastman's disbarment and the enstrickenment of his name from the Charmin Forever Roll.
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Reminder:

04/15/2026 Petition for review denied; disbarred The petitions for review are denied. The court orders that John Charles Eastman (Respondent), State Bar Number 193726, is disbarred from the practice of law in California and that Respondent's name is stricken from the roll of attorneys. Respondent must comply with California Rules of Court, rule 9.20, and perform the acts specified in (a) and (c) of that rule within 30 and 40 calendar days, respectively, after the date this order is filed. (Athearn v. State Bar (1982) 32 Cal.3d 38, 45 [the operative date for identification of clients being represented in pending matters and others to be notified is the filing date of this order].) Failure to do so may result in denial of any future application for reinstatement. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 9. 20(d).) Respondent must pay monetary sanctions to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund in the amount of $5,000 in accordance with Business and Professions Code section 6086.13 and rule 5.137 of the Rules of Procedure of the State Bar. Monetary sanctions are enforceable as a money judgment and may be collected by the State Bar through any means permitted by law. Costs are awarded to the State Bar in accordance with Business and Professions Code section 6086.10 and are enforceable both as provided in Business and Professions Code section 6140.7 and as a money judgment, and may be collected by the State Bar through any means permitted by law. Any monetary requirements imposed in this matter shall be considered satisfied or waived when authorized by applicable law or orders of any court.

Here's the full text of the order for John Eastman's disbarment and the enstrickenment of his name from the Charmin Forever Roll.
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2 In the complaint, motion papers, and evidence, the parties refer to the Department of Defense as the “Department of War” or “DoW.” Compare National Security Act Amendments of 1949, Pub. L. No. 81-216, 63 Stat. 578 (1949), with Exec. Order No. 14347, 90 Fed. R. 43893 (Sep. 5, 2025). This Order adopts the parties’ phrasing for consistency and ease of reference. 4 Case 3:26-cv-01996-RFL Document 134 Filed 03/26/26 Page 5 of 43

Yikes! Do you have a cite for that?
I assumed the reporting on this case used Department of War because that's what the court is calling it (in turn because that's what both parties are calling it (which doesn't really seem like a good enough reason)).
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Engineer's notebook Unspecified 8085 op codes enhance programming by Wofgang Dehnhardt and Villyh M. Sorenson (Electronics, January 1979, p. 144)

p. 145

And then Intel's 8085 was sort of the opposite, with a nicely designed small set of extensions that they never advertised nor even documented, out of some weird desire to just be chill about it and not make the older 8080 feel bad.

It's arguable that the President doesn't even have to anticipate. The officers need to make *two* declarations for the disempowerment to stick (the first is easily undone by President gainsaying it). So, if the president has power again during the "four days", he can just dismiss the officers then.

Section 4 Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmits to the President Pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President Pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmits within four days to the President Pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Let's say:
4/7 VP+principals (officers) say he's nuts
4/9 Trump says am not
4/11 Officers say is too
4/30 Congress hasn't acted yet

25th Am is a little unclear on who is in charge 4/9 to 4/11, but isn't it clear that VP is from 4/7-4/9 and 4/11-4/30?

Those are the numbers needed for permanent removal of the president, but for temporarily completely disempowering him, 25th amendment does have the advantage of requiring much fewer people (VP + majority of dept heads = 9 people, vs. >1/2 House + 2/3 Senate = 285 people).

Ill. This Court Does Not Need to Warn Attorneys to Use Artificial Intelligence Responsibly Finally, I write to comment on the Majority's hesitation to impose monetary sanctions because we have not yet addressed the use of Al in a precedential opinion? We need not explicitly forewarn against improper Al use when it falls within the strictures on legal argument of Pa. R.P.C. 3.3. Moreover, we can take notice of the numerous courts across the country that have already addressed attorneys' obligation to take ownership over their work product. We have seen federal appellate courts admonish attorneys for filing briefs with hallucinated cases.'° We have seen federal district courts-including within this Circuit-discipline attorneys for not checking work provided to them by clients." We have seen state courts sanction lawyers for blindly relying on ° Supra Maj. Op. 12. 10 See Park v. Kim, 91 F.4th 610, 613-15 (2d Cir. 2024); Grant v. City of Long Beach, 96 F.4th 1255, 1257 (9th Cir. 2004). See, e.g., Bevins v. Colgate-Palmolive Co., No. 25-cv-576, 2025 WL 1085695, at *7 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 10, 2025); Bunce v. Visual Tech. Innovations, Inc., No. 23-cv-1740, 2025 WL 662398, at *3-4 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 27, 2025).

