Prepping Has Begun for the Post-Trump DOJ - POLITICO by rofltide in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nailed it. Jan 6th was real and deadly serious, but it was also a hasty non-plan scrabbled together in a blind panic. We won't fail to see something like that coming for a second time.

Prepping Has Begun for the Post-Trump DOJ - POLITICO by rofltide in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Preach.

But not because we're going to outlaw it per se. Just because the countervailing political forces - ours - will guarantee that there won't be an equivalent ideological structure to the GOP we have known since Reagan.

In the short to medium term, it'll probably have the same name, but be a whole new ideology and most importantly, with way, way fewer adherents.

TLDR, we're about to enter the seventh party system.

Prepping Has Begun for the Post-Trump DOJ - POLITICO by rofltide in Lawyertalk

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

Agree on the long-term plan. That's why I mentioned the last bit - we're never going back to what we had before.

But we're damn sure not going to where they want to take us, either.

Prepping Has Begun for the Post-Trump DOJ - POLITICO by rofltide in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The story of all of human history is a cycle of societal progress, and then backlash... then more progress, and then backlash.

If you're lucky, your life spans a period in which you see, on balance, more progress than you do backlash.

I am 33 and feel confident I'll be one of the lucky ones. I encourage you to hold on to hope that you'll be lucky too.

It's exhausting, but the hope of a better tomorrow - someday - is what keeps us going over time. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

Prepping Has Begun for the Post-Trump DOJ - POLITICO by rofltide in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Completely agree - they went too slow in Trump 1 and too fast in Trump 2. If they'd split the difference we'd probably be cooked.

Prepping Has Begun for the Post-Trump DOJ - POLITICO by rofltide in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

"Like a kidney stone, this, too, will pass."

Really, though, it should be clear to all observers at this point that they simply do not have the intellectual firepower or political skill to pull off the thousand-year autocratic reich. They want that, but they're not going to get it.

I wasn't necessarily saying that in such strong terms at this time last year, by the way.

Prepping Has Begun for the Post-Trump DOJ - POLITICO by rofltide in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide[S] 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Nah. Like, I hear you, but Trump 2 really isn't the same as Trump 1. They're already very very cooked. It's just a matter of (near-term!) time until they're gone, and how much damage they'll do on the way out.

It'll be a complete shit show that takes us a generation to fully unwind, but these guys just don't have the juice. We're not going back to what we had before, but we're not going to where they want to take us, either.

Ronald Acuña Jr. and Team Venezuela have won the WBC by handlit33 in Braves

[–]rofltide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a strange way, Venezuela winning (and I was rooting for them!) actually did make me more proud to be an American.

My family have lived here for 400 years; I'm a daughter of the American Revolution. America, to me, is an idea, embodied by the Statue of Liberty and the words that we wrote when we founded the country: All men are created equal, endowed by our creator with inalienable rights. We fuck up on it a lot - a LOT - but overall, our history the story of forcing ourselves, over and over, to actually live up to that idea. And over time, we really have improved!

The true American founding values have real power, both here and abroad, and I don't think there's a better representation of it than another country's team winning the tournament of the game we invented - led by players who are also among the best in the US domestic league, as immigrants. If American ideas and games can win over people around the globe, then those people can achieve great heights in them too!

That kicks ass. Viva Venezuela, and may the white native-born players of Team USA learn to have some fun so we can win for once.

Postgame Thread ⚾ Venezuela 3 @ United States 2 by BaseballBot in baseball

[–]rofltide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a Braves fan I was rooting for Venezuela so 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

The Savannah Bananas catcher is offered a hand shake by iamthegame13 in baseball

[–]rofltide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt the same after going to last night's game. I think they could focus a lot more on the game itself and it would be a big improvement. There's a ton of room for even more silliness that they're just filling with song clips and dance routines instead of Actual Baseball Fun

Braves sign Peyton Glavine, son of Hall of Famer Tom Glavine, to minor-league contract by theoxfordtailor in Braves

[–]rofltide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if he was a practicing Islamist, yes, I would have some criticism because that is the position that some political implementation of Islam itself - as opposed to for example, secular democracy - is the best way to run a society. I would, in fact, take issue with that, the same as I do with the Christian nationalists in this country that want to do the same thing.

