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The newly released documents are extremely awful to read, but don’t appear to mention Trump. The documents that describe Trump’s actions were released in 2016, which you might not realize because the media has chosen not to talk about it for 8 years.
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Why would Biden serving out his term be a suboptimal strategy for Harris?
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Woah, woah, woah, any comments Biden makes in relation to the 2024 presidential election are clearly official acts under that same SCOTUS ruling. As are any crimes that anyone might commit for which he has the power to issue a pardon.
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Opportunity to save commuters lots of time by straightening the Gardiner!
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Is this question asking whether people hope that housing affordability will improve, or expect it will improve? Because I have two very different answers…
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What if current President decided his appointment power means he determines what constitutes “good behaviour”, takes the official act of removing 3 members of the Supreme Court for federal judicial ethics violations, and on appeal the remaining SCOTUS reconsiders absolute immunity?
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They don’t plan to ever vote against him…
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I mean, purging the Roberts’ Court awful decisions like Citizens United and overriding the 14th Amendment should help with a fair election to avoid that, and allow lawful prosecution of the most corrupt GOP members…
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I’d prefer he just remove the corrupt six and make clear that the executive branch will not recognize any precedent decided by them. Investigations of those organizations should only happen within the law.
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He swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. I think he’s duty-bound to arrest the 6 members of the SCOTUS who just decided to make the president a king.
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But practically speaking, they could only do that if they’re not already detained…
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Being an Ontarian means going “I use half of these!” to every question…
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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This should also be done for any new federal law or regulation that the billionaires want to appeal in Texas… Sorry 5th Circuit, but that suit is being combined with one filed an hour earlier in the 4th Circuit. Too bad about your time zone.
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The scary thing is that progress involved building & using new legal and political tools, and this court attacks the legal foundations of those tools. Their decisions are cruel, factually dishonest and procedurally nonsensical, but what mechanism exists to tear them up without more decades fighting?
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And he’s saying this a mere week after the Rahimi decision reinforced that Roberts’ court has no competence at all in resolving statutory ambiguities…
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But also all the things Roberts mentioned would be considered unsportsmanlike conduct and get a player kicked off the field…
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What they’re actually saying is that there is no such thing as law, only the exercise of power. And that they will defend your exercise of power if they favour you.
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Had Congress intended to regulate oil spills, it would have done so before 1761, and precisely defined the chemical makeup of each oil and applicable method of extraction. But our tradition reveals only concerns for whale oil, the extraction of which necessarily involves spillage in the sea.
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And a few months later, something will work its way up to the SCOTUS, who will decide all the cases must be dismissed on 6th Amendment grounds because the delays have violated his right to a speedy and public trial.
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Ok, I need everybody to read Section III-A of Alito's dissent in the Idaho abortion case. He says - explicitly and specifically - that in cases where the amniotic sac breaks before the 24th week of pregnancy, abortions should be prohibited. HE SPECIFICALLY NOTES THE DANGERS. He points out that...
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Feels like the Trump version of Pascal’s Wager… if they don’t kowtow to Trump then he’ll use the full apparatus of the state to retaliate if he wins, while an undermined Biden can be relied on to not retaliate if he wins.
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But simultaneously believe that people (mostly white men) have an inalienable right to carry assault weapons and shoot others in “self defense” if they feel remotely threatened…
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It feels like a good day to start consistently referring to Alito et al as the court’s “radical far-right majority”, rather than continuing to pretend their decisions “conserve” anything.
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Whenever I hear organizations talk about “DEI” or “ESG”, I think about how they’ve reduced these huge topics that require reimagining how business is conducted into a single checkbox to tick off while continuing business as usual.
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She’s certainly got more out of them for the City in the last year than the previous mayor did over several terms…
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Interesting… can a building have a mix of all three types, so that rents from #3 helps subsidize #1?
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It’s a gratuity, Michael. How much could it cost? Thirteen thousand dollars?
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This will surely cost less than the $500,000 to fix the OSC’s roof panels…
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This will surely be less expensive than spending $500,000 to fix the broken roof panel! /s
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Woah, hold up. Shouldn’t that be about how they just made a bunch of hard decisions that maybe you liked, and feel deserve a free vacation and/or house now, before they get back to making decisions that maybe you might also like?
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Are they saying it’s not a kick-back for his actions as mayor, because he was actually working directly for the company at the time he took those actions?!
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Ontario MPPs’ salaries have been frozen since 2008… but ministers, “parliamentary assistants”, the house leader and premier all get very generous pay bonuses. Which now includes essentially all of Ford’s 80 MPPs. So clearly about feathering their own nests, rather than responsible governance.
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I think the more relevant question is whether a CEO can use their stock as collateral for a personal loan that’s enough to fund a lavish lifestyle, isn’t taxable as income, and maybe never gets repaid?
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How about “Representative So-and-so (R) repeated lies…” ?
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That’s the wicked problem, right? The affordability crisis requires the housing values to go down, but the development industry won’t build if market housing costs drop below returns. Massive construction of non-market housing would sidestep the issue, but no government wants to pay for it.
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It’s the playbook that’s worked for other tech companies, so they’re going to keep doing it… Uber was just taxi dispatch software with VC funds and untrained drivers, that became big enough fast enough to put older competitors out of business.
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That does feel like it could be open to abuse by the police…
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Clearly using “I would, but my hands are full with this painting thing” as an excuse not to change the baby’s diaper.
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Obama certainly got lucky that no-one had yet passed a constitutional amendment requiring all presidents to be born in the 1940s.
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I mean, I’m surprised they didn’t list “encrypted communications devices” AKA a cell phone with iMessage or WhatsApp…
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I wonder how that QED would define Israel in relation to its actions in Gaza…
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Which isn’t the same thing as calling for “an end to Israel”. For example, Israeli settler colonialism dedicated to making a Palestinian state impossible is a very active strain of Zionism.
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"Every time the word 'democracy' is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of the Democratic Party, the principles of which we ardently oppose"
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RBG: "The arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice if there is a steadfast commitment to see the task through to completion."
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But somehow still less identifying information than the press published about the NY case jurors…
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Two initial filter questions when encountering a conspiracy theory: 1. Could this be explained by mistakes or incompetence (by either the alleged conspirators or audience)? 2. Would achieving the objectives of the conspiracy reduce the amount of effort and attention required of the conspirators?
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I heard rumours that he only folded twice!
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My point was more that stating that these colleges are among “the few” experiencing protests requires that NPR has made efforts to confirm that the /vast/ majority of colleges are not. Which I strongly suspect NPR has not done in this case.
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That “the few” in your headline reads like a last-minute editorial insertion to replace “several”… was it?
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