Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1. 18:00 - The flaw in the Supreme Court's reasoning there is that punitive damages aren't determined by the amount of money the defendant needs to give the plaintiff to compensate them for the harm suffered; they're determined by the amount of money you need to fine the defendant to deter them from doing it again. Requiring punitive damages to be proportionate to compensatory damages would defeat the whole purpose of punitive damages, which is (as the name suggests) to punish the offender, rather than to compensate the victim.
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  2. TBH Desatan is exactly the kind of person who'd kill his own descendants just to seize control of Disneyworld sooner.
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  3. One major difference between this and the Streisand case: the picture of Streisand's house wasn't labelled or distinguished in any way that would identify it as her house to a casual observer. The IG post of Jacksfilms's house was specifically called out as his and his family's residence.
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  4. I hope Judge Ho asks all the hard questions. I also hope he doesn't end up getting thrown out a window for it.
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  5. It's a shame juries aren't allowed to award "all the defendant's money" as punitive damages...
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  6.  @anonymoushuman8443  Objection: irrelevant
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  7.  @lgbtthefeministgamer4039  They voted for him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  8. 16:23 - Apparently, the city and the police department conveniently ignored the fact that the Takings Clause itself draws no such distinction and names no exceptions to the requirement that property owners be compensated when their property is taken.
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  9. 9:10 - After the events of the past year or so, I'd hesitate to call anything "settled law that won't be overturned anytime soon".
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  10. I wonder... what's stopping the rest of the U.S. judicial system from simply ignoring this ruling? The Supreme Court has no power to compel adherence to its rulings; the only reason they're generally obeyed is that the Supreme Court is respected as a (theoretically-)impartial arbiter of the law. If the Supreme Court shatters that respect by making a ruling with no factual basis whatsoever, what stops the lower courts from acting as if the Supreme Court is incapacitated and simply defying said nonsensical ruling?
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  11. Why's the video disappeared?
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  12. Delete section 3 and you're good. Edit: Also, replace "blood or marriage" with "blood, adoption, or marriage" in section 5.
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  13. Well, if a vacancy just coincidentally were to happen to open up... (wink wink, nudge nudge)
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  14. Well, if she just so happened to have an "unfortunate" "accident" sometime in the near future... 😉
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  15. Arrange for six specific judges to have "unfortunate" "accidents"?
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  16. OBJECTION: you don't consider having an armed mob storm the Capitol to be "levying war against the United States"?
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  17. Aaaaand the Alabama Supreme Court is officially off its meds.
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  18. Why do the courts even give deference to assessments and determinations by government entities in the first place? If you're in court and the prosecutor asks why you killed your neighbor, you can't just say "I determined that it was necessary to kill them", you have to justify your decisions and actions to the court. There's no reason why government entities shouldn't have to justify their own decisions and determinations in open court. Oh, and we also need a law to prevent the government from submitting classified information as evidence in court, and to automatically declassify any classified information required as evidence by a party opposing the government in court.
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  19. Ah, politics...
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  20. 20:10 - PSA for fellow trans USians, stock up on your HRT NOW, while you still have the chance. There's no way he's gonna stop at "just" banning federal funding for gender-affirming care rather than going for a complete ban on any and all such treatment.
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  21. You don't say...
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  22. Agreed wholeheartedly. Though in my particular case there's an even more compelling reason for voting blue; Trump and his party've explicitly pledged to wipe out a segment of the population to which I belong.
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  23. 10:06 - Objection: They're a bunch of supervillains. Somehow I doubt that they care about anything more than the facade of a constitutionally-permissible trial.
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  24. 17:54 - Those aren't actually caltrops in that photo. Those are what's known as "Czech [or Ukrainian in this case, I guess] hedgehogs", and they're built to physically block or hang up vehicles (especially tanks), rather than puncture tyres.
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  25. 12:35 - "Alito wrote that overturning the precedent would not hurt women because there's no evidence that women rely on the right to abortion in living their lives." Has Alito ever met any women?
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  26.  @LegionofSH  Most of Europe had birthright citizenship until the 19th/20th centuries; its present lack of same is a historical aberration.
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  27. And nothing of value was lost.
