#v. DA universe tba

[mandragoramanners]

❝ please don’t hurt me. i’m lost. ❞  c:

The Witcher Starters ; Always Accepting                      @fitztrevelyan

          Mandrake was rare in these parts. Rarer, still, with the templar-mage war blazing through the countryside; if not plucked for the potency of its subterfuge, it was surely being used as a last-ditch effort at healing. Each excursion from the ancient tomb he'd chosen to house him for the time being led him further and further..... At present, it was well over a day's travel that he'd wandered in search of herbs, yet he pressed ever further out in sheer determination. The innocents caught in the crossfires of this bloody conflict should, were they rationing what was given properly, be in need of more sooner rather than later. Regis knew how to make such supplies out of considerably little; what else could he do?

     Nearby footsteps had been caught more than a mile away, but were they friend or foe, he paid them no mind. Humans were hardly as perceptive as he; it wouldn't take much to interweave, but never cross paths. And still.... Somehow this mystery human was determined to catch up; they'd approached with Regis' attentions solely on the elfroot in front of him, and the surprise of being found had him spinning on heel, eyes still narrowed in concentration.

     "Hurt you...?" In and of itself, nigh puzzling. But, he supposed, he did rather look to be one of the rampant mages. "I have no such need nor intentions. In fact, I would much rather continue to collect my herbs if you do not mind."

     What had thus far been gathered found proper home in the satchel hanging from his shoulder, though fingers gripped the strap in uncertainty. ".... You said you're lost...?"

[dcvasso]

* você viu VINCENT CRESSWELL KING passando agora na quinta avenida? ele tem VINTE E TRÊS ANOS e é ESTUDANTE DE RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS. dizem que ele é PROTETOR E DEDICADO, mas também pode ser EXPLOSIVO E DESAPEGADO. costumam descrever ele como FESTAS REGADAS A CHAMPAGNE, CARROS DE LUXO, VESTUÁRIO ESTILO OLD MONEY.

the family ,

nome: vincent cresswell king apelidos: vince, v, viking (como tiração de sarro dos amigos) local de nascimento: nova iorque, eua data de nascimento: 12 de agosto de 1998 idade: 23 anos signo: leão gênero: homem cis orientação sexual: heterossexual ocupação: estudante de relações internacionais na columbia university e gerente no king hotel & resort ny qualidades: protetor, responsável, bondoso, corajoso, determinado, confiável defeitos: explosivo, desapegado, rancoroso, orgulhoso, cabeça-dura, sentimental

august king (pai, 53); teresa cresswell (mãe, 47), harper cresswell king (irmã mais nova, 19); margaret ‘maggie’ bennett (governanta, 65).

pode-se dizer que vincent tem duas famílias: aos sete anos, viu os pais separarem-se, e enquanto a guarda das crianças ficou para o pai, em nova iorque, a mãe partia mundo afora por trabalhar como modelo. entretanto, também pode-se dizer que august king tem três filhos: vincent, harper, e também a tão querida rede de hotéis internacional.

com o pai sempre ocupado, vincent cresceu sendo bastante próximo da irmã mais nova, com quem é extremamente protetor, e praticamente sob a tutela da governanta, quem considera como sendo ‘da família’. durante as férias, vincent e harper visitavam a mãe onde quer que ela estivesse no mundo, o que certamente garantiu-lhe algumas boas memórias e experiências diversas para contar aos amigos quando voltava. apesar de não ter tanto tempo para dar atenção e carinho aos filhos, august sempre tentou ser um bom pai, e por isso a relação com os filhos não é a típica amargurada pelo abandono em troca das responsabilidade.

entretanto, vincent despertou realmente o interesse do pai logo que estava prestes a sair do ensino médio, pois o homem pretendia treinar o primogênito para herdar o grande império da rede de hotelaria. não sendo nada bobo, vincent aceitou de bom grado a tutela do pai, e após sua entrada na universidade e seu consequente amadurecimento, os dois ficaram ainda mais próximos.

about him ,

engana-se quem pensa que por ficar majoritariamente sob a tutela da governanta, vincent criou-se solto ou sem regras. pelo contrário… teve uma educação até que bastante rígida, o que rendeu-lhe uma fama de comportado. entretanto, também teve bastante liberdade, e soube aproveitá-la bem para sair com os amigos, com garotas, e ir em festas.

