Well since he thinks we should believe DHS at what they tell Congress, surely he takes the FBI, CIA, and all of the other intelligence gathering communities at their word when they tell Congress that Russia tried to interfere in the 2016 election. Right?

Just as long as Weird Al remains safe and doesn’t get sued...

Due to the flexibility of salaried white collar work and their hours, I think you’re right that unions, if they want to make any headway into those fields, will need to drastically rethink how they operate. With a blue collar or low level white collar administrative assistant, the bargaining terms are easy - hours of…

I’ve represented unions, mainly blue collar ones, and this is my take as well. There are some private sector white collar unions out there, if we use the term white collar very broadly. Many orchestras, actors, etc. are organized, but that’s artistic, and I’m not sure they fit clearly into the white collar/blue collar…

When I watched clips, I noticed that they kept calling him Mr. President. Which fine. He is. But he kept calling them Chuck and Nancy to their faces.

It appeared that earlier in the meeting Ryan and McConnell were there. At least, I saw photos with them there which I assumed was from this meeting. I guess you could say that Pence had a role being there as President of the Senate. I *guess*.

A rule of thumb I heard as an associate (so doesn’t fully apply here since that guy was a partner) was that 1/3 of your rate goes to you, 1/3 goes to overhead, and 1/3 goes to line the partners’ pockets.

In my first job out of law school, I worked at a firm that billed me out at, IIRC, $215 an hour. The senior partner, who had about 35 years of experience in the rather niche law we practiced, didn’t even bill himself out for $300 an hour until my fifth year there. I was billed out at a fair rate (but severely…

I can see why the director prefers to go by the name Legend of Micah since Micah Moore is an actress of the adult variety.

Yeah, that’s happened.

Except the fine levied against the Obama campaign was more regulatory in nature for what the law considered minor violations - improper bookkeeping and the like, non-willful acts. The allegations here are that Trump wilfully tried to avoid campaign finance laws, which pushes the transgression into a criminal violation.

A Narcissist’s Prayer
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did...
You deserved it.

I’d prefer to watch A Christmas Carol where’s visited by Three Stooges.

John Delaney did back in the summer.

It also doesn’t help that there has been at least one (and I think multiple) judges who have found that Trump’s tweets are mostly hyperbolic bluster and that a reasonable person wouldn’t take them as true statements. If the reasonable person wouldn’t believe them, there’s no damage to Comey’s reputation and no…

I don’t do criminal law, but it’s my understanding that restitution exists as a quasi-criminal, quasi-civil remedy. I know there can be other civil penalties for criminal acts, such as paying back taxes for tax fraud. So there might be a question in some of these fringe cases.

Being charitable, there may be a question if voting rights are restored if restitution was ordered in addition to incarceration/probation but not paid by the time the probation ended. That's not what he's asking though; he's just being deliberately obtuse.

He looks like The Smiler from Transmetropolitan.

That cobbler looks like it could be eaten like a sandwich.