And it’s not just the now you have to worry about, but forever into the future because lots of private data is being warehoused for future analysis.
That no doubt includes some encrypted data being preserved against some future date when it can be cracked.
Makes sense to me. You care about the 4th Amendment right to be secure from unreasonable searches and he cares about keeping all his secret communicatin with his Russian handlers secure from incidental discovery during an unreasonable search.
“Hello… what are you wearing?” Followed by auto-tuned heavy breathing.
Sure there is. It could just be you who is dead and the rest of us are just here to torture you.
The headline is misleading. According to the text of the article, the law actually only bans companies that do business with the state from engaging in such boycotts. If you’re company refuses to give ad money to Musk, then you don’t get any state contracts.
I doubt the law is unconstitutional, but it is pretty stupid. Larger companies that care about their image enough to refuse to advertise on hate filled networks are also going to be the companies that provide the best services at the best prices. The state would be stuck using smaller companies that would charge them more and provide lower quality services.
The headline is very misleading. This law would just stop them from getting contracts from the state. They could still do business in the state.
The bill, Senate Bill 1061, would ban companies doing business with the state from engaging in “economic boycotts” over a large list of issues, including transgender care and abortion.
If you’re not doing business with the state, it doesn’t impact you at all.
Indeed there should be consistency. What would normally happen in this situation was what would have happened if the judge hadn’t blocked the original plea deal.
The office of the US attorney of Delaware, David Weiss, has been investigating Hunter Biden since 2018 over potential violations of tax and gun laws. Weiss, who was appointed by Donald Trump, announced last month that his office had reached an agreement with Hunter Biden in which the president’s son would plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor tax violations while entering a pre-trial diversion program on a separate felony gun charge.
But the judge, another Trump appointee, no doubt saw the same opportunity that the GOP in congress did and rejected the plea deal. Because Hunter Biden is the son of the current Democratic president, he is not getting the same treatment that anyone else would have gotten in this situation.
Despite Republicans’ gripes, a number of legal experts have framed Hunter Biden’s indictment as unusually harsh, given that prosecutors rarely bring such gun charges. The law underlying one of the three criminal counts is also now facing legal challenges after the supreme court’s recent expansion of second amendment rights.
In fact, the law about drug users being in possession of firearms is one that has been effectively ruled unconstitutional in the fifth circuit thanks to challenges to it and recent SCOTUS rulings.
Those recent rulings include an August decision from the New Orleans-based US court of appeals for the fifth circuit that challenged the law barring users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms. The conservative-leaning court ruled that the supreme court’s decision last year in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc v Bruen, which established a new standard for reviewing firearm regulations in a historical context, rendered the 1968 law unconstitutional.
“In short, our history and tradition may support some limits on an intoxicated person’s right to carry a weapon, but it does not justify disarming a sober citizen based exclusively on his past drug usage,” Judge Jerry Smith wrote in the ruling. “Nor do more generalized traditions of disarming dangerous persons support this restriction on nonviolent drug users.”
Also…
A separate case considered by the third circuit, which does cover Delaware, could also have some bearing on Hunter Biden’s case. In Range v Attorney General, the third circuit issued what the judges called a “narrow” decision indicating that the federal government cannot ban people convicted of non-violent crimes from possessing guns.
Republicans want the law overturned but not until Hunter is convicted and sentenced for it. That is not consistent application of the law, that is political gamesmanship.
No, they just want to keep Hunter and his crimes in the media because most voters are stupid and will link Joe Biden with Hunter’s crimes in their heads. Whether Joe Biden had any part in or knowledge of Hunter’s activities or not doesn’t matter, as long as if makes the GOP base and independents think less of Joe in the voting booth.
And they can’t make abortions illegal because the human body does spontaneous abortions called miscarriages.
“You think not?!” - The GOP probably.
If they have their way, any time a woman in Texas has a miscarriage, the woman will be obligated to afirmatively prove that they didn’t do anything that could in any possible way have caused them to miscarry. If they can’t, they’ll charge then with murder.
Edit: Make that anywhere in the country.
Basic GOP projection. TFG incited an insurrection so they have to accuse someone else of doing that too.
Good, now find a way to make the Republicans let it pass.
The emails also underscore the increasing breakdown in trust with a growing number of defense lawyers who have regarded prosecutors’ tactics – including Willis assuming she will win – as inappropriately aggressive and presumptuous given the case remains months from a potential verdict.
How dare she assume that she could win a case she chose to take to trial! She should only bring cases to trial when she’s not sure she can win.
The remark about jail caused consternation with some of the defense lawyers, who have been aghast that the district attorney’s office would throw around what they took as a prison threat in a cavalier manner, according to multiple people familiar with the situation.
And she has the audacity to suggest that the defendants, who she assumes will be convicted of very serious crimes, will go to prison for those crimes? I’m not surprised that Trump’s defense team is screaming and rolling around on the ground like a soccer player who thinks someone may have brushed up against him, but I’m not sure why any of this is news?
“1 in 4 high school students identifies as something other than straight- what are they being taught in school?
Maybe that they don’t need to hide who they really are now?
These are the people who nailed their god to a cross and left him to die and now wear crosses to show how glad they are he dropped by for a visit. They’re not capable of truly rational thought.
It must be the buckets of money that the Koch foundation.
But not so against Trump that she would actually vote against him or anything, right? Cheney may make a show of opposing Trump, but she still supported the policies that he did while he was in office.
Cheney came to Washington in 2016, along with Donald Trump. Didn’t like him, she said, but she supported his policies on issues like abortion and gun control. She voted with him more than 90 percent of the time.
They will not wait that long. The iron is hot now. They will strike now.
Absolutely correct. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Cheney may make a show of opposing Trump, but she still supported the policies that he did while he was in office.
Cheney came to Washington in 2016, along with Donald Trump. Didn’t like him, she said, but she supported his policies on issues like abortion and gun control. She voted with him more than 90 percent of the time.
She might be opposed to Trump but she is still a dirt bag.
Republicans have been trying to undermine education for 50 years. They want people uneducated and uninformed, they need it. They want people afraid, particularly of other beliefs, cultures, and colors. People who are less educated are easier to frighten. This is why Republicans do well in red states where the GOP have been undermining education for decades. Republicans need frightened, under-educated voters in order to win elections. People who have been taught critical thinking skills can figure out when they’re being lied to.
You recall correctly. Copy/paste from something I posted in another thread.