That was painful.
Canât wait to see comments by ncsteve and other real lawyers and legal minds on this one.
Deer meets headlightsâŚ
edit: Deer meets speeding semiâŚ
Iâm not one but Iâve read some on the Twitters andâŚnot pretty. I think McGahn ignored the usual protocol of giving the home state senator the lead on nominees and then pressuring Kennedy to vote for this incompetent anyway. It looks to me like Kennedy is making a point.
As an attorney, this infuriates me on so many non-political, non-partisan levels I canât even form words for it right now. The ABA and state bar associations need to get their fucking acts together and start speaking out about this.
Wow, that was absolutely pathetic.
Iâm not even a lawyer and I could have given a better answer on what a motion in limine is about.
Peterson tried to make it sound like he had some familiarity with the concept, but just couldnât offer a precise definition. My guess is that he had no idea at all, and thatâs why he started to filibuster. Good job by Senator Kennedy in following up to ask him again to answer the question directly.
I believe Grassley already announced that they will be summarily ignoring any blue slips that the GOP doesnât like.
Well, why have them then? Why have any norms when the GOP is just going to ignore them?
Something they need but apparently was missing from the gene pool and are incapable of feeling
shame
SHÄm/
noun
noun: shame
1.
a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
"she was hot with shame"
synonyms: humiliation, mortification, chagrin, ignominy, embarrassment, indignity, discomfort More
"her face was scarlet with shame"
guilt, remorse, contrition, compunction
"I felt shame at telling a lie"
antonyms: pride, indifference
a loss of respect or esteem; dishonor.
"the incident had brought shame on his family"
synonyms: disgrace, dishonor, discredit, degradation, ignominy, disrepute, infamy, scandal, opprobrium, contempt; dateddisesteem
"he brought shame on the family"
antonyms: glory, honor
used to reprove someone for something of which they should be ashamed.
"shame on you for dredging up such terrible memories"
a regrettable or unfortunate situation or action.
"it is a shame that they are not better known"
synonyms: pity, misfortune, sad thing; More
bad luck;
informalbummer, crime, sin, crying shame
"it's a shame she never married"
a person, action, or situation that brings a loss of respect or honor.
plural noun: shames
"ignorance of Latin would be a disgrace and a shame to any public man"
verb
verb: shame; 3rd person present: shames; past tense: shamed; past participle: shamed; gerund or present participle: shaming
1.
(of a person, action, or situation) make (someone) feel ashamed.
"I tried to shame him into giving some away"
synonyms: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, embarrass, abash, chasten, humble, take down a peg or two, cut down to size; More
informalshow up, make someone eat crow
"he was shamed in public"
bring shame to.
"the entire debacle has shamed our community"
synonyms: disgrace, dishonor, discredit, degrade, debase; More
stigmatize, taint, sully, tarnish, besmirch, blacken, drag through the mud
"you shamed your family's name"
antonyms: honor
cause (someone) to feel ashamed or inadequate by outdoing or surpassing them.
"she shames me with her eighty-year-old energy"
Origin
Old English sc(e)amu (noun), sc(e)amian âfeel shame,â of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schamen (verb) and German Scham (noun), schämen (verb).
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Well, why have them then? Why have any norms when the GOP is just going to ignore them?
Itâs what they do.
Iâm just a citizen and it is infuriating too - itâs only one more example of the utter contempt Trump and his whole crowd of frauds, crooks, and idiots have for us.
Instead of âansweringâ questions at all, Petersen would have been more convincing had he just stood up and danced the Macarena.
Neither am I but unless Iâm wildly mistaken and blitzed on quaaludes the judgeâs decision to exclude evidence at the beginning of a trial out of the juryâs hearing is the move that happened soon after the beginning of every Law & Order episode for years and years. Every single one without exception. It set up the rest of the plot and itâs as essential to the series as the âbum-bumâ noise. Itâs not some esoteric thing.
So the GOP and MSM can insist upon them when the Dems are in power.
With the rumors of Ryanâs retirement next year and Iâm betting that McConnell will go in 2020, theyâre going for the gold of egregiousness. Not even pretending anymore. Itâs a bit refreshing. Their replacements will have to answer for them ⌠oh, right, no they wonât.
After years of Trumpâs questioning a brilliant presidentâs qualifications, the nation is now subjected to this onslaught of shamelessly incompetent nincompoops.
I canât decide if Senator Kennedy is doing this on his own, or if he got the go-ahead from Grassley. Heâs probably the most reluctant Republican when it comes to tearing down financial regulations, tooâalmost balances out his smarmy bastard of a fellow senator, Cassidy.
During the GHW Bush administration, someone I knew with excellent GOP connections and a long resume of handling appellate matters but no trial experience was nominated to become a district court judge. Because of his lack of trial experience, the ABA concluded that he was ânot qualifiedâ to be a district judge. He then did what everyone expected, and informed Bush that he was withdrawing his nomination.
Now, it seems, lack of relevant experience makes no difference either to the person being nominated or to most of the GOP Senators.
âin limineâ = âat the thresholdâ
I mean, this is such basic shit you donât even need to know the Latin translation. Any fucknut who has spent a few months in a litigation practice, even just as a student intern or clerk, would know that âoh, yeah, motions in limine are those things you file right before trial and almost always deal with what evidence the parties will be allowed to present at trial and how.â