They are, though! One side is accused of really heinous things and the other does them. So they’re equivalent.
I missed the detail that his selfie porn vids with underage hookers were made in Colombia, South America. Not Columbia, South Carolina.
What is it with SC philandering pols and South America (paging Mark Sanford).
They are looking for a relatively close place that has no age of consent or a much lower one. Also bonus if the local government is indifferent.
The assumption seems to be that since the age of consent is lower, it’s legal to have sex with them. Except the US has laws specifically against this kind of sex tourism. American law says that it is illegal to travel to another country to have sex with someone who would be underage in America.
Pfft! The US has a ton of laws. What, am I supposed to be some kind of law…knowing…guy and just remember them all? /s
Pfft! It says nothing about Mars.
No worries: Mars, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia
I was just now disappointed to learn that this isn’t a company town like fellow Pennsylvania community Hershey.
So Lieutenant Scheisskopf did not have a nice day? So sad! Should have stuck to his bonespurs.
nm pointed out already.
If cops don’t need to know the law you shouldn’t need to either.
Mars needs women.
Also Santa Claus. Or Pia Zadora.
But not all three, obvs!
The Atlantic, despite their in-depth analyses, is often very dour and pompous in tone. But they had a clearly gleeful time making fun of Trump’s presumed disappointment over the parade fiasco:
"Dear Diary,
I did NOT have the birthday of my dreams last weekend! Everyone knows that 79 is the tank birthday. One is paper, 77 is emoluments, 78 you get to destroy one constitutional amendment of your choosing, 80 you get to become the state, but 79 is tanks, and I was so looking forward to my tank birthday…"
Oh no! Another bad hit for Mike Lindell. The man can’t sell enough pillows to keep up with this!
The jury found that two of Lindell’s statements about Eric Coomer, the former security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, including calling him a traitor, were defamatory. It ordered Lindell and his online media platform, formerly known as Frankspeech, to pay Coomer $2.3 million in damages, far less than the $62.7 million Coomer had asked for to help send a message to discourage attacks on election workers.
A Reagan-appointed judge (he’s 84) tells it like it is regarding the Trump administration. (Link to Politico)
“I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said U.S. District Judge William Young, a Massachusetts-based jurist who took the bench in 1985.
Young’s sweeping rebuke during a court hearing was a reference to two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that led the National Institutes of Health to rescind funding for research related to racial minorities and LGBTQ+ people.
“You are bearing down on people of color because of their color,” Young said. “The Constitution will not permit that. … Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?”
Hoo boy, Judge Young does not suffer fools gladly, or at all. I proofread hearing transcripts for a couple of reporters in the Federal District Court in Massachusetts, and the guy is usually the sharpest mind in the courtroom, immensely learned, and most definitely not susceptible to the usual baloney served up by Trumpist lawyers.
I wish everyone could get a soundbite of this…
As a country? Yes. No.
Next question?
An appeals court has rejected Attorney General Pam Bondi’s attempt remove Trump’s name from the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit, and inserting the DoJ instead.
If the ploy had worked, Trump wouldn’t have to pay for all the appeals of his defamation suit, nor would he have to pay Carroll the judgement; the American taxpayers would have been on the hook for the money.
The idea, per the linked article, was that, since Trump defamed her as president, Carroll should be suing the government, and not him as an individual.
There’s a provision in the law, the Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988 (also known as the Westfall Act), which gives federal officials some immunity from legal claims brought over their acts in office.
It’s hard to see how Trump defaming Carroll was an official act, but we know he doesn’t care about the law. Or the taxpayers, since we’d have been on the hook for those millions he’s been ordered to pay.