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  28.  @chrisbeer5685  Better yet, just make it so that current and former presidents aren't eligible for federal pardons.
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  29. 0:36 - Objection: going from no lamps to one is ∞% more lamps, not 100% more lamps.
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  30. 15:33 - Translation: Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist and certified A-hole who's butthurt about getting called out on his bovine fecal matter.
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  31. 6:58 - "We have a suspect who's armed and possibly under the influence of goodness knows what. Let's escalate the situation further!"
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  32. 14:10 - Granted, the other person might well've deserved it, but it's technically still illegal to try to murder someone.
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  33. In a sensible country, all laws would be self-executing. The United States is not a sensible country.
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  34. A.k.a. all right-wing influencers.
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  35. 4:52 - Venezuela isn't even Communist. Do some research, Ms. Powell, assuming you know the meaning of that word.
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  36. 18:27 - It should be noted that, aside from turning you a ghastly bluish-gray, silver is (relatively) harmless as far as heavy metals go.
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  37.  @Patrick-kw3on  No it doesn't. One of the core tenets of a republican (small-r) government is that no one is above the law, even those forming the government.
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  38.  @Lobsterwithinternet  Except that even with immunity, the defendant needs to go to court to get the case thrown out anyway, so giving people immunity doesn't actually save that time, energy, and money. It just means that the grounds for throwing out the case're different, and that people with legitimate grievances get screwed over.
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  39. 9:50 - Objection: the U.S. federal government has jurisdiction over intellectual-property law, including, theoretically, the ability to extinguish intellectual-property rights.
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  40. 6:42 - Not that I think Jurassic Park was a good idea, especially not as implemented, but Malcolm's actually barking up the wrong tree there.
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  41. Am transgender, can confirm that 6:28 was a major dick move by that Dutch guy.
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  42. 11:36 - Dammit, Ulbricht, use grammar properly! People are hanged, not hung! 🤦‍♀
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  43. Someone please just fine him "all his money" already!
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  44. 2:16 - Yeesh, they couldn't've simply sold the farmhouse to someone else?
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  45. 13:37 - And no, you can't use this section to sue your neighbor for their router interfering with your wifi signal, because wifi uses the ISM (Industrial/Scientific/Medical) bands, which are unlicensed and open for any use, thus failing the "licensed or authorized by or under this chapter" test.
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  46. 1:04 - <pedantry>Technically, it was a lyre, not a fiddle (the fiddle hadn't been invented yet).</pedantry>
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  47. 9:38 - OBJECTION! I'll give you endangering lives, but it's conceivable Nedry's contract was drafted poorly enough to not actually restrict what he's allowed to do with the computer system that he built and programmed.
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  48. 12:12 - "Cuomo claims that he followed the Trump administration's guidelines" Since when has that ever turned out well?
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  49. 15:53 - Objection: "best seller" and "America's favorite" can both be objectively measured by comparing sales data for the different brands on the market.
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  50. 16:58 - "He wrote that 'the nine unelected members of this court do not possess the constitutional authority to override the democratic process...'" With all due respect, Justice Kavanaugh, you are a moron.
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  51. 13:11 - Or the jury might simply've been racist, like American society in general.
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  52. Trump used Frivolous Lawsuit! It's not very effective...
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  53. Worth noting that the MCA itself is very likely unconstitutional; the 1886 case of United States v. Kagama, which upheld it, would almost certainly be decided differently were it to occur today (in which case only tribal courts would have jurisdiction to hear cases arising from crimes on reservation land).
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  54. 0:32 - Of course, James Bond's shenanigans are all (presumably) authorized by his higher-ups.
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  55. 1:52 - If you want to be able to concentrate on your duties without getting sued, then avoid doing things that could justify you being sued, just like, y'know, literally everyone who doesn't work for the government does. All immunizing government officials from suit does is allow said officials to violate people's rights and get away with it.
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  56. 12:53 - "So why this once?" 'Cause Twitter's CEO has a crush on Trump.
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  57. 12:50 - Does that even matter, tho? There may not've been cargo ships of that size in the 1970s, but there were warships that big, and it doesn't really matter to the bridge whether it's being rammed by a 100,000-ton cargo ship or a 100,000-ton supercarrier.
