This is actually a crime, bribery, chargeable either federally or in New York State

Assuming it is a crime, would New York prosecutors have jurisdiction over a crime that arguably occurred in DC? Was Stone in NY at the time? Just curious how that could play out.

#5 While i agree with what you said, we will never be rid of Trump or his type. If he loses in November he will never shut up, and will do everything in his power to delegitimize the next administration and undercut it in every way possible. Even when he's dead, someone else will take the mantle of guiding this sickening group if about 33% of Americans because the lust for power will be too great. God help us if that person is smarter than Trump (not a very high bar).

Wouldn't make him any less loathsome, just a thought.

The fact that Carlson has writers makes you wonder whether he believes half the ---- he's saying or if he's just an actor who can make the right faces and inflections to get all the Fox-watching morons riled up.

I'm trying to take you guys seriously but it is kind of like counting to infinity.

Wearing a mask to combat the spread of a deadly virus is like counting to two.

You (1) wear the mask, and (2) the virus does not spread nearly as quickly.

I'm sorry that two seems like infinity to you, but it doesn't surprise me that a Trumper can't count that high.

It used to be that lying to the cops to obstruct an investigation into foreign interference in an American election, followed by witness tampering, would get Republicans very upset.

I just imagine for a moment that Obama (unwittingly or not) got help from, say, Iran to become President, then he commuted the sentence of his go-between who lied to the FBI.

It will never cease to blow my mind the level of outright anti-American conduct Trumpers are willing to both accept and outright celebrate.

Trump supporters are traitorous scum. Period.

#29 My quote of your words was you whining about police retiring. I asked why i should care. Your response was to ramble on about crime spiking if QI is removed. Just ---- off, moron.

Because with all of the crap being implemented, suspects are going to just claim abuse, to delay or detail the case against them.

I was talking about police retirements, moron. Try to follow your own conversation instead of bouncing around to new topics every time someone responds to you.

most of it is guys recognizing they are about to have their legs cut out from uunder them and don't want to deal with the hassle

Boo hoo. Why should i care?

In Chicago last weekend alone, there were more black Americans killed by (wait for it...) other black people than were killed by police in all of last year!

Even if that's true, murder by the state is in its own category, and used to be something "conservatives" would bristle at.

Being in public without a mask is a reward for living in a functional society. America is patently dysfunctional at this time.

I spent the last few days in Amsterdam. I went to two museums, a few stores, a bar, and two restaurants. No one was wearing masks.

The Netherlands has flattened the curve, you absolute dolt. Countries that have gotten the virus under control are understandably and rightfully reopening carefully and reducing reliance on masks.

I think he was trying to imply that they were surprised at how brilliant he was, but in reality he's so stupid he couldn't even convey that properly.

the American population is nothing more to Republicans and most Democrats than a commodity to be exploited

Cool. Let the Democrats exploit me while appointing non-federalist society judges, not attacking the ACA, and not running every single executive agency in bad faith. I'll take that exploitation over Trump's any day of the week.

If they can create their own governments it would mean they could create their own currencies. They could tax their own citizens. The could create their own armed forces.

The tribe at issue in this case has ratified a constitution and established three separate branches of government; is led by a democratically elected Principal Chief, Second Chief, and National Council; operates a police force and three hospitals; commands an annual budget of more than $350 million; and employs over 2,000 people.

Looks like 33% is the number of Trumpcucks who will praise literally anything he does no matter how terrible it is.

#12 Are you suggesting that working parents who now have to watch their kids all day is not a significant life disruption for millions of Americans? That this is not news?

the SCOTUS basically said Oklahoma has no jurisdiction within the reservation boundaries, which is basically half the state.

But only as to native on native crime, which is a very important distinction.

#20 In 1871 the US House attached a rider to an appropriations bill ceasing to recognize Native American tribes as independent nations. This both followed and preceded a long history of treaties with Natives being broken by the United States.

One treaty gave a huge swath of land including the Black Hills to a group of tribes. When gold was discovered in thr Black Hills, the US unilaterally redrew the boundaries and stuck the tribes with farmland.

So yeah, if you're getting a sense that Natives are not truly independent nations it's because whenever it suits us the US has been treating them that way for over 150 years.

The ruling is limited to the criminal law context, and involves state courts not having jurisdiction over natives who commit crimes against other natives on "Indian Territory." It is not in any way an order telling the State of Oklahoma or the non-natives living in the Creek Nation's boundaries that they have to give something back or that literally anything else will change. It simply says - native on native crime in the region at issue cannot be resolved in state courts.

How can a model based on primary enthusiasm properly account for a re-election campaign with a bunch of rigged and canceled primaries?

I'd rather know you're a monster beforehand than question it later on.
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The guy who doesn't care how many hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans die a painful death from a virus we could have easily contained calling anyone a "monster" is all the laughs i need for one day.

The House case is an even better outcome for Trump, IMO. There, SCOTUS effectively created a four-part test that they believe the lower courts did not adequately follow in declining to quash the House subpoena. But if you look at the elements of this new 4-part test and actually read the lower court rulings it is clear that they actually did take those measures into account albeit without using the precise words SCOTUS has now mandated.

These cases are being framed as losses for Trump. But if you walk in the room knowing he was always going to lose the cases in the first place, and understanding that in both instances he has managed to drain 8 months off the clock and is now given additional opportunities to stall, it's hard to imagine him coming out any better.

Of course he is not absolutely immune from subpoena. Of course NY can subpoena a third party for his information. But if they can't get it before November, and he gets elected again, what the ---- is anyone going to care that he cheated on his taxes or lies about his wealth or is beholden financially to Russia and Saudi Arabia?

The NY case is going back down to the lower courts for further litigation, with SCOTUS only having foreclosed the arguments that Trump has absolute immunity from criminal subpoenas or that there is a heightened standard to issue one to him.

Here is the problem i have. The case as to these issues wasn't even a close call, with only the two most absolute partisan hacks on the court siding with Trump. SCOTUS could have declined cert back in November since 7 of them sided 100% with the appeals court ruling. By granting cert, briefing the case through March, and not ruling on this until July without changing a single thing about the case, SCOTUS has effectively wasted 8 months of time that could have been used to further develop the case in the lower courts and get the parties closer to a final disposition.

This ruling itself is a loss for Trump, but everyone knew his arguments were garbage, and SCOTUS draining 8 months off the clock before the election in a case he is 100% going to lose in the end is absolutely a win for him.

Not a response to what i said.