Trump allies suing to allow election officials not to do their jobs? LOL.
Refusing to certify an election without clear and convincing evidence in hand that the results are illegitimate should lead to the firing and official sanction of election officials.
Naturally, Trump thinks he'll lose, so he wants to reward officials who obstruct the vote to favor him.
Trump is lying again, when he says the "real vote" is in November. His jury voted on his guilt on 34 state crimes. They found him guilty, because the evidence was considerable, and his demonstrated conduct was so consistent with the charges.
In November, voters will vote on something completely different. Their vote will have no bearing on whether Trump is a convicted felon. It will determine only whether the great entrepreneur becomes just another public employee again.
“There’s going to be violence if he’s convicted but it doesn’t matter because once we start making prosecutorial decisions based on those collateral consequences, we’re done. Then the criminal justice system no longer operates,” Kirschner told me today.
Collateral consequences of a Trump conviction must take a backseat to enforcing the rule of law.
That we are even discussing fears about the social and political consequences of a Trump criminal conviction illustrates how far Trump has gone to corrupt the rule of law. It makes it imperative that the criminal law impose consequences on Trump, if he's convicted. Not to do so will wreak far more damage on society.
Over a year of home confinement, plus three years supervised release, and 100 hours of community service - of the court's choice - sounds about right.
Anti-Trump critics will say that's peanuts compared to the consequences for illegally voting in Florida or Texas. Sure. But it's an effective punishment for Trump and makes it harder for his zealots to realistically complain. (They'll complain if he wins.) If Trump abuses the arrangement, there's always Rikers.
If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.
Presumably, Tesla knows which cars cameras took which photos, so pairing them up with the car owner wouldn't seem hard. Unless, that is, the owner takes seriously Tesla's claim that the cameras are there "to assist driving" and are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”
Reuters's list of examples included a lot of faces. I don't suppose anyone at Tesla or elsewhere in Elmo's organization have access to facial recognition software. No?
Elmo is such a clown, he's a 17-year-old with a Ferrari he barely knows how to start.
Elmo can't help himself: he needs to act out to cool his demons and blame someone else for whatever goes wrong.
But he also knows he gets a flood of press when he does something stupid, and that he can undo it out of the limelight. In many places, too, firing and rehiring the same people allows him to legally cut their wages and benefits. It's a sham, like Elmo.
Poor Harvard PhD Peter Navarro, lifetime beneficiary of wingnut welfare, having to mix with the general prison population for a few months. The nerve of the court system to subject him to such ignominy. /s
He should feel honored to share an experience he was happy to subject so many others to.
