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Editor of the Journal of Sports Economics, Founding member and past president of North American Associatio of Sports Economists

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The more that rational intelligent well-informed people tell me they don't think Trump's arguments will win, the more dread I feel about how this arrogant conflicted corrupt court will manufacture its desired outcome out of tortured and cherry-picked history and tradition.

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Luigi Guiso is presenting on the economic effects of legal uncertainty at the Georgian Economic Association meetings in Tbilisi. His presentation is focused on Italy but is highly relevant to the US where the Supreme Court is hell-bent on creating uncertainty.

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So can Biden officially order the arrest and detention of the Opus Dei six, Aileen Cannon, and DJT at Gitmo? They surely are a threat to national security.

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More importantly, Courts have no special competence in resolving scientific ambiguities, yet this Supreme Court acts as though they know everything about everything.

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HELD: you can pay someone on tuesday for a hamburger today, but you cannot pay them today for a hamburger on tuesday. as the founders intended.

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Four changes to the itinerary, including detouring through Paris and getting to Madrid about 14 hours after orinally scheduled, assuming no more delays, but at least we got this selfish with the Paris 2024 Olympic mascot.

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The family values crowd standing up for dissolution of families?

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What conceivable relationship does this have to a domestic abuser owning a gun? I get the sense there are monkeys at keyboards banging out nonsense for these "Justices" to drop into their opinions to make them seem scholarly.

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Jackson coming for Thomas' bs decision in Bruen is delightful.

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1/ Who says civ pro can't be funny?

Hunter Biden sued Garrett Ziegler for stealing, manipulating & publishing private data on his laptop. Ziegler moved to dismiss, inter alia, b/c as a nonresident, California courts lacked personal jurisdiction over him...

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I wonder if you mean incentives that are specifically designed for a particular entity or if you would even limit a state's ability to craft broad policy that would apply to any business. Abolishing the state income tax could be an incentive for business relocation.

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I never heard that one before. Thanks for the chuckle. Is it from Confucius? ;-)

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I wonder how many degrees of separation from the rehab person are enough for the good Judge.

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I love the fact all your posts include the phrase "convicted felon Donald Trump".

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The people you ridicule may think you are an asshole, but speaking truth is often unpopular with those whose lies and hypocrisies are called out. Those of us entertained and informed by you think you a treasure.

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Is Trump not testifying where he can be cross examined but then doing so in a public forum something that the prosecution can lawfully raise, and question the reliability of, in their closing statement?

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Hi Andrew, Is accessory after the fact a thing? If so, it would be great for the DOJ to investigate FSW Canon for exactly that. ;-)

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I keep wondering if Blanche is tanking the case.

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And because there are lots of people who are eager to do so in hopes of gaining Don Snoreleone's favor.

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What are the odds he writes the opinion for the Opus Dei majority?

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Local news said 31 thousand cars crossed the Key Bridge daily. Thankfully, this tragedy did not occur at rush hour.

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I participated in a forum about the Potomac Yards arena proposal tonight in Alexandria. Another panelist called me a fearmonger.

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You are more optimistic than I. I see the the gang of six concluding that Trump was acting in his official capacity and was/is therefore immune. They might agree that ordering Seal Team 6 to take out your opponent is not within the scope of the president's official duties, Thomas/Alito dissenting.

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CFP - NAASE is organizing sessions for the Southern Economic Association conference to be held in Washington DC on November 23-25. To submit a paper, please email Frank Stephenson. The deadline for submissions is April 10, 2024. We hope to see many of you in Washington.

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At any point did anyone even try to suggest that the DA was involved in any behavior that was relevant to the actual charges their clients face? To this laymen, the whole thing was an excuse for not particularly skillful lawyers trying to smear the DA with innuendo. And mostly failing at it.

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My hot take. I have spent time listening to Fani Willis' testimony. Our justice system is lost beyond repair that this bullshit happens. Lawyers are the cause of this. They will say vigorous defense is their duty. This is not vigorous defense. This is throw shit at the wall to see what sticks.

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Trump will escape justice because two people lied about having an affair neither of whom had anything to do with his criminal activity. I see nothing to celebrate in that.

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Bless you for this. I just listened to five minutes and felt like I was going to bleed out of ears.

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If you were reading the tea leaves, how would you interpret this inaction by SCOTUS? To me it means that the conservatives can't or haven't yet devised some nonsense argument for Trump being immune so they are giving themselves more time to do that, and at the same time giving Trump a delay.

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Perhaps this is FPOTUS' way of avoiding Lara singing.

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"The nepotism is strong in this one." Darth Vader

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Passing laws to make things illegal that are already illegal, like non citizens voting, seems to be about the only legislation MAGAts care to try to enact.

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I think you are right about the spending. Giving a Senate majority to the Republicans would be turning over the judiciary to the FedSoc for the next 50 years, and result in a dystopian nightmare like in the documentary "Idiocracy". ;-)

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I didn't vote for Hogan either time, and won't vote for him for Senate, but he was a far better governor than I ever imagined he would be. He has not been a Trump toady but as Senator that might change. David Trone has been running ads for months with no opponent in sight as far as I can tell.

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Does such a decision make possible appeals on the grounds of selective prosecution? Bannon is likely to die of old age before he serves time for his crimes. It seems "justice delayed is justice denied" has a corollary "punishment delayed is justice denied."

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