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IdleRich

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ver$hy ver$h said:
I remember smoking weed with this man called Jim who did heroin when I was a teenager and he made me smoke all my weed with him then just walked off like "Cheers, mate." while I was lying there wanting to throw up and die.
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Thing is if I smoked weed I probably wood be sick in fairness.
 
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The Trump administration ADMITTED last night that many of the people sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison are people with NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Stunningly, they argue that because they DON'T know much about these people, that justifies denying them due process!
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Disgusting that anyone would stick up for this. Trumpers - whatever else - at least used to be pro-freedom, pro-constitution, pro-law etc so it's shameful to see them tying themselves in knots to say this is ok just cos Trump did it, abandoning all of their professed principles in the process.
 
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Judge rules against Musk and Doge, finding USAid shutdown 'likely violated' constitution​

A federal judge has ordered Elon Musk and his “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to stop their dismantling of USAid, saying their move to rapidly shut down the agency tasked with managing foreign assistance was likely illegal.

“The court finds that defendants actions taken to shut down USAid on an accelerated basis, including its apparent decision to permanently close USAid headquarters without the approval of a duly appointed USAid Officer, likely violated the United States constitution in multiple ways, and that these actions harmed not only Plaintiffs, but also the public interest, because they deprived the public’s elected representatives in Congress of their constitutional authority to decide whether, when, and how to close down an agency created by Congress,” wrote Maryland-based judge Theodore D. Chuang.

He ordered Musk and Doge officials to halt any work meant to shut down USAid, reinstate email access for all USAid employees and contractors and not disclose any employees’ personal information publicly.

He also said Musk and Doge have two weeks to either certify that USAid’s Washington DC headquarters has been reopened or have a top USAid official agree to close it down.
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So like everyone said at the time, funds allocated by Congress can't be unallocated by an unelected official.

I dunno if everything they've broken can be put back together though, which I guess was the point of doing it as they did. To me the main thing is that for people who care so much about the constitution this new administration doesn't care very much about the constitution.
 
Mr. Tea

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IdleRich said:
So like everyone said at the time, funds allocated by Congress can't be unallocated by an unelected official.

I dunno if everything they've broken can be put back together though, which I guess was the point of doing it as they did. To me the main thing is that for people who care so much about the constitution this new administration doesn't care very much about the constitution.
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I think the more loudly people yell about the Constitution, the less they either know or care about it, in the same way that the more ostentatiously Christian someone is, the less they embody anything resembling "Christian virtue."
 
IdleRich

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Yeah I think that's a reasonable parallel. Also it's funny that at the moment all those right-wing Christians that actually do read the Bible are disappointed about Jesus being all woke and lefty and kind to poor people and stuff so they are trying to re-write Christianity in their own image. Saw this one just yesterday I think

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Mr. Tea

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IdleRich said:
Yeah I think that's a reasonable parallel. Also it's funny that at the moment all those right-wing Christians that actually do read the Bible are disappointed about Jesus being all woke and lefty and kind to poor people and stuff so they are trying to re-write Christianity in their own image. Saw this one just yesterday I think

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Fucking hell. Just when you thought they couldn't get any crazier, they come up with Roid-Rage Alpha Chad Wifebeater Jesus.
 
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A man who voted for President Donald Trump says he does not regret his decision, even after federal immigration authorities arrested his wife as the couple returned home from their honeymoon.
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Earlier this month, ICE detained Jensy Machado, a naturalized U.S. citizen, in northern Virginia.

"They just got out of the car with the guns in their hands and say, turn off the car, give me the keys, open the window, you know. Everything was really fast," he told Telemundo 44 and NBC 4 Washington.

Machado added: "I voted for Trump last election, but, because I thought it was going to be the things, you know, like … just go against criminals, not every Hispanic looking, like, that they will assume that we are all illegals."
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Re the deportation

Judge grudgingly gives Trump administration another day to answer questions on deportation flights​

A federal judge has granted the Trump administration’s request to delay responding to his demand for details of three deportation flights that may have been allowed to proceed to their destinations in violation of his order.

Judge James Boasberg said the government had another 24 hours – until noon eastern time tomorrow – to either provide details of the flights’ itineraries and who they were carrying or to invoke a doctrine that would allow the government to shield the information on national security grounds.

In his order, Boasberg, who on Saturday night said that any of the three planes carrying migrants should not proceed to their destinations as he weighed a challenge to their deportation under the Alien Enemies Act, signaled he was not happy with the government’s arguments.

“Although their grounds for such request at first blush are not persuasive, the Court will extend the deadline for one more day,” Boasberg wrote.

“The Court seeks this information, not as a ‘micromanaged and unnecessary judicial fishing expedition’” as the Trump administration had argued, “but to determine if the Government deliberately flouted its Orders issued on March 15, 2025, and, if so, what the consequences should be.”

He also signaled he was skeptical that the government will prevail if it invokes the state secrets doctrine to keep the information confidential on national security grounds:
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IdleRich

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The defence that answering questions about these flights would be a threat to national security is a bit rich when a couple of days ago they were bragging about how many people they had on, sharing the flight numbers along with pictures of the detainees etc
 
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IdleRich said:
The defence that answering questions about these flights would be a threat to national security is a bit rich when a couple of days ago they were bragging about how many people they had on, sharing the flight numbers along with pictures of the detainees etc
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Also all the 'transparency' rhetoric coming from Elon and co. re: DOGE.
 
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Yep, it's like this guy who got fired from Waitrose appealing to the ECHR despite banging on for years about how we ought to be free of it. Shameless hypocrisy.
 
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There's a conspiracy theory of sorts doing the rounds that Trump has done this to force them to take him to court and ultimately to SCOTUS so that his majority will overrule the precedent and change it so that firing people from these roles will come into the president's remit. Which I guess it basically isn't just now.
 
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The use of "Martin Shkrelis and Jeff Besos" implies the existence of a Jeff Bezo. Whereas the plural of Bezos would be Bezoi or Bezoæ or something.

They also haven't mentioned a perhaps more relevant multi-billionaire.
 
IdleRich

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This whole speech is so dishonest



Such demagoguery to say "why is a judge protecting terrorists?" and "meddling in foreign affairs" when of course a) he's protecting their right to due process which means that ultimately he's protecting the law and b) the whole point is that they've just been declared terrorists without any process and so describing them as terrorists is begging the question and c) it's not about foreign affairs, it's about whether the president can just designate people as criminals on a whim - oh and in addition her unevidenced assertion that a judge has no right to do that is just bollocks and she should know that, I hate this "unelected judge" shit, US judges are not elected so that's all of them.

I have to admit that I'd never realised that Pam Bondi is actually quite sexy though unlike Truss whichever one of you freaks it was said that - I particularly like her voice which makes her sound... no I can't say that.
 
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