Donald Trump owes legal penalties totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in two civil cases recently decided in New York, raising questions about how he'll pay the amount.
But Neal Katyal, a prominent lawyer who has argued cases before the top court, predicted on X (formerly Twitter) that it will not take up the case.
"Trump's argument is so weak and the Court of Appeals decision so thorough and well done, I can see SCOTUS voting not to hear it," he wrote.
Legal analysts said the methodical nature of the appeals ruling, laid out over 57 pages that are dense with court citations and historical references, sent a clear message.
"What the Court of Appeals said, very politely and very dryly, is 'You're not even close, Trump'. None of these arguments pass the laugh test," Patrick Cotter, a former federal prosecutor, told BBC News.
I can already smell Trump squirming.
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Republicans don't have enlightened self-interest. They are traitorous, resentment-fueled, walking time bombs. Their "dedication" would more reasonably be termed suicidal resignation.
Trump insiders are working behind the scenes on detailed plans to amass his power so that he can carry out an unprecedented restructuring of the U.S. government and expand executive authority.
Trump is the greatest threat to freedom in this world in this century. Nothing is more important than stopping him and everyone who sides with him from gaining power.
Gov. Ron DeSantis won a decisive reelection in 2022, in a year when Republicans elsewhere didn't fare as well. But now that he's running for president, some in Florida wish he'd do his job at home.
Standing in front of a massive state flag on Saturday, Claver Kamau-Imani outlined his utopian vision of a Nation of Texas that he believes is just on the horizon....
This is just yet more proof that the "Heritage Foundation" is a group of pedophile Klu Klux Klan Nazi assholes. Anyone who supports them should be deleted completely from any sensible person's life.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him....
To be fair, Kevin is a Republican, so asking for anything is an exercise in futility. Republicans only know how to rape, horde pedophilia, and prop up Nazis and the Klan.
Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom....
Convicted rapist traitor who literally called himself "King of the Jews" wants to become a dictator? This is a surprise to some drooling morons out there?
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted flights by private jet last year and cited security concerns around the court's controversial abortion decision to justify some of the private travel, according to a disclosure form released on Thursday....
The best government money can buy, just like a fucking slave. Who cares about the 13th fucking Amendment? Slavery is still alive and well, thanks to Clarence Thomas, selling his ass to the highest bidder. How proud his owners must be that he's such a dutiful slave, too.
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Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’
Their fears of “unyielding technocratic tyranny” mean that some in Claremont circles have been “dabbling in talk of secession for years”, and “believe they need to use whatever they might need, including paramilitaries”.
Haywood’s ideas have seen him characterized as an extremist even by others on the far right including the former American Conservative columnist Rod Dreher, who wrote last December that Haywood was “seriously, batshit crazy” and characterized him as writing from a “Midwestern Führerbunker”.
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The white supremacist group Patriot Front is suing a left-wing activist for allegedly infiltrating the group and revealing the identities of members, USA Today reported. The lawsuit says the alleged "doxxings" cost the members their jobs and personal relationships. As USA Today points out, Patriot F...
The suit claims Capito joined Patriot Front using a false identity and accessed the group's computer databases to access private information, which he then shared with friendly activists and hackers.
"This confidential information was then widely published and used to harass and threaten the Plaintiffs, with the aim, and result, of doxxing them and other Patriot Front members and causing them serious harm," the lawsuit says.
They do this sort of thing all the time to the trans community.
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....
“My attorneys had a productive meeting with the DOJ this morning, explaining in detail that I did nothing wrong, was advised by many lawyers, and that an Indictment of me would only further destroy our Country,” the (so far) twice-indicted former president posted to his social media website last week.
I wonder if this sticks. If this does stick, it becomes a huge talking point for him being a weak, ineffectual non-leader. He could actually be throwing himself under the bus, politically speaking.
Ramaswamy’s appearance on the Flashpoint show was typically crisp and articulate. Asked to explain his religious outlook by the host, pastor Gene Bailey, Ramaswamy declared that the United States was “founded on Judeo Christian values,” and insisted that, though he is a Hindu, “I share that same value-set in common.”
I do believe the gentleman has been misinformed about the kind of "values" Americans have (drinking and guns).
So, this sucks. On Mint, Firefox was running super sluggish to the point of being unusable. I reinstalled Ubuntucinnamon because I enjoyed using it when I had it installed, but between me last having it installed and now there seems to have been an update that has broken cinnamon's system tray. Which, for me, is a major...