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  58.  @Kami-ej9su  ...and if the Navy needed to get a supercarrier into Baltimore for whatever reason?
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  59. 17:53 - Actually, that's probably even more important for women in those two states who don't have uteri...
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  60. Question: why don't politicians who write tariff laws force importers and manufacturers to eat the cost themselves by making it illegal for them to raise the sales price of their goods to compensate for the tariff?
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  61.  @100andmore5  Seeing whether consumer-end sales prices in the U.S. are being raised or not doesn't require looking at any financial stuff outside the U.S., though.
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  62. @ "but you're still cheering on people getting the entire life they've built destroyed" recall that they voted for destroying that life.
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  63. It seems to me like Vinny isn't a bad lawyer so much as one who hasn't yet gotten used to the rules of the legal system.
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  64. Pity neither DC nor the federal government has a broad felony-murder rule; otherwise, all of those rioters, as well as ex-president Trump, would've been on the hook for capital murder.
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  65. 19:58 - Sovereign immunity is a thoroughly stupid idea that derives directly from the medieval concept of a "divine right of kings".
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  66. Either that or she bribed them to get her off on the defrauding-patients charges.
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  67. Physically shoving someone onto an already-moving train would be negligent or worse even if it didn't make them drop a bomb onto the platform; for instance, it could cause the shovee to stumble and fall onto the tracks, it could cause them to stumble and accidentally knock someone else onto the tracks, the rough handling could break someone's wrist, etc.. In this particular case, that negligence just so happened to cause much wider consequences than it normally would've, including combining with another negligence (the unsecured scale) to seriously injure Ms. Palsgraf (and, realistically, many other people were likely also injured, including some seriously, in the stampede set off by the exploding box).
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  68. 5:58 - Even in "Cases of Rebellion or Invasion", how could the public safety ever justify suspending the privilege of habeas corpus?
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  69. 7:42 - Hoist with their own petard... 😂😂😂
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  70. 6:05 - Why shouldn't you be able to sue foreign governments for being incompetent?
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  71. Objection - one could make a good argument that the Robinhood user agreement is a "contract of adhesion", as it provides no opportunity for users to negotiate or opt out of terms of the agreement; contracts of adhesion are illegal and cannot be enforced against the disadvantaged party.
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  72. 1:34 - "We are regretfully unable to make guarantees regarding sleet, hail, cold, wind, tornado, nuclear holocaust, zombie apocalypse, heat death of the universe, the end times, or Mrs Cake."
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  73. Things like this case are the reason why the phrase "distinction without a difference" exists.
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  74. Sometimes I wonder why (except for China) countries generally don't execute white-collar criminals. This is one of those times.
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  75. 5:19 - Not that stealing other companies' trade secrets is necessarily wrong, mind you, just illegal.
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  76. By this point they should just make him wear a literal gag when he's not in the courtroom.
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  77. If the rationale behind banning Mimolette is that the mites could theoretically cause an allergic reaction, why not just require a CAUTION CONTAINS ALLERGENS label like they do for foods that contain fish or milk or nuts or metallic nickel?
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  78. Sadly, they probably won't pin anything capital on him.
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  79. 17:29 - Apples and oranges. Declining to enforce individual unwise or poorly-thought-out laws, as Biden may be doing, is a common and legitimate power of the executive branch (it's how, for instance, you can buy pot in Oregon or ship vibrators across state lines despite there being federal laws on the books prohibiting the possession or sale of marijuana and the interstate shipment of "obscene" materials); one of the most important parts of having the power to do something is knowing when not to use it. (Alternatively, given that he has just two days left in office, it might well simply be a matter of him not having enough time remaining for any proceedings to take place before he leaves the White House.) Trump, in contrast, has actually, personally, directly broken the law on multiple occasions and in multiple ways, has attempted to punish people for doing things that aren't illegal, has attempted to (and came very close to succeeding at, and, in the very near future, might very well actually succeed at) overthrow the U.S. federal government and legal system itself...
