and of course I can't find a way to edit this post. Should read "missed up to a couple of months"

To this day I follow most of the LawyerVoltron (and other lawyers I encountered through them), although since the Death Of Twitter I've had to chase you all around social media! I've learned so much not only about the case but about the world in general.

There aren't enough places for them all in the prison system, some will say. But wait, they built camps we could put them in.

Fair enough. As I tried to say in tight character limit, I wasn't sniping at you; just that I've seen the phrase used often, especially of Zimbabwe and South Africa, and it's wholly inappropriate in that context (and possibly others).

Not aimed at you (it just happens to be you saying it today); "majority minority" is a nonsense unless one's talking about a ghetto, or using minority as a euphemism. In South Africa, pop is ~80% black and ~7.5% white. It's not a "majority minority" country, it's majority black and I'm a minority.

Sadly these are not the 14 words they believe in

Or, as I saw it put once: we have captured lightning and used it to teach sand to think.

Confused. Why Rhodesian?

Then you haven't really thought about it. There are all sorts of reasons why someone might not want to talk to a complete stranger throughout a flight, and "I'm sorry I don't want to talk any more" feels a lot ruder than not wanting to talk at all; and that's before you even get to autism.

Ever had a haggis supper from a Scottish chip shop? Haggis, battered and deep-fried, with chips.

It's also internally contradictory. It states "The alien is given… no less than 24 hours to file that [habeas] petition"; the very next sentence is "If the alien does not file such a petition within 24 hours". So they have at least 24 hours to file, but they must do it in less than 24 hours.

“their repeated refusals to meet and confer about much of anything else undermine the reliability of this assertion.”

this is like ten minutes away from “the court asks if it fucking stuttered”

"On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not [overturn precedent] in your name, and [strike down woke rulings] in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"

ex-British Army officer here. We were not only allowed, but REQUIRED not to follow illegal orders.

A friend of mine was a piper, touring the US with his pipe band. If asked where he was from, he'd reply, "Scotland". Several times the response was, "Scotland? Your English is really good!"

Some years ago I was in the departure hall at the Johannesburg international airport (OR Tambo), and overheard an American at the Bureau de Change holding out a bundle of South African currency and asking, "Can I exchange these Rand for cash?"

Which draft dodger are you talking about? Trump and his bone spurs, or Musk moving to Canada and taking Canadian citizenship to avoid compulsory military service in South Africa?