I confess to back pedaling into Trump territory when I wanted to leave discussions about him in the garbage can. My thread on the read-only break room site has 9,600 replies so I thought I'd bring up a new one.
He's not going away.
Haberman's book is out based on interviews. I won't read it, but the excerpts are interesting. Especially what he says about McConnell, a description that's against the Terms of Service here, but I actually don't disagree with. LOL
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“At one point, Trump made a candid admission that was as jarring as it was ultimately unsurprising. ‘The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had it to do again, would you have done it?”’Trump said of running for president. ‘The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.’ … Reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he’d accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them.”
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Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee about Trump assassination attempt --gave info whats currently known, better Secret Service chief .
Thomas Crooks may have had a firearm with a collapsible stock and flew a drone around the campaign rally site prior to the shooting,...
On July 5, Thomas Crooks, 20, traveled to the site of Trump's July 13 presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, for the first time, Wray told a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
The next day, Crooks searched "how far away was Oswald from Kennedy," referring to the 1963 assassination, and registered for the rally, Wray said....On the morning of the rally, he went back to the campaign site, where he stayed for about an hour, and then left to purchase 50 rounds of ammunition that afternoon...
Wray said Crooks was back at the rally site shortly before 4 p.m., when he flew a drone about 200 yards away from the main stage area, Wray said.
Two hours later, witnesses began to shout about a suspicious man on the roof of a nearby building....
8 bullet cartridges shells found on the roof..
Wray said the FBI recovered the drone in Crooks' car, where they also found a drone controller and two explosive devices that could be remotely detonated..
Just a couple things I have picked up from previous posts... one is that President Reagan was shot in the chest, there is video of that event happening. He thought a USSS agent broke his rib when he was thrown into the car. He was shot with a .22 caliber bullet from a revolver. A policeman was shot in the neck, James Brady (Reagan's Press Secretary) was shot in the head, and another USSS agent was also shot in the chest. President Reagan was quite seriously injured and easily could have died if his injuries weren't treated promptly.
Thomas Crooks fired 8 times. It is unknown when he actually brought the rifle to that rally site. So far, nobody is on record having seen him walking around at ground level with that rifle. The collapsible stock on an otherwise full-size rifle isn't magically concealable under a t-shirt. That rifle could very easily have been hidden somewhere nearby in advance. Given the totality of circumstances as we know it so far, Trump is exceedingly lucky that the only physical injury he sustained was to his earlobe.
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akulahawkRN said:
The only people that dislike Loper Bright are those people that like what Chevron allowed.
I prefer that scientists and experts settle any interpretive gaps in regulations from agencies like the EPA. Science isn't as influenced by politics and personal whim. That ruling seemed to want to give even more influence to the executive branch while taking down another established precedent.
Trump's injury was likely not a gunshot injury. It is most likely secondary to flying debris. Glass from a shattered teleprompter is a possibility. For now we only know what the liar's campaign team tells us and we know that they lie to us because Trump is a pathological liar suffering from mental illness.
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"Personal excellence" and "carving her own path" is an interesting way to describe the first Lady who plagiarized another first Lady's speech.
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That ruling seemed to want to give even more influence to the executive branch while taking down another established precedent.
It actually takes away executive branch influence because the "established precedent" took some power of interpreting law (a judicial function) away from the judiciary and gave it to the executive. If there's any vagueness in a law that Congress writes, under Chevron, the agency tasked with enforcing that law gets to decide what that law means. This also allows that agency to redefine what that law means. So what was once OK can suddenly be redefined to be not legal at all without any change to the letter of the law. Under Loper Bright the court still recognizes that agencies are still subject matter experts, but places the interpretation of law back into the realm of the judiciary. The courts are the SME of interpreting the meaning of laws.
I prefer that scientists and experts settle any interpretive gaps in regulations from agencies like the EPA. Science isn't as influenced by politics and personal whim.
I would prefer that scientists and experts be largely divorced from determining interpretive gaps in regulations because scientists and experts are only human and can very much be influenced by politics and personal whim. This leads to agencies redefining the gaps in regulations to mean things that aren't expressly allowed by legislation.
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akulahawkRN said:
It actually takes away executive branch influence because the "established precedent" took some power of interpreting law (a judicial function) away from the judiciary and gave it to the executive. If there's any vagueness in a law that Congress writes, under Chevron, the agency tasked with enforcing that law gets to decide what that law means. This also allows that agency to redefine what that law means. So what was once OK can suddenly be redefined to be not legal at all without any change to the letter of the law. Under Loper Bright the court still recognizes that agencies are still subject matter experts, but places the interpretation of law back into the realm of the judiciary. The courts are the SME of interpreting the meaning of laws.
That's basically the end result of Loper Bright.
I agreed with Coney Barrette's assessment and opinion.
I agreed with Coney Barrette's assessment and opinion.
Justice Amy Coney Barret didn't file a concurrence nor did she file a dissent on this case. She joined the 6-2 majority, Justice Jackson recused herself on this.
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akulahawkRN said:
Justice Amy Coney Barret didn't file a concurrence nor did she file a dissent on this case. She joined the 6-2 majority, Justice Jackson recused herself on this.
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akulahawkRN said:
I would prefer that scientists and experts be largely divorced from determining interpretive gaps in regulations because scientists and experts are only human and can very much be influenced by politics and personal whim. This leads to agencies redefining the gaps in regulations to mean things that aren't expressly allowed by legislation.
We see right now that politicians and judges aren't the best people to decide. They are absolutely influenced by politics and personal whim.
Scientists use the scientific process, not politics or public opinion to formulate guidance, rules or regulation in their expertise. I don't want judges or politicians filling in the gaps for the FDA or HHS.
Scientists use the scientific process, not politics or public opinion to formulate guidance, rules or regulation in their expertise. I don't want judges or politicians filling in the gaps for the FDA or HHS.
Ideally scientists use the scientific process, but they can very much be swayed by politics and/or public opinion to shape their output. They're only human. However, Congress does delegate certain rulemaking authority to agencies like the FDA and HHS, among the many others. However, those agencies may NOT stray outside what they are authorized to do. Ambiguity in the enabling (and other) statutes is where executive agencies can try to use their rulemaking authority to expand their power. Under Chevron that was allowable. Now it isn't.
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Christopher Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee about Trump assassination attempt --gave info whats currently known, better Secret Service chief .
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FBI director reveals new details on how Trump shooter carried out attack
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On Tuesday, Pennsylvania State Police Col. Christopher Paris told the House Homeland Security Committee that officers with the Butler County Emergency Services Unit had spotted Crooks from a second-story window and left their post to search for him.
Hope to see final report next month as FBI still investigating his video gamer sites-some overseas.