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Manqueman's avatar

Who’d imagine a pathological piece of shit effective mobster out to impress fascists and his more feeble brained supporters would do anything like killing eleven people in cold blood. (None of the rationale justifies killing instead apprehending and trying.)

That that piece of shit was elected twice is a damning statement about this nation.

Note, too, that my characterization of the godfather POTUS isn’t hyperbole in the least but actually documented ad nauseum.

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Richard House's avatar

Judge Burroughs summarizes a Supreme Court tying itself in legal knots to avoid precedent and common sense unfavorable to its mentor, Donald Trump. A national campaign to drive grifters and insurrectionists Thomas, Alito and Roberts and perjurer Kavanaugh off of the Court is due and would have broad support.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Read the slap back by U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs! You go, girl!

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Michael's avatar

Read it

Loved it.

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Scott Gilbert's avatar

Looking at the picture of that boat, it's OBVIOUS that it's NOT a drug boat. See all of that open space? Drug boats don't waste an INCH of space when it can be filled with profit. It looks more like they blew up a bunch of guys going deep sea fishing.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

District Judge Allison Burroughs reamed the Supremes a new one, with a sharp riposte to J Gorsuch and J I love Beer's criticism of the lower courts and alleged "defying" of Scotus rulings...wonderfully documented opinion citing the utter confusion handed down by the Court in decisions where lower-court judges are expected to divine both content and intent from less than clear exposition of legal reasoning for majority decisions.

Also, there will be ZERO consequences for murder on the high seas by the US Navy, as there was ZERO consequences for all the drone assassinations carried out by Obama. We be Murka, and anything and everything goes, full stop.

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Victoria Brown's avatar

Deployment of large US

naval forces around

South America. Please,

let's not have another

Grenada. It has proven

as a handy, if deadly,

distraction though.

Nice legal, with receipts,

slap at Shadow Docket

rulings.

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noeire's avatar

Angola prison photo: why is everyone white? District Ct clarifying response to scotus: why does it take a woman judge to do this?? Prior targeting of Venezuela/Maduro aside, why are they obsessed with V and Maduro? Is it because they see him as weak, expendable? We thought they favored dictators.

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McLain's avatar

Venezuela has a lot of oil.

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underwriter505's avatar

Sure that was a drug-running vessel. Just like all those men sent to CECOT were MS-13. Just like windmills cause cancer. I could go on - but anyone reading this could probably go on even longer.

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Susan Linehan's avatar

bravo for that footnote!!! There was a certain "up yours" to the 9th Circuit panel from Judge Breyer's trial decision. A lot of folks are quoting the bit about tax dodgers creating an "emergency" under the 9th C suggestion that the test be "ability to execute federal law has been “significantly impeded,

But a much scarier idea is in BREYER'S Footnote, footnote 12: For instance, the Ninth Circuit’s test would likely enable a President to use federal law enforcement agents to stoke tensions and then use any resistance as justification to call forth the National Guard.

Basically ICE does something egregious and if people object by doing "violent" things like standing in front of a van--not hitting it, just standing there like Tiananmen Square--then bingo, National Guard incoming.

I hope the 9th C does the review of Judge Breyer en banc.

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Jodi Devey's avatar

dear kim, when are you comin’?

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Joyce Nowak's avatar

The Hague has dealt with this crime before! It disapproves killing civilians because you think them bad people! Oops?

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Wendy E's avatar

A dangerous line for sure because now Venezuelan fighter jets are flying over US Navy ships as a show of force!

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Michael's avatar

OT: Breaking news. the Left Coast has formed a public health alliance to combat the nonsense and chaos in HHS.

https://apps.oregon.gov/oregon-newsroom/OR/GOV/Posts/Post/oregon-washington-and-california-form-western-health-alliance?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

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