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  • It's the Truth

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  • One of the progress sliders on the sickbay monitor really did say "health insurance remaining."

  • Trump fires US attorney who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids

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  • It certainly seems to be going that way. If Trump can just choose not to spend money that Congress appropriated... Well, that's a lot more power than even George III had when Thomas Jefferson wrote out that listicle of 28 reasons why he sucked.

  • Trump fires US attorney who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids

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  • This is the fringe legal theory called unitary executive becoming not so fringe at all. In fact it seems to be headed towards firmly mainstream, precedential status.

    Article II, section 1:

    The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

    Everyone used to think this sentence was pretty harmless. It was put in to say there's one President at the top, instead of an executive committee (which was proposed and debates at the convention).

    But to the unitary executive theorists, that one sentence actually means that all of the executive Power must flow through the President, and there can be no executive Power that does not.

    The previous thinking is that this power was only talking about the powers specifically listed in Article II, which is not a lot. (Veto, cabinet nominations, pardons, and a few other things). And that if Congress chose to delegate part of its Article I power to the executive branch by passing a law, it could put whatever limitations, checks, and balances it wanted to.

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  • It's probably fully recorded. Everything in and out.

    That way if there's a mishap it's possible to go back and reconstruct the entire sequence or to replay high fidelity simulations of the network traffic at the equipment to reproduce problems.

  • DOJ says Trump protesters could face RICO charges for yelling at him during dinner

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  • The petit jury nullification is coming. You've got defendants in DC insisting on their speedy trial rights because they want to get themselves on front of a jury right now in the present moment.

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    The OG Antifa

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  • Woody Guthrie is estimated to have written more than 1000 songs, but probably most of them are like this: lyrics on lined notebook paper. Every now and then an artist has the privilege to dig into the archives and pull one out and arrange and record it.

  • Israel formally states it did not kill Charlie Kirk

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  • Charlie Kirk was supposed to be of the maga faction that supported Israel. Why would Bibi want to whack him?

  • With text

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  • How's that reunification of Ireland going?

  • Irish woman with green card faces US deportation over $25 bad cheque

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  • Just to be clear, even a small check fraud is a "crime of moral turpitude" that allows a green card holder to be deported. There is a legal definition of "moral turpitude" that maybe doesn't match up with people's normal intuition.

    Any presidential administration since 2015 could have legally started deportation proceedings against this woman. But only this current administration has actually done so.

  • Backups

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  • The Federal gov in the US has a "road legal" standard for commercial motor vehicles like trucks and buses. The feds also have minimum rules for headlights, brake lights and turn signals on passenger cars.

    Everything else in terms of road legality is a state law in each of the 50 states.

    The reason is the Constitution gives the feds power to regulate interstate commerce (i.e. big commercial vehicles that frequently cross state lines). The feds do not have the general "police power" that states have to pass laws on whatever.

  • Supreme Court rules that immigration raids in LA can continue

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  • This is also only an interim decision that only officially applies to operations in Los Angeles for the duration of that litigation and further appeals (e.g. 1-2 years). There was no opinion or explanation on how this ruling comports with existing 4A and 5A case law.

  • Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

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  • The US has universal jurisdiction to prosecute pirates and to seize their vessels. Seize does not mean "sink."

    As far as I know, they don't have a lot of facts in this case to spin into a "the bad guys escalated a law enforcement boarding operation" scenario.

  • Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

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  • Bush and Obama had the legal cover of the original Congressional AUMF from 2001. That has now finally fully expired.

  • DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files

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  • I think they meant, "purge every Epstein list pedo out from the Democratic party."

  • Newsmax sues Fox News, saying it illegally controls right-wing TV market : NPR

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  • This case has been assigned to everyone's favorite federal judge, Aileen Cannon.

  • Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules | Reuters

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  • For 6 weeks or whatever. Enough time that if the supreme court wants to reverse the lower court, they can.

    It's pretty common for lower courts to do this if they think the decision is controversial. The lengthy time frame is probably related to the recent trend of supreme court reversing lower courts on various illegal Trump policies.

  • Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women

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  • Ah, I have a modest proposal. Let's count 60% of maternal deaths from black women. /s

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  • To condemn NASA a little bit further: NASA engineering also insisted that Sally Ride absolutely had to have a flight makeup kit. They went to the trouble to design one and make sure everything would work in zero-g. It went up and came back down completely unopened.

  • TIL you can buy soft serve beer at the Minnesota State Fair.

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  • Beer is mostly water, and the water freezes before the alcohol does. This fact is used in freeze distillation to make "ice beers" that are stronger than what you get from the initial fermentation.