(@ethicsmatters) — Bluesky Profile

1 week ago

Too true. The stars align to thwart your focus on the big thing. You got this.

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6 months ago

Sickening.

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7 months ago

Who, what, when, how — are brakes applied? Courts doing the best possible despite the reality of a political pro-executive final review at the Supreme Court. The surreality is thunderous.

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7 months ago

Where is Congress? Complete capitulation by formerly mainstream Republicans. No checks, no balance, accelerating descent into cruelty & violence.

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9 months ago

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9 months ago

Good news for the survival of the Constitution.

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9 months ago

Supreme Court deadlocks, blocking creation of first religious public school With only eight justices voting, the 4-4 tie leaves in place an Oklahoma State Supreme Court ruling that the school violates the separation of church and state.

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11 months ago

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, concurring in the denial of a motion for a stay pending appeal:
I would deny the request for a stay of the district court's order pending appeal. We deal here with what I hope is the extraordinary circumstance of the government conceding that it made an error in deporting the plaintiff to a foreign country for which he was not eligible for removal. In this situation, I think it legitimate for the district court to require that the government "facilitate" the plaintiff's return to the United States so that he may assert the rights that all apparently agree are due him under law. It is fair to read the district court's order as one requiring that the government facilitate Abrego Garcia's release, rather than demand it. The former seems within the trial court's lawful powers in this
circumstance; the latter would be an intrusion on core executive powers that goes too far.

And the government rightfully concedes that it was an "error" and a "mistake" to ignore this process. Mot. for Stay at 16-17. And, if it is truly a mistake, one would also expect the government to do what it can to rectify it. Most of us attempt to undo, to the
extent that we can, the mistakes that we have made. But, to the best of my knowledge, the
government has not made the attempt here. The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done. It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.

Judge Thacker (Obama), joined by Judge King (Clinton), wrote that first concurrence. Judge Wilkinson (Reagan), then, wrote his own concurrence.

Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."

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11 months ago

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

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11 months ago

Dr Kildare in my jr. high heart forever

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11 months ago

Is it time to talk Nuremberg defense? Following unlawful orders is unlawful. I’m looking at you, obedient enablers.

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1 year ago

Nonplussed by current events

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1 year ago

All bluster?

Large bodies of water like oceans and seas are named by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and sometimes the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN).

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1 year ago

Fair question.

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1 year ago