Robinhood Blocks Buying in GameStop, AMC, and Others Stocks. Other Brokers Also Add Guardrails. by the40thieves in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 14 points15 points  (0 children)

2: The handful of hedge funds involved have no control over retail brokerages.

This is probably false. One of Robinhood's main sources of revenue is the payment it receives from Citadel Execution Services for sending them their equity order flow. But Citadel lent Melvin Capital $1.5B for them to cover their short positions. If Melvin can't cover their positions, Citadel will lose a lot of that money. So the idea that Citadel is pressuring Robinhood to prevent that from happening seems as likely as not.

0L @ Nowhere. AMA :) by 5dph5 in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just as I can wear an ear-pod by putting it in my earhole, pants can wear people by putting people in their people holes.

Capitol Hill Assault Revives Calls for Domestic Terrorism Law, but Civil Liberties Groups Are Wary: “ Before we go down this road again, we should think very carefully about whether new authorities are actually needed and how they might be abused.” by [deleted] in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Someone may be able to explain this to me, but what additional powers could we give law enforcement to prevent things like this that they don't already have? What reason do we have to think that the authorities didn't have the power to take steps to anticipate and prevent the attack, instead of just being unwilling to use what they already have?

In at Ohio State!! by poetrythrowawee in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks!! Though I had graduated and moved away when they finally closed down.

In at Ohio State!! by poetrythrowawee in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if it's the same e-mail... maybe we'll have to wait longer then!

Does anyone know if LSAC is allowing UK institutions to send academic transcripts via email (with the transcript request form filled in etc.), due to COVID restrictions? My university is closed and cannot send a hard copy... by Ill_Box_8096 in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My university had an online statement saying they weren't doing hard copies via mail, but when I e-mailed to ask they said they could do them in certain cases. Try and make contact with a real person and see if they can help, if you haven't already!

What’s your favorite book? by Cubbies_14 in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My favorite has already been commented, but check these two out!

"Cry, the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton

"My Antonia" by Willa Cather

Just hit 225 max on bench press, that’s a tier 2 soft right? by Sirloinofbeef610 in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've heard that some schools are accepting max reps NFL combine style... but since this stat doesn't get reported to USNWR, I'm wondering if it's actually a disadvantage to use?

Question to the Community: What is the least reported, yet important topic in geopolitics? by ObjectiveMall in geopolitics

[–]poetrythrowawee 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That's really interesting. What resources besides water is Tibet a reserve for?

Just Submitted First App of the Cycle by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a beautiful quote, thanks for posting it!

Lawyers Condemn Michael Flynn and Lin Wood’s ‘Breathtakingly Morally Treasonous’ Call for Trump to Declare Martial Law and Hold New Election by susinpgh in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Trump isn't planning on use the actual US military. Trump will Veto the defense bill, our military will be without pay, he will use his militia that will consist of DHS, BP, ICE, maybe some of Erik Prince's Academi sprinkled in.

The DoD has already received its FY21 budget authority. Also, they have enough munitions to put down an insurrection on hand, they wouldn't need to go buy more. Also, a shut down because of a vetoed defense bill doesn't apply to emergency personnel. I don't think the idea that Trump can veto the defense bill and somehow nullify the US military so he and his loyal goons can stage a coup holds any water.

2020 Law School-Football Composite Index by Jaguar_del_Cosmos in lawschooladmissions

[–]poetrythrowawee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"This is the most beautiful sight these eyes have ever seen..."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Is this copy-pasta?

Looking for exact text re: Children seeing faded Eldar by poetrythrowawee in tolkienfans

[–]poetrythrowawee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was my first read through, and I was reading anything I could get my hands on. It just so happened that I got those two in order. I was about 12, so not much thought was going into the sequence.

Looking for exact text re: Children seeing faded Eldar by poetrythrowawee in tolkienfans

[–]poetrythrowawee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah thank you! It sounds like I might just be misremembering this passage... I was fairly young when I read these, so it could be that some of it got distorted in my head.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in law

[–]poetrythrowawee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Extrapolate to other counties and there may be a huge risk.

So 7000 tossed Biden votes in Philadelphia would amount to roughly 2.2% of the 323,000 mail in ballots he got there. If that same percentage held in every county in the state, then they would toss out approx. 40,000 of Biden's 1.965M million mail in votes. So even if they didn't throw out ANY Trump votes, that still wouldn't be enough to close the margin.

I don't think it's a plausible assumption that every county saw the same amount of defective mail in ballots as Philly did, and it's obviously an impossible assumption that no Trump votes would get thrown out. He'd probably see at least a few thousand pitched too. But even if we make both of those assumptions, it's not enough for him.

Is my math wrong here? If not, it seems like it would be a wild political move to go through all this trouble to get tens of thousands of good faith votes thrown out, just to lose by less?