The process is the punishment, as long as the cases are not deemed frivolous. And I don’t think they would be, in Texas.
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We await Judge Engoron’s transfer request to family court.
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https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=JSwjoxlqJrrO4QkT0U/fJw==
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=5iRy_PLUS_JbSGDmvfd0yWM3QmA==
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What is hilarious about the Wired article — more accurately, a single paragraph and subhead — is that is merely cites unnamed “security experts” who opine “that’s not how it works” without giving any reasoning or hint of how it does work. My hunch is the author of the piece asked her hairdresser about it.
It’s been years since Wired has been of much value. I wonder if 2600 is still published.
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D. Maryland case re USAID:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69636722/does-1-26-v-musk/
4th Circuit appeal:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69768413/j-does-1-26-v-elon-musk/
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Interesting! The Constitution does not contain the words “USAIDS” or “website”, or even “headquarters”. Maybe those words are in the hidden section of the Constitution discussing “abortion”?
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This is the problem with a kritarchy: judges are free to make up the meaning of the law as they go along. It started with Marbury and has grown into a monster since. If judges stuck to settling disputes between citizens, using the black letter law as their guide, the system wouldn’t be perfect but it would be less broken. Instead, they are busy telling us what the law means, with all its penumbras and emanations. In other words, they’re just making stuff up.
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That’s the way it seems to a non-lawyer.
Let’s try an analogy with a system that clearly works – Spacex today, or NASA way back in history. They would design something, build it, and fire it off. Sometimes it would work, but they would realize it could be improved; sometimes it would fail. Either way, the designers would get a full read-out on how things actually worked (or not) in the real world, and would update the designs accordingly. Then the cycle would repeat.
Now let’s look at a system that clearly does not work – the legal mess. Legislators pass a law. Judges try to enforce that law, and find they have to fill in the blanks, or even use their own preferences to reverse the plain intent of the law. Precedents take precedence over the legislators’ Black Letter law, and we end up with today’s politicized mess.
Should there not be a system where judges are required to apply current law exactly as written, and at the same time report back to the legislators that there are flaws or unintended consequences or potential improvements in the laws they wrote; and the legislators are duty bound to assess that judicial feedback and re-write their laws as necessary?
Of course, that would require legislators to do the job for which they volunteered, and it would deprive judges of their inflated sense of omnipotence.
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Sorry to nitpick but the judges don’t enforce the law; that is the duty of the executive. Judges are supposed to interpret the law, whatever that means. At least, that’s what I learned in civics class.
My civics teacher in high school was an ex-Marine: buzz cut and all. Kinda reminded me of the civics teacher in Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (the novel, not the film). He taught us that the courts were the last line of defense against tyranny. Boy, did he get that one wrong!
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More like the first step toward tyranny!
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On the defendants’ motion for an administrative stay, the court orders that the district court’s preliminary injunction dated March 18, 2025, as clarified by its order dated March 20, 2025, be stayed and hereby is stayed until the close of business of Thursday, March 27, 2025.
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This should be in the “Joke of the Month” thread! 
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ELON MUSK: This is worth reiterating. People sometimes think under the Biden administration he was simply asleep at the switch. He wasn’t asleep; they weren’t asleep at the switch. It was a massive, large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent deep blue one-party state from which there would be no escape.
ANTONIO GRACIAS: Look, if I hadn’t seen this myself, I’m not sure I’d have believed it. I went through it myself, mapped it, and Elon is right—this is true. The defaults in the system, from Social Security to all the benefit programs, have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people, and minimum collection.
That’s what’s happening. We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid, as an example. We’ve gone through every benefit program; we found groups from this particular group of people—this 5.5 million people—in those benefit programs. And then what was really disturbing to us was why—we’re asking ourselves why. So we actually took a sample and looked at voter registration records. We found people here registered to vote in this population.
ELON MUSK: And who did vote.
The thing that is actually has the Democrats losing their mind by far—the real reason for these attacks and the burning of the cars and everything—is that we’re going to turn off the payments to illegals.
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https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69837833/nyree-hinton-v-tesla-inc/
Paragraph 63 of the complaint smells like the plaintiff is misinterpreting a patent discussing on the fly range calculation as instead involving odometer readings.
The word “odometer” does not appear in the patent. Neither does the term “miles driven”, “distance driven”, etc.
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The original intent of the jury system bears no relationship to the legal system we have today. The idea of local judiciary ruling on local matters independent of the central authority and independent of a so-called judge is gone. Second only to outlawing duel as the appeal of last resort in dispute processing during peacetime this was the most important step toward destroying sex. Note I said peace time. War necessarily destroys sex through specialization. Look at the eusocial insects. War is the strength of the hive and politics is the continuation of war by other means.
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