Can you blame her for not understanding how "cities" work? I mean, you have to get to a pretty detailed map before Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, even shows up.
Lawyer. I love history. Twain was right: History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes. The greatest sin of Trumpism is allowing the advancement of otherwise unqualified people by rewarding idiocy and loyalty to Trump (but I repeat myself).
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Can you blame her for not understanding how "cities" work? I mean, you have to get to a pretty detailed map before Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, even shows up.
That's a lot like the guy who murdered his parents and asks for leniency because he's an orphan. I only thought that was a joke told at cocktail parties, not that real life Cabinet officials would employ that same logic in federal court.
Is Kirk advocating for Trump’s approach to marriage(s)? That would be brave. It would take some sort of out-of-the-box thinker to identify Trump’s track record as one that should be emulated.
By "Louisiana," you of course mean the Pelican State's current political leadership. But those wannabe Confederate hacks have never supported the State's black voters, so I'm not sure "abandoned" is the right word.
You gotta admit Franken has an ability to frame a complicated debate in a concise, memorable way.
Someone should set up a GoFundMe to buy those grand jurors a good lunch ... maybe a roomful of hoagies with all the best fixins.
The sole purpose of the “for cause” requirement was to take discretion away from the President. If the Supremes favor blindly deferring to the President’s judgment about “cause,” that would render the statute irrelevant, which courts aren’t supposed to do (unless they’re totally corrupt).
Ask Trump how this EO helps secure the release of the Epstein files. Or did he think we forgot about that?
I hope Sarcone sees this and starts packing his bags, too. Loser.
couldn't read your article because of the paywall, but I can guess what he says
Roberts views himself as some sort of master diplomat, and he's the kind of guy who might think about giving Trump a little in the hopes of preventing something bigger later. Even then, he's been staunchly pro-GOP executive ever since Reagan. But Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch are just evil.
That's too generous. They are using procedural tactics to give Trump exactly what he wants and to avoid having to defend themselves through a written explanation which would expose them for the sorry ideologues that they are.
Judge Biery and his clerks had fun with that one. I'd be surprised if any of the Texas Republicans who pushed this bill have read more than two or three of the sources he cited (and they won't read them now, either).
Mortgage "fraud" is quickly becoming the Trumpian equivalent to Russians falling out of windows.
But what about all those (retired) judges who are publicly supportive of Bove.* Is there even one?
By "pointing fingers," he means "accountability."
The point you obviously missed is that Wong Kim Ark shows that your "argument" about the 14th Amendment not applying to children of Chinese immigrants is ahistorical and would get you laughed out of court.
Yeah. I'm sure a lot of people are going to believe a 21st century hack who is clueless about history and not very good about diagramming sentences instead of listening to the 19th century justices who were all alive when the 14th Amendment was adopted.
This is just another manifestation of the leopards-eating-faces theme. GOPers like the Paxtons have been running around for years as if the rules don't apply to them. Now, poor Angela is finding out that monogamy is also one of those rules. Don't feel sorry for her. Horrible person.
While Wong Kim Ark's parents could not become citizens by virtue of the Chinese Exclusion Act, that Act did not apply to Wong Kim Ark because he was born in San Francisco. Learn some facts.
... um ... you realize that the seminal case upholding birthright citizenship involved a Chinese immigrant, don't you?
Right. If you're born to an ambassador or foreign minister or one of their diplomatic agents, you're not a US citizen even though you're born in the US. Not that hard. If you really cared, you'd even go back to Blackstone who made the same point about birthright citizenship 100 years before.
Your interpretation of "or" is moronic. The "or" you've referenced (as opposed to the "or" Anton inserted in a separate location) is only used to define which families are excluded from the category of "citizens," viz. all families of either "ambassadors" OR "foreign ministers."
What for? Not catering to her every wish? That’s not a recognized cause of action.
I guarantee 100% that they wash their hands. Know why? Because the hospital has (properly) deemed that precaution to be appropriate. The question is: do hospitals get to make those judgments for themselves or do individual patients get to dictate the details of the hospital’s safety arrangements?
That’s exactly what they agreed to do. Patient wanted even more.
They agreed to accommodate the masking request, but objected to allowing individual patients dictate the details of hospital’s safety standards. Sounds reasonable to me. What if an individual patient demanded that everyone wear scuba gear?
Oh, look. An article from the NYT today (subscription) discussing promising research relating to a cure for Type-1 diabetes arising out of Harvard-funded research. You'd think our society would want to promote things like that. Even Republicans. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...
We need more judges like Jackson. The republican judges' willingness to bend rules to achieve preferred outcomes is vomit-inducing.
I wonder how many of the CA5 flunkies want to stand up and push for a different result? Many, like Ho and Wilson, will do anything to try to capture Trump's attention in order to push for a promotion. But they also have to realize that Trump, personally, doesn't care much about the 10 commandments.
pretty close to the left-most panel that they could have drawn from the Fifth Circuit
Schools don't like to pay legal bills, so the schools won't disobey the Court order unless and until the Court order is stayed. Might happen, but I don't think that Louisiana has the votes -- even in the Fifth Circuit -- to get this decision overturned by the en banc Court.
