CURRENT EVENTS July 31-Sept 27

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altmin said:
they don't get their panties in a wadd over anything. They say whatever it takes to get someone to quote or reference them. Thehypocrisy is th epoint as it gets folks to respond even harder.

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Actually, I'm curious as to why MAGA thinks they way it does, so I don't ignore anyone. It's fascinating!
It's a bit like rubbernecking at a car crash.
 
superrific said:
There were no such portraits at Prettyman when I was clerking.
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What year was that?

I expect things have changed.

In 1978, when I started to drive, there were no signs at the state line proclaiming who is Governor.

I don’t remember the year that BS began. It is BS.
 
Calheel said:
I can't vouch for every federal courthouse, but I see them regularly in all the CD Cal courthouses and it has always freaked me out.
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Yeah, they’re in all the NC federal courthouses and in the US Attorney’s Office for WDNC (I assume they’re in the other ones as well). Been that way since I started practicing during the GWB admin and I understand it was like that during the Clinton administration before it. Not sure when it started but probably dates back a long time.
 
Calheel said:
I can't vouch for every federal courthouse, but I see them regularly in all the CD Cal courthouses and it has always freaked me out.
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I'm not doubting you. I'm just passing along information. Either it's not everywhere, or the policy began in the later Bush years or Obama years.
 
superrific said:
I'm not doubting you. I'm just passing along information. Either it's not everywhere, or the policy began in the later Bush years or Obama years.
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Or it is not uniform. I have a vague memory of the Clinton photo (the creepy one that Conan used for all of Clinton bits with the fake mouth) staring at me every time I went through the metal detector in the 1990s.

I never understood why the federal government would want to personify its leadership. It seems very antithetical to our values.
 
Can't wait for another 6-3 or 5-4 decision overturning the lower court rulings in which the Supremes give even more unchecked power to our new Unitary Executive. Well, unchecked until a Democrat wins the presidency (which may never happen again at this point), in which case I'm sure the 6 GOP justices will suddenly rediscover the virtues of checks and balances and limitations on executive power and start blocking most of what that president wants to do.
 

Congress moves to counter Hegseth on base names that evoke Confederacy​

The effort, pushed by Democrats and some Republicans, is tied to must-pass legislation winding its way through the House and Senate.


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Tucked within the National Defense Authorization Act passed by the Republican-led House last week is a measure that, if adopted by the Senate, would block Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s reversal of a separate base-renaming effort that was directed by Congress five years ago. The 2020 initiative resulted in nine Army posts originally recognizing Confederates — in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas and Virginia — being re-designated to honor others, such as women, minorities, generals and a military family.

The Pentagon did away with those changes earlier this year.

… In 2020, during the closing days of his first term, President Donald Trump vetoed the annual defense policy bill — citing, in part, his rejection of the renaming effort. “I have been clear in my opposition to politically motivated attempts like this to wash away history,” he explained to lawmakers then. Congress, in a display of bipartisanship, overrode his veto….” [My note — when Trump was his absolute nadir of power. No way they could override his veto currently. ]
 
Some of Bondi’s hate speech rhetoric could divide the MAGA coalition between those who support/encourage rabid attempts to get ordinary people fired for speech they find offensive but call Bondi out on claiming a legal pathway to prosecute hate speech and some who think she is t going far enough until every leading Democrat is in Guantanamo Bay.

 
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