Also, the verb meaning to slow down is not the same word and is not pronounced the same way as the noun, which is an unambiguously insulting word for a person.

I love how the Trump Administration is causing me to read about all these Constitutional provisions I never paid attention to before.

I don’t 3288 can be used to toll the statute of limitations with an indictment that was a nullity from the outset. So I think the prosecution of Comey is done. But they will appeal, who knows what the SCt will do, and the 3288 issue will have to be litigated if they try to re-indict.

But I’m not sure 18 USC 3288 will work if the operative indictment was in fact never presented to the GJ before the statute of limitations period. It seems like the GJ never actually considered and voted on the 2-count indictment, which may be fatal.

Maybe not. See 18 USC 3288.
www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

A failure? Doge got what it wanted and left, like a bank robber gets what he wants and leaves. Doge did irreparable damage to government and walked away with incalculably valuable private data. That was always the goal.

Yes, they are leaving. Like bank robbers leave as soon as they get what they were after - they don’t stick around and expect a permanent desk. The fact that Doge is leaving now just means they already got everything they wanted.

I don’t think he made that promise or that he should have made that promise. As you say, it would have made him a lame duck. And he accomplished far more than he gets credit for. But he did decide to step down early, and if he had done it sooner, it would have put Harris in a stronger position.

Not blaming anyone, just saying what I thought Biden might do when I voted in 2020. I supported Harris in the primary in 2020 and in the general election in 2024, so I always thought she would be good. But she had only three months to campaign in 2024, which put her in a very tough spot.

He was smart enough to pass a bar exam, but he never had the intelligence, the judgment, or the interpersonal skills to be a good lawyer. That‘s why he never practiced law.

I thought Biden would likely step down after three years and hand off to Harris. He dealt with COVID, passed big legislation, and deserved to be able to retire. Showing the humility to voluntarily give up power would have offered a powerful contrast to Trump and put Harris in a strong position.

The only actual convictions for seditious conspiracy in recent years have been against some of Trump’s J6ers. And he pardoned them, because they were just doing what he wanted them to do

Yes. She is figuring the Dems will take the House, she doesn’t want to be in the minority, and she would rather spend her time campaigning for Senator or Governor.

If the Supreme Court backs up Trump on this, it will have to find, as a matter of fact, that these people being killed are soldiers, not drug runners. I don't think there is any evidence at all for that.

I don’t think there is evidence to support Cotten’s claim that “We can be confident all of these strikes have been against cartel-based drug traffickers,” but even if it were true, it would be irrelevant.

The asserted legal basis for the strikes is explicitly that the boats are part of an armed conflict, that the people killed were “enemy combatants.” That is the official government position. There is no legal authority to blow up people just for being drug smugglers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

The administration‘s claim is that we are not looking at drug cartels using violence to protect their drug sales - we are looking at military operatives using drug sales to fund a military invasion of the US. That‘s the legal argument for involving the military.

In most cases, it’s not public who the people were. And the families might be a bit nervous about talking to reporters. Anyway, the issue isn’t whether they were drug runners - the claim is they were enemy combatants on their way to attack the US mainland. There’s no evidence for that.

Yes, it seems like it would have been necessary to state explicitly that they did find a true bill for counts 2 and 3. But instead it says count 1 was rejected and the other two are simply not addressed at all.