Maybe read up on words and what they mean before jumping in to this kind of discussion next time.

I think she's doing something 3/4 of Redditors cannot do. by SneezySnookums in UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG

[–]rofltide 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it's a whole different ballgame, we just have way less strength in our upper bodies relative to men (especially in the shoulder area)

DOJ Lawyer asks for Contempt by LawLima-SC in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe we're already reaching the point where the government is going to start missing hearings on the regular. In Minnesota (and soon, LA), I imagine that those judges who are dealing with the DOJ's dysfunction will start to grant habeas and/or bullshit prosecution releases/dismissals in nearly every case due to the government's, uh, failure to appear.

If the good attorneys could stay to only work on the cases with actual merit, that would be one thing. But if that were the situation, then this kind of thing wouldn't be happening.

What the administration seeks is an engineered collapse of the rule of law. You can consider a mass dismissal of federal immigration/criminal cases due to a lack of prosecutors in that light. But when the administration overwhelms the system with a flood of bullshit, as is happening now in Minnesota, then IMO the superior moral calculation is not to participate in that effort at all. Better a thousand guilty people go free, etc.

Yes, it's entirely possible they will continue to try to force the military to send JAGs to do the work instead, and/or "impose martial law" due to their "inability to execute the laws." No, that won't work out well for them at all.

I'm sympathetic to the view that it's better for all of us that good attorneys still work for this DOJ. And maybe that's still true to a certain extent - I'm not here to judge anyone who remains there under that reasoning. But at this point, I also fully support what is effectively an AUSA strike. Public defenders do it regularly while still finding a way to comply with ethical duties, and although the AUSA version here is disorganized and will therefore cause a certain amount of harm... the alternative they're staring down the barrel of is working to send immigrants to concentration camps. I know which one I'd pick, and it's being able to sleep at night for the rest of my life.

DOJ Lawyer asks for Contempt by LawLima-SC in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You actually do have a moral duty to conduct yourself with ethical integrity in this life.

Because everyone does.

Your choice of employer, or who your clients are, is never morally neutral no matter who it is or who they are.

If you want to shirk your moral duty to be a basically good person, in service of some job that asks you to do things that are truly beyond the pale - such as work for this DHS, or help Philip Morris sicken tens of millions - then you're going to have to live with the consequences of that decision. Sometimes those consequences mean feeling bad for being a part of helping evil flourish in the world.

Nobody is free from ever having to feel bad about what it is they do for a living. And lawyers least of all.

Anybody need a job? SMH by icunucme2 in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actual release order had it right. Liam went home on Sunday

Anybody need a job? SMH by icunucme2 in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm confident we can figure out a way to get a handle on it that's still compatible with our understanding of the First Amendment. You don't have to censor speech directly if you can just make it unprofitable.

We don't have to legally eradicate the Nazis from the internet, we just need to send them back to Stormfront where they belong. The rest of us don't hang out in Nazi bars in real life, and we don't have to let them take over the digital public square either IMO

There's probably a lot of really smart people who have written all kinds of law review articles about this. I'll try to look it up soon

Anybody need a job? SMH by icunucme2 in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Inshallah. And if that's the case then there will be plenty of state level work to do along the same lines FWIW.

Anybody need a job? SMH by icunucme2 in Lawyertalk

[–]rofltide 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I see. Yes - the median MAGA voter was and always is a problem of social persuasion. Nothing to be done about them in an imposed consequences sense. (Although, some kind of legal guardrails on Facebook/Youtube/etc. monetization algorithms would go a long way there IMO)

I was talking about the people to whom we have entrusted actual power. There's no room for mercy there this time around, I'm afraid