Wondering here if his whatever-case gets appealed over and over, does it go before the Supremes (assuming the man is still alive to exist as the client)?
Also wondering if all the footdragging and delay will likewise be leveraged to allow him to run for office since he won’t be a convicted felon, etc.
I have zero doubt that 20-30% of the U.S. voters will vote for him, regardless.
The several decades of gerrymandering and corruption of the Electoral College?
“Insurance policies” that, along with Rupert Murdoch’s fuckery, have given us much of what we see today, politically and arguably, culturally.
Trump and his lawyers have never had great track records at actually winning cases in court but he has had a lot of success using stonewalling tactics to slow down the process. At the end of the day I think that’s what this “Special Master” ruling will amount to; not something that derails the government’s case against him but something that slows down the gears of the justice system.
I wonder who’s going to appoint the “special master.”
And whether there will be say, an extra-special master to oversee the efforts of the special master.
Sheesh, what a mess. Trump has dealt with court cases all his adult life. He and his legal advisors know how to slow down, stall, slow down and stall again. Maybe he’ll be dead before any charges against him can finally come from the documents “raid.”
Note that Trump’s not running for anything in the coming midterm elections. Even if the DoJ had him arrested tonight, it would not interfere with the election.
In one sense, yes, but in others, it would likely affect the midterm elections.
Just how is something I find tough to parse out. I can’t help but think it would mostly harm Republicans, being even more associated with a loser, a criminal one-time has been.
if only someone had given clinton that kind of deference. the double standard - especially when it’s clear ■■■■■ broke the law many, many times - is maddening
I don’t at all agree that losing TX and FL would be a “good time” but I’m glad someone smacked back at that utterly disingenuous tweet.
“Where do you think the majority of troops come from?”
From the states with the highest poverty rates because they’ve got no industry and few other options.
Where does he think the majority of money to pay those troops comes from? Or doctors to care for them (not that he cares about that), and so on and so on.
if Cannon can see that the search of Mar-a-Lago harmed Trump’s ongoing political ambitions
Reminds me of the SOTUS declaring in 2000, by way of stealing an election, that continuing the vote count in Florida would “cause harm.” Harm, that is, to Shrub’s effort to become president.
it’s not really a blue or red state thing despite what republicans would like to claim. but the other thing is duty rotation. texans aren’t exclusively at texas bases. we mix it up - specifically so far as i know - to prevent regional factions from emerging
Another way of analyzing this data is to look at representation ratios, which show recruits as a share of a jurisdiction’s residents between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. From this perspective, the picture is significantly different. A ratio of 1.0 means the jurisdiction’s share of recruits in 2018 was equal to its share of eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds.
Representation of States Among Enlisted Recruits, 2018
South Carolina had the highest representation ratio, at 1.5, meaning it contributed 50 percent more than its share of the country’s eighteen- to twenty-four-year-old population. Florida, Hawaii, Georgia, and Alabama round out the top five. On the other end of the spectrum—jurisdictions that contribute fewer recruits than their share of eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds, or those with ratios less than 1.0—are Washington, DC, North Dakota, Massachusetts, Utah, and Rhode Island.