na escola, sempre tirou notas boas, especialmente porque tinha bastante auxílio de professores particulares para o que não entendia. nunca foi o mais inteligente da sala, mas também não ficava abaixo da média. de extracurriculares, provou diversos esportes, mas os que continua praticando até hoje são basquete e boxe.

como herdeiro de uma franquia de hotéis internacional, sempre foi prezado que vincent aprendesse o máximo de idiomas possível, com o fato de sua mãe viver constantemente mudando de país ajudando-lhe bastante a treinar. assim, hoje é fluente em inglês, espanhol, alemão, francês e italiano.

tal feito casou bem com a escolha de curso de ensino superior: relações internacionais. na questão universitária, era uma exigência de seu pai que o rapaz entrasse para uma da ivy league, e como ficar em nova iorque (especialmente para manter-se próximo da irmã) era um desejo seu, vincent optou pela universidade columbia, na qual, felizmente, foi aceito.

fun facts ,

tem um golden retriever chamado scott;

gosta bastante de ler livros e ver séries/filmes de romance, mas não deixa ninguém saber;

malhar é praticamente sua meditação, então sempre pode ser encontrado na academia;

sabe tocar piano, violão e guitarra, e canta só para si mesmo no chuveiro;

vive em um loft na cobertura do hotel do pai;

tba.

[subscriptlaw]

Trump v. Vance

Argument: May 12, 2020

Petitioner Brief: Trump

Respondent Brief: Vance, et al.

Decision: TBA

Court Below: Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Can the New York prosecutors get Trump’s financial information from Trump’s accounting firm?

On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether the President — and individuals and companies associated with him — are immune from state criminal investigation.

The New York grand jury subpoena

Public revelations about actions tied to Donald Trump caused the New York City District Attorney’s Office to open a grand jury investigation. The District Attorney sought to determine whether state law crimes had been committed in relation to efforts to silence porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 Presidential election and to other behavior covered in testimony from Michael Cohen and others.   Initially, the DA’s office (the DA is Cyrus Vance, Jr.) sent subpoenas to the Trump Organization, which cooperated for a time but balked at providing financial and tax records.  In apparent response, new subpoenas were sent to Mazars USA LLP, the accounting firm for President Trump and for most if not all of the companies of which he is a direct or indirect owner.  The subpoenas were very similar in form to subpoenas sent to the same accounting firm by Congressional committees and that are the subject of a separate case (LINK) before the Supreme Court.  The records sought by the subpoena include years of financial and tax records of Donald Trump, Trump family members, and the many companies associated with them.

The subpoenas did not identify President Trump or any other person as the possible targets of the grand jury investigation.

Mazars indicated that it will comply with the subpoena if the federal courts do not invalidate it.

How did a state court subpoena end up in federal court?

The President’s lawyers filed suit in a New York federal court to challenge the subpoena, which relates to a state criminal proceeding. The suit asked the court to declare that the Constitution prohibits a state prosecutor from conducting a criminal investigation involving the President.   Enforcement of the grand jury subpoena has been halted –stayed – throughout the proceedings, even though the President has lost at every level in the federal courts.  

Rulings below

The President’s objections have been considered by both the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  That appellate court ruled against the President in December, and the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case and the related Trump v. Mazars.  The hearing was originally scheduled for the end of March but was delayed for about six weeks because of the COVID19 pandemic.  

Does the president have absolute immunity from state criminal investigations?

Even though the subpoena to Mazars does not identify the President as a target of the grand jury investigation, the President made a number of arguments to the effect that allowing a state criminal investigation of the President would violate both Article II of the Constitution (which vests executive power in the President) and the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution (which makes federal law the supreme law of the land).

The President’s arguments describe the impracticability of allowing thousands of local prosecutors across the country to initiate criminal investigations and prosecutions of the President, and the interference that kind of behavior would cause with the President’s ability to perform his duties.

The response of the District Attorney has been to point out that the grand jury proceedings are secret, do not yet involve indictment or prosecution of the President, and are not necessarily directed at the President but may involve other individuals and companies to whom or which any Presidential immunity does not apply.   The District Attorney has contended that the President does not have the level of immunity he claims, especially as to claims that have nothing to do with conduct of the President and others before becoming President.  Moreover, both the District Attorney and the lower courts rejected the claim that responding to the subpoena would impair the President’s ability to perform his duties, noting that the subpoena is directed to an accounting firm. A request to a third party does not require any effort by the President to comply.  Furthermore, every recent President has made substantial personal financial disclosures without impairment of their ability to function.

