War on Universities, Lawyers & Expertise

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aGDevil2k said:
They will only stop it when it's a dem president - that's why they stay vs rule. Ruling it is ok would permit things from a dem
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See my thread: The Supreme Court Must Be Destroyed. It's a combination of a) embarrassment that they can't possibly defend what they are doing; and b) not wanting to commit to anything that could used the other way.

This was also how they wrote Trump v. US. Criminal immunity of "official acts" without any real explanation of what is or isn't an official act. That did multiple jobs for them:

A. They didn't know what Jack Smith had, so they didn't want to commit to defining official act in such a way that he could satisfy.
B. They didn't want to commit to a rule that would allow cases to be dismissed against a Dem.

That's why the whole blame-Merrick theory doesn't really hold water. SCOTUS would have kept it going for another five years if they had to. They sent it down for further fact-finding. Then to the appeals court, then to Supremes who say that that wasn't actually an official act. Then back to the district court for additional fact-finding, and then to the appeals court, then Supremes say that wasn't an official act either. Ad infinitum.
 
nycfan said:
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They got off cheap ($50 million) probably because they had not done anything wrong in the first place.
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“… Under the deal announced Wednesday, the Providence-based school will pay $50 million in grants over 10 years to Rhode Island workforce development organizations, according to the White House official and Brown President Christina Paxson.

Brown is not making “any payments or fines to the federal government,” Paxson said in a letter to the university community.

…Paxson touted the deal as a voluntary agreement that preserves Brown’s mission, noting that it does not give the government the “authority to dictate Brown’s curriculum or the content of academic speech.” And supporting workforce development organizations, she said, is “aligned with our service and community engagement mission.” Workforce development and career training programs have also been a priority for the Trump administration.

Under the terms of the deal, Brown has agreed to “not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in admissions or university programming” and will provide the federal government access to relevant data on the matter, the White House official said. The school is also expected to adopt definitions of “male” and “female” from an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year for “women’s sports, programming, facilities, and housing.” The school’s health facilities “will not perform gender reassignment surgeries on minors or prescribe them puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones,” and the school “will take steps to improve the campus climate for Jewish students,” according to the official.…”

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Trump administration reaches $50 million deal with Brown University to restore funding | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has reached a multimillion-dollar agreement with Brown University to restore federal funding – its second major deal with an elite university after last week’s $221 million settlement with Columbia University.
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nycfan said:
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"Woke is Dead" = Diversity is dead at Brown. Republicans are masters at turning positive liberal phrases into negative terms in the minds of the general public, and in using such words to hide what they really mean. Woke is Dead just means they're turning back the clock to a curriculum and academic institution that will be focused on white males with less focus on minorities and diversity. So all of the progress that started in the Sixties to diversify academic institutions and what they teach is being rolled back. Yeah, that's really something to celebrate, Trumpers.
 
All those mob movies and shows that have pervaded American culture for the last 60 years? The Godfather? Scarface? Casino? The Sopranos? Who would have thought they'd be anticipatory documentaries.

Congrats, Pubs. You elected a mob boss. I can't wait until the law figures out how to put your leaders behind bars, which always happens eventually.
 
lawtig02 said:
All those mob movies and shows that have pervaded American culture for the last 60 years? The Godfather? Scarface? Casino? The Sopranos? Who would have thought they'd be anticipatory documentaries.

Congrats, Pubs. You elected a mob boss. I can't wait until the law figures out how to put your leaders behind bars, which always happens eventually.
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Somebody asked this earlier, I believe, but is there any way to monitor where all of this money that universities are paying is actually going? I know it's going to be supposedly paid to "the federal government" but is there anything more specific as to where it's going? Because it wouldn't surprise me at all if Trump and his minions are personally skimming from the payments, just like a mob family or corrupt political boss would.
 
lawtig02 said:
All those mob movies and shows that have pervaded American culture for the last 60 years? The Godfather? Scarface? Casino? The Sopranos? Who would have thought they'd be anticipatory documentaries.

Congrats, Pubs. You elected a mob boss. I can't wait until the law figures out how to put your leaders behind bars, which always happens eventually.
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That’s an interesting thought, especially considering Trump’s support amongst “macho” young males, and how Tony Soprano and Tony Montana were the protagonists. Art imitates life but also influences life. I don’t think electing a mob boss is a negative to these folks. It’s part of the appeal.
 
nycfan said:
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They got off cheap ($50 million) probably because they had not done anything wrong in the first place.
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None of them did anything wrong. Speaking of which, how wrong is it to extort private money given to a private University for doing nothing wrong. I’d like go to a MAGA and say I’m going to withhold your paycheck until you give me $5000. That’s fair isn’t it?
 
nycfan said:
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And the more universities that take the knee and give in to Trump's demands, the worse this is going to get. Admittedly public universities like UCLA likely don't have the endowments to resist as long as a Harvard, but it's still depressing to see what is happening to American education - it's being Orbanized, and more rapidly then I'd thought possible.
 
Willy said:
That’s an interesting thought, especially considering Trump’s support amongst “macho” young males, and how Tony Soprano and Tony Montana were the protagonists. Art imitates life but also influences life. I don’t think electing a mob boss is a negative to these folks. It’s part of the appeal.
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idolizing the tony's is laughably braindead. a couple of assholes who died relatively young and badly, particularly mr. montana.
 
4thgenheel said:
idolizing the tony's is laughably braindead. a couple of assholes who died relatively young and badly, particularly mr. montana.
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Willy wrote: "That’s an interesting thought, especially considering Trump’s support amongst “macho” young males, and how Tony Soprano and Tony Montana were the protagonists. Art imitates life but also influences life. I don’t think electing a mob boss is a negative to these folks. It’s part of the appeal."


Add in trump's blatant effeminacy and it gets even weirder.
 
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Harvard needs to commit its wealth to fighting this shit.

The rest of the Ivy League, the public Ivies that can (UNC, Texas, and other public Ivies in red states are fucked {and North Carolina is a red state}), the elite private institutions that are not Ivies (Chicago, MIT, Northwestern, Stanford, Duke, etc.), the elite Liberal Arts colleges (Bowdoin, Williams, Amherst, Wellesley, Smith, Middlebury, etc.), the rock-solid public institutions that form most of the Big 10 and former PAC 12………..these institutions need to get together and fight this fascistic effort to take control of American higher education.
 
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This administration should be charged under the RICO statue. It is obviously involved in racketeering both here and internationally. Recall that Trump’s early mentor was none other than Roy Cohn, a known lawyer for the mob.
 
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