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alwaysbewoke · 7 months ago
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A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X that had targeted a watchdog group for its critical reports about hate speech on the social media platform. In a blistering 52-page order, the judge blasted X’s case as plainly punitive rather than about protecting the platform’s security and legal rights. “Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation,” wrote District Judge Charles Breyer, of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, in the order’s opening lines. “Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose.” “This case represents the latter circumstance,” Breyer continued. “This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech.” X’s lawsuit had accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) of violating the company’s terms of service when it studied, and then wrote about, hate speech on the platform following Musk’s takeover of Twitter in October 2022. X has blamed CCDH’s reports, which showcase the prevalence of hate speech on the platform, for amplifying brand safety concerns and driving advertisers away from the site. In the suit, X claimed that it had suffered tens of millions of dollars in damages from CCDH’s publications. CCDH is an international non-profit with offices in the UK and US. Because of its potential to destroy the watchdog group, the case has been widely viewed as a bellwether for research and accountability on X as Musk has welcomed back prominent white supremacists and others to the platform who had previously been suspended when the platform was still a publicly-traded company called Twitter.
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criminaljusticemark · 10 months ago
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United States Federal Court Structure
“Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.”- Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States The United States court system is a dual system (USC, 2023). The dual court system refers to the separate federal judicial and state judicial court systems (USC, 2023). The two court systems…
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hislop3 · 11 months ago
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Genesis and COVID Litigation - Interesting Update
Genesis is one of the country’s largest SNF and assisted living providers so naturally, it saw its share of COVID cases throughout the pandemic. Like other similar providers across the same industry, cases involving COVID infections are just now hitting the courts.  Back in October, I wrote about the advancement of litigation involving COVID.  There are two relevant…
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vinceeasley · 11 months ago
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Perspectives: From the president to the Bundys, the political press is becoming obsolete
…Closer to home, that lack of trust in the self-styled “legitimate” media can be seen in the information divide that has emerged in the trial of Cliven Bundy, his sons and a handful of supporters currently underway in Las Vegas. NPR recently bemoaned that “parallel universes” were emerging in which established news outlets reporting on the case are being upstaged by Bundy family supporters using…
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mapsontheweb · 11 days ago
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Every United States Federal District Court
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whenweallvote · 8 months ago
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Last week, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Melissa DuBose to the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island, making her the first person of color and the first openly LGBTQ judge to serve on this Court.
Judge DuBose is also the 100th Black woman ever confirmed to a lifetime federal judgeship in the United States. 
Making history during Women’s History Month? Period! 👩🏾‍⚖️🏛️🤩
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tomorrowusa · 6 months ago
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Lock him up!
Bannon is a leading fascist strategist for Trump. It's too bad that their trials are in different jurisdictions. It would be fun to imagine them sharing a jail cell – material for a genuine reality show. 😝
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld former White House adviser Steve Bannon's conviction for criminal contempt of Congress. Bannon was sentenced in October 2022 to four months in prison on charges related to his refusal to testify before and provide documents to the Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. At the time, the judge also fined Bannon $6,500 but allowed the former Trump adviser to remain free while he appealed his convictions. According to Friday's order, the three-judge panel rejected Bannon's argument that he was not guilty because his "lawyer advised him not to respond to the subpoena" from Congress. Bannon could still appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices there previously did not help Peter Navarro, another Trump aide, to stay out of prison on similar charges.
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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 1 year ago
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Barely a day after former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time, some Senate Republicans are already trying to undermine the credibility of the federal judge who was randomly assigned to preside over his trial.
Here’s a detail they’re hoping you won’t notice: They unanimously voted to confirm her.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), speaking on his podcast on Wednesday, accused U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of being “relentlessly hostile” to Trump and claimed that she has “a reputation for being far-left, even by D.C. District Court standards.”
But Cruz voted to put Chutkan into her seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June 2014. So did every other Senate Republican when she was unanimously confirmed, 95-0.
That includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who nonsensically claimed Wednesday that “any conviction in D.C. against Donald Trump is not legitimate.”
“The judge in this case hates Trump,” Graham said in a Fox News interview. “You can convict Trump of kidnapping Lindbergh’s baby in D.C. You need to have a change of venue. We need a new judge. And we need to win in 2024 to stop this crazy crap.”
Aides to Cruz and Graham did not respond to requests for comment on how the senators square their votes to confirm Chutkan with their criticisms of her ability to be a fair judge.
Tuesday’s federal indictment of Trump accuses him of serious crimes related to the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Chutkan, a Jamaica-born former assistant public defender and an appointee of former President Barack Obama, has already been overseeing cases related to the Jan. 6 attack. She’s handed out some of the most aggressive sentences yet to rioters who took part in the violence that day. Of the 11 cases that have come before her, she imposed tougher sentences than those sought by the Justice Department seven times and matched what the Justice Department was seeking four times, according to an Associated Press review.
In all 11 cases, Chutkan sentenced the defendants to prison time.
This is what is likely driving the GOP attacks on Chutkan: They know she’s not likely to go easy on Trump now.
Beyond trying to discredit the judge, some Republicans, like Graham, are parroting Trump’s absurd demand for a change of venue. The former president has called for moving his case to the “more diverse” and “politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!” (Virginia and Maryland are much closer to D.C., for what it’s worth.)
Not a single Republican raised concerns about Chutkan during her nomination hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2014. In fact, only one GOP member of the committee even showed up to the hearing: Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who was only there to rave about a separate Texas judicial nominee on the schedule. He left before Chutkan was up.
Cruz and Graham were both members of the committee at the time.
Neither attended Chutkan’s hearing.
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usauthoritarianism · 7 months ago
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This is a Chicago Jump Out Squad
In DC this sort of thing is normal too.
People need to understand. I have spent my adult life in driving distance between the urban centers where this slave catcher ass policing style is the reality, and the prison(s) where massive prisoner populations are rented out to governments and corporations for literal pennies to the inmates.
-and this article is from 2014
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craigsumter-justice · 3 months ago
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This will be used to improve the quality of my blog and the discovery process.
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opens-up-4-nobody · 1 year ago
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You don't understand how unhinged I feel trying to construct an ending for Bleach that I personally would enjoy while knowing Bleach does not deserve my time and also not remembering enough to actually make anything coherent. And yet here I am.
#god. no one gives a fuck abt bleaching. i am screaming into the void. y cant i put this energy into being productive#i just want there to be themes and a satisfying ending. and ending that is sad and yet happy#i just think. for me. ichigo kurosaki died on the night rukia pierced him with her zanpakto. oh fuck i cant spell. fucking strap in#i kno he didnt technically die according to the rules of the universe but i think as soon as ichigos soul left his body. that body became#a corpse. so when he goes back into it its not suitible to live in anymore and he only starts to feel that with the fullbring arc#i think when rukia jumpstarted his powers she lit the fuse of a bomb and becoming a visor allowed him to chanel his resentment#bc he does resent. ichigo is an emotional person. he felt emense guilt when his mothet died bc he felt he couldnt protect her bc he was#being raised to protect. the boy has a complex and its kinda fuckrd up and its 1000% isshins fault. so when thr opportunity comes for#ichigo to sacrifice himself for his family he does and he literally and metaphorically dies. his life from that point on is overtaken by#death. so what do we do with ichigo after everything is said and done bc he cant go back to being human he cant be a living corpse. he has#to go to the soul society. bc i like to imagine everything hes done to his soul. his twisted cosmically weird special boy soul. hes like a#bomb. its unstable and they need to teach him to control it so he doesnt tear a hole in reality and let thr hollows pour in. so its safer#if that happens in thr soul society. and rukia lil miss ice princess can teach him to do that. i would also make it weird with god stuff but#i never read the blood war stuff so i dont kno enough abt the gods. also i would make rukia more at odds with everyone who was gonna let her#fucking die and who overlooked her bc she should b held with more reguard for her fighting. but misogyny 😒 so then what do we do with#ichigo in thr soul society? i cant stand the idea of him becoming part of the institution. i cant. i think he should be rogue. rebell. idk#train to be strong and battle agaisnt the 13 court guard squad who r clearly going to try to control him as he tries to control himself.