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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/year-old-baby-appears-in-immigration-court_us_5b4290e3e4b07b827cc1e76c?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 1-Year-Old Baby Appears In Immigration Court, Cries Hysterically The judge said he was “embarrassed” to ask if the boy understood the proceedings. A 1-year-old boy in federal custody who appeared in immigration court without his parents in Phoenix briefly played with a ball, drank from a bottle, then “cried hysterically” as he was about to leave the courtroom Friday, according to The Associated Press. But he was eventually granted a voluntary departure order so the government can fly him to Honduras, where his father has already been sent. The little boy, identified in court only as Johan, was one of the children who appeared in the Arizona court Friday without parents. One boy held up five fingers when the judge asked him his age. Judge John Richardson said he was “embarrassed to ask” if Johan understood the proceedings, AP reported. “I don’t know who you would explain it to, unless you think that a 1-year-old could learn immigration law,” he told Johan’s attorney. Immigration advocates have complained about children going to court, calling it stressful and frightening. People in immigration proceedings, even children, are not guaranteed an attorney, although most unaccompanied minors do appear with representation. There are no physical accommodations for children, many of whom can’t even see over defense tables without booster seats.

what is the alternative though I mean yeah ultimately you need a good GM and good development to get to the playoffs and win, if the Sox are terrible at it what manner they choose to be terrible doesn't really matter much

here's more on how McConnell also blocked over 100 federal judiciary seats that's allowed Trump to fill them full of young often completely unqualified ideologues who will sit on the courts for the next 40+ years. http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-judges-trump-senate-20161231-story.html Even if Democrats win the House, Senate and Presidency, McConnell's legacy of stacking the federal court system with conservatives will long outlive him.

The court could use more reforms than that to really tamp down on it's current lottery nature. "Wow, Scalia died during a Democratic presidency! there's a chance the court could shift for decades now!" is not how you build a legitimate and reasonable constitutional court system. There are numerous ideas out there, like giving every President two appointments per term, that would reduce the potential for such wild swings in the court's ideology that can last decades and even generations. I think between Bush v. Gore and then McConnell's stealing the seat, more people are waking up to the court being an unelected political branch rather than being some sort of high-minded idealistic and impartial legal branch. That it's getting stuffed full of Federalist Society extremists who will overturn any serious progressive legislation for the next couple of decades will make it all the more obvious.

They could simply never even hold hearings, let alone a vote. McConnell did it for a Supreme Court seat and numerous federal judicial seats after Republicans took control of the Senate in January 2015. When it looked like Clinton was going to win in October 2016, many in the GOP were already floating the idea of never confirming any of her nominees, either.

McConnell is the worst of them, but it's not just him. They are having an increasingly hard time of building electoral majorities, so they're retreating to antidemocratic notions like voter suppression, gerrymandering, and of course stacking the courts as much as possible. The SC seat is far from the only judicial appointment that McConnell stole, and they spent years blocking nearly everyone until the Democrats finally got rid of the nominee fillibuster in 2013. McConnell is behaving like a ruthless politician grabbing power where ever he can. And so far, he's winning, and the legacy of this stolen seat can last a generation.

just to be clear, this isn't the Bundys or anyone else involved in the actual occupation. those people were already mostly acquitted in October 2016 these are the ranchers who got sent to prison for a) deliberately setting fires on public land to destroy evidence of illegal hunting, endangering hunters who were camped nearby, which they knew about because they flew their private plane over the area to survey it before their hunt b) setting fires on public land while a burn ban was in effect, endangering firefighters and hunters that were camped nearby and although they were never prosecuted for it, they had a history of child abuse. for example, when 16-year-old Dusty Hammond got a tattoo on his chest, they removed it...with sandpaper (it was reported to the police, but the Hammonds got the charges dropped by agreeing to enter into a diversion program instead) very fine people

It's actually really easy to believe after 2016 and 2017 in America Trump also appears to simply be defying the court order to reunify families. Hard to reunify families when you intentionally destroyed family records and don't actually have any way of reuniting them.

More Nazis running for office on the GOP ticket: This guy is running in a district with an open seat currently held by a retiring Republican. There's a better-than-IL3 chance we get (another) open Nazi in the GOP caucus.

this sounds pretty corrupt from all parties: Kennedy was deciding on, among other things, Trump's travel ban and other issues about his administration while at the same time he's negotiation his replacement with the very same President, and they just so happen to settle on a guy who doesn't think a President can be held criminally or even civilly accountable for his actions. Trump's given away his power in choosing judges to outside conservative interest groups and now even sitting justices themselves. Democrats really need to be ready to reform the structure of the Supreme Court and pack it with anti-reactionaries or we're doomed to a generation of Lochner 2.0. there's also this:

keeping America safe https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article214173489.html the pro-life party Pregnant Women Say They Miscarried In Immigration Detention And Didn't Get The Care They Needed Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration say they have been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused.

Musk is paying people to do those things. He's not actually engineering them himself or anything. He's more Edison than, well, Tesla.

Definitely at least give them a shot for the trade-in. They will generally pay you much more than a regular dealership will. They gave me about $5k more for my Tacoma last year than a couple of other dealerships offered. The dealerships tried playing their bs games about how my truck with a total of 35k miles was literally about to fall apart, really, they're doing me a favor by even offering to take it and they're going to have to rebuild the whole thing! Car dealerships are the absolute worst. The flip side with carmax is that you will pay a little more if you buy a car from them than you would elsewhere, but there really is (nearly) zero bs. It was also great to be able to look at a dozen different models and various trim levels in each model all on one lot and without a super annoying salesguy hovering over your shoulder.

I wouldn't put a lot of stock Marc Thessien's ideas

So that makes at least three open Nazis when you include the guy in IL-3, four if you include incumbent Steve King, running on the GOP ticket.

Trump is purging immigrants who signed up for a path to citizenship from the armed forces https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-army-discharge-immigrant-recruits-citizenship-trump-administration-a8434166.html

But he didn't moderate on things like his pro-choice stances. Same with Lamb. He isn't some sort of ur-progressive, but he didn't run the Republican Lite model chasing "Trump Democrats" or other nonsense.

I blame this thread

Reddy this is an example of why a lot of progressives and most/all leftists have zero faith in Dem party leadership. They have a record of failure and bad centrist policies and many have appeared to learn nothing from 2016. Chasing Trump voters in a state Clinton won big in and which had essentially no Republican party. Pure genius.

Love to pledge fealty to the wealthy Lord of my choice,a true democracy

In some ways yes, in others, no.

His book Dead Wake on the sinking of the Lusitania was a good read, too.