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You are right that the circuit assignment of Sotomayor is very bad for us. If she had any decency she ought to refer an application to reverse the stay to the full court, which she should know would be inclined to grant it. But she’s the most rogue activist in the Supreme Court and the one who...

The only thing worse than the government is lawyers. You'd be lucky if the lawyer took less than half of what you'd actually get trying to negotiate on your own. You don't get compensated by .gov in eminent domain for your lawyer, or your time, suffering, and losses associated with the taking...

Size of the Supreme Court is set by law. Changing it requires a majority vote in the both chambers of Congress, meaning the house and Senate, and the president's signature, or a veto-overriding vote of 2/3 of both the house and senate. By rule normally 60 votes in the Senate are required to...

Correction: the respondents are no longer restrained by the district from enforcing this unconstitutional law again while the 2nd circuit dithers on ruling.

I have never heard of a VILLAGE in this stage using eminent domain to involuntarily seize a business just because it neighbors a municipal building. If Kenmore needs a more parking or a bigger police station so badly they can make an acceptable offer or move elsewhere. In most upstate villages...

I’d rather not this thread about active litigation get derailed by election discussion and political speculation, though that may be related somehow, but 51-50 or 51-49 is not enough for the D’s to pack SCOTUS. FDR had a supermajority in both houses to credibly threaten the court with packing...

It hurts because it’s true, doesn’t it? You can’t address a single fact I said about Zeldin, so just like a lefty you shut it down by saying these are Gab-facts that wouldn’t be censored on Gab and therefore deplorable. Geography is political now. You are from Rochester, so in Zeldin you see...

So you want Brussels telling Washington how it can support American domestic industry because you disagree with the specific spending policy. No thanks!

No, under the FEDERAL Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, it’s illegal in public within 1,000 feet of a school. Whether or not it’s an exception since it’s not an explicit carry permit, a semiauto permit does nothing if you don’t have one, which most owners don’t, and in any event then it...

Actually it seems to be more about Desantis actually winning and making good calls and Trump losing and making bad calls. It’s time for the old man to move on.

If you don’t think Austin is liberal in the modern sense you haven’t been there in a very long while. Austin is practically San Francisco with a ten gallon hat.

How much of it is designated to teaching the Taliban pronoun sensitivity though? Implicit bias training? And maybe decarbonizing their opium poppy industry. Priorities!

Who gives a shit. Of all the reasons to criticize Biden and Democrat spending I give a rats ass what the EU has to say about it being unfair. How about we stop giving away billions to NATO and Ukraine? They can stuff it.

It’s not impossible that SCOTUS would summarily reverse a stay, and even summarily stay the 2nd circuit on appeal if the district court is reversed. This would not have happened with the Supreme Court before NYSRPA in 2020, and it’s still possible we could see another long pause from SCOTUS...

Because Zeldin isn't the QAnon "conservative ideologue" you claim he is, derp. You say he was too far right to pull enough D votes. I say if he was any more woke than he is I would have written in a Larouchie in protest before voting for him. Zeldin really is a politically opportunist...

Seems like it. I don't know where you get your news; Zeldin was one of many R's in congress who voted against certifying the election with a comment that allegations of fraud deserved debate. After it was certified he moved on. You trying to make Zeldin into some kind of QAnon/extreme right...

Literally I'm talking about a car parked on the street (public property), and even if it's in your garage you're breaking the law as soon as you get onto the street if it's not in a locked case. Now the new gun package NY passed also requires locking and casing unattended guns but not if they...

This is just a fantasyland scenario. The dems would love to make DC and Puerto Rico states and chop California into three blue states too. We may be headed to a de facto national divorce of some sort but the idea that Congress and states are going to agree to dispossessed minorities just taking...

That's fine if you've got a carry permit for a pistol but doesn't help you if you are carrying a rifle down the sidewalk or have an uncased shotgun in your back seat. Basically it's the same driving through Cornell situation except it applies to streets and sidewalks within 1,000 feet of K-12...

The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 makes it a federal felony to possess a firearm that is not unloaded and cased or locked on a gun rack within 1,000 feet of a school (e.g. K-12), including public streets and sidewalks. It's not as widely enforced by local police as the state prohibition on...

In person it's free and usually a free lunch from the host too. Again he said he would declare an emergency, remove district attorneys, revoke cashless bail and put people in jail on his fiat. If he cared (he doesn't) he could use his "emergency" to suspend these actually unconstitutional...

What? You think Zeldin is "fairly moderate" but Republicans always shoot themselves in the foot by putting forth unelectable candidates who are too conservative (maybe including Zeldin)? Zeldin may be a 2022 "GOP moderate" but his positions are as always yesterday's fringe left positions. He's...

Your planet on which Zeldin is a "conservative ideologue" who is too far right is why our country is careening into the ditch. That's the strategy of Republicans chasing the Democrat platform of 15 minutes ago. A grand old party of hormone-blocked nonbinary-kid-raising, abortion celebrating...

