Alex Botoman

It's fascinating to watch originalists insist that the intention of the Founders was to create an all-powerful executive with near-plenary authority over the entire government only a few years after fighting the American Revolution

Brett Kavanaugh and Karin Immergut both worked on the Ken Starr investigation. Decent chance they know each other

All good, as you can see from the link, other people thought the same thing!

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This is not the motions panel. And the Ninth Circuit changed their procedures recently in a way that makes it very unlikely that this case will even go to a motions panel

This is really interesting. Do you know if there’s anything out there about this? I’ll have to look through the general orders

I’m pretty sure this is not the October motions panel. This panel decided an earlier appeal in this same case and likely kept this appeal as a “comeback case.”

She deposed Monica Lewinsky!

Stacking layers of unreasoned decisions on top of each other would be so obviously unjudicial if done by any other court

The unitary executive!

If your spouse speaking out on an issue before the court requires recusal then Clarence Thomas should be recusing from nearly every high-profile case

The part that’s always hard for me to understand is why so many LPRs live here for years without becoming citizens. Why not insure yourself against any threat of deportation?

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

Not sure how 1999 could be his most recent entry if he supposedly competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics

The sad fact underlying this is that it’s happened this way because they thought Biden’s actions were more illegal than Trump’s

If you won’t become a cop because you’d have to identify yourself and be subject to prosecution for any crimes you commit, I don’t want you becoming a cop.

If a court ever issued an order like this in one of my cases I might quit the law

The Age of Corporate Capitulation Won’t Work Donald Trump came for Jimmy Kimmel. Disney folded immediately. It’s not just bad morals. It’s bad business.

I wrote about the Kimmel situation

One thing I don’t miss about civil practice is that judges tend to have a narrow view of what constitutes a triable issue of fact that conveniently aligns with how they would rule as a juror. Real juries reach a wide range of outcomes that these same judges would then inevitably affirm on appeal

No, it’s two separate clauses. The statutes covers both willful deprivation of constitutional rights (for everyone) and separately, discrimination on the basis of race or alienage. It’s most commonly used to prosecute police officers for excessive force, but it covers all constitutional rights.

It is actually criminal. 18 USC 242.

The bigger problem is that I would be shocked if Trump didn’t issue a blanket pardon to everyone in his administration before leaving office

If this is not fascism, then what is?

Let me just say a simple thing.

Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy.

If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

Article clipped from The Montreal Star * Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders: * BERLIN, Feb. 4 - (U.P.) When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes. Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after announcing that live German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He بماسمفمسمنمطاللمطا

party and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack of humor in Nazi Germany, but said that it must be kept "good- natured, decent and clean." "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough," he said in three and one-half column editorial in the Nazi party's newspape Voelkischer Beobachter. "But we do not per- mit ourselves to be ridiculed.” The five actors were W Or- ner Finck, actor-author: Pete Sachse, vaudeville comedian, and Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi, the latter three members of a vaudeville combination known as. "The Three Rulands." The five were said to have been warned re- peatedly to stop making jokes about the Nazis.

The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule

How have there not yet been disciplinary proceedings against Drew Ensign? This is happening in every case

If you’re going to write an order that begins this way—which to be clear, appears fully justified—the next step has to be to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the lawyer who lied to the court to try to stave off a TRO so the govt could proceed with these unlawful removals

Senator, will Senate Democrats refuse to give their votes to the budget bill unless it includes statutory reforms that prevent these abuses?

(I think we all know the answer, sadly)

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining