The Hall of Fire

The flip side of the Alito news is that perhaps it will help spark CJ Roberts to a more favorable decision.

An intruder broke into the home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and attacked her 82 year old husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer, injuring him significantly. While no motive has been established, it is reported that the intruder was yelling "where is Nancy" before attacking her husband...

I thought that would happen. I've had to do that change on posts that I copied on my phone. Perhaps when and if we upgrade the phpBB version that will change, but I wouldn't count on it.

And yet the polls will still say that Biden can't be trusted to run the economy as much as businessman Trump.

Two interesting notes from the transcript of the sidebar that began Tuesday's session, which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere else. First, the witness that the prosecution had originally planned to call after Cohen was not, as I and others have speculated, their election law expert, but instead ano...

And just to be complete, Silmarillion?

I figured not, since it would be too obvious. I'm glad I was right!

as far as I have heard, we haven't seen a copy of the agreement signed by Donald Trump himself That is correct. Here is the copy of the agreement that was entered into evidence, with a signature line for "DD" (aka Trump) but no signature. https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/Ev...

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Barrowdowns?

Ah, thanks for that correction. I thought the defense argument was, in part, that Michael Cohen did this on his own (and as far as I have heard, we haven't seen a copy of the agreement signed by Donald Trump himself) out of the goodness of his heart rather than at the direction of Trump and then Tr...

To the best of my recollection, the defense has not argued that Trump had no knowledge of the agreement, just that he didn't reimburse Cohen (which is equally untrue). I went back and looked at Blanche's opening statement. He says: You'll hear that Ms. Clifford/Ms. Daniels, did, in fact, sign an NDA...

Good idea. Should I move the other posts to this thread?

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Reading Justice Jackson's dissent, I think what she really wanted was to allow the process to play out so that the African-American voters who challenged the original map could have that case fully resolved.

I see that the case is being appealed to SCOTUS. Mark Joseph Stern expects they'll restore the legislature's map for this year's election in accordance with the "Purcell principle" (which says maps shouldn't be changed too close to an election) but there's a good chance that next year the...

Yeah, I think so too. But it still had to sting.

I wonder if the Democrats would have been so quick to save Johnson's Speakership if they knew he was going to be doing this.

Democrats Call out Speaker Johnson’s ‘Pathetic’ Appearance at Trump Trial

This is a real Truth Social post from Trump, but I don't know whether this is actually a debate Biden has agreed to. I doubt it, and it will probably be the excuse for the other debates to get cancelled.

I was just coming to post about that. That came together fast! Has there ever been a presidential debate for the general election before either candidate was the official candidate of their party? This shows that both of them think that they can gain significant traction in debating the other one, a...