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Why do Republicans want to disobey a court order? Is it because they are lawbreakers?

Like they said: Vendors, organizers, and everyone else that might've benefited from having international music acts in Malaysia.

And protests aren't about scoring points. They are about flexing muscle, about reminding everyone that inaction has consequences.

If you don't want to inconvenience anyone, then it's not a protest.

In general, when someone refuses to contest an allegation then nobody will determine whether the allegation is true. There are reasons to do this even if the allegation is false. For example, it might be too expensive to litigate. Or in defending yourself against one charge, you might have to reveal additional information that you don't want brought to light.

In other words, nobody found Trump guilty of lying. For all we know, the judge and jury thought Trump was telling the truth. But legally, they were forced to presume he defamed Carroll because Trump refused to contest the allegations. The only thing the court had to decide was what the damages would be if Carroll was telling the truth. Which automatically became the actual damages.

That said, it's entirely reasonable for you to suspect he committed rape based on other evidence. But the court verdict itself neither supports nor refutes your suspicion.

That's not really true. The E Jean Carroll case found him liable for defamation in a civil case. The standard was lower than for a criminal conviction (just as OJ lost his civil case but was not convicted of murder).

Furthermore, Trump basically accepted that he was liable for defamation, but not necessarily guilty of rape. That was enough for the judge, so he did not have to "confirm" anything else.

Neptune missiles are Ukrainian-designed and Ukrainian-made.

I don't see a reason to keep the bail system in place even for serious crimes. If a crime is serious enough to warrant pre-trial detention, then that person should be held regardless of their ability to pay bail.

I don't have a problem with that. There are plenty of decent Mormons, just like there are plenty of decent people in any religion.

But I do have a problem with Card's rabid homophobia.

What do you mean by criminals will be released? If you're proven guilty of theft, you will have to serve the same sentence as before.

There are several situations in which HIPAA allows doctors to disclose your protected health information without your consent. One of the exceptions involves law enforcement. Democrats are trying to close that loophole, at least for enforcement of out of state abortion laws.

Self harm falls into the "mandated reporting" category, one of the few things that is not only unprotected but actually must be reported.

But Franco got a pass. Probably because he didn't invade his neighbors and committed his atrocities at home like a good little fascist.

If a mathematical model has no constants then it can describe any dataset...

This is yet another attempt by Big Bang skeptics to make a fringe alternative theory ("tired light") relevant.

Physicists have been pointing out the flaws in this theory for nearly 100 years. Given the overall success of the Big Bang model, I'm betting on "or not".

Exactly. And so if anyone ever asks "Why weren't Biden or Pence indicted?", you'll know the answer. They didn't lie about their documents and they didn't get in the way when the government took them back.

In case anyone is wondering, "Why was nobody charged for taking them?", the answer is probably intent. Trump, Biden, and Pence could all claim that they weren't responsible for removing the documents. But of those three, only one of them is on tape saying something like, "Yeah, I've still got these secret documents that I probably should have given back". He's the one they indicted.

On this logic, I'm looking forward to laws that criminalize buying firearms because they "manifest an intent to commit murder".

Checkmate, SCOTUS!

Those charges aren't really about taking documents. They are about refusing to return them, lying about whether they had all been returned, and possibly showing them to unauthorized individuals. The documents were in Mar-a-lago when this was going on.

No.

She is on the Southern District of Florida, and the crimes of January 6 did not take place in Florida.

Weird, that comment definitely wasn't visible to me when I replied. Must be the magic of federation...

The article mentions the donanemab study was published in JAMA. A little bit of Googling retrieved this:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2807533