If a reasonable person had made such a remark, they would rightfully be expected to apologize and take some serious time by themselves to reflect on the horrible mistake they had made. Given that this is Fox "News," I fully expect that no such correction will take place.
The range of Republican voters’ views on Trump shows he continues to have a tight grip on the party, even among those weary of his rhetoric and legal woes.
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
It's pointless and stupid. If you're forced to perform a religious ritual, it doesn't mean you believe. People believe whatever they want, independent of what they say or do.
This is what happens when you elect Republicans. You aren't a woman anymore. You're property. You can't decide your most intimate health decisions. You're forced to let a man dictate to you, and they aren't remotely reasonable.
It’s easy to cast Kissinger as a master geostrategist, an expert player in the game of nations. But do the math. Hundreds of thousands of dead in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and East Timor, perhaps a million in total. Tens of thousands dead in Argentina’s Dirty War. Thousands killed and tens of thousands tortured by the Chilean military dictatorship, and a democracy destroyed. His hands are drenched in blood.
Kissinger is routinely lambasted by his critics as a “war criminal,” though has never been held accountable for his misdeeds. He has made millions as a consultant, author, and commentator in the decades since he left government. I once heard of a Manhattan cocktail reception where he scoffed at the “war criminal” label and referred to it almost as a badge of honor. (“Bill Clinton does not have the spine to be a war criminal,” he joshed.) Kissinger has expressed few, if any, regrets about the cruel and deadly results of his moves on the global chessboard. When Koppel gently nudged him about the secret bombing in Cambodia, Kissinger took enormous umbrage and shot back: “This program you’re doing because I’m going to be 100 years old. And you are picking a topic of something that happened 60 years ago? You have to know it was a necessary step.” As for those who still protest him for that and other acts, he huffed, “Now the younger generation feels if they can raise their emotions, they don’t have to think.”
Former President Donald Trump and his allies are already scheming up plans to significantly expand his presidential power if he wins back the White House next year.
I don't normally find myself agreeing with Hasan, but I feel like this bears repeating:
"Be afraid. This is on the verge of happening 18 months from now," tweeted MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan. "Now ask yourself this question: are cautious, in-denial, business-as-usual establishment Dems equipped, or even willing, to address this anti-democratic, autocratic threat?"
Marjorie Taylor Greene has lampooned yet another of her perceived opponents with the “little bitch” insult she appears to be growing increasingly fond of – this time lambasting Special Counsel Jack Smith....
At Joint Base Lewis-McChord's air show just outside of Tacoma, Washington, this past weekend, onlookers and families saw tactical military jets, high-performance sports cars and risqué models dancing on stage in skintight red, white and blue bikinis, part of what organizers described as a "way to thank the Puget Sound...
Listen, dredging up phony "moral" outrage isn't just a time-consuming and difficult process of navigating lengthy and confusing doctrines. You also have to meet up with these people, ignore their obvious problems, and agree with them when they fly off the handle about one small minority group or another being the cause of all their problems. It's downright soul-crushing, I tells ya. Nobody appreciates being a good phony moral outrage dealer anymore.
The 1776 Gastonia housing development promises to blend patriotism and freedom, honoring the ideals that built this country. Developer Brock Fankhauser calls it a movement. Specifically, 1776 Gastonia is a planned community for people — or rather, "patriots" — 55 and up.
The Gastonia High Priest of the order of the Flag Worship will soon be demanding human sacrifices. It seems the daily chant of pretended veneration (aka "Pledge of Allegience") isn't enough to satisfy its lust for blood.
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made another eye-popping statement this week, and this time it was about the origins of the novel coronavirus.The New York Post reports that Kennedy floated his new conspiracy theory about COVID-19 during a ...
RFK Jr. is a useful tool of the fascists. He has been brainwashed and funded by them purely to discredit any attempt at actual progress in this country.
Mississippi is starting the court-ordered process of letting people cite religious beliefs to seek exemptions from state-mandated vaccinations that children must receive before attending day care or school.
Much as I might like watching a car crash, I'd get a little nervous at the idea that millions of people want him to take the wheel of the whole country.
Dechert continued to scream wildly about the climate change “scam” while Haden-Guest peppered him with verbal volleys from across the table, calling him variously “f–king insane” and “insignificant.”
