She had 20 days to file an answer. She failed to do so. She defaulted. So anything she files after the default on Monday, March 25th, is a nullity."
“She will not get discovery, she will not get disclosure, all the kinds of tools lawyers have to go and figure out what’s going on in the other side’s case,” Ryan said. “She’s lost.”
Grenell has become a strident advocate of abandoning negotiations in decades-old territorial disputes in the Middle East and the Balkans in favor of trade and economic agreements that he hails as sidestepping political problems through creating jobs.
that is objectively NOT how you fix shit. I mean, when we look back at the current violence in Gaza, historians will directly connect the Abraham Accords to it, in that by abandoning peace talks (which, to be fair, had not been going ANYWHERE for a long time, primarily due to the right wing government in Israel and the lack of unity among Palestinians) in favor of trying to bribe Palestinians into second class citizenship with what will probably end up being shitty jobs exacerbated the anger and despair felt by many Palestinians, including the ones who ended up participating in October 7th!
So, von Ribbentrop without the superficial oily charm and culture. The perfect Secretary of State for Il Douche’s proposed regime.
Any chance that the U.S. will continue to press Israel on a two-state solution, and with that the only slim chance for peace, will go out the window if these gangsters win in November.
It’s maddening. They’re boasting and bragging in advance about their destructive intentions and yet voters outside the Know-Nothing 27% are still downplaying the danger they pose at home and abroad.
Yeah, only two people have ever been charged with violating the Logan Act. Both were acquitted. And it no longer carries jail time. It’s just a $5,000 fine, if someone were convicted under it. It’s an obsolete law that was pretty toothless even when it was first enacted.