Jams

RE the investigation of Renee Good's wife:

Government is trying to preemptively retaliate against an innocent civilian for what she might say and can't even enunciate a coherent pretext.

(Figuratively) two dog sleds and NATO, including the US.

Telling it like it is, this is just betrayal. Attacking an ally. Someone we've promised mutual defense for generations. Dante's Satan will need a fourth head.

Then I remember MAGA is circulating a conspiracy theory that NATO doesn't exist.

Bout time.

Well no. We're married.

There have been several, but the ex-Stranger folks who went independent (Burner) have impressed me the most and, from what I've heard, profoundly annoyed the PR and PDR-response folks at the City. Classical investigative journalism. I hope they get a million subscribers.

The only thing dumber than Musk's proposed $1T package is the punditry calling it a good deal because it's "all or nothing."

Under such a structure, the (perverse) incentive is to fail and avoid the $1T hit, and the recipient earns no benefit for overperformance and no comp for getting close.

Nontraditional journalism is just journalism that hasn't been captured (yet) by an overriding business interest.

Whether a prosecutors' office has the resources they want to prosecute the docket they intend has no relationship to whether the public defenders' office has the resources necessary to meet their obligations to indigent defense.

Though I sympathize with Leesa for not getting the funding she asked for, pitting the prosecution bar against the defense bar like this isn't right and doesn't seem like it could have been her intent.

This isn't a good take. Representation is a constitutional right, and it's not negotiable.

The absence of adequate public defense is contrary to justice. PD's and prosecutors' roles are different, the burden of a caseload for each is different, and an apples-to-apples comparison is inappropriate.

It happened a few years ago without drawing much attention.

Savage.

I hope that Rory and Nathan aren't done yet. There's need for people in public service who respect the responsibility that comes with wielding the government's coercive power, and that means we have to value the voices of people who have spent their careers fighting against institutional injustice.

Nathan I don't know, but I saw him speak. Mad respect for a PD, and for him in particular. He speaks with the passion of someone who has watched innocent clients deprived of their rights and even their lives by the institutions that are supposed to protect all of us equally.

Same time, I'm bummed for Rory and Nathan.

Rory is a friend, a brilliant attorney and administrator, and he has a huge heart. He would be an incredible city attorney or deputy to one. He was my first pick. And I badly wanted to see a general race between him and Erika or Nathan.

I've met Erika and I think she's a great candidate. She has a strong ethical grounding, she's taken fights against corruption and abuse that are politically challenging, and she's a bona fide criminal trial attorney. She'll win handily and Seattle will be better for it.

The spread on Seattle City Atty is telling. Erika is over 50% in a four way primary as one of three progressive challengers. She is going to pick up Nathan and Rory's voters and wreck Ann by 20+ points.

At a press conference at City Hall this morning, the Working Families Party and PROTEC17—the largest union of City of Seattle workers—endorsed Katie Wilson for mayor. The city union's endorsement is especially monumental because for most of these workers, incumbent Bruce Harrell is their boss.

Vote Katie Wilson!

In Bar Complaint, Municipal Court Judge Vaddadi Accuses City Attorney of Improperly Barring Her From Hearing Cases - PubliCola Vaddadi says City Attorney Ann Davison’s office made “counterfactual, false, and defamatory” to justify a decision to prohibit the judge…

In Bar Complaint, Municipal Court Judge Vaddadi Accuses City Attorney of Improperly Barring Her From Hearing Cases

Vaddadi says Ann Davison's office made "counterfactual, false, and defamatory" to justify a decision to prohibit the judge from hearing misdemeanor cases last year.
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Amen.

Also, hard to budget for litigation against the guy who has already stolen a billion dollars.

This reminds me of the Chickenshit Club, which for anyone who hasn't read it, dissects how the penalties and fear of white collar criminal investigation has been systematically undermined for a whole generation.

Practitioners in states that elect judges: this means you, too.

You know who knows the law better than public defenders, who cares more about constitutional safeguards and fundamental rights, and better gets real people?

Absolutely nobody. Millenial PD's, RUN FOR JUDGE.

The real question is whether Elmo accusing her of "breaking the law" is merely defamatory or defamation per se.

Any conlaw heads want to tell me if the accusation that someone's committing a crime needs to be of committing a specific crime?

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Taking a break from political doomscrolling to watch news on Amazon's RTO.

Apparently the tsunami of returners has overwhelmed the parking garages, limited desk space and men's bathrooms.

Few weeks ago I put the kiddo's baby hairclips in my wife's hair, just to free up our hands and get a nap going. Thought she knew but no, she didn't notice for most of the day. Thankfully not a workday.

I have now seen the Ann Telnaes cartoon of Jeff Bezos's supplication before Donald Trump more often today than I've seen any other cartoon during the entire rest of the year.

So, well played, Washington Post.

Just read a long post comparing the sovcit movement to a cargo cult, and it's the best description I've ever heard.

Every Democrat from Maine to Hawaii tried to explain to their Republican relatives that Trump and his circle actually held them in contempt for years.

It's not even January and his new advisors / owners just... tweeted out that they think Americans are too dumb and lazy for the "good" jobs.