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ArbitraryValue

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  • Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back

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  • There are certain things that a court can't (Constitutionally) order you to do, like letting soldiers live in your house during peacetime. That's true even if you're alone in a huge mansion and housing those soldiers would be trivially easy for you.

  • Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back

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  • I don't think a court could reasonably order the government to threaten another country like that - a judge doesn't get to make such major foreign-policy decisions. My very basic understanding is that the government is saying that, according to this principle, a court can't order it to make any foreign policy decisions. (Otherwise who gets to decide what foreign-policy decisions is major?)

    The government is clearly in the wrong here morally, and letting them do this would seem to authorize a lot of abhorrent behavior. (Can the government have anything they want done to you without recourse as long as they take you to a foreign country and pay that country's agents to do it?) Still, as a matter of legal principle this isn't entirely straightforward.

  • Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back

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  • That's not exactly ICE's argument. Their argument, as I understand it, is that the judge doesn't have the authority to order the feds to do that.

    Consider a similar but more sympathetic example. The government accidentally releases information which reveals the identity of an American agent working in a foreign country, and that agent is arrested. The agent's family sues the government, arguing that the judge should order the government to carry out a prisoner exchange. The government says that revealing the agent's identity was a mistake, but now undoing that mistake would require negotiations with a foreign country and such negotiations are not something that a court can order the government to carry out. The government's argument in such a case would seem reasonable to me.

  • Trump admin accidentally sent man to Salvadorian prison and can’t get him back

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  • My understanding is that Trump's guys are arguing that the court has no authority to order them to return this guy, not that he can't be returned. In other words, now that he's out of the country, his situation is foreign policy rather than American legal proceedings.

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  • A great summary of what's going on from a lawyer's point of view. I hope the judges see it his way too, rather than accepting "because we said so" from the executive.

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  • Even you perceive Schumer as the person who decided whether or not to go ahead with the shutdown, or else you wouldn't blame him for not shutting down the government.

  • I may need to upsize from my TKL

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  • Oh my God.

  • I may need to upsize from my TKL

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  • You have left out galaxy brain giant IBM model M. (Not more keys, but thicc keys.)

    It's not just the size. It's also the way the sound of typing will bother everyone else in the room.

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  • Neither side wants to be responsible for a shutdown.

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  • I like the inclusion of the graduate student's stubble. Very realistic. The frequency with which I shaved was inversely proportional to the rate of progress on my research.

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  • Mr. Trump and the mostly men he has appointed to office often behave as if rules did not apply to them. That has been part of his appeal.

    They see it like a war. Even when your soldiers do something wrong, you're not going to hope that the Germans win the battle because of it. You will, however, take every advantage if they make the same mistake.

    the Trump team’s story is that no wrongdoing occurred

    The point of the lies isn't to convince anyone - supporters know or at least suspect that their leader is lying and they approve. The point is to cripple rules-based opposition, which constantly has to disprove the official story before it can do anything.

    How do you disprove a story when your opponents are themselves lying about believing it? They already know it's not true. Meanwhile, that story changes faster than you can respond. So what if this was illegal? It won't even be in the news in a week, forgotten because of some new outrage.

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  • I used to live in an apartment they sometimes showed up in and if I went to take a shower and one of them was in the tub, I would leave. The bathroom was occupied.

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  • I'm not sure he actually did the wrong thing there - he has no fear of being primaried for opposing Trump (but rather the opposite) and a lot more political experience than most of his critics. Maybe it really was the smaller loss in a lose/lose situation.

    With that said, the part where he opposed it before supporting it was weird. With things the way they are, I can't even rule out that he was threatened somehow.

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  • A thorough summary of what's going on. It's up to the judiciary now. Will the Republican-appointed judges in the Supreme Court oppose him, either out of patriotism or pride? I'm quite concerned, because I didn't expect the Republicans in Congress to give up that institution's authority but they have done so. I don't know if Congress will have any power left by the time the Democrats have a chance to gain the majority there in the midterms.

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  • What are your thoughts on ketamine as a depression treatment? Several people have suggested it but they don't have firsthand experience and I have a "don't do drugs" inclination myself so I'm skeptical.

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  • I'm spiteful enough that I would have returned my new laptop (despite needing it for a trip in a couple of days) if I hadn't been able to bypass the account requirement by disabling the wifi.

    What still pissed me off is that it would restart itself after downloading updates if it was left idle, and there was no straightforward option to turn that off. (I think I managed to break that "feature" but who knows how long that will work.) Turning my computer off is never acceptable unless I initiate it. It's about as obviously wrong as walking into my house uninvited or borrowing my stuff without asking me.

  • Another Columbia University president resigns amid scrutiny over campus activism

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  • Is this a "forced out by Trump" resignation, a "forced out by the university" resignation, or a "protest against capitulation" resignation?

  • "I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?

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  • I'm someone who actually calls myself socially liberal but fiscally conservative, and that's because my primary concern (in the terms of moral foundations theory) is the liberty/oppression axis. In other words, I think leaving people alone is a good thing, and while it's not the only good thing and it needs to be balanced against other concerns, we should still be doing it more than we are now.

    Two caveats:

    1. I'm socially liberal because a free society requires tolerating even the people you hate. This is hard, and even many people who consider themselves tolerant because they simply don't hate a particular group aren't (and often don't want to be) tolerant in this sense.
    2. I'm economically conservative because the freedom to act without government interference even in an economic context has great inherent worth (but I'll repeat here that I don't value it to the exclusion of all else) but also because the free market usually does a better job than central planning at making everyone prosperous. I don't care much about wealth inequality - a world in which I have two dollars and you have two million dollars is a better place than a world in which we both have just one dollar.

    Edit: in practice I always end up voting for moderate Democrats at the national level, both because I think social issues are generally more important than economic issues and because neither party usually does what I would want regarding economic issues. However, I have more options at the state and local level.

  • Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’

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  • Criticism from Democrats is not going to have any effect.