From what I've heard, DeSantis is in a pretty safe second spot. The logic as i understand it is that he's MAGA enough to be a strong second pick for those that really want Trump but might have to vote for someone else, while Haley is mostly pulling together the "republican, but not Trump" coalition, which is pretty far short of 50% of republican primary voters.
Sadly I agree with with your point. While I, as someone who is definitely not a prosecutor, think there is a pretty strong case that he is using the power of his office to prevent someone from exercising their legal freedoms to try to survive, I am ignorant of how charges like that could be brought and expect that Paxton enjoys some pretty broad protections, whether his position should or not.
I didn't get the sense that the college presidents were taking any specific stand in their responses to a question that was effectively about their bylaws, rather than the morality of the statements considered in the question. My interpretation of the story is that a lot of the anger aimed at these presidents is because they answered the question that they were asked instead of answering an implied morality question.
He just interfered with this woman's ability to pursue legal Healthcare to protect her life. If she dies as a result of the medical complications associated with the pregnancy, I don't see how he doesn't get charged with manslaughter at a minimum.
Given the diagnosis and complications that have already occurred, this seems like it goes beyond contempt of court to me. I would consider this to be attempted murder of the mother.
I've never heard the term "in-school suspension". It sounds like what I remember as "detention", but done during what would otherwise be the school day, yeah? On top of this being some blatant racism, it seems like a really poor use of school resources.
I took your advice. The conclusion that I came to was that the charges brought in the NXIVM case were sex trafficking, racketeering, and others. The abuse with at least one of the victims began when she was 15 years old, so Grooming in that case seems applicable.
Isn't that what sex trafficking is? I don't mean to take anything away from the outrage, but using terms in their appropriate context is something that people malign the right with pretty frequently, e.g. the right calls everything an "insurrection" to diminish the use of the word. Sex trafficking is pretty abhorrent, but means something different than Grooming as far as I understood the terms. Habba is shit either way.
A friend of mine was starting into a tirade a while back about how terrible it is that all water pipe installed in houses today is plastic even though we know BPAs are killing people. I suggested that they might be better than lead pipe. We still high five from time to time.
If I may offer a counter-point, I've been the supervisor of an employee that was on leave with no expectation of returning to work. I supported their decision and made sure that they had access to our employer's health benefits, medical and mental, and tried to help with placement opportunities as much as i could. Though as the supervisor I was not able to hire someone else to do the work while the employee, who had made clear they would not perform the job any longer, was still technically employed.
Weird hypothetical: what if he dies, but he's still getting votes? My guess is that there's a decent portion of his supporters that would vote for his corpse, maybe assuming it's some conspiracy and that he'll rise from the dead. I mean he wouldn't be able to take the oath of office, but would congress have to invoke the 25th amendment if a dead person wins the election?
I'm not familiar with KajaGooGoo, but I remember the Goo Goo Dolls. Sounds like either would have been a fun opening act for Gaga.