If there is Presidential immunity, can it prevent an investigation into possible criminal behavior by persons not the President?

The scope of immunity asserted by the President is breathtaking because it encompasses not only his own behavior, but also that of any other person, if investigating the conduct would “involve” the President.  In effect, the President claims that he can confer immunity – potentially extending beyond the expiration of a statute of limitations – on any business colleague, employee, or affiliated company.  

Unsurprisingly, neither the District Attorney not the lower courts have felt it necessary to devote substantial effort to refuting this line of argument.

Amicus argument:  Most of the subpoenaed documents do not even belong to the President

In amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs before the Court in Vance and Mazars, my colleague Sean Kealy and I present an argument ignored by the parties in the cases. We argue that President Trump cannot object to his accounting firm or banks turning over financial and tax information that actually does not belong to him. The information actually belongs to the more than 500 separate business entities connected to the Trump Organization. 

President Trump argues that the records of these companies are “his” records, and that the company tax returns are also “his.”  However, the reason business owners form corporations and LLCs is to make sure they have liability protection by setting up separate legal persons – the companies – that insulate the individual owner from liability when something goes wrong.  These companies are legally separate from their owners, and for decades, the President has steadfastly asserted this separateness in a variety of legal contexts.  Under state law, records such as those covered by the subpoena belong only to the company, and so the President has no right to claim the companies should be protected from a subpoena because Trump doesn’t have an ownership interest at all in their content.

 CONTRIBUTOR

Jim Wheaton is a Clinical Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law, where he also directs the Startup Law Clinic. He is a former chair of the LLCs, Partnerships & Unincorporated Entities Committee of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law, and an expert witness on business entity issues. Earlier in his career, he clerked for a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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Q1 & Q2 Roundups + Q3 Schedule Announcement

Greetings, Citizens of the Universe!

Sorry it's been so long since a post roundup. I... simply kept forgetting, in the midst of the chaos and fatigue. (However, one big reason for my absentmindedness is that I’ve been preparing for the future!)

Roundups for Q1 & Q2

Q3 Schedule announcement! (The first post will go live on July 19!)

Anyway, we have a lot to cover so let's go!

Q1

Pump Up a Thank You, Beautiful Dreamers!!! - To celebrate the blog getting 10,000 views, I reviewed some MVs from Up Up Girls (Kakko Kari). This was rather timely as two members (Sengoku Minami and Sato Akari) had graduated in September 2017.

M3 Project Announcement: 20 Years of Fun - As part of the 20th anniversary festivities, I announced some fun poll-oriented projects designed to inject some fun and festivity to the air.

At the time of this writing/publication, the Anniversary Review Vote is in its third iteration while the Momusu M3 Grand Prix is suffering from sophomore slump.

Ping Pong Pinpoint, January 2018 Edition: Beginnings and Endings Galore - A digest of minor news from the last quarter of 2017 all the way up to the post’s publishing in mid-late January 2018.

Momusu M3 Grand Prix: Rounding out the Firsts - An update on the first round of the Momusu M3 Grand Prix

C-ute Memorial Survey: The Results Show - The obligatory memorial survey for legendary C-uties made its splash.

Hey Brother, Ho Brother! Nice Rider, Go Rider! - Speaking of H!P Kids, in one of three M3 10th Anniversary Reviews for 2018 (four if you count the Charisma Kirei review from the year before), the Berryz get spotlighted with their famous cover of Dschinghis Khan’s, well, Dschinghis Khan.

Roles in the Polls That Shake Up Everyone’s Souls - The results of the first round of the Momusu M3 Grand Prix and the Q1 Anniversary Review Vote, which led to...

Lovely Riding into the Sunset - ...this winning review spotlighting Buono’s sophomore single (which didn’t suffer from sophomore slump).

Q2

Strap in, folks. This one’s been a busy one for Magi-Kat...

Wahahaha~! Youth’s Passionate Journey Serenade - The first of many H!P 20th Anniversary reviews features Mano Erina's Seishun no Serenade as the 2011 representative. (On that note, CONGRATULATIONS to Manoeri on her wedding!)

PON This WAY WAY WAY -  The first #MemeMusicMonday review of #MemeMay, featuring Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's psychedelic PON PON PON.

CONGRATULATIONS on Your Happy Summer Wedding! - The H!P 20th Anniversary celebrations continue with Morning Musume's Happy Summer Wedding representing 2000. (On that note, didn't a royal wedding happen around this time?)

