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4 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
As shown by the comments of the White House this week on crime, The pandemic now seems to have reached the mythic levels of gods who once were blamed for everything that went wrong in life. For politicians, it is useful to have a lurking Loki...thehill.com/opinion/crimin…
...Apparently, pandemic sustenance-gatherers felt compelled to grab $79,000-worth of purses from a Givenchy store in New York...
...Purses certainly do appear to be a COVID necessity across this accessory-deprived nation: When a gang hit Burberry’s on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago, they ran past an assortment of clothing to grab high-priced purses, too.
...While many politicians still call for “reimagining policing,” that imagination does not extend to seeing a cause-and-effect with rising crime levels. Instead, it is the Loki effect of … the pandemic.

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I have not seen the evidence that would make a compelling case to say that the parents were complicit criminally as opposed to being negligent. foxnews.com/us/michigan-ma… Michigan elected not to pass an child access prevention law...
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...Andy McCarthy has argued that the prosecutors seem to be "making their own law" in these charges. That may be so. Prosecutors will have to make a case that this is not just a workaround the absence of a child access prevention law.
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The oral argument in Dobbs was the fascinating and edifying. It was civil and substantive. The counsel on both sides served their causes and clients well...
...The questions certainly seemed to support the right of states to set the earlier line for such laws. Indeed, the very viability standard seemed to have few supporters on the Court...
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1 Dec
Chief Justice Roberts just hit the state with a tough question. He noted that the case was accepted to consider pre-viability lines but the state then pushed in briefing to overturn Roe. The suggestion is that they exceeded the original question.
...I think that the broader question is implied but it is interesting that Roberts is flagging the question of whether the broader issue is fairly before the Court. Frankly, I think it is hard to discuss the basis of viability without discussing the viability of Roe itself.
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1 Dec
Justice Thomas was first out of the gate to question Scott Stewart in the Dobbs hearing.
Stewart went straight for Roe and called for it and Casey to be overturned. Thomas is using his questions to amplify the challenge points.
Many of us are waiting to hear from Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh who pro-choice advocates hope to lure over toward the left of the Court to preserve Roe.
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He who must not be named. It appears the W.H.O. has skipped the next Greek letter after Nu to name the new variant. The next letter is Xi. The concern is that W.H.O. is again avoiding any discomfort for the Chinese government. So they named it Omicron...
...The new variant was expected to be Nu but any additional variant would then be Xi, which happens to be the name of the Chinese leader...
...It is not clear if there is another reason for the decision to skip over Nu and Xi, but W.H.O.'s history with the investigation into the origins of the pandemic has fueled speculation as to a political motive.
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The Arbery jury just told the judge that they want to continue to deliberate and may be close to a verdict. If the defense was hoping for a hung jury, a fast verdict is obviously not a good sign...
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...The jury has only been out six hours on a nine count, three defendant case. While it is very difficult to predict a jury, but I am sure the defense was hoping for a longer deliberation.
...I am particularly interested if there is a compromise verdict for Bryan and Greg McMichaels who did not pull a trigger. That could make the false imprisonment counts as a tempting compromise if there is a division on the jury...
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