Maybe, but drump could keep mentioning it which might get it more coverage.
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I think you are right. The Martha’s Vineyard stunt got a lot of coverage in New England and I don’t think New Hampshire will go for DeSantis’ raw cruelty or, the even bigger sin in their minds, wasting taxpayer dollars on flying asylum seekers across the country on chartered jets.
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“I don’t think that I willingly did, or knowingly did, anything wrong,” he said.
And there it is. No intent. And by sticking to his guns he has a great chance of winning. The rest will follow that.
What about the old white folks from the Villages who deliberately voted twice?
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So does making a false affirmation not also require intent? I guess it’s perfectly Florida to send someone to jail for being mistaken/misled.
The jury is in!
17 paragraphs later . . .
Oh, you want to know what the verdict was? I guess I can report it.
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I guess we all know now that we should never, ever trust some random guy to know the facts about the law
Personally. Txlawyer’s the only person I would trust
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Lesson 1: The facts and the law are separate categories. The law is simply the rules that tell you how to deal with any particular set of facts. And the truth about those facts may well be disputed, so you need someone to resolve those disputes under the guidance of the applicable law.
So the law is the rulebook for the Monopoly board game. It provides that you take turns rolling two six-sided dice and advance your figurine the same number of places, where a cascading series of decisions and happenstances will occur. If you land on Go To Jail, the law provides that you go directly to jail. If the facts are that you roll a 6 that puts you on Boardwalk and you desire to purchase it, the law requires you to pay $400 to the Bank and that if you do so you will receive title to the property. But if the fact is that you rolled an 8 and decided to stop on Boardwalk anyway, the law prohibits you from squatting there and you will be made to advance to Mediterranean Avenue instead, with the compensation being that you collect $200 for passing Go. And if a factual dispute arises as to whether Mediterranean Avenue is or is not owned by another player for purposes of you needing to pay rent, that dispute will be determined either by negotiated consensus or a neutral arbiter applying the law to the disputed facts. Either that or somebody flips over the board and the whole thing ends in vengeful recriminations.
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Calvinball rules…
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Well there’s no judges or juries in Monopoly, so the game is dependent upon mutual assent to adhere to the rules and fairly abide by the objective facts. Things won’t go well when a player claims to have rolled a 13 and says his house on Boardwalk is really a boutique hotel. If that were a legal dispute, the other players win summary judgment from the judge that 13 is not a legal roll of the dice and that a house is not, as a matter of law, a boutique hotel. However, you may need a jury to decide the fact question of what the actual roll of the dice was.
All this makes me curious about how states with legalized gambling handle disputes between players and the house. Is the blackjack dealer’s determination that a player went bust the final say on the subject? Who determines whether the player intended to hit or stay? I honestly have no idea whether it’s even possible to sue over stuff like that.
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Silly, if the house was able to buy the right to run a gambling establishment in the state (excuse me, gaming), do you really need to ask whether they’ve written the laws governing the dealer’s say-so?
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TFG didn’t get a “national majority” in 2016. I think you’re correct about everything you say. It’s still a problem.
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Why aren’t I surprised that the actual felon in question is a sex pervert?He’s likelier to be a stereotypical Republican than every other Republican in every other state who foolishly gets busted voting illegally.
Yes, so there was one acquittal, still there was one person getting shafted by the criminal justice system. It seems that the reporter can’t picture it as part of the overall punishing spread of fascism. But WE had better take a very good look.I don’t think the people I talk to appreciate that repression has already arrived here for many Americans (especially non-white Americans, needless to say).
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So, you’ve played Monopoly with my brother I see…
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you pegged him! he is a bully, picking on the weakest targets he can find, or instutions, like schools, that depend on State funding. do not take this guy lightly,he is smart, trained and knows his ‘base’…there is not a more rabid racist that a Florida racist…
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i refuse to subscribe to NYT to read an article on TPM…
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True, and a cause for real worry. Hoping, though, that all the people who voted for him then because they thought he was a real “populist” and not the malignant bully grifting narcissist that he is have been disabused. That leaves only about 30-40% tops of the electorate who positively love malignant bully grifting narcissists, as long as the latter hates the right people. That rump of voters will never get an electoral majority. So I hope. As for DeSantis, his entire appeal rests on being an aggressively and proudly malignant bully who hates the right people. And with Trump having poisoned the well, he should have a hard time convincing anything close to a majority that he’s anything but.
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