Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
I realize this'll sound quaint and old-fashioned, but it's worth recalling that all of this is blatantly unconstitutional--so much so that even the Trump OLC hasn't offered any justification of it. There once was a day when that sort of thing would have mattered ...
No surprises; just confirmation and more details. But it’s worth reading.
great piece
You know, that thing where attorneys purportedly devoted to textualism disregard both the text of the Fifth Amendment and the text of the statute--not to mention legislative intent and a unanimous 55-yr-old SCOTUS interpretation--in order to "update" a law's meaning.
www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
Very sad. Doesn’t bode well for peaches this summer ‘round these parts.
www.kingsburysorchard.com
BREAKING: Judge denies patients of Stanford's children's hospital a TRO against the hospital in the patients' lawsuit seeking to stop Stanford from turning over invasive information about gender-affirming care to DOJ via NDTexas grand jury, finding they did not show the hospital is a state actor.
Whether Stanford can do so successfully will depend on whether the US Att'y can show that the patient information is germane to a plausible GJ investigation of possible crimes in Northern Texas--dubious, but (presumably unlike Stanford) we don't yet know what's happening in the GJ.
This sort of grotesque, juvenile and disrespectful (and ignorant--the Germans weren't the ones storming the beaches!) analogy is precisely in character with what *everyone* knew Hegseth to be. Keep the focus here where it belongs--on the 50 Senators who knowingly approved the horror.