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  80. 9:59 - Which is especially stupid given that Crosby, had he actually resisted arrest, would've been fully within his rights (as the police were attempting to make an unlawful arrest, a.k.a. kidnapping).
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  81. 8:56 - Objection! Joe Schmoe made that call after watching Tucker Carlson, thus was clearly not acting in good faith.
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  82. Objection: it's a show trial, it being unfair and rigged is the whole point.
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  83. Sadly, Trump still hasn't been charged with anything punishable by 10 years without the right of correspondence.
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  84. 17:47 - Um, why is information about nuclear weapons considered extremely sensitive? It's not like keeping them secret is going to keep other people from building nuclear weapons; designing a working nuke is fairly simple, with the main bottleneck being getting ahold of the materials needed to make one. (Designing an advanced nuke, like a really compact or really efficient one or a thermonuke, is pretty hard, but you don't need an uber-advanced nuke to blow up a city.)
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  85. 6:33 - Was having no #2, and having "don't post on social media" and "don't share with the media" both be #3, intentional?
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  86. 5:17 - Objection: yes, the police used unnecessary force here, but is that really unrealistic for American cops?
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  87. 10:22 - Going by the plain wording of 16 CFR 1500.18, every single toy ever invented would pose a mechanical hazard.
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  88. 0:58 - I would argue that they do have a duty to protect you, but that it's a moral duty rather than a legal duty.
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  89. 11:40 - There was no way for a reasonable person to know that roughly shoving someone on board an already-moving train was a bad idea? Come on. 🤦‍♀️
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  90. 10:00 - Although mostly true, there is an interesting exception to this; there has developed a fairly-solid consensus that, if the Security Council is confronted with a matter within its bailiwick, but proves itself completely incapable of acting (generally due to a deadlock involving the Council's permanent members), its authority falls back onto the General Assembly (look up "Uniting for Peace").
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  91. Sovereign immunity can go frell itself.
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  92. 2:38 - I honestly don't get why the judge is so bent out of shape here. They're not in the office, they're in their own homes, and if their legal arguments aren't sufficient to outweigh what they're wearing, then they're probably not a very good lawyer anyways. (Then again, I've never understood these sort of ridiculous dress codes as anything other than employers yanking their employees' chains to begin with, so...)
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  93. 14:31 - Being masked in public in New York is a loitering violation? Man, Halloween must suck there.
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  94. 8:44 - Did the Supreme Court actually cite anything to support its decision in Nixon v. Fitzgerald, or was it making something up out of whole cloth?
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  95. 1:06 - Granted, that's probably more to do with the current lack of sapient non-human authors than with anything particularly special about humans.
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  96. 4:48 - Wait, so, in that case, why hasn't the government cracked down on homeopathists and non-reformist chiropractors?
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  97. 22:45 - BREAKING: Trump is a loony, news at 11
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  98. 0:38 - Objection! The states and the District of Columbia.
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  99.  @Lobsterwithinternet  We already have a solution for that, it's called "the court throws out the frivolous lawsuit and fines the person who filed it".
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  100. Rudy Giuliani is the Wicked Witch of the West confirmed.
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  101. 3:40 - ...how is that a good thing? If the United States does something illegal in another country, don't we want it to be held responsible for what it's done?
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  102. eats popcorn
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  103.  @petermartinijr.1012  I think that's what Remzi was suggesting (a constitutional amendment to abolish the president's pardon power).
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  104.  @thursafternoon22  If you're arrested for something that's later made legal, you should automatically be released and have the occurrence wiped from your record; it shouldn't depend on the whims of the executive.
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  105.  @First-Last_name  Easier said than done unforts
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  106. 18:01 - Isn't Gotham's actual police force supposed to be so hideously corrupt/incompetent that Batman is actually an improvement?
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  107. Time to imprison the Attorney General for contempt of court...
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  108. 9:43 - Yeahhh, that part of the story really hasn't aged well.
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  109. 0:12 - OBJECTION! He was calling Gennaro "bloodsucking", not you.
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  110. 14:56 - Even if people did outright buy pardons, though, would that actually be illegal? The constitution currently allows the president to pardon whoever they like for whatever reason (presumably including cases where the reason is "they gave me lots of money"), as long as it's for a federal crime that isn't the subject of an impeachment.
