Aileen Cannon Refused To Step Aside Even After Other Judges Urged Her To Do So

[iafixture]

@pluckyinky

You’d have saw me in an oak tree somewhere.”

There was a lot in what he said but nothing else was as powerful as that line. It’s sickening to think that is “the good ol’ days” that Rethuglicans long for.

[pshah]

@txlawyer

@pshah

Cannon did lose two law clerks relatively recently. Gotta wonder if they were sources involved in this story.

Possible, but I think not especially likely. The two who left – one for maternity reasons – did so late last year, so they would not have been around when the case was assigned last spring. Clerks are on the job (roughly) starting in August through the next July. Also, Cannon’s clerks are reportedly the most fanatical around, so I would be surprised if any of them turned on her to report a deeply negative story.

Ah. I see, thanks! I have to think, considering Cannon’s paranoid nature, this is going to leave a mark. It’ll be interesting to see how and in what form she lashes out. I think she’s like Trump in that respect.

[southerndem]

Thank god

22-915_8o6b.pdf

The Supreme Court rejects the challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that bans the possession of a gun by someone who has been the subject of a domestic violent restraining order.

The court holds that when an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another, that individual may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment.

The vote is 8-1. Thomas dissents.

[tao]

@clairer

Come on, Aileen

I think you misspelled I lean.

[fiftygigs]

Reclusive billionaire Timothy Mellon gives $50 million to back Trump. Michael Bloomberg gives $20 million to back Biden.

Wouldn’t want that kind of money going to the government to, you know, fix bridges and stuff.

Breakin’
Abusers can’t own guns.

[theghostofeustacetilley]

8-1 decision says domestic abusers can be banned from owning guns.Harlan Crow dissented.

[sniffit]

@not_so_fluffy

Looks like another day of comment access confusion…

That’s ok…it’ll come out the better for it on the other side

[chjim]

Speaking of nearly new vehicles being totalled, some years back I was on my way home after my new F150 had been serviced for the first time at about 8000 miles, a driver turned left in front of me. I struck her vehicle and spun into a light pole headon. Fortunately, witnesses saw what happened and how, even that I was under the speed limit. Also fortunately, no one was hurt. But, truck totalled. Insurance gave me another, which I still have. Events like that do get one’s attention!

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@pluckyinky

Thank you so much for posting that video of Reggie Jackson. It brought a smile to my lips and a tear to my eye. I’m with Reggie. “You’d have saw me in an oak tree somewhere.” Indeed. I will never be a fan of baseball, I absolutely hate the sport, but the last few days learning so much more about Willie Mays and now this account have given me a grudging respect for the sport. Just don’t ask me to watch it on TV.

Yup. If you want bullshit or downplaying of an issue, don’t ask Reggie Jackson or Charles Barkley anything. Both are refreshingly outspoken, blunt, intelligent, and really tell it like it is and was. I think Barkley is from Alabama.

[sniffit]

@Paracelsus

This is a dagger directly aimed at groups like the NAACP suing over civil rights infringements.

Bingo! They want to gut the ACLU’s business model and ability to influence as well.

[jnbenson]

@theghostofeustacetilley

Harlan Crow dissented.

But how does Ginni feel about it?

[zenicetus]

@taylor

At least, that’s what I think on days when I’m feeling uncharacteristically optimistic. Like on the day when Loose Cannon is exposed in the NYT as a clown and a disgrace to the judiciary. So, what are they going to do about it? Judiciary can’t police themselves?

Regarding EVs, I tend to think of the current state of things as an intermediary step to something better later on. The carbon footprint will be far less than gas with better battery tech and conversion of the electricity supply grid to green energy, at least eventually. Like in 50 years or something. Better than sticking with IC vehicles, but it would have been great if we had started this project sooner.

Regarding Cannon, the Judiciary has a process for policing itself with appeals to a higher court. Apparently Cannon hasn’t been horrible enough yet in her handling of the case to reach the point where Smith can get a different venue.

[dont]

@not_so_fluffy

Did she misplace them? She should check the closets at Mar-a-lardo?

Hiding behind the cheap shower curtain in the shitter?

[ralph_vonholst]

@jm_tpm

is she really willing to break every judicial norm and permanently destroy her reputation simply out of partisan loyalty, or the wildly improbable chance that Mr. Trump will nominate her for the SC?

Her temperament is highly questionable, but her ambition is inexhaustible.

[jm_tpm]

I absolutely hate the sport,
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Baseball is a metaphor for the unpredictability of life. You are half napping while watching a slow game on a summer saturday afternoon. Suddenly, with 2 outs, the bases are loaded and the pitching count is 3 balls and 2 strikes, meaning that if the pitcher does not either throw a strike or get the batter to swing and miss, the other team could either tie the game or take the lead. A quiet stadium instantly shifts to thunderous cheers. You suddenly go from boredom to intensity. And one pitch later, the tension may may ramp up, or you might return to your nap!

[musgrove]

@fiftygigs

Timothy Mellon

Ive seen a couple of news organizations bring him up and mention a few words about his carrier. His great grandfather became super rich and the family stayed rich, is the sum up.

But they for some reason dont bring up other things like how he had in his autobiography, “Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the ‘Establishment’ to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations,”.

Elusive, mysterious billionaire… or old money racist/bigot crackpot.

[dont]

@ClutchCargo

I can get to comments with my phone, but not with my laptop.

First I was phonenot pad. Now pad not phone. WTF.

[clemmers]

@zenicetus

A renewal of Trump University with a pay-for-diploma plan. One week’s online tuition for a few thousand bucks and you get your AA degree.

That beats the educational accomplishments of his immigrant wife, who dropped out of college and worked as an escort to get her green card (then lied about getting a degree). Or maybe she got the green card and then worked as an escort - don’t really care. Maybe the real answer to an immigrant’s security is to marry a fake billionaire.

[birdford]

@iafixture

@pluckyinky

You’d have saw me in an oak tree somewhere.”

There was a lot in what he said but nothing else was as powerful as that line. It’s sickening to think that is “the good ol’ days” that Rethuglicans long for.

I frequently shock people in my generation by telling them that the last known lynching in the U.S. happened in 1981. I have noticed it doesn’t have the same effect on people born after 1981 - for them 1981 is ancient history.

To live long enough to see most of the things that were miracles (polio vaccines, moon landings) or horrendous disasters (racist violence against human rights, legally sanctioned second classing of women) turned upside down and sideways, taken out of context, and completely misunderstood is not something I ever thought I would experience.

Lynching of Michael Donald

[chuck_voellinger]

We underestimate Trump at our peril. Appoint McCarthey-esque judges in your own state to shield you from the democratic hordes. Brilliant.