I think what he’s saying is, even if they do access it, they can’t ever bring any of that info into a court anywhere without admitting they accessed it.

They can only use information they obtain illegally from this data that has some kind of parallel construction from another source.

Is that one of those early white external tanks?

The active duty marines did actually detain a civilian Angeleno before that situation was shut down.

Edit: Part of the legal difficulty is that Posse Comitatus Act violations are written up as crimes in the statute. It’s not clear that someone could actually sue to enforce with a civil lawsuit. And good luck getting DOJ to file charges on that.

They’re doing this because success would set up factual predicates to support invoking the Insurrection Act. The Insurrection Act is invokable when state governments are actively disobeying federal law.

They’re not invoking the Insurrection Act right at this moment, because with the facts they have right now, they’re not confident they’ll win the case in court. (And they may also lose a voting majority in Congress on the matter.)

Here’s some explanation of the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine.

New York State is a sovereign state that derives original sovereign power from the citizens of New York. Meanwhile, the United States is also an original sovereign power that derives its power from the entire people of the United States. (Remember, the Constitution is established by “we, the People”. The U.S. is not just an agreement between individual states). Both governments have original power over the geographic territory of New York. The regular powers of government are split between the two according to the terms of the Constitution.

Thus, New York State can exercise its General Police Power to prosecute Mr. Mangione for murder. This power is not granted by the Constitution, but it is recognized by the Constitution. The United States government can simultaneously exercise its power to Regulate Interstate Commerce, by prosecuting Mr. Mangione for the crime of “interstate stalking that caused the death of a person.”

State / federal dual sovereignty is a very infamous loophole to double jeopardy.

A death penalty charge was laughed out of state court. This article is about federal court. Luigi is facing trial simultaneously at both levels.

The previous hearing on the evidence suppression for 4th and 5th amendment violations was completed in state court. Mangione has to reargue all of those issues again in federal court. And the two court systems could come to different conclusions.

Plus there are a couple of extra items that are federal only, that the article mentions.

So I looked up the weapons possession charge, and it seems like Maduro could be guilty under the statute of her possessed a machinegun (really any full auto firearm) in furtherance of the drug trafficking activity. Even if the weapons were only possessed outside of US jurisdiction.

Short version: the “possession of weapons charge” is actually for possession while drug trafficking.

I don’t know if they have to prove that Maduro physically handled a weapon or not. But if they do, and they don’t have that evidence, he could still be guilty of the subsequent conspiracy charge.

Edit: For the avoidance if doubt, the drug trafficking is very important to the whole case, because that’s what gives the US courts extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Pretty much. There’s a live indictment in New York on drug and weapons charges, from 2020. It’s not clear yet if they’re going to prosecute that one, or a different one.

They’re going to rely on the Noriega precedent to justify this.

There are certain craters or other formations near the south pole of the moon that are arranged in such a way that some parts of the surface are in permanent shadow. These are interesting because we expect to find very low temperatures in these permanent shadows, and if they’ve been around for several million years, any number of volatile compounds.

Anyhow, I think this is the “dark side” the person referred to.

It seems like somewhat of a waste to me to use these as heatsinks, when you could just use a lot of radiators. But what do I know?

What? LSU coaches are of course not immune from criticism, from anyone. The hot seat is real, and the school has committed to some massive contract buy-outs lately.

I’m just saying that the LSU coaching job is an inherently political position in the state; it’s been that way for a long time; and it’s by no means unique to Jeff Landry.

I just want to point out that “political interference with LSU athletics” is sine qua non for any Louisiana governor, not just this guy. This is a state where the LSU football coach is by far the highest paid state employee in the entire state. Huey Long was known to lead the marching band onto the field.

Economy of scale is a real thing.

Speaking about oil reserves, the US can be a petro state and net exporter as long as the price is above 60 USD/bbl. Thanks to hydraulic fracturing. Other nations can still produce oil cheaper than that, but the US has a vested interest now in stabilizing the price right around where fracking breaks even, because they’re also such a big consumer of petroleum.

There’s a long and storied history of that in the Caribbean Sea. Yarrrrrrh.

I can somehow hear this lyric.

It’s usually the case that federal judges did not fall off the turnip truck yesterday.

In this case the actual order says to turn over all copies. It also says to deposit one copy at the federal court, which the feds can access if they apply for and obtain a lawful search warrant.

If the feds are found to be holding onto copies later, they can get in a bunch of trouble. More importantly, they can no longer publish these emails as exhibits in a hypothetical future prosecution, like they did with Comey. Because as soon as they do, it’s all “hey where did you get those from?”

Kavanaugh, J., concurring:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

1. The court found that there is no lawful basis to deport Abrego in the first place, because the government was unable to produce a copy of the 2019 deportation order in court.

2. The court found that government lawyers deliberately “misled the tribunal” regarding their efforts to deport Abrego to Africa. The court “will take this into account” while considering pending motions for sanctions.

3. In alternative to #1, the court found that the government was not really detaining Abrego to deport him, because they could have sent him to Costa Rica at any time in the past few months. But they did not.

4. Therefore, there is no lawful reason to subject Abrego to immigration detention, and the writ of habeas corpus is granted.

5. Abrego is still on bail in the TN criminal case.

That’s more or less what happened with the littoral combat ships. It’s like the McDonald’s ice cream machine model of weapons system design.

The other wild things is that navies traditionally wildly overstaff their ships so they can do all their repairs themselves and fast. But when they switched to this contractor model they didn’t fully unload the staff, so they had a bunch of repair technicians on board who couldn’t do anything.