Twice in separate sessions of the General Assembly, which means there’s an election in between the two passage votes

Is ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ a biopic or no?

Yeah I know a few of these ppl. They think voting for gerrymandering is hypocritical, and they fail to see, or simply reject, the necessity of escalating retaliatory partisan gerrymandering if the goal is to ultimately end the practice

The indictment says they were never incorporated or had any employees but it looks further below they were registered sole propietorships so they of course wouldn’t be incorporated

Idk, hard to tell but no way I’m giving any benefit of the doubt to Trump DoJ

It’s way outside my legal ken so I can’t really say anything intelligent about that

18 U.S. Code § 3293 - Financial institution offenses

Some of the indicted conduct is from 2016

Note the statute of limitations for certain federal financial crimes like 18 USC §1014 is an extended SoL of ten years
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It’s a theory that would basically render suspect any type of confidential informant where the informant is given a material benefit for cooperating

Guys they’re charging SPLC with wire fraud on the theory that it was a knowing material falsehood which induced donors to donate for SPLC to say they were “dismantling” hate groups while also paying informants in said groups, which DoJ is saying SPLC thereby funneled money to said groups

the flu vaccine was literally invented by the US Department of War during WW2

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yup and other than the legacy that William Clark named a bunch of his descendants after Lewis, neither of them cast a long cultural shadow until many years later

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Cover of the June 3, 1985 issue of US News & World Report, featuring a cover headline "THE AMERICAN MALE, 'New and Improved...' with a photo of a smiling white man tightly hugging his little boy. Subheadlines include "Beyond Macho: The Search for Self"; "The Future of Fatherhood"; and "WOMEN: The View From the Majority" (Also other headlines includes "THE ECONOMY: The Fed Moves, Alan Greenspan Predicts")

like, 'Kramer v. Kramer' was 1979

this US News & World Report issue was 1985

like much of US far-right ideology, this reaction to healthy masculinity has been around for like 60+ years but only seems to have picked up steam since 2017, finding online niches and MAGA in which to fester

it's hard to make an exciting movie about "guys, please poop on the downhill side of your camp" being central to American Independence, but it's true!

Gee, I wonder what it was about recent history that led the military in 1942 to be concerned about the risk of flu transmission

the flu vaccine was literally invented by the US Department of War during WW2

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sarah isgur and brett kavanaugh mugging for the camera together

Brett Kavanaugh officiated Sarah Isgur's wedding and is helping her promote her book, which is all about how good and noble the Supreme Court is. There is no reason to take seriously anything this person says about her very powerful, life-tenured friends. Seriously, have some respect for yourself.

yup, they're convinced Operation Linebacker was squandered and we should have just stayed the course to heavy bombing (which also feeds into Trump's heavy emphasis of punitive bombing)

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when Donald Trump says "MAGA" refers to the 1890s, believe him

Imagine a Dem proposing to "break up" a red state by fiat, I'm sure the Right would take that with grace and good humor

(Sorry Florida, the panhandle is Alabama now, thank you for your attention to this matter)

”Working backward from Gru, one sees the petits Minions not as agents in search of lawful evil, but lost children who find meaning through participation in a caper with potential to shock. Their attachment is not evil, it is fun—Barnum, Crowley, even Dalí.“

[going to the airport three hours early so I can check my bag and sit down for a slice of pineapple pizza]

Reporting leaks is not an act undertaken in a capacity as a lawyer, it’s just reporting activity that any similarly-situated reporter could do

Professional discipline for acts outside legal practice are generally Rule 8.4(c), requiring an element of moral turpitude

Le Gouvernement des juges et la lutte contre la législation sociale aux États-Unis. By EDOUARD LAMBERT, Paris, Marcel Giard and Cie., 1921.—276 pp. This is "un livre de circonstance", of which the " circonstance" was this. The French, as everyone knows, have had a Bill of Rights since 1790, more detailed and express than our own Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. However, the French courts by express statute have no power to declare any act of the legislature to be in conflict with their constitution. Dismayed at the encroachment of collectivist ideas, conservative jurists are trying to introduce a change which shall conform the French practice to our own. Thereafter French courts must say whether an eight-hour day or a limitation on rentals falls within the contemplation of those phrases which were struck off in the great days of the Revolution. M. Lambert is alarmed by this prospect; he has burrowed into the vaunted workings of this American system and what he brings back does not encourage him. He would put Frenchmen on their guard, Frenchmen, the inheritors of the Gallic spirit, familiar with the cool breath of reason which blows away all Germanic wraiths and bogeys, indefinite, ob-scure, intangible. In a federation some final tribunal is indeed necessary between the union and its members. But American judges for the last forty years have not confined themselves to any such function; to a candid Frenchman they do not commend themselves as loyal adherents of the Democratic Idea, the Sovereignty of a People expressing itself by Representatives. They have battered their way to supremacy with their double axes; one edge is the control over legislation by its unconstitutionality, the other is such free interpretation of statutes as suits their purposes. They scorn civilized processes of dialectic, and if they be tolerable at all amid their own Scythian steppes, they would be impious on that sacred soil, dedicated to liberty and the Life of Reason. This may be

“This Frenchy thinks in US conservative judges essentially run the country by exploiting powers of judicial review, and tbh the guy has a point. But let me defend the English legal tradition. But also, if judges are ever a subset of ppl out of step with public opinion we may have a big problem”

Political Science Quarterly Vols. 4-38, 40-41 include Record of political events, Oct. 1, 1888-Dec. 31, 1925 (issued as a separately paged supplement to no. 3 of v. 31- 38 and to no. 1 of v. 40)

In 1922, Learned Hand reviewed a book in Political Science Quarterly written by a French social theorist on the topic of American Lochnerism (not yet recognized by that term), and Judge Hand’s take is pretty interesting

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That show went so hard there’s a whole drug trafficking episode

Simpsons meme from one of the Halloween specials, featuring a zombie of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and a voiceover identifying the Kaiser as “the most evil German of all time”

Short 🧵 on the background of Sripetch v. SEC, the case up for oral argument at SCOTUS this morning 👇

The question isn't whether the SEC has disgorgement power per se, it's the proof burden required to exercise that power

Petitioner win would make disgorgement settlements much harder to effectuate

These facts in the grant-vacate-remand case Smith are comparable to facts that the Court lays out in Zorn as "if this happens, it might be a clearly established unconstitutional excessive force"!

on remand, the 9th Circuit should just re-affirm denial of QI
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Pushing a double-wide twin stroller, which is exactly the width of an ADA-compliant doorway, instantly makes me realize how difficult the built environment still is for people with disabilities

But in many cases the published decisions are a smokescreen!

If you really care about important politically fraught & constitutional rights deliberations, those all happen in secret, and can have more plenary & permanent impact than anything POTUS or Congress can do