Some day that may be me but for now I'm staying in my home where my roots and family are. I'll keep rendering unto Caesar but I'm not going to let Caesar drive me from my blood and soil. New York is bad but this is not Rome. Though Christians are driven from public office and employment, my...

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Why would anyone in their right mind have expected James to lose? D's outnumber R's in NY by more than 2-1. Most voters eyes glaze over downballot and don't know what an attorney general is, so they are going to default to party line. She was safer than Schumer and got basically the same...

One could dream after this sad cycle that they would have a shake-up. That said Trump won the first time despite McCarthy and the turtle's leaderships (and one some say "won" the second time despite their continuing lack of support). And Trump, for all he did, was a deeply flawed candidate and...

Sure he could! He could declare an emergency and order the fees suspended statewide if he cared. After all his late-breaking ad said he could declare an emergency, suspend bail laws and put people in jail. I have no idea why he didn't win!

:rolleyes: Thank you for your detailed explanation of what a poll watcher does. Now explain to me what a pole watcher does.

I held my nose and voted for Zeldin in the end, and I know some progressive libdem folks who switched specifically for COVID-19 related reasons. Seeing how much worse Hochul did than Schumer and other statewide D’s it’s apparent that a lot of them switched but not enough. I can’t say I’m...

File a report and let your local party people and candidates know. We are fortunate in New York that our machines still count paper ballots that are retained and preserved. If there is evidence of an issue the paper ballots can be handcounted. The machine should not accept a ballot without...

Can someone explain this to him?

I was considering voting early, and I was about to post here that I had made up my mind that I was going to hold my nose and vote for Lee Zeldin, as much as I don't like or trust the man. Then I just saw a new ad from Zeldin talking about threats to his family and his daughters and saying that...

Nope, I just didn't want to watch your stupid YouTube video. Thanks @Glock_USA for the link: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nywd.142913/gov.uscourts.nywd.142913.52.0.pdf Also, this is a preliminary injunction, not a final order. Yes, it signals that the district court...

This is true. I do think the armorer should have quit; that’s a lot to put on a 24-year-old but that would have been the right thing to do. The AD is also experienced enough to know better and is secondarily responsible. But clearly the primary fault here lies on the man who pulled the trigger...

Link to news or a court document rather than some smug mug’s YouTube video?

Disgusting that production of this film would resume. That her widower has a financial interest in it now doesn’t change that. What’s especially galling about Baldwin trying to shift blame to the AD or the young, inexperienced armorer even though he randomly pointed the gun and pulled the...

This wasn't stayed either. So this is a statewide order restraining the houses of worship restriction in effect for the past 4 days. As with the other case it may only restrain the named defendants so technically may not restrain other local law enforcement outside the case but it should...

There used to be county-level representation in state upper houses but this got struck down by federal courts on equal protection/14th amendment grounds.

If he was serious he could immediately direct all state agencies to stop enforcing unconstitutional laws.

I'm just going to leave this here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5087/cosponsors

Zeldin is awful. The only way I can bring myself to vote for the man is the fact that his recent voting record is miles better than Hochul's recent voting and executive record. I have little trust that this would stay true once he possessed the reins of executive power, nor am I convinced that...

"Demon-Possessed Woman Rants To An Adoring Synagogue of Satan"

Number 1 that’s not how we make laws in New York. Number 2, that’s not what he said, he said he “will not” change New York’s laws on abortion, and spent 7 figures on advertising that. So maybe I “will not” vote for him. Reminder what New York’s laws on abortion are. Essentially there are no...

That’s nice, because Zeldin spending over $1 million to reassure us that he wouldn’t change a damn thing about New York having taxpayer-funded abortion up through birth and abortion tourism incentives just confirms my worst suspicions about the man and makes it difficult if next to impossible...

Should be but we will probably not know who they are until they rule. I don’t think there’s any argument for a TRO appeal, it will be decided on the paper submissions we’ve seen here.

Good way for someone to instantly self-identify as a mentally ill degenerate. Which is a protected class in New York.

Well I misspoke when I wrote a matter of time before we "can ungimpify our guns, and freely own MAGAzines." I meant openly. Bianchi has no reason to go to the Supreme Court again. The Supreme Court has already told the 4th Circuit that it has heard this case already and it was called Bruen...

We've been so wrapped up with what's happening in New York post-Bruen that I've only found a mention of Bianchi v Frosh buried in another thread. That case is huge; an assault weapons and magazine ban similar to the "SAFE" regime in New York that had been upheld here post-Heller pre-Bruen...

Another thing, the state's reply memorandum gives the word on what the State considers the scope of the TRO to be: The state here is saying that even if a TRO were granted, the district court have only restrained the defendants from applying the law against the plaintiffs. But the state...