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Wojciech's avatar

the Fifth Circuit strikes again!

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"M"'s avatar

"The lawsuit against Biden was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and pursued with the help of America First Legal"

This. This is the problem. The whole problem is these real bigots and fake lawyers right here

Yeah, I said it

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Mexfiles's avatar

So Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, Ojinaga. Cd.. Acuña are going to need some new housing. This will seriously impact a lot of family in south Texas especially. I know one guy, who took a pay cut and demotion to transfer from Austin to Laredo, because his wife had to leave the US, and he had to commute from Nuevo Laredo (even more of a dump than Laredo, if such is possible). It's not as uncommon as you might think now, and will only get worse.

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"M"'s avatar

" It's not as uncommon as you might think now, and will only get worse."

I'm upset about this because they're ripping families apart to distract people who are eligible and otherwise focused from all the paperwork you have to keep track of to vote

And they don't want people voting because then these lazy slack-jawed bigots will be out of power

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Shire Jansen's avatar

So, checking to see if this applies to Mindy? She, a Canadian with 3 children, married Tim Scott earlier this month after a VERY brief courtship. Will she/they be deported now?

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. First out the door, Melanoma Trump, then Ken Paxton should be booted off the planet.

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Ron Spangler's avatar

I'd hate to be a Republican in the 5th Circuit. It seems like ALL THE HARM IN ANYWHERE IN AMERICA happens to them. Those poor people!

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Kate Stoneman's avatar

Actually, it just occurred to me the President can just pardon all the undocumented immigrants. It won't adjust their status, but it will make their supposed "law-breaking" a non-issue.

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Maryland Bear's avatar

Wait, you mean all of the sitcoms I've watched where marrying a citizen was an immediate ticket to citizenship weren't true? I'm shocked, shocked!

What other illusions will you ruin next?

* Quicksand isn't incredibly common?

* Amnesia isn't caused and cured by a bump on the noggin?

* Most neighbors are nice, friendly people and not the least bit wacky?

* Wearing a leather jacket does not give you the power to get free music by striking a jukebox?

* The seemingly strange occurrences at the house across the street have a perfectly rational explanation and are not because a witch or a genie lives there?

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Runfastandwin's avatar

If only Biden wasn't so enamored by comity, he could tell this judge to pound sand.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

What happens when The Evil One dies? Does Maga fuck right off at that point, lose its will, fade away? It needs the Great Man to stir its loins no?

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Anzu's avatar

I think it depends on how he dies. If the dumb shooter a month ago had not missed, or if he had a quiet heart attack off camera and there was no body, then he'd be a martyr and/or have a perpetual cult that still insists he faked his own death, like Elvis or Tupac.

But if he has an ugly, nasty, very visible and very gross death by heart attack on television or during one of his events, I mean the kind that has convulsions and vomiting and leaky diapers, ESPECIALLY if it's after he's already in jail in a year or two (oh gosh I hope he is in jail in a year or two), the the cult will fade away a lot more quickly.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

Or, if he is strung up by his toes, for example

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

If the visible and gross death occurs, it will have had to be the DemocRATs fault, and are we ever gonna get it now!

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meh's avatar

They'll be seeing him in gravy stains at Waffle House for decades, and posting it on whatever is left after Xitter and Lies Social merge.

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Zap's avatar

The damage has already been done and will take decades to undo.

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The Blessed Reverend's avatar

Well he is a focal point, a reference point, the battery in your vibrator.

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Zap's avatar

I hope you're using "your" rhetorically : )

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Darth Trad's avatar

As a cult, it dies when the leader goes. Not to say that parts of the 'policies' won't be co-opted by other groups and promoted as their platform.

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Maureen's avatar

People bitch about the word "moist," but I think "loins" could give it a run for its money. And I don't want to think about the great orange stirring anyone's loins...

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meh's avatar

We know he does for some people of, ahh, somewhat cursory cranial capacity:

https://x.com/monaeltahawy/status/806581980888449024?lang=en

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Lucinda the Pook's avatar

Many oi words. Groin is one.

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Zap's avatar

Hoi polloi

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House of the Blue Lights's avatar

"the only option for pursuing residency these folks have involves leaving the US for 10 years and then applying for a spousal visa"

Who came up with this unbelievable bullshit. It's basically just saying "break the law" because who tf would actually do this?

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Darth Trad's avatar

Or just marrying a billionaire.

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House of the Blue Lights's avatar

Deport Elon

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House of the Blue Lights's avatar

No Democrat may write a law that a Republican judge is bound to respect.

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Bozi Lingus's avatar

If these spouses have broken federal laws, can't Handsome Joe just pardon them?

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Michael's avatar

Yeah. 5 months to go, Joe, let's play.

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Carol Hayden's avatar

My ex used to be in military admin. During the last Ebola outbreak, a soldier came to him and said he'd been married to a woman in Liberia for a while. He just hadn't bothered to fill out the paperwork informing the military.

One of the many things that made the ex headdesk.

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calliecallie, aka pollyanna's avatar

Note to all non-commenters on this thread and similar threads, present and future:

Can we PLEASE stop referring to it as "packing the court"? Nomenclature is important. Branding is important. That phrase is the "defunding the police" of the judiciary.

Let's call it "expanding" the court, or even "right-sizing" the court, although I hate that expression almost as much. Or if you have a better name for it, by all means suggest it.

"Packing" the court makes it sound like cheating, like it's a bad thing. It's not a bad thing. It's a long overdue adjustment to address the growth in our litigiousness and society overall.

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Mexfiles's avatar

Ironic for me... here in Mexico, the court reforms under discussion include reducing the number of Supreme Court judges, to do away with "packing". And lowering their term limit from 18 to 12 years. And electing them.

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DrBDH's avatar

Reforming. With impeachments, if necessary.

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Rooster Cogburn's avatar

One step closer to RoboCop, police using ChatGtP to write crime reports

https://news.yahoo.com/news/police-officers-starting-ai-chatbots-100342954.html

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meh's avatar

"And the perp, with all three arms and seven-fingers on their hands, pointed the double-barreled weapon at me...."

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Bear: PROTECT THE AMERICUB's avatar

Give the model about two days' training with racist American cops, and the reports will just read "black black black black, black, black black, black black black."

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meh's avatar

"blackity black black black vantablack, can't see it any more..."

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Rooster Cogburn's avatar

"Black, black, black BLAM!, BLAM!, black, black, black."

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Paulomatic's avatar

Have you read many police reports? It can only improve them.

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