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  111. 11:55 - Objection; it's perfectly possible to sit in the driver's seat of a parked vehicle if someone else drove you there.
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  112. 4:38 - Objection; that's still a conspiracy, just not in the criminal sense of the word.
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  113. Except that that's still not provably false; plenty of guilty murderers get acquitted due to various factors such as racism (as likely occurred here), destruction of evidence, etc.
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  114. 10:51 - OBJECTION! Costa Rica does not use the felony murder rule. Felony murder is a common-law legal construct that does not exist in civil-law jurisdictions like Costa Rica (with the single exception of the U.S. state of Louisiana, which, while a civil-law jurisdiction, has been heavily influenced by the common law used in the rest of the United States), and has also been abolished even in a number of common-law jurisdictions (such as England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Canada, and parts of Australia).
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  115. 18:10 - "There are good reasons why we have some of these legal defenses in place" - Except for sovereign immunity, which is an utter crock of shit. 18:18 - "because we don't want lawsuits that stifle speech" - When that speech is a) deliberately and maliciously false and b) is literally killing people, yes we do. To quote Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "your personal liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins".
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  116. 9:20 - And some people use an adblocker, and don't have to see any ads with most websites.
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  117. ...the U.S. Army Air Corps colonel in the 1920s who rigged a military experiment to push a point?
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  118. 7:16 - I still don't get why there exist any crimes that don't require a mens rea.
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  119. 3:34 - Does that law apply specifically to whole humans, or... ?
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  120. Note that something being illegal doesn't necessarily make it morally wrong; one could make an argument that, even if they were technically the victims of crime, Harry and Marv thoroughly deserved it.
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  121. 13:07 - Objection: the Sokovia Accords presumably postdate the treaties guaranteeing freedom to travel between the U.S. and E.U., and would thus override them wherever they conflict (as is the case with literally all law).
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  122. Impeachment isn't the only way a federal judge can be removed from office; they're also automatically removed from office upon death.
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  123.  @Poldovico  If the reason for the trial is unjustified, though, then the orders issued in the course of that trial are no longer lawful court orders.
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  124.  @Jaxck77  They shouldn't even've been able to file their suit against Donziger in the first place, on the grounds of unclean hands (you aren't allowed to use the law against someone else if you're breaking it yourself).
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  125. 3:33 - What would he have, to feel remorse for?
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  126. 16:36 - Fox News represents themselves as part of the news media. The news media, by definition, provide the public, to the best of their ability, with accurate information regarding what's going on. Since Fox pulls everything it says out of its collective ass instead, they're misrepresenting themselves to the public and placing them in danger by speaking with false authority.
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  127.  @Lilger-t4t  "social services can’t handle the strain" is the line they use to make themselves sound respectable. Under the hood, it's still xenophobia and racism, plain and simple.
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  128.  @djixi98  True, that's why we tow and crush illegally-parked cars nowadays.
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  129. By telling his drones to do this, isn't Boiled Ham Face himself committing a crime (by encouraging his lemmings to break the law)?
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  130. The murderer's dead! 😄
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  131. 10:06 - Objection; he called for all the members of Congress to be hanged. For members of Congress to be hung is something completely different, and decidedly less SFW.
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  132. Shame if something happened to "Judge" Martin...
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  133. 4:26 - Wait, Ty Cobb came back from the grave to represent Trump at his impeachment trials?
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  134. Trump just can't keep his mouth shut, can he. 😂
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  135. OK, now the U.S. Supreme Court is also off its meds.
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  136. 5:48 - What if the country does not have a recognized legitimate government at the time an artifact is taken (for instance, Afghanistan currently)?
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  137. 17:57 - Wouldn't Citizens United have nullified that particular aspect of the law?
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  138. Tangential question: if influencing government policy via intimidation or coercion qualifies as terrorism, wouldn't that mean that anyone taking part in a mass protest that influences government policy counts as a terrorist?