generative-Al to conduct caselaw research.!? What's more, such lapses in judgment are no longer confined to the legal community, as publications by national media broadcast these errors to the public. 13 Although Attorney did not ask for leniency on this ground, the Majority appears to adopt the reasoning of an attorney who filed briefing with fake caselaw hallucinated by an Al-program before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In Park v. Kim, the attorney argued that she should not be sanctioned because the court had not yet issued guidance advising lawyers to exercise caution when 12 See, e.g., Ader v. Ader, 87 Misc.3d 1213(A), 2025 WL 2831332, at *3-4 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Oct. 1, 2025); Smith v. Farwell, No. 2282CV01197, 2024 WL 4002576, at *4-5, *7 (Mass. Dist. Ct. Feb. 15, 2024). 13 See, e.g., Larry Neumeister, Lawyers submitted bogus case law created by ChatGPT. A judge fined them $5,000, ASSOCIATED PRESS (June 22, 2023), https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-chatgpt-fake-case-lawyers-d6ae9fa79d0542db9e1455397aef381c [https://perma.cc/8KRK-6VUW]; Benjamin Weiser and Jonah E. Bromwich, Michael Cohen Used Artificial Intelligence in Feeding Lawyer Bogus Cases, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 29, 2023), https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/nyregion/michael- cohen-ai-fake-cases.html [https://perma.cc/ZNY2-B9HA]; Michael Lee, Lawyer in hot water after using Al to present made up information: incompetent', FOX (Feb. 7, 2024), https://www.foxnews.com/us/lawyer-hot-water-after-using- ai-present-made-up-information-incompetent [https://perma.cc/64BZ-9U7D]

utilizing artificial intelligence. The Park court correctly rejected that argument, emphasizing that a rule about artificial intelligence use "is not necessary to inform a licensed attorney, who is a member of the bar of this Court, that she must ensure that her submissions to the Court are accurate. "15

Go, and I cannot stress this enough, off. There is NO EXCUSE for an attorney to be doing this shit.

To H. R. Haldeman From: Bill Safire July 18, 1969. IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER: Fate has crdained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice. These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding. They will be mourned by thei r families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown. In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man. In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

-2­ Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts. For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind. PRIOR TO THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT: The President should telephone each of the widows -to-be. AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT, AT THE POINT WHEN NASA ENDS COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE MEN: A clergyman should adopt the same procedure as a burial at sea, commending their souls to "the deepest of the deep, " concluding with the Lord's Prayer.

But if it happened back when the White House had competent people planning for contingencies, we would have got a great speech out of it, followed by a clergyman "commending their souls to the deepest of the deep".
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"so nothing will happen before then"
Nothing, that is, except the illegal construction, which will presumably continue apace, because the District Court's injunction doesn't take effect until April 14th.

[Excerpt from June Brown's "Before the Year Dot" (2013, p. 108)] Biology I'd loved. I'd stay behind when school finished after a double period of biology, my eye glued to a micro-scope. As I've said, I was very good at dissection – one day, a poor rabbit was gassed with carbon monoxide in a large square biscuit tin by Miss George, then ditto a frog. You pinned the frog, spread out on a cork board under water, and he was quite delicate and finicky to deal with. Nowadays, people would scream in horror at the thought, but we were not sentimental about field animals. I'll be thought to be very hard, which I'm not, but that was the practical side of our work, tying in with the information and diagrams in our textbooks. If you conduct a post mortem you deal with people's bodies, which I wouldn't care for so much.

It was a bit of a stretch from "a poor rabbit was gassed" by the teacher, to "nothing Brown liked better than" gassing rabbits.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES, Plaintiff, V. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) ) Civil Case No. 25-4316 (RJL) ) ) ) ) ) ___ ___ _ _ __ ) ,_,_ MEMORANDUM OPINION March 11_, 2026 [Dkt. #51] The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner! President Trump ("the President") claims that Congress has given him authority in existing statutes to construct his East Wing ballroom project and to do it with private funds. The plaintiff, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States ("National Trust"), claims the President has no such authority under existing statutes and that a preliminary injunction is necessary to avoid irreparable harm. I have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have. As such, I must therefore GRANT the National Trust's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, and the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion. 1 Case 1:25-cv-04316-RJL Document 60 Filed 03/31/26 Page 1 of 35

The commission's vote is not "the final procedural obstacle", in that the court ruled that the procedure that's needed is congressional authorization.
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Q4-2024 Q1-2025 Q2-2025 Q3-2025 Q4-2025 YoY Model 3/Y production 436,718 345,454 396,835 435,826 422,652 -3% Other models production 22,727 17,161 13,409 11,624 11,706 -48% Total production 459,445 362,615 410,244 447,450 434,358 -5% Model 3/Y deliveries 471,930 323,800 373,728 481,166 406,585 -14% Other models deliveries 23,640 12,881 10,394 15,933 11,642 -51% Total deliveries 495,570 336,681 384,122 497,099 418,227 -16% of which subject to operating lease accounting 26,962 13,721 6,670 10,230 10,996 -59%

Q4-2022 Q1-2023 Q2-2023 Q3-2023 Q4-2023 YoY Model 3/Y production 419,088 421,371 460,211 416,800 476,777 14% Other models production 20,613 19,437 19,489 13,688 18,212 -12% Total production 439,701 440,808 479,700 430,488 494,989 13% Model 3/Y deliveries 388,131 412,180 446,915 419,074 461,538 19% Other models deliveries 17,147 10,695 19,225 15,985 22,969 34% Total deliveries 405,278 422,875 466,140 435,059 484,507 20% of which subject to operating lease accounting 15,184 22,357 21,883 17,423 10,563 -30%

It'd be not only "slightly" higher. I think you have the wrong number for 25Q1 deliveries.
If this year is 366k, that would be +8.6% YoY, not +2.8%. And Troy's 375k would be +11.4% (but still -8.9% from three years ago).
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Kavanaugh’s investiture.
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They did not listen, they did not know how,
(murderosity intensifies) PERHAPS THEY’LL LISTEN NOW.