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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:20 UTC

God, things are terrible. My reaction was happiness that there wasn't a nationwide injunction.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

When this is over, I'll have to start paying attention to the election campaign in my home country (USA). I'd rather this one carried on for a while; it's quite funny & much less dangerous.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

Dispatch to the Homeland Knowledge of cultural references shows leader of ruling party returning to party's core principles in bid to retain power. Oblique reference to Bacon Sandwich Incident that swept a predecessor to power. Suggest raising alert status & dispatching carrier group.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:12 UTC

If I could go back to law school & devote myself to Fed Soc and law review rather than the Homeless Outreach Project and the Women's Law Journal, then clerk for Fed Soc judges rather than those I did clerk for, my life would be SO easy now. I'd just have to stash a portrait in the attic first.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

The actual direct effect is to fuck up the Trump prosecutions. That's bad, but unless it's the factor that causes him to win the election, the damage to the country is limited. I don't think POTUSes have restrained themselves for fear of prosecution, so it's hard to say immunity will change much.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:59 UTC

This decision is awful. But its awfulness is mostly because of principle & symbolism & what the kids call "vibes" rather than direct practical effects. It's what it will encourage Trump to do, rather than what, strictly speaking, it allows him to do, that worries me.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:17 UTC

What odds would you put on the counsel of record on this brief being an 8th Circuit judge by the end of the decade?

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:16 UTC

I'm not even going to try to explain how extraordinary this match was. If you're familiar with first class cricket, you don't need an explanation; if you're not, I don't think I'm capable of conveying it. 🏏

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

My mom's parents were German Jews who left their country in 1938 and 1939. The story on Dad's side isn't as harrowing, but it's still dramatic. I'll survive. But I am worried about a lot of other people who are much more vulnerable than I. Oh, for a boring election between two beige centrists!

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:07 UTC

I came here for the cricket But then it turned out I liked the rest of it, so I stuck around Serendipity is the key to Bluesky

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

(I joke. (a) I know it wouldn't be starting now; the US government has tried to stop foreign interference. (b) Obviously, they should do their best to stop it this time.)

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:03 UTC

why start now? Trump will just call it a hoax, & the press won't prevent that from becoming the "truth"

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

It's a tie! Note: near the end, Marchant De Lange knocked a ball back in just short of the boundary. They ran two. He then notified the umpires that he'd touched the boundary rope, so Glamorgan got four runs instead. Good man, "Marchant of Menace."

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:58 UTC

With one ball remaining, both a tie & a draw are possible Fellow Americans: Yes, there's a difference between a tie & a draw in cricket. 🏏

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

Another fun fact: Missouri SG Divine, who signed this bullshit, clerked for Clarence Thomas & Bill Pryor. He's in line for an 8th Circuit appointment if Trump wins. The Texas SG, an ex-Alito clerk, refused to sign the 2020 election lolsuit. Divine had a choice. Senate Judiciary Dems, take note.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

Appropriate term. I believe it comes from Nixon's cronies, & the Court has just validated Nixon's using executive power to ratfuck

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:19 UTC

It's about this, right?

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:17 UTC

Should be a colon instead of a comma, but otherwise this shows remarkable foresight of the 2024 County Championship, Division I 🏏

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:15 UTC

Something remarkable—even record-breaking—may be happening at Cheltenham

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:12 UTC

If Michael Dorn does Cameos™ as Worf, I might commission one telling the Missouri AG: "You have no honor"

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

<sends email to friend who's represented Costa Rica at the ICJ to give her my theory of jurisdiction for a claim against France>

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

Let us stop to honor then-TX Solicitor General Kyle D. Hawkins. He is an ex-Alito clerk & Fed Soc conservative—Stanford students walked out of his talk arguing that DACA was illegal. But he refused to sign Paxton's original jurisdiction lolsuit to overturn the 2020 election. A moment of honor.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:00 UTC

BTW, don't freak out when Alito & Thomas dissent from the order dismissing this case. Even they don't believe it's got any merit, & they wouldn't actually vote for Missouri to win. It'll look like the order when the Court dismissed Texas's attempt to overturn the 2020 election..

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

Here's the template for the order

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

Count Binface USED to be Lord Buckethead. He was on John Oliver. Now there's a new Buckethead, & the ousted one became Binface. I can't believe how many brain cells I've allocated to knowing all this

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:47 UTC

I hope St. Vincent quickly gets the help it needs. I represented Grenada in a few cases. It had been about five years since they'd been hit by Hurricane Ivan, and the economy and infrastructure were still showing the signs. Small states can't have a FEMA standing by—we have a responsibility.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:43 UTC

Fun fact: When a state files a case against another state, invoking SCOTUS's original jurisdiction, the pleading it lodges is not called a "complaint," as in a district court case. Instead, it's called a "application for a federal job or judicial appointment for our AG if you win the election"

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

Yay!

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

As I vaguely recall the CD Cal bench circa 1995, there were some judges before whom such advice might have been hazardous to the AUSA's health. I hope you feel remorse.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:33 UTC

You left out the part where all this happens before sentencing b/c Trump asks for a stay of proceedings & keeps appealing the denial of a stay until SCOTUS grants one and sets briefing on the merits for "not earlier than the next time a Canadian team wins the Stanley Cup."

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

I've posted that Trump's sentencing might be stayed & ultimately never happen This isn't it. This is the Missouri AG's bid for a job in Trump's DOJ. BTW: Thomas & Alito will dissent from the Court's dismissal; they do that in every State v. State case; it won't mean anything.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:34 UTC

That is the solution they've left us. From experience, we know impeachment isn't an option.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

Can it be a coincidence that I had a dream in which I sang along with La Marseillaise, Casablanca-style? Admittedly, it was during my daughter's wedding in Westminster Abbey, but that just shows I had monarchy on my mind. To the barricades, comrades! All power to the Commune!

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:30 UTC

The consumers had the option of paying Samsung's share. But costs include the arbitrators' fees, which will average tens of thousands of dollars (at least) for each consumer-claimant. Samsung's approach defines bad faith: YOU can't go to court, but Samsung retains the option of court or arbitration.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:26 UTC

Samsung's non-payment tactic is loathsome. One thing companies CAN'T do in forced arbitration clauses is adopt rules requiring the cliamant to pay all the costs of the arbitration. By adopting a policy of not paying its share—resulting in dismissal of the arbitration—Samsung is doing exactly that.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

As @akivamcohen.bsky.social can attest, this happens in employment as well as consumer arbitration:
1. Company bans class actions
2. Many individuals bring cases, creating headaches company would have avoided with a class action
3. Company says: "we didn't mean it like THAT"

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:17 UTC

As a lawyer, I understand the reasoning, but— You know how companies put arbitration clauses in their Ts&Cs, prohibiting class actions? About 35,000 Samsung customers filed individual arbitrations. Samsung refused to pay its share of the AAA fees, so the cases were dismissed. 7th Cir: no problem.

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

I won’t tell you to Google it, but I could answer the question & give you some backstory, including the time when both Count Binface & Lord Buckethead II ran against Alexander “Boris” Johnson in Uxbridge

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Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:51 UTC

There is at least person in the world in whose mind this made sense I, however, absolutely do not get it

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