#send my boy to therapy so he can control his reatsu? is the the word? idk. maybe he should go to that dead dog district and look for kids#with spiritual pressure. he needs to feel useful. maybe id just give him weird god powers. i am an ichigo special boy apologist#thats as far forward as i can think. ichigo has to b dead. has to learn to control his power before he can go fight. rukia can teach him#he rebells against the institution. encourages rukia to go apeshit bc fuck everyone. and then idk. he keeps trying to save ppl forever#or he dies and destroys the universe. a big ball of resentment and bad feels and secrets upon secrets upon secrets. god y am i thinking#abt this so much. ive got bullshit to deal with. anyway. idk i just like ichigo a lot and i think thr ending to bleach is th worst forever#bleach ramblings
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glompcat · 2 years ago
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Yesterday I debated on sharing screenshots of various news sites when the Dems won the senate and then decided not to since for some reason I could not imagine anyone not knowing already, so since I have been proved wrong since then-
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/us/politics/jim-marchant-nevada.html
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/13/trump-republicans-rivals-2024/
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/12/desantis-florida-midterms-2024-trump/
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2boldlyqueer · 2 years ago
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This is so funny but i used to live in the town next to sean patrick maloney and one day his horse got lose and started eating petunias in peoples yards and we had to corral his horse back to him. Also his goat got out once and fell into the mayors pool and the mayor had to save his goat. Even if i still lived in NY i wouldnt vote for him bc the man was rude to us Small Town people AND clearly needs a better fence 😤
Lmfao I can totally see it
However the other choice was a raging antisemite who campaigned hard against bail reform, so he would've been the lesser of two evils.
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to-be-a-dreamer · 2 years ago
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I was planning on answering a bunch of asks and writing up that au I was talking about into an official post but I got distracted and, long story short, it's been four hours and I now have an 11-page Google Doc about the 7th Governor of Tennessee, Sam Houston (6th, depending on who you ask)
#he was also the first president of texas but that's not the reason i started researching him so that's not important really#he was only commander-in-chief during the battle of the alamo and governor during the civil war but who cares about that#he was governor of tennessee for approximately 1 year before his wife of three months left him#and he was so embarrassed he left office and moved in with a cherokee clan in arkasas#which is the second time in his life that he ran away from home to live with the cherokee#and then eight years later he became the first president of texas#did i mention it took eight years and becoming president of texas for him to convince his wife to officially divorce him?#and during that time he got remarried and divorced again?#actually i don't think she ever actually agreed he had to use his power as president to get a district court judge to do it for him#i'm going to make a powerpoint this man is FACINATING to me#he was actually made an official cherokee citizen and considered them his family which is really cool#this isn't for a class#i just fell into a rabbit hole#also in case anyone is wondering i am not from texas so i had never heard of this man until i was looking at a list of tennessee governers#and wondered why there was a gap during 1828#saframbles#history#sam houston#governer sam houston#president sam houston#i wonder if anyone is searching through the sam houston tag on tumblr.com#if you are please tell me why you're equally as fascinating to me as sam houston#texas history#tennessee history#i don't know what the frick to tag this so i'm just gonna stop now
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vinceeasley · 11 months ago
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Perspectives: From the president to the Bundys, the political press is becoming obsolete
“…Closer to home, that lack of trust in the self-styled “legitimate” media can be seen in the information divide that has emerged in the trial of Cliven Bundy, his sons and a handful of supporters currently underway in Las Vegas. NPR recently bemoaned that “parallel universes” were emerging in which established news outlets reporting on the case are being upstaged by Bundy family supporters…
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mapsontheweb · 9 months ago
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A visualization of the 94 Federal District Courts of the United States.
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