“What Basic Premises Inform Your Blog?” A 2017 Perspective - A revamped version of the questionnaire post that is perfect for anyone who stumbled onto the blog.

A Leafy Explosion of YATTA! - The second #MemeMusicMonday in #MemeMay brought us green leaves, courtesy of Happa-tai's YATTA!

A Melon-Flavored Carelessly Whispered Chance of LOVE - Melon Kinenbi carry the torch for the H!P celebrations as they represent my gateway year of 2003.

Picking, Poking And Peeking at PPAP - Pikotaro brings the memes in the third #MemeMusicMonday in #MemeMay.

Smile for a Summer Night - Morning Musume represent Hello! Project's birth year of 1998 with their sophomore major single (and debut single of the 2nd Gen). Wait, wasn't their anniversary year last year?!

Help a Blogger Out: A TLS Survey, MorniMete Style 2018 - Similar to the “What Basic Premises Inform Your Blog?” questionnaire, another updated primer to M3 is unveiled.

Revenge of the Twitter Questionnaire Meme – Part 1 - I made good on my word from five months before....

Declarative Nonsense from the GAL-o - #MemeMay ends where it began. Its entire reason for existence? An excuse to properly review an early 2000s J-hip hop song that was played during a WVGCW pre-show -- and the accompanying meme-tastic MV that was done by then-future Bob Team Epic artists. I am NOT making this up! (That and they all were considered as April Fools ideas and given my schedule, May was the nearest time I can do it uninterrupted and in season.) 

Cabbage Patch FEELS - May gets wrapped up on the Hello! Project end with Peaberry's major single representing 2013. (Fans of Tsubaki Factory may recognize this tune ;))

They’re Blue, Ba Da Dee Ba Da Di - One of the winning topics of the Q2 Anniversary Review Vote, Morning Musume's Resonant Blue takes the center stage and paints it a resounding blue...

Extra Strong Kisses of Hardcore Love - ...before co-winner Buono! lightens it up with passionate kisses. A-i-shi-te-ru

A Wordless “I LOVE YOU”: A Sandwiched Farewell to V-U-Den - In the midst of what was supposed to be break time, a surprise M3 10th Anniversary Review shows itself with v-u-den's grand finale.

Q3

I had originally planned to make a video essentially doing the below and posting it on June 19th, but the unsteady social climate made me uneasy about it.

(Plus, I needed to find a way to do something about the gridlock in the Momusu M3 Grand Prix in the least poll fatigue-inducing way possible. I may just roll virtual dice/use Random Pickers to pick the winners, but that’d go against the very spirit of the whole thing....)

Ping Pong Pinpoint, July 2018 Edition (July 19, 2018) - This was originally meant to be part of Q2, but due to the Anniversary Review Vote tie, I moved it to Q3.

Tomboyish Ponies in Paradise (August 2, 2018) - The H!P 20th Anniversary celebrations in Q3 commence with v-u-den's Jaja Uma Paradise representing 2007.

War Cry of Friendship WAO! (August 9, 2018) - The H!P 20th Anniversary celebrations continue with Berryz Koubou's Otakebi Boy WAO! / Tomodachi wa Tomodachi Nanda! representing 2010.

We Can’t Live Without You (But We Must) (August 16, 2018) - Similar to the previous post, the Berryz take the spotlight in the anniversary festivities, representing 2004 with their debut single Anata Nashide wa Ikite Yukenai.

Spacey La Ta Ta (August 23, 2018) - The H!P 20th Anniversary celebrations have us party like it's 1999 with Taiyo to Ciscomoon's Uchuu de La Ta Ta.

Thanks for Tonight! (August 30, 2018) - The H!P 20th Anniversary celebrations bring us to 2006 with Thanks! to GAM.

Title TBA (September 6, 2018) - Content to be determined.

Sgt. Pepper's Wonderful Hearts Club Band (ETA: September 10, 2018) - The final M3 10th Anniversary post of 2018 takes us down as we go to Morning Musume's strawberry fields with Pepper Keibu.

Q3 Anniversary Vote Winner (September 13, 2018) (voting in progress! - Ends August 31, 2018 at 15:00 UTC / 11:00am EDT)

The special event for Q3, Magic Metal Meteora, will be announced on July 20th!

Anyway, please look forward to these posts... and pray for my sanity in the process. (I already pondering some possible last-minute changes to the Magic Metal Meteora lineup, due to some... things surrounding one of the originally intended topics that came to my attention in early July.)

See you soon!