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Hunter Biden plea. So you know:

An “Alford” plea is a plea where the defendant concedes that the govt has sufficient proof for conviction by a jury but still maintains that he is actually innocent.

The federal prosecutors almost never agree to an Alford plea in a plea deal.
Technically, as the defense you can ask the court to accept an Alford plea w/o the govt’s agreement.

99.9999999% of the time, the court will not accept an Alford plea w/o the govt agreeing.
This is because these pleas breed claims by the defendant later that he was lied to or coerced or promised something in exchange & he didn’t really want/mean to plead guilty& so he tries to get out of the plea.
Because with an Alford plea, the defendant gets all the same treatment for sentencing and the legal consequences of a conviction as with a regular guilty plea. You just avoid the trial & having to admit that you yourself agree that you’re guilty.
Interestingly, you could get the exact same practical result many times by just pleading guilty to the entire indictment - you avoid the trial and the sentencing is the same. But you do have to personally admit guilt.
@wittmer0313 The Rules technically allow a nolo contendre plea, however. It’s in Rule 12.

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The reason Kamala Harris so often spins out “word salad” - statements or answers to questions that string together a lot of words but contain very little meaning - is that she’s a narcissist.

There’s a certain type of them that’s very performative, but is lacking intellectually.
Because they have no ideas, feelings, or values of their own as narcissists, they can only simulate them by regurgitating things they’ve heard others say. And they know what intellect “sounds” like - the very educated or smart often use more words & complex sentence structure.
But because they are less intelligent narcissists they can’t do content well, if at all. So their mimicry ends up being meandering strings of words consisting of disjointed common phrases, which ultimately convey no coherent point. It's the best imitation they can manage.
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The term limits are DOA w/o a Constitutional amendment. It’s a closer question as to whether the Congress can mandate ethics rules for the SCOTUS - they can impeach them after all - but I think the better answer is that that’s unconstitutional too. And clearly the immunity question has already been decided as a matter of constitutional interpretation.

Biden says in his op-ed that he thinks a constitutional amendment is required for the immunity issue. He doesn’t actually say whether he thinks the other two issues require constitutional amendments or should be tried with merely legislation.

In my view all 3 would require constitutional amendments; all 3 amendments are bad ideas; and all 3 amendments are unlikely to succeed now, or possibly ever.

Legislation instead on these issues would be unconstitutional, in my opinion.
The real danger here is in Biden trashing the Court & the Justices. His op-ed is repulsive & mendacious.

Protecting the independence of the judiciary is a fundamental American value. We TEACH it to foreign nations as a core principle for them to adopt in democratic governance.
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Quotes from Cheatle’s opening statement later today:

“As the director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security lapse.”

No, you won’t. You would have resigned already if you were doing g that.
“We will cooperate with the pending external review and the DHS Office of the Inspector General.”

Big of you to say so since you don’t fucking have a choice about it.
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It is very bad, even dangerous, for the country.
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Some truths that explain the current situation:

1. Most people only have empathy for people they actually know.

2. Most people can not understand things they have not personally experienced.

3. These two facts are why the world’s religions TEACH the Golden Rule.
4. Because the Golden Rule is not natural to most people. To the contrary, most people are fine with bad things happening to people they don’t know.

5. Especially if they think the people it’s happening to are “bad people.”
6. They can’t & don’t empathize with other people based just on those people’s humanity.

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I’m late to the SCOTUS party today because we are moving today!

But I wanted to let you guys know that the decision today about the SEC is a huge win for liberty lovers. The case is Jarkesy.

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This has been one of the most common constitutional violations perpetrated by the federal govt.
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The first one I worked on I was horrified because the SEC lawyers were so tyrannical- precisely because there was no check on them, judge or jury.
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