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I’ve got to think the defendants will try that.

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Did the journalists decide or was it the corporate media employing them?

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That’s crazy.

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Will jeopardy attach?

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Mistrial after jeopardy attached?

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No. The records were falsified in 2017. It would be hard to argue that any evidence submitted was part of his official acts as president, though.

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We have the transcript of the ex parte meeting on 6/10 in Judge Glanville’s chambers.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Qphs...
@kathryntewson.bsky.social
@gregdoucette.bsky.social
@szreich.bsky.social

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After being deposed, James II died in exile.

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But the order itself could not be submitted as evidence in the prosecution.

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Time to buy property in Amarillo. There is going to be a lot of new business generated by activity in the Northern District of Texas.

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But do you know what sort of timeframe we can expect.

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George III

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Calvinlaw doesn’t work that way.

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@kathryntewson.bsky.social @nobodyinteresting.bsky.social

So what is the timeline on the recusal motions in the YSL trial?

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So the trade groups that filed suit can fix the SOL issue by adding a defendant that didn’t exist until 2018?

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GRATUITY!! GRATUITY!!! There can be no bribes!

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But doesn’t this decision only affect administrative law claims? Shouldn’t the SOL begin running on the date the agency publishes the rule and not the date the legal entity is incorporated?

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Don’t they usually hire their own?

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Yep! Might want to buy property in Amarillo on spec.

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PERL makes it really easy to write the absolute worst code in the world, though.

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Maybe they will avoid becoming plaintiffs themselves by having their beneficiaries be the plaintiffs instead.

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Why are they out of order?

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4. Congress pays no attention to bill submitted to House Committee until after the election and it has to be resubmitted, go through committee, pass the house, go to Senate, go to president. 5. Back to the same trial court.

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Plus, there is a time factor. 1. Trial court takes 6 months to issue injunction against agency interpretation. 2. Appellate Court denies emergency application for stay and takes a year to decide to uphold trial court. 3. SCOTUS grants cert, rules agency overstepped a year later. …

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And in practice, Kacsmaryk invalidates regulation X in sweeping ruling. Fifth circuit declines to stay/vacate and delays ruling for a year and then issues minor modification. SCOTUS grants cert, hears case 6 months later, reverses and remands 2+ years after the damage is done.

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CMS rules on Medicare reimbursement.

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So you think the localities that were decided decades ago are safe? What about the factors for the localities that CMS sets every year?

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GRATUITIES!!! GRATUITIES!!! There can be no BRIBES!!

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Correct, but they are basically inviting challenges to decisions that relied on Chevron - and decisions going forward even more so.

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So how many new cases are going to be filed in Amarillo to challenge administrative rules? Will someone challenge the CMS decision to create particular geographic localities and setting reimbursement rates differently based on those localities as not authorized by Congress?

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Yeah, nobody was being arrested for student protests using vagrancy laws.

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Yeah, I was searching for words like rich, poor, loaves, bridges, etc. and only getting hits on the dissent.

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Where did he write that? I see it in the dissent, but not the opinion.

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“Asia is my territory!!” Political check.

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Have you seen Tropic Thunder?

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Once the French were satisfied the Americans wouldn’t cave (Saratoga), they entered the war formally and Spain followed shortly.

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There was a big gap between the two, but to a great extent, the latter was a continuation of the former. The French calculus was: 1. 13 colonies switch sides. 2. No land war in Europe. 3. Fewer European allies for Britain. The resulting evaluation gave advantage to France.

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The was some land fighting in the West Indies and India, too, but most of it was Naval action.

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There was action in Spain to try to retake Gibraltar, but it eventually settled down to the Spanish firing the Holy Trinity once per day (3 cannon shots) to satisfy Spanish honor. The rest of the time it was a siege with the Brit Navy periodically resupplying the garrison.

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It was primarily fought between the French (with the Spanish) against the British. There was action all over the globe.

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Seven years war, War of American Independence.

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I don’t know how I can get my jaw off the floor and back where it belongs after reading Gorsuch’s concurrence.

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@wolmanj.bsky.social

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Danny Devito. Gary Busey. Gaten Matarazzo.

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I think that he would consider all such notes to be equally outside the definition of money.

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The Frisco Kid.

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GOOOOOL!!! ⚽️

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Vamos Colombia!!🇨🇴

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Same guy told the venire panel in voir dire that the judge was a witch and she had witch marks on her body under her robes.

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