Panelists were one Biden appointee, one Clinton, and one GW Bush. Haynes, the Bush appointee, is a mainstream Bush-era conservative republican. This panel contains no Trump whack-jobs who would have gladly invented new legal principles to achieve their preferred outcome. Odds on en banc review?
This is why repubs like Cruz try to appear only on right wing networks like Fox. They need to be able to pontificate without receiving any pushback. Tucker upended the apple cart by actually declining to swallow Cruz’s BS. From that point, it wasn’t hard to make Cruz look like a blubbering fool.
"Did you smell that?" "Someone said he ordered extra tacos at dinner." *eyeroll*
Why can't Axios name names? "ABC" is not a decision-maker. It is a corporate entity that is operated by individuals with names. Which individuals made this decision on behalf of "ABC"? They should be identified by name (and then promptly pilloried and subsequently shunned as an embarrassment).
There’s no evidence that any of these GOP frauds have a soul or any desire to resist the slide to fascism. I have no trouble believing that some d-bag is paying him a boatload of $$$ to buy some favorable outcomes from Washington’s kleptocracy.
... and the fact that he was pulled over by Nashville police while on a cross-country trip with a group of (alleged) undocumenteds. And the car he was driving was actually owned by the prison snitch who, incidentally, was in jail for running a Baltimore-based taxi service for undocumenteds.
Palantir's just playing wordgames. They don't really dispute that they are gathering massive data to surveil Americans. They just dispute whether that's "unlawful." Of course, the NYT never expressly said it was unlawful. It only pointed out that Palantir's actions are being challenged in court.
Nice. Not least because of Trump’s small hands, huge waistline, and poorly-fitting accoutrements. All on point.
But what counts in the underlying lawsuit is Elon’s status at the time DOGE’s slashing decisions were made, not his status today.
You’re telling me that Republican justices are completely hypocritical, judging Trump by completely different standards than his predecessors? It’s shameful but not even a little bit shocking.
Arrest Redstone. She's just another rich nepo baby who has never had to face consequences for anything in her long life.
This is what (some) people do when you’re in power and your ideas are losing in the marketplace of ideas.
Fox is just doing complete reporting by trying to get someone on who may have seen how well George was received by St Pete. Normal channels wouldn’t have made the effort.
Don't be one-dimensional. Like any good effort, the current fight requires multiple lines of attack. I'm happy to agree that some efforts produce better returns, but you ignore other avenues at your peril (including the peril that you become known as the party of 3-4 word slogans).
oh look. Another unqualified Trump judge allows Trump to redefine words in order to abuse a statute.
First worm has learned how to send signals to the medulla oblongata. “Find … me … a … friend.”
“You can’t beat free” says the guy who seems confused that that is how bribes work.
Your analysis of the legality of the bribe is lazy.
If Trump wants to shoot down the "bribery" accusations, he could simply accept the jet, but then leave it for his successor, keeping it mothballed in the meantime. (Unsurprisingly, that's the opposite of his current plans: accept and use it for himself now, then take it with him when he leaves.)
What kind of pussies are leading the armed forces? I was led to believe that they were made of sterner stuff.
How brave. Meh.
can you tariff the Catholic lectionaries?
Apparently, Dick doesn’t realize the hypocrisy of whining about how art should be “apolitical” just after he scrubbed all left-leaning performances from the Kennedy Center. /2
I saw that Dick Grenell is getting all bent out of shape (Peyronie's disease?) about Les Mis cast members boycotting the Kennedy Center performance when thin-skinned Donnie will be in attendance. /1
are we calling it "V'Ger"?
You’re mistaken if you think what he means by “deals” today is the same as what he meant back when he was talking about “90 deals” (or, for that matter, what he might mean next week). He’s just a blowhard. Don’t try to read anything coherent into any of his ramblings.
It’s embarrassing how Bondi and the other bootlickers have to come out and defend the indefensible just to keep Small Hands happy. Maybe I’m giving her too much credit. She could be too dumb to recognize how pathetic she is.
McMahon’s letter seems like it was written by a drunk high schooler. Kind of ironic that she’s trying to use that voice to articulate criticisms of Harvard.
I bet he’s wondering whether he can send the army in. Or maybe just the Air Force, since they’re already local.
She filed a federal habeas petition challenging the state court’s denial of bail while she appeals her conviction. Ultimately, she’ll make a federal first amendment claim that her conviction was political. Those are batshit pitiful arguments, but enough to at least get a hearing in federal court.
Thankfully, it’s a state law conviction, and Trump is powerless to get her off the hook.
That means they shouldn’t be able to tariff the films, themselves, but Trump’s people will be looking for ways to achieve those same ends through other means. A smart lawyer could find a way. Trump’s lawyers? Maybe not.
It looks like Fast & Furious 20 will be coming out sooner than expected.
