You mean *our* mountain

Losing wars has consequences
In the same way that the mountain doesn't belong to the tribes the Lakota took it from, it doesn't belong to the Lakota anymore
Of course, if you'd like the mountain back, @LakotaMan1, the simplest step is to just embrace your American citizenship, and voila it's yours again
Weird how you quoted a journalist and not SCOTUS itself

Because if you had, you’d realize that SCOTUS did not hold that the land must be returned to the Lakota, merely that the Lakota were entitled to just compensation (which the Lakota refused)

Ergo, it’s still *our* land

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30 Jun
I read the Cosby opinion from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, it's pretty persuasive

Bruce Castor publicly announced that he would not prosecute Cosby as a way of forcing him to testify in the civil case, unable to assert any Fifth Amendment rights
Then ten years later, Castor's successor went ahead and prosecuted Cosby, based on incriminating testimony that Cosby had given in the civil case

We really don't want a world where prosecutors can bait-and-switch defendants on their Fifth Amendment rights
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29 Jun
Stuck in an elevator, is it 1927?
UPDATE: I am no longer stuck in an elevator, thank you @ArlingtonVaFD
The tyranny of Big Elevator demands a response
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27 Jun
One big lesson of January 6th is that federal criminal law is pretty draconian, as a general matter
It’s not that the federal prosecutors are being uniquely harsh to the 1/6 defendants

It’s that being indicted on federal charges sucks a lot more than people suspect
Layperson: “This is an outrage!”

Lawyer: “Welcome to federal criminal law.”
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18 Jun
A big part of law school is learning how much you don't know about the law

It's just a massive field of human endeavor, it's impossible to master it all, at best you can become an expert in specific areas
Some legal questions you know the answer to because they are basic or because you've worked in the relevant area

Most legal questions you either need to research or refer to a specialist - and that's as a credentialed lawyer!
Good lawyers know *how* to find answers to legal questions, and how to make sure they get it right

They also are good at evaluating who really has expertise in an area
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18 Jun
About That Revolver Story Claiming FBI Agents/Informants Are the Unnamed "Co-Conspirators" in Jan. 6 Indictments redstate.com/shipwreckedcre…
I think this is an important one to get right

While it's likely that both Oath Keepers and Proud Boys were infiltrated by the FBI (they have a history of doing these things), @shipwreckedcrew is very persuasive in explaining that the unindicted co-conspirators wouldn't be feds
It's really easy to get the law wrong, I'm a lawyer and have done it plenty, and so I get why Darren/Tucker got out ahead of their skis

That's why it's important to check this stuff with people experienced in federal criminal procedure (which I am not)
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No more boomer Presidents
Bush, Clinton, and Trump were all born in 1946

Biden was born in 1942

All too old
I'm listening to Trump on Hannity, and it's just old man patter

Biden randomly screamed at a reporter today

There's a reason major corporations have mandatory retirement for their executives at 65
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