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  139. 4:47 - Indicting, arresting, and even imprisoning the president wouldn't "effectively 'remove' [the] President", though. Even an imprisoned president would still be able to sign or veto bills, nominate people for federal offices, give executive orders, etc.; you'd just need to bring the bills to the prison for them to sign or veto and transmit the news of nominations, executive orders, etc. from the prison to the outside world, just like when ordinary prisoners send and receive mail (although presumably with higher levels of security for bills and messages in transit than would be the case for most ordinary prisoners).
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  140. 1:54 - Note that running all those tests on that little blood is theoretically possible - just not with current or near-future technology.
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  141. 20:55 - OBJECTION! The "fossils" in that scene probably weigh nowhere near what you're asserting. Real dinosaur fossils are heavy, but the ones you see on display in museums are plaster casts, which are much lighter, and the one hanging from the roof of the Jurassic Park visitor center is probably made from something even lighter still, like hollow or foamed plastic painted to resemble the real deal, both to reduce the chance of killing or seriously injuring someone if something comes loose, and (probably the main reason in this case) because really heavy things are a giant pain in the ass to hang from ceilings (or even to mount on the ground, albeit to a lesser degree).
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  142. ...How does disabling persistent identifiers require turning off comments? That just seems completely nonsensical. 😕🤨🤔
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  143. 18:02 - OBJECTION! As stated in my earlier comment, Costa Rica does not use the felony murder rule.
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  144. ...What do so many people have against mullets? 😕🤨
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  145. Here's an idea: make copyright trolling punishable by loss of the right to hold copyrights.
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  146. 13:05 - Under the British system, someone can still be declared elected posthumously, although the window of possibility is much narrower. If the candidate dies after the polls close, but before the votes are counted, the votes for the now-dead candidate are considered to still be valid, as they were cast when the candidate was not yet dead, and, if said candidate got the most votes, they get elected posthumously, creating an immediate vacancy.
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  147. I'm honestly surprised noone's put out a hit on him yet.
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  148.  @mementomori7825  Of course, if he just so happened to shuffle off this mortal coil before Election Day 2022, then not even the Republicans would be able to get him into office...
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  149. It's also possible Cody just straight-up lied about getting those other officials involved in seeing whether the warrant was valid.
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  150. 10:00 - The age of consent is under 18 in most of the states, not just some. It's 16 in 31 of the 50 states (including Pennsylvania), as well as DC and most of the territories; it's 17 in seven states; and it's 18 in twelve states and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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  151. Trump has temper tantrum! News at 11!
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  152. 1. If you're worried about China collecting data about USians via TikTok, why not just warn the users about this (and require TikTok to disclose to users that it collects data)? Outright banning it is an extreme, extreme overreaction. 2. What's all this about foreigners not getting free-speech rights? The First Amendment says, in part, "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech...". Nowhere does it say anything about foreigners in the U.S. being excluded from the rights it guarantees. 3. When has the U.S. government ever succeeded at preventing tech users from accessing a major site or platform? 4. 6:13 We should really have a rule banning the government from relying on classified information in court. People challenging the government aren't allowed to use classified information as evidence; why should the government be allowed to?
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  153. Eh, not really surprised given how corrupt we already knew he was.
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  154. 2:54 - Except in Minnesota, where what would be battery in other states is instead another type of assault.
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  155. 23:01 - OBJECTION! OSHA does not have jurisdiction in Costa Rica, what with it being a whole 'nother country and all.
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  156. BREAKING: Sore loser still a loser.
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  157. 8:35 - Not that any of us feel sympathetic for Hobby Lobby over that, given their general assholery.
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  158. 5:51 - "And that they remember, next time they vote..." Bold of you to assume there'll be a next time.
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  159. 13:55 - With the exception of the ISM bands, which are open for unlicensed use (which includes things like microwaves and wifi), and for which jammers are legal.
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  160. 5:40 - CORRECTION: Neanderthals did not go extinct; they merged into the anatomically-modern-human gene pool, and everyone of non-(to-any-greater-degree-than-everyone-human-shares-)African extraction does have Neanderthal ancestors.
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  161. 2:24 - In practice, that was usually how it went even prior to the 25th Amendment when a president was temporarily incapacitated (for instance, after Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in September 1955, VP Richard Nixon served as acting president for six weeks while Eisenhower recovered).