This is not Trump suggesting his support for Vance or Rubio to replace him. This is Trump's gambit to make sure Vance and Rubio continue to toe the line, offering lip service support for Trump's idiocies and doing whatever else they have to do to stay in Trump's alleged good graces.
I never really saw Taibbi as the standard-bearer for creative thought or perceptive judgment. "Do what Elon pays me to do" is more like it.
Fraud. Waste. Abuse.
I, for one, lead off all my briefs, “Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast ….” It seems to capture everyone’s attention.
It would be equivalent to the slaves in Django heaping praise on Calvin Candie.
That’s one of life’s greatest lessons: never taking responsibility for your mistakes is the truest sign of great leadership. What could go wrong?
He apparently believes that Abrego Garcia really has “MS 13” tattooed on his knuckles, so that’s one more piece of evidence that he really is that dumb.
I'm shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that this honest, transparent administration would not want retailers to openly identify the inflationary impact of Trump's #tariffs. www.axios.com/2025/04/29/t...
How about just recognizing that different words work for different people? Oligarchy accurately describes the situation, but if that word doesn’t resonate with some people, start using different words, emphasizing tangible examples. But doing that doesn’t mean we have to abandon “oligarchy,” too
Bullshit. Just because you can find isolated examples here and there (out of 70 million Democrats) does not mean that those views are somehow driving the party.
By your logic, Britain’s Labour Party should have continued following the Jeremy Corbyn/Tony Benn path and remained a powerless minority party. Brilliant logic.
wait until you see who they elected President
NYT is often namby-pamby-ish, but that's not what's going on here. The article doesn't take any position towards the left-condescension or otherwise. Instead, it correctly points out that Harvard's leaders have looked for a deal, prompted by right-wing, billionaire donors. Those are just facts.
“Trump suggested negotiations with Zelenskyy have been ‘harder’ than dealings with Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Maybe NBC could have found the courage to point out that this is because Trump gave Putin absolutely everything he wanted.
This is the GOP revealing what they have always been hoping for, with two years in total control of the federal government before they have to spin some tales for the voters.
He was protecting that seat. Nobody was going to threaten that seat and get seat with it. And the carpet in that area, too.
I like “8. Any informal policies, procedures, or unofficial understandings hostile to Christian views.” Someone could fill up their inbox with examples of agencies encouraging critical reasoning and evidence-based solutions.
Ron Johnson strikes me as Homer Simpson, but without the humor, sincerity, or occasional words of wisdom.
Ingrassia is what we might charitably call a brain dead blowhard. He rambles for two pages just to complain that “due process” is getting in the way of Trump doing whatever he wants. He suggests that may be problematic but can’t quite articulate any cogent argument why.
Sheep are smarter than Rao.
You don’t have to be a Bibi supporter to have opposed Hamas’s October 7 invasion or to have blamed Gaza’s leaders for Gaza’s condition. That’s like saying, “Trump’s a bad guy, so therefore I’m going to support Tren de Aragua.”
Only because he says the Trumpists have moved the republican party too far to the right. He calls himself an "exiled republican."
There was plenty of hate and bigotry amongst the anti-Israel protestors. You can easily oppose what Trump has done without being a Hamas advocate.
I would deny the Motion simply because it appears to have been drafted by a third grader instead of a licensed lawyer.
That sets up the Trumpies pretty well. When Trump inevitably refused to do the right thing, it'll be easy to say, "We gave you every chance, every benefit of the doubt, and you still insisted on behaving like a tyrant..."
It’s not surprising that the guy who sounds like a Bond-villain nazi doesn’t understand that “loving America” means that you fully support, from the bottom of your heart, things like due process of law.
Starmer should respond: "I want D.C. to get at least as much Senate representation as Wyoming. Wha? You don't like my views on American domestic politics? Then fuck off."
Bondi likes to pretend that she's a lawyer. Maybe she can explain the difference between "evidence" and "hacks making statements about what they think the evidence might be."
They poignantly refused to do his bidding. Country over Trump. That's a big no-no in Trump's pathetic mind.
This is not crazy, per se. He's a mobster, and he's just doing what he thinks a mobster would do. In Trump I, Taylor and Krebs refused to do his bidding, so he threatens them now. The threats are legally crap, but he just wants to intimidate Trump II folks who might be inclined to not bow down.
They didn't rule that Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act. They reserved any ruling on Trump's action. They specifically said that people could challenge Trump's authority (i.e., by arguing that the Act has not been triggered by any war), but that they had to do so through habeas petitions.
Don't you know? Judicial review is there to restrain Democratic presidents.
You can count on Trump's lawyers to play games with the required "notice." But, they'd probably lose Roberts's vote if they did so. The bigger takeaway is that Roberts's "habeas" ruling allows them to transfer folks to Texas/Louisiana to ensure they'll get Trump-friendly courts to hear the cases.
That's not what the Supreme Court said. They have reserved any decision regarding whether Trump had authority under the statute to deport the Venezuelans. At this point, all they said was (1) everyone's entitled to assert challenges, but (2) the challenges have to rely on the "habeas" procedure.
