StrangeSox

Scott Pruitt enlisted an EPA aide to help him with numerous personal tasks, including the purchase of a used Trump Hotel mattress (???) and helping his wife open up a Chick-fil-a franchise

Jungle primaries are bad especially if you don't have ranked-choice voting.

Greg, I don't think rabbit is being sincere with that post.

When I saw the headline, I assumed it meant a 5-4 ruling and not a legally narrow ruling. It'll be interesting to see how they end up resolving the deeper issues at play in some of the other cases.

It seems weird to loudly assert your authority to pardon yourself for all the crimes you definitely didn't commit. If the President really does have that power (and he might!), he could openly murder someone in DC and pardon himself and never be held accountable. Could also commit a wide range of lesser crimes, like say taking bribes.

A simple "no" would suffice

Not really though. Honestly don't think I've even commented on that subject all that much here. Another topic where you're obsessed with attacking other posters while playing the victim. And yeah you were obviously using that rant of yours in a disingenuous manner, attacking a straw man version of typical trans people (after assigning me a position I've not taken before). I'm not sure what saying your rant was transphobic is supposed to say about me or what you think your post says (or doesn't say) about you. Are you capable of admitting you assigned a position to myself and I think claufield as well that we really haven't taken, and in a conversation I wasn't even taking part in? That is not even the only time you've taken a swipe at me in a conversation I'm not part of in the last few days.

Fwiw I've never said what you accused me of, that's mainly a reddy thing E: you do seem very transphobic though, so that's cool You might also want to check out how some of the fundamentalist sects in Israel act. I'm not talking about state actions, either.

Oh hey NV energy, I was just working on a quote for you guys for a substation that keeps getting shot at from a makeshift firing range on BLM land

The tapes were leaked to a Chicago Tribune reporter.

lol this country was dumb enough to elect Fox News Grandpa as President

And Martha Stewart, who was convicted of obstructing justice by lying to the FBI. Another very clear signal.

Trade wars are good, and easy to win.

I wouldn't necessarily put Dinesh in with the "alt-right," which tends to be a younger phenomenon. He's been a bigoted conspiracy theorist demagogue going back to his days at Darthmouth where he outed gay students.

Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico He also allegedly wants to block all German luxury car imports https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/31/trump-reportedly-said-he-wants-to-stop-german-luxury-car-imports-in-the-us.html How will the WTO respond to invoking dubious "national security" claims to impose tariffs and import restrictions/bans/

The Law & Order President hmmm gotta hope that the NY & NJ states attorney offices are lining up state-level charges because it seems pretty clear Trump's going to pardon the federal crimes.

He also was convicted on some sort of campaign finance fraud charges a number of years back. e: e2: second thoughts on the reason for this pardon: is it like Arpaio, entirely politically motivated because D'Souza goes on TV and in print praising Trump constantly, or is it a signal that he'll pardon anyone who obstructs for Trump? Both?

(Dinesh D'Souza was not treated unfairly by the government)

Really good piece from ProPublica/NYT Magazine on Joe Bryan and blood pattern analysis. Like a lot of forensic science, there's not much real scientific basis behind it. This is part 2, focusing on the blood spatter stuff. Part 1 can be found here. The NYT editorial board has called for Bryan to get paroled and his case to be re-examined

One good thing the Trump admin has done is given in to Corey Gardner's pressure on stopping the federal government from cracking down on state-legalized marijuana. Gardner was going to uphold all Justice nominees, and Trump negotiated an agreement with him. Sessions definitely wanted to crack down federally. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-gardner-strike-deal-on-legalized-marijuana-ending-standoff-over-justice-nominees/2018/04/13/2ac3b35a-3f3a-11e8-912d-16c9e9b37800_story.html?utm_term=.1b5e69d77c45

rabbit, go back to the start of this little topic of the past page or so. I started by pointing out that, while falling short, Obama did do some meaningful CJ reforms and included some examples. I pointed out that Trump's admin was undoing them. There wasn't any name-calling or vitriol or even "lol"-style posting. Your response was to ignore that and bring up some stuff from early on in the Obama administration (that actually overlapped with the Bush admin) and then quickly devolve into accusing me of supporting cartels and MS-13 because they'll vote for Democrats. Who really derailed any chance at a discussion there?

lol who was even talking about MS-13 before you started accusing me of supporting them because they'll vote for Democrats? I started by mentioning several criminal justice reforms that Obama actually did to dispute the notion that he did nothing but spout rhetoric, which you just sort of ignored before launching off the deep end yet again.

You've been dropping great wisdom like "Holder did F&F" which isn't terribly relevant. You also complain about other people's posting more than actually posting, which is pretty funny. But yeah the idea that Trump is afraid to take stances loudly and belligerently on whatever the topic de jure is is hilarious. If there is one thing about Trump, it's that he's not afraid to say exactly whatever is on his mind at any given moment.

1) lmbo 2) F&F started under Bush, it was a dumb debacle and it ended fairly early under Obama, I want to say as early as 2010? It's been a movement conservative thing to whine about for nearly a decade now. I'll uncategorically call it a stupid program. 3) yes clearly I support drug cartels and MS-13, and clearly they will vote for Democrats despite them largely being non-citizens. Do you actually listen to yourself, man? Not wanting to dehumanize people doesn't mean you "support" them. Noting that the President and many demagogues before him conflate "violent" immigrants with all immigrants to rile up vitriol doesn't mean I support MS-13. Noting that F&F is a conservative bugaboo for years doesn't mean I support that dumb program. 4) You can find plenty of information about what criminal justice reforms Obama enacted if you spent just a few minutes searching places other than right-wing fever swamps. I've mentioned several, along with the steps Trump's admin has taken in undermining them. Nothing about ranting about "race baiting" or F&F actually addresses the topic at hand, which is criminal justice or perhaps more specifically prison reform if you want to narrow the scope. You decided to bring up two conservative complaints out of the blue even though they're pretty irrelevant here other than to say "Holder bad!"