The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: No smocking guns. - Page 1398 - Politics and Economics

As I said earlier, it's not as strange a coalition as you might think. It's not that unusual for a liberal justice to vote with conservative colleagues, or vice versa.

Scalia wrote some very good 4th Amendment decisions. And I'm sure that most posters on this site would disagree with John Paul Stevens's views on flag burning. It really depends on the issue.

SCOTUS decision making is politicized, but less so than most assume.

Well the whole point of SCOTUS was to be apolitical and unbiased. Relative to the other two branches, it is far less politicized and we should be grateful for that. Once FDR tried to angle the judicial system through court packing, that loophole was closed off.

05-22-2017 , 07:32 PM

#34927

Riverman

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This is why you don't talk to police

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkZf6_jK3Zs

05-22-2017 , 07:37 PM

#34928

Our House

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Don't worry folks, nothing bad is happening. The government is running like a well oiled machine, says Fox.

https://twitter.com/foxnewspolitics/...35866886184965

05-22-2017 , 07:39 PM

#34929

RV Life

old hand

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LOL Pence can't even get through a college graduation w/o being booed and walked out on.

05-22-2017 , 07:41 PM

#34930

LFS

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RV Life

LOL Pence can't even get through a college graduation w/o being booed and walked out on.

From what I saw, that was a pretty weak walk-out imo.

05-22-2017 , 07:45 PM

#34931

David Sklansky

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Rococo

If a person is very intelligent, prides himself on not being biased, but is in fact biased, he will tend need a decision to be closer before he will go against the better argument, than an average biased person.

05-22-2017 , 07:48 PM

#34932

ScreaminAsian

For President

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https://assets2.onionstatic.com/onio...ngs_1_SCAN.pdf

05-22-2017 , 07:54 PM

#34933

fatkid

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Given that it happened at the very end of the concert, it could very easily be a pyrotechnic or electrical problem that led to this rather than terrorism. Perhaps some fireworks were supposed to go off or something like that and it blew up in their faces.

They are saying 20 dead. That's not Pyro.

05-22-2017 , 07:56 PM

#34934

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

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Quote:

Originally Posted by fatkid

They are saying 20 dead. That's not Pyro.

Yeah posted exactly that in the thread dedicated to it.

Somebody brought up giant balloons exploding but that seems far-fetched. But I guess it could be anything.

Last edited by SuperUberBob; 05-22-2017 at 08:18 PM. Reason: yeah it isn't flammable gfy

05-22-2017 , 08:12 PM

#34935

RV Life

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Quote:

Originally Posted by LFS

From what I saw, that was a pretty weak walk-out imo.

I'm sure there was a large percentage that wanted to walk out but didn't walk out b/c they didn't want to upset their family or friends that came to the graduation. I know if I were 21, and my parents had dropped $250K for my college education, I'd be sitting in my seat even if Hitler was giving the speech.

05-22-2017 , 08:13 PM

#34936

stinkubus

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Helium isn't flammable.

Last edited by stinkubus; 05-22-2017 at 08:15 PM. Reason: added the vid for lulz

05-22-2017 , 08:16 PM

#34937

5ive

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Quote:

Originally Posted by einbert

Could this be related to THE ORB OF POWER????

https://twitter.com/New_Narrative/st...68909063061504

05-22-2017 , 08:29 PM

#34938

Huehuecoyotl

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https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/...88298461700096

05-22-2017 , 08:46 PM

#34939

SuperUberBob

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So what's Trump tweet gonna be on the Manchester incident?

"Fake news CNN covered something in England instead of me brokering peace in the Middle East! Sad!"

05-22-2017 , 08:51 PM

#34940

Kirbynator

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trump is probably really happy the news wont cover too much about him obstructing and flynn lying

05-22-2017 , 08:58 PM

#34941

lycosid

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Quote:

Originally Posted by David Sklansky

Two obvious times where truthful testimony from an innocent person would do him more harm than good:

1. He would have to admit to small crime while he is explaining why he didn't commit the major crime. ("I couldn't have robbed the bank because I was at my friend's house doing drugs"). If he is going to win his case anyway he might invoke the 5th.

2. The truth will increase the chances of an incorrect guilty verdict. ("Yes it was me who had been secretly sending Mary love letters but I didn't kill her")

Plus of course a lot of lawyers will recommend invoking the fifth simply because they see no upside to testifying even if there isn't an obvious downside. Theoretically that invocation is not supposed to influence a verdict. I'm guessing it probably does (as it actually should, mathematically speaking) but probably only slightly.

3 is that people can get pressured or led into saying things that look bad even if they're innocent. Anyone who's worked with witnesses in any capacity has seen the happen. People get flustered, and while the respondent has likely only done this once or never before, the inquisitor is a professional.

05-22-2017 , 09:02 PM

#34942

Our House

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyWf

"Please let there be a terrorist attack somewhere. Please let there be a terrorist atta...I'm in the MIDDLE EAST (until I get to Israel) DAMNIT!"

05-22-2017 , 09:04 PM

#34943

SuperUberBob

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Think Trump gives out one civil, human tweet then follows it up with a tweetstorm of anti-Islam rhetoric and another go at a Muslim ban.

05-22-2017 , 09:11 PM

#34944

Oroku$aki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

Seriously, what is the straight explanation for the orb?

05-22-2017 , 09:21 PM

#34945

ligastar

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Quote:

Originally Posted by master3004

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.d2d3f03da41a

Trump is lawyering up

lol. trumpsters will be paying for his legal bills.

Quote:

The White House did not respond to requests for comment about how Trump would pay for his outside legal team, the cost of which cannot be covered by the federal government. But campaign finance lawyers said Trump could probably draw funds from his reelection committee to cover legal expenses related to the Russia inquiries, including money donated this year.

05-22-2017 , 09:28 PM

#34946

SuperUberBob

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Yeah but they'll be happy doing it so long as daddy stays in office.

05-22-2017 , 09:30 PM

#34947

5ive

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Lestat recharged his power levels.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lestat

Taking pages out of Trump's playbook by repeating lies over and over and over again doesn't make them true. You can start using all caps if you'd like and it doesn't make it any less true that I voted for HRC. You can't change the truth by repeating lies Trump for brains.

And false equivalency? Who the **** do you think first pushed for the 3 strikes law Trump for brains? You think HRC gives a **** about people in jail? To the extent that it helps her politically, she got on board with paying lip service to criminal justice reform.

Don't blame me for Sessions. Even now that she's gone and irrelevant, lemmings like you intolerant to any other held position, are STILL propping up a lying, cutthroat, run of the mill politician, instead of pushing for true progressive values. That's what got Trump elected and Sessions in.

You're talking about the superpredator thing, right?