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  162. 12:39 - "So let's unmask these traitors. Let's ridicule them. Let's arrest them." Let's execute them.
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  163. About the funds - didn't Citizens United abolish limits on campaign contributions?
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  164. 13:10 - You say that like hurting the fat cats is a bad thing.
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  165. 17:31 - If what Fox were saying was actually true to the best of their ability, that would be a great argument... not so much when all they do is make up stuff out of thin air and then try to spin it as the truth.
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  166. 0:22 - #4 (hopefully): Actually legible.
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  167. 4:56 - Maybe Ukraine finally managed to offer him more money than what he was getting from Putain?
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  168. Is the background rain noise an intentional addition, or just the weather at the time of recording?
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  169. I can't tell whether Trump was out of his mind (and, frankly, probably still is) or whether he was actively trying to get people killed.
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  170. 13:21 - Would it be constitutional if a U.S. state were to introduce a mechanism for filing private prosecutions (criminal prosecutions initiated by a private citizen rather than the government), like exists in England and Wales?
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  171. 6:22 - (Which is another stupid policy.)
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  172. It sounds to me more like Judge Hoffmann was the contemptuous one.
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  173. 2:00 - Objection: Doesn't the movie take place in the UK multiple decades ago, not the US?
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  174. 20:18 - Anyone else see the people on either side of Culpepper facepalming while he spouts off?
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  175. 22:02 - "Cool kids play Magic." Nerd. 😉😜
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  176. ...why is Trump still allowed to file lawsuits again?
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  177. 21:23 - But the states wouldn't be paying out to victims of excessive force; the officers themselves would be.
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  178. 9:50 - Unfortunately for any would-be plaintiffs (and fortunately for society at large), sexual standards in contemporary U.S. society are broad enough that you'd basically have to accuse someone of being a rapist (or of other criminal sexual conduct) in order for your statements to amount to suggesting that someone's unchaste.
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  179.  @balzarinemythus50 ...but once that evidence has been provided, it's on you to rebut it (for instance, by providing a reasonable justification for having killed the victim). You're perfectly within your rights to refuse to testify... but doing so when the prosecution's made its case effectively throws the case to the prosecution.
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  180. China complaining about us shooting down the balloon is pretty much guaranteed confirmation that it was actually a spy balloon. If it had just been a weather balloon, they would've just apologized for one of their weather balloons getting loose and said that the shootdown was regrettable but understandable (at least, that's what they'd've said if they were smart).
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  181.  @alberthord9527  Among the needed revisions to Section 3 are the complete deletion of the passages that would give presidents immunity for official acts and prevent them from being prosecuted while in office.
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  182.  @alberthord9527  "I could agree to the first part, but the second is needed for national stability." Why??? How???
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  183.  @alberthord9527  Mafia dons and drug kingpins are able to run their criminal empires just fine while on trial, or even from within prison. Why would a president be any different?
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  184. 10:07 - Well, tough beans. That is literally how language works.
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  185. 12:19 - Technically, Congress can remove a Supreme Court justice, but that requires two-thirds of the Senate to be in favor, so it's fairly impractical unless one party has an absolutely smashing majority in the Senate.
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  186. Are lawn darts illegal to own, or just illegal to sell?
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  187. 14:55 - And even if the sky were falling, that still wouldn't be reason for ruling against McGirt, per the legal doctrine of fiat justitia ruat caelum - literally, "let justice be done though the heavens fall".
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  188. ...Wait, when did she become an actual lawyer (as opposed to someone pretending to be a lawyer)?
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  189. 25:30 - Smartmatic isn't using a shotgun strategy; they're using a machine-gun strategy.
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  190. 5:05 - Someone dressing up as a cop for Halloween generally isn't pretending to actually be a cop, though, so one'd be hard-pressed to argue that they're actually impersonating one.
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  191. I'm genuinely confused. Given Chevron's own proven corrupt dealings, how were they even able to countersue Donziger in the first place without their suit being barred by the unclean-hands doctrine?
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  192. 12:32 - If anyone's wondering, the reason 18 USC 351 omits mention of the President and Vice President is because their assassination is covered by a different portion of the Code, 18 USC 1751.