[News] Republicans Furious as Speaker Johnson Turns GOP Leadership Meeting Into Religious Revival ( www.meidastouch.com )
Trump faces some half a billion dollars in legal penalties. How will he pay them? ( www.npr.org )
Donald Trump owes legal penalties totaling hundreds of millions of dollars in two civil cases recently decided in New York, raising questions about how he'll pay the amount.
Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity, US court rules ( www.bbc.com )
The former president loses a landmark legal bid to shield him from charges of election fraud.
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Trump allies craft plans to give him unprecedented power if he wins the White House ( www.npr.org )
Trump insiders are working behind the scenes on detailed plans to amass his power so that he can carry out an unprecedented restructuring of the U.S. government and expand executive authority.
Once Florida's favorite son, Floridians turn on DeSantis in his bid for president ( www.npr.org )
Gov. Ron DeSantis won a decisive reelection in 2022, in a year when Republicans elsewhere didn't fare as well. But now that he's running for president, some in Florida wish he'd do his job at home.
Texas secessionists feel more emboldened than ever ( www.texastribune.org )
Standing in front of a massive state flag on Saturday, Claver Kamau-Imani outlined his utopian vision of a Nation of Texas that he believes is just on the horizon....
"Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. " - GOP 2025 Mandate For Leadership ( www.project2025.org )
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[News] McCarthy says he won’t give Democrats anything in exchange for support as Speaker ( thehill.com )
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that he would not give Democrats anything in exchange for their votes to help save his Speakership, after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) moved to force a vote on ousting him....
[News] Trump Has Been Privately Encouraging G.O.P. Lawmakers to Impeach Biden ( www.nytimes.com )
The former president has talked regularly with members of the House Freedom Caucus and other congressional Republicans who pushed for impeachment....
[Opinion] Trump's plans to become a dictator: It's time to get real about Project 2025 - Chauncey DeVega - Salon ( www.salon.com )
Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting. Like other dictators, he is threatening to put his "enemies" in prison – and to do even worse things to them. These are not idle threats or empty acts of ideation: Donald Trump is a violent man who is a proven enemy of democracy and freedom....
[Opinion Analysis] Meet the white Trump official behind the launch of Black America for Immigration Reform ( www.politico.com )
The new effort will look to advance the argument that more immigration is bad for Black workers.
[News] US Supreme Court's Thomas flew on GOP donor's jet, cites security risks ( www.reuters.com )
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted flights by private jet last year and cited security concerns around the court's controversial abortion decision to justify some of the private travel, according to a disclosure form released on Thursday....
Alright, you know what? I'll be switching. ( kbin.social )
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US businessman is wannabe ‘warlord’ of secretive far-right men’s network ( www.theguardian.com )
Revealed: Charles Haywood, creator of the Society for American Civic Renewal, has said he might serve as ‘warlord’ at the head of an ‘armed patronage network’
Donald Trump calls off press conference where he said he would share report on Georgia election fraud claims ( www.politico.com )
The former president said his lawyers would instead put "Irrefutable & Overwhelming evidence" in their legal filings over his latest indictment.
Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01 ( seiya.me )
Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01
Georgia Grand Jury Looking at Trump Returns Indictment ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Trump—already charged in New York, Florida, and D.C.—now appears to be facing an indictment in Georgia.
[News] He was a top church official who criticized Trump. He says Christianity is in crisis ( www.npr.org )
Russell Moore criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention's response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside.
NEWS: Patriot Front sues left-wing activist who infiltrated the hate group and named members ( www.rawstory.com )
The white supremacist group Patriot Front is suing a left-wing activist for allegedly infiltrating the group and revealing the identities of members, USA Today reported. The lawsuit says the alleged "doxxings" cost the members their jobs and personal relationships. As USA Today points out, Patriot F...
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. ( gizmodo.com )
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....
Trump’s Plan to Save Himself: Scapegoat His Coup Lawyers - Analysis ( www.rollingstone.com )
“John [Eastman] and Rudy [Giuliani] gave a lot of counsel,” one Trump advisor says ominously. “Other people can decide how sound it was”
[Analysis] Vivek Ramaswamy Is On the Rise. So Are Christian Nationalist Attacks on His Religion ( www.rollingstone.com )
“You’re going to let him put all of his strange gods up in the White House?”
