To make this related to this thread: Boo Tillis and Leahy. Don't be out here trying to waste our flava.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211104/15554147878/senators-tillis-leahy-raise-alarm-about-judge-albrights-patent-forum-selling-waco.shtml
Coming after Albright saying he's illegally hogging all the cases based on that most important of all rights: venue. Multi billion dollar companies shouldn't have to try cases in Waco Texas. How can they be expected to travel there twice for hearings in the 2 year life of a patent suit on a tight $6MM/case budget?
“Sex trafficking” is a bit of a bogeyman term that people used to try to make everyone think of the movie Taken but tends to cover a lot of other behavior that some 20 year olds aren’t all that opposed to. Daughter could be just as complicit in getting herself involved as boyfriend.
this comes down to pretrial argument. can we talk about him sex trafficking? or is the trial just: 'did you see the boy? did you intentionally whack him on the head? Was he a present threat in any way? we rest your honor' in which that's bad news
yeah. the lawyer is not doing her any favors letting that go through. telling the judge "i won't make as much money if i'm not promoting my crimes" isn't your typical tack for pleas for leniency.
there is also a touch where he isn't even talking about what he's talking about. he is defending something, and does so by making these statements about something else.
The non-sympathetic take would be that you see the product of a decades old systematic effort to scare people away from thinking independently such that they only know the lines in the script they were told to say.
I bet we could pick a dozen different topics and he’d know the lines to say. What do you think about BLM? What do you think of Obamacare? What do you think of voter ID? Any doubt we could nail his responses at a 100% rate? At some point being upset that you aren’t king of the world doesn’t abdicate responsibility from understanding what is going on around you. You don’t get a lifetime pass because your station in life is slipping
2 admits. Nice.
I’ve been celebrating a little and going maskless. I feel like we’ve earned it. we are a week away from another big vax bump with kids getting it. We might have this thing whipped.
This is all true, of course, but one day (probably very soon) the GOP will be in power again. Every day we squander without any sort of protection of the vote and protection of the process is a real risk that in short order a party that has shown it wants to overthrow our country can in fact overthrow our country, and it might even be nice a legal next time.