The Questionable Authority

Tax policy is ideological. Anyone who says there is an "objective" desirable tax policy is wrong.
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Four Big Tech Companies Avoid $51 Billion in Taxes in Wake of One Big Beautiful Bill Act Four of the corporations whose CEOs flanked President Trump at his 2025 inauguration ceremony have now disclosed that they collectively received $51 billion in federal tax breaks in 2025, much of that...

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Particularly when served on kimchi fried rice.

There's a real need here, y'all.

Generally, the concern when acquiring a border collie puppy is whether the new owner will be able to provide the dog with sufficient stimulation. My concern with this plan is, if anything, the inverse.

I was playing that on Saturday when I was peak middle-age white male-ing by grilling at the lodge.

Technically, it is an even number (4) - unless/until I take an associate membership in the second lodge.

*Independent Order.

I am.

I believe you are technically less odd than me, however, given that I have several active memberships in organizations that render me officially odd.

That's a...very interesting position to take.

Because we've read the Constitution.

LET US FUCKING GOOOOO

There's definitely overlap, but it's not a circular venn diagram.

It's a painfully under-enforced rule, for sure. But still a rule.

You are narrowly focusing on the wrong thing. It's not a litigation issue for prosecutors, but it's also not a litigation issue for probably 90% of attorneys - criminal defense is the exception to the rule.

But it is an ethics, meaning discipline and licensure issue, for 100% of attorneys.

All lawyers have a duty of competence.

The rules of professional conduct still apply. And those contain a duty of competence - see model rules, rule 1.1.

Also the paralympics get insufficient attention, but also have great athletes.

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There are many ways to win the internet. That specific mistake might be the only way to lose it.

I am once again begging people to learn anything about governments east of western europe

Yikes

Cry me a river.

This scenario is at least as ethically fraught, but on duty of loyalty grounds.

Even on a cookie-cutter basis, though - she was assigned 28 new habeas petitions in the week leading up to the meltdown.

I think I'd be *ethically* obligated to quit on duty of competence grounds alone, setting aside all of the copious quantities of 'everything else.'

Thoughts?

Not you, specifically. My tolerance for this place is at all-time lows overall, so I'm not handling stuff that's both tangential to my point and even slightly argumentative-sounding as well as I'd like.

Don't know if it's automatic; there seem to already be some granted after DOJ missed guidelines. But, basically, it goes forward without their participation. Maybe that becomes auto-grant, maybe petitioner still has to meet a certain level of proof, don't know.

But the judges of the district are not fine with that.