The long term problem is that lawyers are often not stupid, and they can see that working for this DOJ will have deleterious effects on their future careers when this stuff is over. I’ve heard that the Minneapolis office is down to 9 attorneys, and should be staffed for 50.

But the immediate problem here dates back to Rumsfeld v. Padilla*. In that case, the supreme court decided that habeas petitions must be filed in the district of actual, physical confinement. This created a race condition, where ICE is trying to get these people out of Minnesota as fast as possible, and these people’s lawyers are trying to file the lawsuits in Minnesota before their clients physically leave the state. ICE would prefer for these petitions to be filed in Texas, because the Texas district courts are a lot more favorable to them. The Minnesota lawyers don’t want to have to file in Texas, both because it’s a disadvantage to them, and because they aren’t admitted to practice in Texas, and it’s a big hassle to work around that.

Combine that with Trump v. CASA, and no one wants to try a habeas class action. So you have a crap ton of individualized habeas petitions, all over the same issue, which is ICE’s incorrect interpretation of federal immigration law. And in many, many of these cases, they properly got filed in Minnesota, but the prisoners got shipped to Texas anyway. The Minnesota judges are figuring out that all these cases are the same, and they’re making the decisions real fast now, and ICE is not keeping up, by design. It’s a total logistical cluster.

*Yes, it’s that Donald Rumsfeld, and that Jose Padilla, the dirty bomb guy.

No. I am suggesting that these times are abnormal.

Rehmet won by around 10 points too, which puts the total swing around +30. If that kind of swing holds up in the rest of the state, it would completely blow up the Texas gerrymander. Remember, gerrymanders turn a lot of very safe districts into only moderately safe districts.

This is, uh, this is not how judges normally sign off on opinions:

Obviously, this is why you should keep your habeas attorney on retainer at all times. (/s)

The active duty marines did actually detain a civilian Angeleno before that situation was shut down.

Edit: Part of the legal difficulty is that Posse Comitatus Act violations are written up as crimes in the statute. It’s not clear that someone could actually sue to enforce with a civil lawsuit. And good luck getting DOJ to file charges on that.

They’re doing this because success would set up factual predicates to support invoking the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act is invokable when state governments are actively disobeying federal law.

They’re not invoking the Insurrection Act right at this moment, because with the facts they have right now, they’re not confident they’ll win the case in court. (And they may also lose a voting majority in Congress on the matter.)

Windows does, in fact, have signals. They’re just not all the same as Unix signals, and the behavior is different. Here’s a write-up.

You’re correct there is no “please terminate but you don’t have to” signal in Windows. Windowless processes sometimes make up their own nonstandard events to implement the functionality. As you mentioned, windowed processes have WM_CLOSE.

Memory access violations (akin to SIGSEGV), and other system exceptions can be handled through Structured Exception Handling.

flood the U.S. Gulf Coast and Midwest refineries with Venezuelan heavy crude.

It is so important to understand the difference in grades of crude oil.

The US’s refining capacity is currently oriented around lighter and sweeter crudes. They can’t just handle a big glut of Venezuelan oil today. They would need retooling and and reconfiguration. And Venezuela needs a bunch of new and reinvested infrastructure if it wants to ramp up its production.

All of that is a large, large amount of capital expenditure, and the people who can put that money down will want solid assurances that the Venezuela arrangement will continue for years and decades.

And Trump is certainly not giving them “long term thinking” vibes right now.

It was also common to have a single step mode, where the CPU advances one cycle per switch press. Very useful for debugging.

And you could frequently read out the contents of registers directly on rows of lights. This led to the trope of the blinky light computer in Star Trek (original series) and elsewhere. Because the lights would flash in various patterns when the computer was running, as the register contents changed. But in the single step mode you could interpret the values.

Nvidia has entered the chat.

Speaking about oil reserves, the US can be a petro state and net exporter as long as the price is above 60 USD/bbl. Thanks to hydraulic fracturing. Other nations can still produce oil cheaper than that, but the US has a vested interest now in stabilizing the price right around where fracking breaks even, because they’re also such a big consumer of petroleum.

There’s a long and storied history of that in the Caribbean Sea. Yarrrrrrh.

Al pastor is actually a lot more recent than the Moors.

Shawarma was imported by Lebanese immigrants to Mexico in the late 1800s. The meat switched over to pork based on availability and the fact that the Lebanese immigrants were mainly Christian.

1. The court found that there is no lawful basis to deport Abrego in the first place, because the government was unable to produce a copy of the 2019 deportation order in court.

2. The court found that government lawyers deliberately “misled the tribunal” regarding their efforts to deport Abrego to Africa. The court “will take this into account” while considering pending motions for sanctions.

3. In alternative to #1, the court found that the government was not really detaining Abrego to deport him, because they could have sent him to Costa Rica at any time in the past few months. But they did not.

4. Therefore, there is no lawful reason to subject Abrego to immigration detention, and the writ of habeas corpus is granted.

5. Abrego is still on bail in the TN criminal case.

The license holder is attaching additional terms and conditions that are incompatible with publicly disclosing the driver source code.

This is a different judge in a different district than the one who handled the Comey indictment.

The lawsuit was filed by Dan Richman, who wants his personal data returned to him. The data was seized in 2019-2020 under search warrants, but the public learned in Comey case filings that the FBI failed to exclude non pertinent data, violating the terms of the original warrants. Among other problems.

In the previous Comey case, nearly all of the evidence that the government presented against Comey came out of these warrants. And it’s not clear if they have any other sources of evidence.

16 inches is the caliber, or the diameter of the shells.

The propellant is not shown here, and would be loaded separately in canvas bags behind these shells.

The speech and debate clause is separate from the arrest clause. The Treason exception only applies to the first part.

Additionally, Treason has a definition elsewhere in this document, and just giving any kind of speech doesn’t meet the standard.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

It would be pretty hard to claim that any kind of speechifying amounts to “Aid and Comfort”, especially if you can’t identify the “Enemy” in a time when the nation is at peace.

Now the first amendment does apply here, but I expect a legal defense to go to this speech and debate clause first, then 1st amendment. Because 1st amendment has a bunch of exceptions of the “yelling fire in a crowded theater” type, but speech and debate is going to be more ironclad. Once you convince a court that you were doing Congressional speech or debate, then the only discipline you can face is from your chamber’s rules, period.

B-but, but… The Burn Bags??? The grand jury in Florida??? The conspiracy against rights???

Kash gotta stick around to cover for that stuff, right?

(If you don’t know what I’m talking about, keep it that way. This is like the dumbest bullshit I’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard a lotta bullshit. )