OK, this trend is not going to help the mood of fmr Pres Trump...

@#6 ... my guess is he's going to appeal the verdict, not the sentencing. That will put everything on a long hold until after the election. ...

I do not disagree.

Specifically regarding the delay part.

A couple of questions / observations. ...

1) I agree that he will appeal, that's been his focus to delay, delay.

2) OK, ifhe manages to delay this case until after the election, it is a NY State case, not a Federal case, so it would likely continue after the election?

@#3

@#9 ... Not to mention that his campaign was hacked, and Politico sat on the news for 3 weeks... ...

It is not unusual for news outlets to sit upon security deficiencies for a while (i.e., until the vuln can be patched), because reporting those issues may put others at risk.

... On top of that, there is evidence of a $10 million bribe from Egypt that Bill Barr buried during the Mueller investigation. ...

Not a surprise.

... Dude is completely compromised, crooked and a degenerate. How anyone who calls themselves a Christian can stand the man is beyond understanding. Rupert Murdoch's legacy will stain the USA for decades to come. ...

I wish I knew.

And that is one of the reasons I visit this most august site, to try to understand all that.

@#3 ... Nobody cares ...

Typical MAGA reply.

Trying to speak for everyone.

:)

@#7 ... But sure, please let's pretend that asking him questions about his crowd sizes at a weird and largely incoherent press conference, because THAT's the most important issue right now, LOL... ...

To fmr Pres Trump, based upon his comments, yeah, that does appear to be the most im[portant issue [to him] right now.

@#2

Yup.

And La Nina as not yet fired up.

@#15 ... No idea. ...

Found this...

@#13 ... Yes, they do, don't they? Down to earth and genuine ...

Trump doesn't drink and has a bug up his ass.

JV Vance is a phony. ...

Yes. A complete phony.

To wit, just look at his extreme change of viewpoints when he needed fmr Pres Trump's endorsement for his Thiel-$pon$ored Senate run.

@#30 ... due to a perfect storm of stupidity ...

@#14 ... I'm just thinking that the American Bar takes a certain amount of pride in itself, and they take a dim view of unscrupulous behavior among their ranks ...

Currently, I'll agree, that is true.

But, what if they are infiltrated by, say, the Heritage Foundation, or even the We Want Socialism foundation? How can voters affect that change?

That's my basic point.

I want to keep the selection approval process in the realm of folk that are elected. I definitely do not want to have one party with an advantage over any other party.

But, and this is my main point, there should be a limit upon how long those approved Justices serve, and there needs to be a strict policy of ethics.

@#7 ... And this is why President Biden did the right thing and got this man out of Putin's gulag. ...

Absolutely.

More from the article...

... The allegations were detailed in court papers filed days after Jordan Goudreau's arrest last week and contain the strongest evidence yet linking him to illegal arms trafficking that facilitated the amphibious raid, which ended with several fighters killed and two of Goudreau's former U.S. Special Forces colleagues locked away for years in Venezuela.

The plot, exposed by The Associated Press[1] two days before the incursion, was carried out by a ragtag group of Venezuelan army deserters whom Goudreau allegedly helped arm and train in neighboring Colombia. Goudreau later claimed responsibility for the putsch, but said he was acting in concert with the Venezuelan opposition to protect democracy. He also said he was in touch with then-President Donald Trump's administration, which made no secret of its desire to see Maduro gone, even though there's no evidence U.S. officials blessed the invasion. ...

Another view of the acknowledgement of workers by the Harris/Walz campaign...

@#27 ... Imagine being such a tiny little man with all the wealth and adoration of all those MAGAts and all he can do is be miserably unhappy. ...

If I may be so bold as to add a phrase to the end of your comment...

Imagine being such a tiny little man with all the wealth and adoration of all those MAGAts and all he can do is be miserably unhappy, and apparently not pay his bills.

More from the article...

... But the climate change that likely intensified those storms -- he's well aware of that every day.

The house next door remains abandoned. There are still empty lots left from destroyed homes. In the meantime, persistent sunny-day flooding from sea level rise means he never really knows whether he'll be wading through water to get to school in the morning or home from school in the afternoon.

"He could wake up in the morning, look out of his window and see that the water's up to the edge of the deck," said his mother, Michelle Morgan, noting that she has to park her car up the hill during heavy rains or full-moon high tides. "Or Jack will come home from school and he'll be like, Seriously, I can't get to my house unless I walk through the water?'"

"My house is gonna go," Grindley says matter-of-factly. ...

But instead of turning his climate change reality and what it portends for his future into a source of anxiety, Grindley is using it as a jumping off point for activism with other like-minded young people in the New Haven Climate Movement. And heading into his senior year at New Haven's Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, he is already focusing on urban planning and sustainability as a career -- and spent part of this summer in the Netherlands studying how that nation has battled rising seas.

Mental health professionals are starting to recognize that anxiety about climate change is a thing, especially among young people. And without knowing it, Grindley is doing exactly what a therapist might have suggested he do to deal with it: get out there and do something about it. ...

@#12 ... Bozeman rather than Billings

Why not Helena, I wonder? Or Missoula? ...

Wasn't Bozeman a featured city in an episode of Chuck Lorre's "Big Bang Theory" TV show?

@#11 ... No they dont know they are being lied to. ...

I do not disagree.

And that is the problem.

How do you convince a cult that they are a cult?

@#12 ... I don't see changing the number of justices will solve the problem. ...

Yup.

In my view, that is a short-term attempted solution to a longer term problem.

... And perhaps it would be safer if recommendations for future nominations come from only the American Bar Association rather than a partisan think tank. ...

Then partisan think tanks could be influencing the ABA.

I'm not convinced that would be a good thing.

I'll go with keeping the current Senate approval process in place but with some manner of term limits.

One change at a time. Then take a step back and see how that change works out.

I understand that this would not be a quick fix, by any means.

But I also proffer, do we really want a quick fix here?

Or a strategic fix?

Stated differently, do we want to make ourselves happy?

Or do we want to make future generations happy?

@#10 ... BTW, the reason Trump had his Montana rally in Bozeman rather than Billings is because he stiffed Billings and owes them big $'s.

He's unwelcome in city after city. ...

That may explain a part of his current non-campaigning mode.

(and thx for the fix and explanation)

@#23

More from the article in @23

... Ukrainian troops have entered another Russian border region, according to social-media posts and video footage, as Kyiv continues its surprise incursion into the Kursk oblast.

The Russian Defense Ministry has said that it is repelling Ukraine's forces in the northwestern region. However, reports say that Kyiv's troops are operating more than six miles inside the frontier, amid some accounts add that they are even deeper in Russian territory. Thousand of civilians from districts around the town of Sudzha have been evacuated from their homes.

However, on Saturday, video footage posted on Telegram purportedly showed troops fighting for Ukraine in the Belgorod region further north, which itself has been the scene of cross-border skirmishes over the course of the war. The veracity of the clip has not been independently confirmed, and it is unclear when it filmed. Newsweek has contacted the Russian and Ukrainian defense ministries for comment. ...

Was this incursion a surprise to Pres Putin?

From the sub-summary...

... Trump lashes out about Harris crowd size ...

@#20 ... The media always willingly falls for the con never verifying and calling out the obvious lies. ...

I don't know if I would go that far.

@#9 ... Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to change the size of the Supreme Court. Congress has used that authority seven times before. ...

Yeah.

That is what I was referring to when I wrote...

"Stacking it? Is that a good precedent to put into place?"

@#7 (Fixed your ink in my C&P) ...

thx.

Not sure where I went astray on that one. (which means i may do it again.... :(   )

but, thx for fixing it.