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  193. 6:03 - OBJECTION! 5-20 years in prison. Jail is where you go before the trial, or if you've been convicted of a misdemeanor.
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  194. I hope they can get Trump on a capital crime.
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  195. 6:59 - More prosaically, Liechtenstein is a non-party to the Chicago Convention because it has no conventional airports.
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  196. 13:36 - When would the public safety ever require suspending habeas corpus? Giving people access to the courts is not something with the potential to cause the collapse of society.
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  197. 10:16 - "Many, many states" - i.e., every single state except New Hampshire.
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  198. 2:44 - "We do it because he's doing unprecedented legal things basically all the time." Well, "legal"'d be stretching things a fair bit...
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  199. Welcome to the United States and our moronic legal system.
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  200. 11:18 - Objection, the P90 is a personal-defense weapon (PDW), which is a distinct class of weapon from a submachine gun (a submachine gun fires pistol bullets, whereas a PDW fires scaled-down rifle bullets, giving the latter improved range and body-armor-penetration capability).
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  201. 16:48 - Is the president pro tempore of the Senate legally required to actually be a U.S. Senator? For that matter, is the speaker of the House of Representatives legally required to be a U.S. Representative?
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  202. So basically our legal system is still so biased that people can get away with racistly killing people and then sue people for calling them out on it... yaaay. 🤦‍♀
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  203. 13:26 - Objection! Even if a contract is crystal-clear, it's still possible for parole evidence to be relevant if there's question as to whether the contract is legal or not.
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  204. 6:08 - "...strictly liable, which means that, as long as there is an injury related to the animals, the zoo is responsible, regardless of whether they were negligent or not." Yes, we are aware that this is insane.
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  205. The threat of Elon and co. disappearing them.
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  206. 0:48 - Did you mean Fort Stevens? Fort Sumner is in New Mexico, while Fort Stevens is (or at least was) in northwestern D.C. and was the site of a Civil War battle in 1864.
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  207. 19:30 - OBJECTION! In this particular situation, promptly reelectrifying the fences (and hoping that noone's touching them, because, really, one should know that even an electric fence that isn't currently electrified can potentially become electrified at any moment) could easily be justified by the urgent need to prevent any more escapes of large, vicious animals (those of which which have already escaped having well proved the "vicious" bit by having already killed several people by this point).
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  208. Wait, if the city refused to pay for the destroyed house, how did the Lechs get the money to rebuild it?
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  209. "We had to destroy the home to save it." - The police.
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  210. 3:18 - In fairness to Mr. Blaster, carjackings are (or at least were) a really, really big problem in South Africa (that's why he invented the thing!).
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  211. TBF, actual sapient AI lawyers (as opposed to the pale imitations of AI we currently have) are probably no more than a decade or two away.
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  212. Hypothetical question: what would happen to the end date of a presidential term in the vanishingly-unlikely case of a federal law being passed to alter the calendar so that January legally no longer exists, or legally no longer has at least 20 days?
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  213. The only thing that could make this even better would be if Trump got the same penalty his organization just got.
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  214. Bribery.
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  215. Not president, ex- president.
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  216. 1:42 - But a hood-mounted machinegun isn't in the vehicle, it's on the outside of the vehicle. 😜
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  217. What is it with politicians and sexual harassment?!
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  218. 17:00 - Being provided with deliberate falsehoods rather than actual news is not a risk that is "common, frequent, expected, and inherent" to the activity of watching the news, any more than someone can claim that they don't owe the public a duty not to plant landmines in the street.
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  219. 21:54 - I would submit that counsel for the defendants is incorrect in their interpretation of whether takings under police power require compensation, as the text of the Fifth Amendment itself refers not to "takings under eminent domain", but, rather, merely to "takings"; nowhere in the Fifth Amendment is there anything to support the contention that takings under police power are exempt from its requirement for "just compensation". The notion that the ordinary meaning of "taking" requires the taker to retain possession of what is taken is also bogus, as detailed in Kimmerbelly's amicus curiae.
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  220. 11:38 - Objection, this part of the Alabama Constitution is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause.
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