Stuck between distros right now. ( kbin.social )
So, this sucks. On Mint, Firefox was running super sluggish to the point of being unusable. I reinstalled Ubuntucinnamon because I enjoyed using it when I had it installed, but between me last having it installed and now there seems to have been an update that has broken cinnamon's system tray. Which, for me, is a major...
News: White House slams Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld for saying ‘useful’ Jews survived Nazi camps ( www.independent.co.uk )
Museum on site of former concentration camp said host wasn’t being historically accurate
Analysis: Even as third indictment looms, many Republicans still stand by Trump ( www.washingtonpost.com )
The range of Republican voters’ views on Trump shows he continues to have a tight grip on the party, even among those weary of his rhetoric and legal woes.
Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming ( apnews.com )
A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming to be eligible for parole.
Nebraska teen Celeste Burgess gets 90 days behind bars for late-term abortion ( nypost.com )
Celeste Burgess, 19, of Norfolk, was hit with a 90-day jail sentence and two years’ probation at Madison County District Court on Thursday.
Henry Kissinger at 100: Still a War Criminal ( www.motherjones.com )
Forget the birthday candles, let's count the dead.
Trump aims to expand presidential power over "every part of the federal government" with any independence ( www.salon.com )
Former President Donald Trump and his allies are already scheming up plans to significantly expand his presidential power if he wins back the White House next year.
MTG said she was 'uncomfortable' showing photos of Hunter Biden having sex but Americans 'deserve' to see them ( www.businessinsider.com )
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene held up naked photos of Hunter Biden during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the DOJ's investigation into his taxes.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Jack Smith as ‘little b****’ for Democrats ( www.independent.co.uk )
Marjorie Taylor Greene has lampooned yet another of her perceived opponents with the “little bitch” insult she appears to be growing increasingly fond of – this time lambasting Special Counsel Jack Smith....
Matt Gaetz says he will offer bill to defund Jack Smith investigation into Trump ( www.independent.co.uk )
The congressman’s announcement comes amid reports that the former presient may be indicted again
Israel Struggling to Recover Ancient Artifacts Trump Took to Mar-a-Lago: Report ( www.rollingstone.com )
The former president up and stole antiquities that were lent to the White House for a Hanukkah celebration in 2019
Base Air Show Featuring Scantily Clad Models Raises Questions About Justification for Drag Show Ban ( www.military.com )
At Joint Base Lewis-McChord's air show just outside of Tacoma, Washington, this past weekend, onlookers and families saw tactical military jets, high-performance sports cars and risqué models dancing on stage in skintight red, white and blue bikinis, part of what organizers described as a "way to thank the Puget Sound...
New housing development in Gastonia requires ‘patriots’ to fly American flag ( www.wfae.org )
The 1776 Gastonia housing development promises to blend patriotism and freedom, honoring the ideals that built this country. Developer Brock Fankhauser calls it a movement. Specifically, 1776 Gastonia is a planned community for people — or rather, "patriots" — 55 and up.
RFK Jr. suggests COVID-19 could have been 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews ( www.rawstory.com )
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made another eye-popping statement this week, and this time it was about the origins of the novel coronavirus.The New York Post reports that Kennedy floated his new conspiracy theory about COVID-19 during a ...
Mississippi, under judge's order, starts allowing religious exemptions for childhood vaccinations ( apnews.com )
Mississippi is starting the court-ordered process of letting people cite religious beliefs to seek exemptions from state-mandated vaccinations that children must receive before attending day care or school.
DeSantis Claimed Pandemic Success in Florida as “Excess Deaths” Skyrocketed ( truthout.org )
More people died in rural Florida and across the U.S. during the pandemic's first two years than officially reported.
Panicked Trump Wants Georgia Evidence Tossed to Stop Third Indictment ( newrepublic.com )
Trump is doing everything he can to stop the investigation into his efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.
'Disgraceful': GOP Advances Bill That Could Remove 220,000 Teachers From Classrooms ( www.commondreams.org )
"If left to their own devices, Republicans would gleefully take public education to the graveyard," said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
Trump's unprecedented campaign pitch: Elect me to be your revenge on the government ( abcnews.go.com )
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. press dinner explodes in war of words and farting ( pagesix.com )
A verbal war broke out between two old-timers over climate change that led to one loudly farting at the table to express his disgust.