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I’m only at 17, because I never used a Walkman.

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1) allowing the size of the House of Representatives to grow as the US population grew. 2) prohibiting Congress from raising its own pay unless effective date was after the next election. #2 actually became the 27th Amendment about 200 years later.

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Not lying. Just ignorant, stupid and abusive.

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As my brother-in-law, an MD-PhD anesthesiologist, has been heard to say, “Any idiot can put a sick person to sleep. But it takes special training and skill to keep them alive during the procedure and then wake them up.“

The surgeons ought to know…

I wish your point were correct, but the real reason it’s the first amendment - contrary to popular belief - is that of the original 12 amendments proposed by Congress, the first two failed to win ratification. So the one that was originally designed as “third” by happy accident became the First!

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Don’t care for Katyal that much. Would add David Frederick to the short list. And for criminal law, Michael Dreeben.

I’ve heard hundreds of appellate advocates over the years. Politics aside, Clement is the best of them.

No, not what the Legislature “chose”; at least, I doubt that. Just a tragic and unjust outcome they failed to anticipate when they enacted the statutory language.

/2 I was part of a team that fought this issue successfully on appeal in federal court in Philadelphia. Our client’s 21 year sentence was cut on a plea deal on remand to nine years. She’s straight and sober now snd working as an EMT. And the feds stopped prosecuting these sad cases. /end

This is so wrong, perhaps legally (I’m not an expert on state law), but certainly as a matter of social policy, to treat the addict who happens to survive as a murderer of their friend and co-user who happened to be the one who overdosed and died. In these cases, it could be either of them. /1

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Not my experience, in 50+ yrs since graduating law school, passing 2 bar exams, and teaching at 2 accredited law schools. Law grads are cautioned not to use anything but “a law school graduate” - not “lawyer” or “attorney” - until and unless licensed, so as not to confuse or mislead laypersons.

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And Lindsey Graham, and Scott Bessent, and any number of others

Actually, Stonewall was more than 55 years ago.

A Pepperdine Law School grad. A not-so-wild guess: she may have taken the bar exam in California but not passed. (Cali has one of the lower pass rates.) Rather than study more and try again, as many do, she may have decided to forge ahead with a job that did not require her to be a licensed atty.

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Could you access the QP in the Berry case?

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Probably February or perhaps late January, would be my guess

pdgpa @pdgpa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No rehab center, nor any rehab center employee, would reveal such information in response to an outsider’s inquiry.

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pdgpa @pdgpa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Um, isn’t it a “pool”? How can acting collectively in an official “pool” be prohibited?

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pdgpa @pdgpa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why would he not feel the same about Paxton?

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pdgpa @pdgpa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fail. That’s three, not two.

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pdgpa @pdgpa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

/2 Only the educational system, reinforced by popular media and/or cultural/political movements (e.g., the civil rights movement, the women’s movement), can systematically change social norms.

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pdgpa @pdgpa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Many decades of criminology has consistently and conclusively established that “brutal punishment” does not change behavior. (I’m sure you didn’t actually mean what you wrote, that punishment should be meted out to people based on what they “try to defend,” i.e., what they believe or advocate.) /1

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The history of the death penalty for rape is all about anti-Black racism. Justice Thurgood Marshall led the campaign to abolish it, which prevailed (as to adult victims) in 1977 and (as to child vics) in 2008. Only systematic change in the education of boys and social norms can change rape culture.

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The CFR only governs federal procedures, while most civilian death penalty provisions in the US are state-level. But public executions are certainly obsolete. No state has held one since 1936 (KY). As for the Army Regulation, wouldn’t a case-specific order from the President or SecDef override that?

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No. Abolish the death penalty. No exceptions.

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Life imprisonment will do fine, thanks. Abolish capital punishment in all cases.

The last public execution in the United States was in 1936 (in Kentucky). Even for those who accept capital punishment, which I do not, it’s a feature that our civilization has rejected.

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Google AI tells me the last public execution in the US was in 1936, in Kentucky.

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A *public* execution?! I thought our civilization had moved beyond that (a small step, I realize) a century ago, at least.

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pdgpa @pdgpa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you mean where he went for college, where he might theoretically have studied some basic political science and economics, it was Ohio State, not Harvard.

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Is that where the Midwest Smaller Naval Academy is located?

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pdgpa @pdgpa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once (abt 40 yrs ago) when I was before the 3d cir a co-appellant’s attorney (a well-known Mafia hanger-on, later himself indicted), failed to show. I asked the court for leave to argue her appeal (my client’s girlfriend and co-defendant) as well as my own. Granted. I won reversal of both.

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My mentor, the late Edward M Becker, put an end to one-word affirmances when he was chief judge of the Third Circuit (1998-2003). Now they issue at least a 3-page mem op (based no doubt on a law clerk’s memorandum). While those can be frustrating, honestly it’s a major improvement over the old days.

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Well, I guess the team consists of a bunch of doctors about as much as that country is actually a “democratic republic.”

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Hahaha. Superhero “Dr. Congo,” not the nation DR Congo?

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Undoubtedly a matter of minutes, on some stay-of-execution request in a death penalty case.