Is it common in the US for an appellate court to tell lower courts how to weigh evidence like this? From my perspective in Canada it’s very strange to see trial judges being told to discount categories of evidence rather than deciding based on the record before them.

There was a Supreme Court of Canada decision in 1998, around when a referendum on Quebec separating almost won a majority. A province can separate if a clear majority votes for it on a clear question.

I’d blame the people doing the bombing, and allowing it to happen, not the people being bombed.

Respectfully, she’s responsible to the people of Venezuela; Americans are responsible for themselves. American institutions have failed to stand up to Trump, you can’t blame the rest of the world when they calculate they ought to flatter the mad king.

I’ve used them for running and it seems very real. Apparently they work while swimming though I’ve never tried.

“A protected person, granted protected status in Canada, mistakenly thought they could travel to the United States to visit a relative.”

That individual was detained by ICE and deported to a third country, despite Canada being willing to receive them, Aiken said.

Since there is a Nobel Prize for fiction, does this qualify as a nomination?

They started wearing the white hats just before they clinched the division

I think the left behinds will be looking through the clothes that get left — hunting for the saved ones’ underwear like the perverts they are?

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing our colleagues die of starvation.”

The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.

He seemed immediately and very sincerely mortified.

No (remotely competent) lawyer would ever say that to a judge intentionally.

It’s pronounced with a long u, like it’s spelled “traunch”.

Doesn’t the federal government run the polls? I think it’s the same everywhere.

Two Naval Academy faculty members have resigned, and 18 more have taken early retirement. One was offered a place of honor at the annual dedication parade. He declined, telling the academy’s superintendent:

The “flagship” Hudson Bay store in Vancouver has been in a state of disrepair for years. This was a long time coming.