Not completely off base, but I don’t disagree with the thought process I came up with. I’ll see what I can do tomorrow to find the original ruling and figure out what the judge’s reasoning actually was. Would probably put this whole discussion to bed.

I dont know what you mean by “steel manning” (as in I’ve never heard that phrase), but I’ll assume it means you’re displeased.

Make no mistake: this doesn’t make me happy. I don’t even know the actual reason the judge had. I’m not a lawyer. I just asked myself, “If the union doesn’t have standing, who does?” The employees, with disregard as to whether they’re union members or not.

I am 100% in favor of standing firmly in the way of fascism, and when I see obstacles to fascism fall, I am disappointed. In this case, there exists a way that I can understand it, even if I don’t like it.

Some personality for sure, also a year old is still quite young for a dog, he’s probably still battling those dogly instincts.

Yes, in contract negotiations, which are not lawsuits.

They should have gotten a group of union members (employees) to sign on as plaintiffs, or done it as a class action of employees. Maybe they will?

Never again.

Ah, I think I might have an idea about where this “doesn’t have standing” might come from.

The union doesn’t have standing, because the union isn’t an employee. Employees are members of the union, but the union itself is a separate entity.

If my guess is right, it would be the absolute stupidest of technicalities.

Nobody at DoJ is going to investigate a sitting president without full approval from AG.

Doesn’t matter. Official acts. Even apart from that, who’s going to investigate or prosecute? DoJ?

McConnell and his fuckery with SCOTUS nominations alone is why things are so dire right now. The world would be a better place if he’d not ever been in it.

I believe the statistic that was mentioned was 75% of agents.

Fuck McConnell. He played an enormous role in making this bed that we’re all forced to lie in now. No quarter.

The video at the bottom, the guy sitting next to him can barely keep it together lol.

And every fair shuffle of a deck of cards produces a card order which has never been seen before, and will never be seen again. Ooooo scary!

And if they don’t, so what? There’s quite literally nothing to stop Little t from doing anything he wants, because “official acts”.

NO YOU’RE WRONG

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/c8f/601/3aa091f9a41ec205d13afad0a0514cb1a7-cage-meme.2x.w250.jpg

Where there is no consequence, there is no law.

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I was on reddit for sixteen years, and on digg and a little slashdot for several years before that. I spend a lot of time in places like these. I’m not even on a super popular instance, and there’s plenty of content here.

If anyone was unfamiliar with the link above (as I was), it is legit.

https://50501movement.carrd.co/ – This now has https://fiftyfifty.one/ linked as “Website”.