I would like to hear your description of the flaw. The Federalist Society can go fuck itself for all I care. Their opinions are as useful as a perforated condom smeared with axle grease.
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Wisconsin.
Clearly, this guy has the perfect temperament to be the next House Speaker. MTG, Ralph Norman and Andy Biggs will cream themselves. I mean, why stop at Trump?
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/1709938822476427324?s=20
I prefer her to err on the side of caution, so I support her decision to give them a small extension but she does have the authority to decide that these filings are frivolous, right? Eg, Lauro not even bothering to apply for the security clearance yet and then complaining that they don’t have access to classified material doesn’t imply good faith on their part.
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I would say she’s a dime store Mona Lisa, but that would give her too much credit.
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You know a defendant is in a bad place when the prosecution is making discovery efficient and the defense team are trying to bury themselves in paperwork.
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And a Russian agent…
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He was always going to appeal, even if it was a white male judge, he nominated to the bench.
He wants to extend the proceedings past his own death.
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We’ll see it when she rules on it, and I fully expect her to treat the motion with all the respect it deserves (if you catch my drift).
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That assumes Trump would pay them.
It also assumes that, at this point, his team of lawyers consists of professionals who strictly work for money on behalf of their client. I doubt there are too many reasonable, intelligent, and realistic lawyers willing to take Trump’s cases by now, having seen how Trump tries to force them into doing illegal or unethical acts (which would get them disbarred) and ends up stiffing them.
There are, however, thousands of people with law licenses who are rank ideologues. Their ideological blindness prevents them from seeing that Trump is death for their professional reputations. They will happily make absurd arguments before the court, end up without being paid, and still think that what they did was an honor and a privilege.
There is truly no limit to stupidity.
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That sounds like a flip from what he argued about Clinton (having sex), Obama (being born), and Biden (being).
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I look forward to that day because maybe then the justice system will call him the disgraced criminal that he is.
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Before starting in on Grant’s Memoirs, I had the impression that West Point cadets all studied a lot of engineering back in Grant’s day (and since the post-War of 1812 beefing up of West Point), and I think that impression was correct. Grant was not himself an engineer, but he praises the engineers who built roads on a mountain overlooking Mexico City which the Mexicans hadn’t fortified because its topography fortified it naturally. The engineers performed wonders, according to Grant. He was really good at math and, for a while, entertained not idle hopes of becoming a math teacher at West Point. You’re right about the quartermaster assignment. He allowed himself to get swept up into combat with another company when he could have – was supposed to – stay behind on his quartermaster duty. The steeple-howitzer idea that he had saved a lot of American lives, caught General Scott’s favorable attention, and led to his promotion to first lieutenant.
One thing that comes through loud and clear: military officers’ loyalty to their oath to the constitution, which committed them to obedience to the commander and chief’s legal orders. Grant and Taylor considered (rightly) the M-A War a war of aggression against a weaker nation (and a pretext for expanding the number of slave states, of course). Scott did not state a position, though his disapproval was readily inferred (and assumed by Pres. Polk). But they all did as they were ordered. Grant, at least, was in no position to resign in quiet protest. Anyway, reading Grant I’ve been put in mind, in different ways, of generals like Milley, Kelly, and Flynn – quite an array.
How much of today’s military engineering is handled by contractors, not by the military’s own engineers, I wonder. With so many subtypes of engineering needed today, it’s probably necessary to rely heavily on contractors, but still…
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For me, I could care less… I just don’t want to hear him speak.
If the MF’r had just did what Dubya did… which was shut up and get a hobby, I’d be less eager to see him depart this mortal plane…
I mean, I hated Dubya with a passion… now, I don’t care as much.
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That’s partly it. Nobody wants to be the first to put a former president in jail, is the other part, but that’s the ONLY way to really shut him up. The way I see it is, if you’re the presiding judge over a Trump trial, your life is already in danger, so you may as well follow the law and treat Trump the same way you’d treat anyone else who’s acted the way he has. The more he’s able to run his mouth the worse it gets for everyone.
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The NYT would be a good target for monkey poo… not even one story on front page regarding trump fraud trial with NYAG!
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Trump has been in “too damn far” territory for about 50 years. Just because he has more money than most people (and lawyers who do not appear to have much in the way of ethics) who would be before the courts, does not entitle to more equal Justice under the law.
I think that is what is objectionable to most people.
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Thank you for discussing US Grant.
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The damage this Fat Orange Creep has done to this country is just now being exposed. Prison is too good for him and his followers.
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Likely a legacy of Vauban, the French noble and military engineer who basically wrote the book on how to build, and how to attack, military fortifications. Still very relevant in the 1800s.
This is not specific to military engineers, but its probably in the ballpark:
Contractors have become a permanent element of the federal workforce. Spending on service contractors is substantially above the prewar level. Operational or battlefield contractors outnumber military personnel in the CENTCOM region (53,000 to 35,000), and the ratio of contractors to military personnel has increased from 1:1 in 2008 to 1.5:1 today.
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