Source: Public Interest Legal Foundation.
There can be no logical or practical justification for widespread reliance on voting by mail. A predictable number of lost/missing ballots is enough to override all other considerations.
Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities
I have mixed feelings about this order. My constitutional instincts are to:
- Leave the quality of policing and the provision of mental health services to the states alone.
- Avoid federal surveillance of the people and their police.
- Rely on Congress to make funding decisions and set the rules for implementing them.
At the same time I note that the states and Congress are dysfunctional to the point that federal leadership in the form of an Executive branch program could be useful. By this measure the order seems modest and pragmatic to me. Therefore I support it.
Armed white militia groups are starting to kill people during protests
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/protest-wrap-tuesday/index.html
Killings and shootings by “militia” and “bugaloo” bums.
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Did I miss something?
According to this story, Iowa “is the sole remaining state that requires felons to apply individually to the governor’s office to have their voting rights restored.” McCauliffe tried to do that here, but the GOP sued and the Supreme Court overturned the EO. Was the law passed during the last session that changed things in VA?
I know I could probably look it up, but wanted to generate conversation as well as let my more learned brothers and sisters here fill me in.
The Bulwark: The Presidency as Performance Art
While there has always been a touch of theater in being President of the United State, Mr. Trump has taken it to OBIE-level performances. (Google OBIE Awards if you don’t know what I am talking about).
Here we go again: our rotten to the core financial system on the brink to screw us one more time.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/coronavirus-banks-collapse/612247/
In 2007-08 it was CDO’S, banks and ratings companies. Now it is CLO’s, banks and ratings companies.
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Interesting. What now of the Abel Test and the like?
Proclivity has been assessed and used (New Hampshire, I recall) to deny, or terminate, employment of social workers. Methinks, that is now illegal.
Here is an article on the use in post-conviction criminal cases, but also in civil cases. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/the-sex-offender-test/397850/
I will look for specific cases of use in employment screening, but I know that at least one case in which, without an actual event, it resulted in a termination.
Additional reading, see Plethysmograph, this first reference specifically mentions its use in employment screening, albeit with legality caveat.
(1) https://www.nationalservice.gov/sites/default/files/resource/staff-screen-tool.pdf
(2) https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1480&context=wmjowl
Is this an “aha moment” about our virus testing?
The logic is flawless to some I suppose: If we just didn’t test for breast cancer, we could wipe out the disease.
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The Floyd Riots Mark a Century of Communist Agitation
The writer sees echos of Sacco/Vanzetti in current events.
Why do some feel they have the right to infect others?
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/texas-has-shifted-to-an-its-your-responsibility-pandemic-plan/
Texas cases are rising rapidly as they “open” the economy. Public mask wearing has become a political, not a medical, issue.
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