The Frankish Reich

Yes, I do. I think we should limit it to murder cases with an aggravating circumstances, and where guilt is unequivocally established. Think the Buffalo Tops shooter, or the Boston Marathon bomber.

I live in a city that seems to have enacted an unofficial policy that driving with expired tags, or even no license plates at all, shouldn't be considered an offense. It's like a game now, counting the number of expired/no tags that I see on my daily commute. Yesterday: I followed a no-plates car on the interstate. Cop pulled up right behind me. I changed lanes so he could clearly see. And nothing happened. Just drove along his merry way. I'm sure there's some "racial bias" theory behind it, but whatever - I am the fool who continues to pay my registration fees and in turn pay the salaries of those cops who aren't pulling over those drivers ...

Since you don't trust the police or the judicial system, this should be right up your alley!

Of course they do. Dig deeper and you'll see how conflicted Americans are on this. Ask "should asylum seekers have the right to a hearing to see if they qualify to stay" and most people will say yes. So that portion of people in the country illegally would be exempt. I'm not arguing with this poll. This strikes me as accurate. What I'm saying is that this is how we got in this situation - at some point, the right to a full hearing conflicts with the desire to deter illegal immigration. Things like "build the wall" or "Illegal immigration benefits us" do nothing to advance a coherent policy agenda. (Insults will be relegated to that other thread)

See what I mean? We have devolved into "I know you are but what am I"

Insult Comic is not in your skill set.

You should really return to your study of the Frankfurt School. Some very dense texts there. But James Lindsay, masseur par excellence, will help you. 280 strokes at a time.

Just the PPP Annual Meet-Up.

⬆️ Thinks that because nobody charges him with a felony when he Viagras up and bangs a hooker, the law is therefore rigged against his hero.

It seems to me that he's calling Turley one of the MSNBC talking heads. Which is, umm, right on brand ...

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Just admit that you said something stupid. Man up.

Big if true: Mother Teresa banged a hooker, paid her off to keep quiet.

Eats Shoots and Leaves.

I just called you out for a completely contradictory take on law enforcement and punishment of crime. You responded with something that I think is about George Floyd and the riots that followed - riots that I believed at the time (and believe now) should have exposed participants to criminal prosecution. Try again.

But we should definitely be tough on crime, which means the police ought to arrest more people and funnel them through that same judicial system. Ladies and gentlemen, the New Thought Leader of the Alt Right.

⬆️ Cuts and pastes from parody accounts.

tl;dr Expects Trump to be convicted. Urges Trump to seek extraordinary means to bypass the regular NY State appeals process to go directly to the Supreme Court, where 3 justices were appointed by him and 2 other justices will ratify whatever he wants.

One of the great aspects of American life has been our openness to allowing second chances, career changes, opportunities for late bloomer students, etc. But yeah, the pendulum did swing too far in that direction. We don't need to rigidly "track" kids into practical trades when they're 14 or foreclose the opportunity for going back to school for those who were tracked in that direction. But we do need to understand that college and a profession of some sort isn't what all kids want or what all kids are capable of doing.

Just have a plan, kids. Whether it's college and a marketable degree/skills, or whether it's something that doesn't require a degree. Just. Have. A. Plan. I don't mean "I want to be a social media influencer" or "I want to be a DJ." I mean a real-world, not a 1 in 1,000 type plan. Walking out of court a few weeks ago, I watched a dad laying down the law for his 20ish kid. Looked like the kid had just had charges against him dismissed. Dad: "Sign up to work for UPS. Live at home and save your money. You'll get 80K a year. Take off 20 for tax. Do that for 5 years. You'll have $300K. Buy a house and by 25 you'll be set." I couldn't agree more. Will the kid follow that advice? I doubt it.

I agree. NY law is weird in this area. I suppose there's a reason for it being weird. Maybe because NYS is the financial capital of the USA. I don't know the history. So when I saw Bragg brought this case, I was skeptical. But Bragg is a NY DA, and has NY assistants working for him, and they are right: the case is theoretically solid under NY law. Could the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately find that this felony law is void for vagueness? Sure. They could, and maybe ultimately they will. But the case is first governed by NY law, and would go to the NY mid-level appeals court, and then the NY State Court of Appeals if Trump is convicted. By the way, I see a possible mixed verdict. Trump himself didn't sign some of the checks. Don Jr or Eric did. There's good reason to acquit him on those. But that's only a handful of the 34 counts.

Turley certainly knows that there is a difference in how the law treats elements vs. means of committing an offense. If all 12 jurors decide that Trump directed the creation of fraudulent records for an unlawful purpose, they don't necessarily have to agree on exactly how he did that. That would be an element, which is not what NY law requires. Got a problem with that, change NY state law.

President Trump voted, from behind the desk in the White House, in Florida. Yeah, he didn't pause for the commas. Put him in a memory care home right now!

I'm also surprised by how many parents/grandparents don't set up 529 plans for their kids/grandkids. I'm not talking about the people who simply can't afford it. I'm talking about people who take really expensive vacations, drive really expensive cars, etc.

Yep. Very clear/specific. I do find it odd that NY courts don't give jurors a written copy of the instructions.

The transcript will be out tomorrow. Of course, you may decide to read a series of 280 character tweets instead.