Finally, the case is in the eastern district of Virginia. Since the 1970s, lawyers have called this district "the rocket docket" because it is objectively the #1 fastest federal district court in the nation.
The US sells jets to a whole bunch of other countries, and they need training on those jets. This kind of facility agreement is not very unusual when justified by the volume of trainees cycling through.
The real answer is it's not a whole base. It's a "facility" on an American base. Dormitories and hangars to house Qatari pilots and Qatari F15s, while the pilots receive training from American instructors.
Halligan is now riding the rocket docket. She's not gonna get any time to learn how criminal justice works, but she's gonna find out all the same. First batch of discovery is due October 20 in the Comey matter.
There's one 2nd circuit opinion, Engblom v. Casey. Held that tenants have 3A rights, that national guard are soldiers, and that 3A is passed to states through 14A.
I don't know about their IT setup, but MS Word has a problem where these internal "ref" links can become broken, and it won't show anything at all in the screen until the document is printed. And export to PDF counts as "printing".
Always your last check should be print or print preview.
There's a supreme court precedent that says that federal courts do not have the equitable power to put an injunction on the president's official duties. That protection does not extend to any official under the president.
This precedent is older than the Trump v. US immunity decision.
They both look like they're going to raise the vindictive prosecution flag. And they're going to want discovery into internal comms showing Trump WH interfering with investigative and charging decisions. So they're gonna have to defeat these same privileges too.
You'd also have to pass a bill through both chambers and the president changing the number of associate justices to "however many judges there are." And logistically, it would be good to change the rules to allow panel decisions or something.
Even if she's been keeping up with the news, she doesn't necessarily know this case is going to be assigned to her until after the complaint is docketed, this morning.
Just read the opinions and go to the hearings. Every damn day those judges will keep saying "the Court" when they really mean themselves. Because they're too stuck up to refer to themselves in the first person.
This is in DC, which is not a state. The lower court here is "DC Superior Court". Apparently the charge in DC Superior Court is a federal statute that could have been charged in the federal court.
NPR and PBS national orgs were getting a low percentage of their funding directly from CPB, but they got more money indirectly that CPB sent to local stations, and the stations then paid back in program fees to the national org.
