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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2h

and its further-up-the-coast cousin, Lompoc

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2h

as a childless person my favorite indirect benefit of my taxes going to good public schools is I figure it reduces the likelihood some current five-year old is going to mug me on the sidewalk 10-15 years from now

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 6h

with Kerry winning and Rehnquist still dying, it would have been the first time a Democrat appointed the Chief Justice since 1946

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 7h

that episode ran in *2004*! they were arguing there was no difference between George W Bush and John Kerry!
(Bush appointed Roberts and Alito in his *second* term; maybe O'Connor doesn't retire if Kerry had won, but we can assume Rehnquist would still have died)

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 21h

note per a new Ninth Circuit procedure adopted this summer they'll be staying with the case as the merits panel
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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 3d

GO 6.4(d)
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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 22h

per wikipedia

Connecticut expanded electorate to add all town meeting voters;[108] New Hampshire dropped certain property requirements, and added town delegates;[109] Rhode Island put the question to a referendum which rejected the ratification convention, the Federalist minority centered in Newport and Providence boycotted the election;[110] Virginia dropped "legal and Constitutional requirements" to expand the freehold electorate;[111] New York dropped property requirements, timed assembly elections at the same time, and allowed up to five sequential days of voting until the voting rolls were "complete".[112]

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 22h

I recall Amar supporting that argument by noting how the states tended to loosen their voting requirements (property ownership, etc) in the elections for delegates to the conventions to ratify the constitution

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 22h

god, I've spent so much time on that platform at Balboa Park waiting for the next train so I can get to SFO

ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 22h

sort of like a version of the swiss-cheese model of safety; as time marches on there would be less slices of mass die-off they necessarily would have to survive

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 22h

as in currently someone approaching the record would have had to survive WWI, the Spanish Flu, WW2, the Great Leap Forward, etc., but as time passes there are necessarily less of those a person would have to had survive

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 22h

I may not be thinking of this properly, but I wonder if we're going to see more people taking a run at her record when their necessary lifespan starts shifting past major global die-offs they would have to have survived

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 1d

the final creation of Don Draper!

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 1d

after the war we drafted Japan's new constitution *for them* and it looks nothing like ours!

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Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social · 2d

Worth reading: Judge Immergut’s decision in Oregon v. Trump, granting a TRO enjoining DJT from federalizing the Oregon Nat’l Guard and deploying them to Portland. I link it at the next post in this thread, followed by some thoughts. (1/18)

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2d

one of them is Dennehy, right?

The 1980 BBC series, Oppenheimer, featured Manning Redwood as Groves. The same year, he was played by Richard Herd in the American television movie, Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb. In the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy, he was portrayed by Paul Newman,[68] and in the made-for-TV movie of the same year, Day One, by Brian Dennehy.[69] In 1995, Groves was portrayed by Richard Masur in the Japanese-Canadian made-for-television movie Hiroshima.[70] He was portrayed by Eric Owens in the 2007 Lyric Opera of Chicago's work Doctor Atomic. The opera follows Oppenheimer, Groves, Edward Teller and others in the days preceding the Trinity test.[71] Groves is played by Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer.[72]

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2d

just 40 hours left if they still want to try to pull off a perp walk

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2d

80% of all of this is driven by these people having to hear "para espanol, prima numero dos"

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2d

who would have standing to challenge it?

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2d

is admissibility at trial relevant to a Brady analysis? (I have no idea, I'm not a criminal practitioner) in any event, as a memo generated by the US Gov't in a criminal prosecution wouldn't it be non-hearsay as a party-opponent admission?

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2d

so this would be Brady material, right? there's not some kind of work-product protection for prosecutors?

After conducting their own two-month investigation, prosecutors in Virginia reached the same conclusion as both Durham and the D.C. prosecutors: They'd be unable to prove Comey made false statements to Congress to obstruct their investigation. Presenting their findings in a lengthy declination memo, the prosecutors explicitly mentioned the two other investigations to bolster their recommendation that probable cause does not exist to charge Comey, according to sources familiar with the contents of the memo.

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 2d

think of how many different rightsholders are implicated when I generate an all-naked version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 3d

Directed by Otto Preminger! Jimmy Stewart cast-against-type! George C. Scott knocking it out of the park! Music by Duke Ellington! The judge is played by Joseph Welch (the "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?" real-life lawyer guy)!

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 3d

miffed the list of "legal movies lawyers like" didn't include Anatomy of a Murder (I am lawyer and it's my favorite legal movie)

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ubermitch.bsky.social @ubermitch.bsky.social · 3d

a great example is how the results of the 1860 election in the South are wildly incompatible with anything that could be called a democracy

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