That’s a lower court ruling so, if and until SCOTUS rules on that or a similar case, I don’t think the lower courts ruling can be considered the final word.
Of course, while this SCOTUS would decide in favor of whatever is best for Trump, I am not so sure that their largesse extends to the likes of Bannon. Trump has a history of hanging his minions out to dry.
Actually, it is the final word if/until the SCOTUS rules to overturn it. That’s how the process works. But more to the point, I think the court record is rife with similar interpretations. Burdick was never meant to impute legal implications for accepting a pardon.
Of course, I’m a geologist with a minor in history, not a high school coach…wait…wrong thread.
It’s so quaint to believe that this Supreme Court would let stand a previous decision they didn’t like.
Brexit update:
This isn’t parody, this is real. It is new PM Liz Truss’ Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Word from the GOP is that this judge has now cemented her spot on the U.S. Supreme Court for the next Republican appointed/approved opening. This was her entire motivation for supporting Trump on this deal, the legal reasoning be damned. So yeah…it’s worse than a renegade judge, it’s actual, real-life cronyism for the ultimate position in American jurisprudence.
Mongolia one one hand, continental Europe on the other…same!
Opening a market like that could lead to the employment of several!
Apparently, there are 11 KFCs in Mongolia. Which is one more than 10.
Well, several chickens, anyway.
Mongolia raises Mongols! Mongolia don’t raise no chickens!
Finding Out update:
In addition to Bannon getting indicted for fraud tomorrow, Stewart Rhodes is in court today (well, his lawyers are, he’s in jail attending via Zoom) trying to get his trial postponed. It’s scheduled for Sept 27, and he’s trying to fire his current representation to appoint a new attorney.
The judge told him to get fucked. He refused to move the trial - apparently, at the defense’s insistence, they’ve pooled over 150 potential jurors - and refused to approve the change of representation. The judge told Rhodes he can have his new lawyers at the defense table too, if he wants, “it’s a big table.”
One of the reasons Rhodes gave for wanting new lawyers is that one of his original lawyers got arrested for her part in the Jan 6 riot. I’m no lawyer, but it’s probably not the best idea to be represented by someone who participated in the same crime as you.
Rhodes is still under the delusion that if he drags it out long enough, Trump will be re-instated as President, and he’ll be pardoned. And possibly named to a high-level cabinet post.
Exactly.
Abbott has handed him three major issues to run on: abortion, energy and guns. Beto is doing an exceptional job of staying on message on all three.
It’s almost as if the guy is a lifelong entitled grifter, who just sees anything not nailed down as his birthright, so a giant pot of money is irresistible to him.
See also secrets, nuclear.
Yet another hero blows the whistle on what Trump was up to 5 years after it happened in order to make money selling a book. Fuck these people.
Alabama is locking up pregnant women to protect the life of the fetus.
I shouldn’t be shocked about how dystopian this got and how quickly, but I am.
The “arrested with unregistered gun” part, though
I figured an unregistered gun would qualify her for sainthood. Isn’t gun registration the devil’s work?
Depends…is she white?
