Apparently, Hoskins was at the hearing, but it sounds like he might have escaped with some light ass chewing.

The court found that Hoskins was in contempt, but he managed to purge the contempt by hearing time. (i.e. he came into compliance with the court order by directing election officials to use the 2022 map.)

A few points here:

• Fox News is a cable channel, so it isn’t subject to this rule. The rule only applies over the air.
• Fox News argued in a legal case that one of its talk shows (I think Tucker Carlson) was not news and no one should believe it. I don’t think they were talking about their actual news programs on Fox News.
• The current FCC of this president is arguing that Kimmel is not a news program. Previous FCCs took the opposite view.

The Supreme Court of Missouri has ordered the Secretary of State of Missouri to appear in person at a contempt of court hearing today.

The Equal Time Rule would require Kimmel to offer to air an equal-time interview to Ken Paxton as well as Talarico. Unless Kimmel’s program is a bona fide news program, which would be exempt from the rule.

Previous administrations adopted a more broad interpretation of “bona fide news program” that included these late night shows that interview guests. Mainly because this rule and the exception are playing with legal fire regarding the first amendment and core political speech.

The Equal Time Rule applies only to over the air broadcasts. YouTube is unregulated on that point.

FYI, this is a midterm election that is coming up. The senators and representatives who will have been elected will be sworn in on Jan 2, 2027 in their respective chambers. Nothing significant to the constitution is scheduled for Jan 6. That’s only in presidential election cycles.

This action also forces the appeals to start over.

Put some “Copyright © Patnou, [year]” notices in prominent places on the manuscript.

ICE spokesperson Jason Chudy said the agency arrested Javar because he allegedly failed to disclose a criminal conviction when applying for his immigrant visa in 1995. Chudy declared that Javar was “therefore ineligible to remain in the United States now.”

This is the kind of stuff that previous administrations overlooked and used their discretion on. This administration is mainly applying the immigration law strictly according to the letter. The immigration laws themselves really suck and they have for a long time.

The main flavour components of butter are not going to infuse through water. If you want to add butter flavour to the final product, it would be better to baste the food in melted butter after it Congress out of the pot.

If you have enough water in with the butter to actually simmer instead of fry, the butter won’t do very much during the cooking process. Water boils at 100 C, and the boiling will stabilise the temperature at 100 C and prevent it from climbing higher. A frying or saute process doesn’t have the water, and the temperatures can go much higher than 100 C.

The normal seafood boil recipe is no fat in the water, but do add a lot of seasoning to the water. Add a lot more seasoning to the water than you would normally add directly to the food.

Then for the boil, only boil the seafood for a short time, 1-2 minutes. Then turn the heat off, cover, and steep the seafood in the over-seasoned water like tea, until done. This gives the food more contact time to infuse with the seasoning without overcooking.

It is his job to have the final say, after the lower appeals courts have had their final say. That hasn’t happened yet. This case is still being litigated in the district court.

That’s why Roberts said “likely unlawful.” Because the only question under consideration right now is which way to go until the lawsuit ends. The standard for that is “likely (un)lawful” because you can’t decide if it’s lawful until you decide if it’s lawful. (If that makes any sense).

Do you all remember when they forced all one stars and above to attend a political rally at the Pentagon? And Trump and Hegseth would pause for the applause lines. And the generals just sat there at attention betraying no facial expressions whatsoever.

Yeah. This military is not personally loyal to Trump.

Edit: but do keep in mind that coups are usually led by middle-ranking officers, not general officers.

The 6-3 SCOTUS ruling was in a lawsuit that challenged the exec order on its face. That is to say, the lawsuit was asking the federal courts to declare that the EO is illegal and void. The supreme court said just having an EO is too wishy washy to be an actual harm or injury that you can sue for.

But… During the time of this litigation, the post office has finalized the new rules that implement the EO. So now there are rules on the books that actually do things that affect people… Actual harms that can be the basis of a new lawsuit.

And that’s exactly what happened. The plaintiffs amended their complaint to challenge the rule instead of the EO, and they’re going to ask for their TRO and prelim injunction very shortly now.

TLDR: the supreme court is once again finding the lamest and most legalistic reasons to hand this president small “victories” real fast, while they duck and dodge on saying anything about the real issues.

Qualified immunity is a concept that applies to state law enforcement officers. Feds of all kinds have a different form of immunity that is generally stronger than qualified immunity.

See Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents.

The tcpdumps I’ve worked with can also dump UDP, ICMP, and even ARP.

The US beef supply is squeezed because some big droughts from a couple of years ago forced ranchers to sell off a lot of their herds.

Now, they don’t have the herds to supply the demand, and you can’t just magick more cows into existence. Once the problem exists, it takes a bunch of time to grow calves into cows.

The problem is exacerbated by a dynamic where the current high prices encourage ranchers to sell their cattle instead of keeping them around to grow the herd.

This month, the government responded to Streever’s lawsuit, confirming his allegations while attempting to rebut them.

My God, these DOJ lawyers are bad these days.

Shhhhh! We can’t talk about the national debt until a D is in charge.

Yeah. This is about Trump’s motion to reconsider at the supreme court. The court already denied his petition, but he gets one more “pretty please change your mind” motion. This is the very end of the line for the $5 million case.

The supreme court is still considering whether to take up Trump’s petition in the $83 million case.