What’s so nutbar about a unicameral legislature with no representation by state? 

Why would states need to be kept on board? Like Medicare, the program would be run and managed by the federal government. That's also what would prevent the SCOTUS decision in Sebilius on Medicaid expansion from preventing implementation. 

I don’t believe you. I’ve been assured people totally love their private insurance and will kill to keep it rather than get something like Medicare For All. Are you trying to tell me private insurance sucks and people don’t actually love the insurance company they have to fight tooth and nail to receive the benefits…

Nobody (ha, “they”) is trying to make Feinstein “look bad”. The video accurately portrayed the real issue with Feinstein’s response. It wasn’t the volume which was an issue.

I mean, I know that Bernie would have lost less of those voters than Hillary did. Exhibit A being the MI Democratic primary. Exhibit B being the WI Democratic Primary. If you look, he won every county but Milwaukee County which would have gone D regardless of the candidate. It was kind of those other counties in WI…

This shit is like philo-"Magical Negro" talk and is kind of disgusting. You know Black women are real people and not some mystical life force here to sacrifice themselves for our benefit, right? 

Yes, spare me the actual recent polls and talk about the 2016 primaries where the majority of voters were old, African American church ladies in the deep south at the very beginning of the primary season. Because they’re very representative of Black people as a whole. Also, ignore all the primaries, especially as the…

As other people have pointed out, the “men’s” category is effectively the “open” category. Semenya doesn’t want to compete in the open category. She wants to compete in the “women’s” category which, because of the typical level of testosterone in natal women, is effectively a “below X level of testosterone category”.

I have to be real and say that there are attorneys at Morgan Lewis who I’ve worked with on cases (only FLSA) who are the most upstanding, fair, and honest lawyers I’ve ever dealt with on either employee or management side. I can’t say that about all management side employment law firms (Ford &…

What could the CPD’s motivation for lying be in this situation? None of their officers are involved. They didn’t fail to take the initial allegation seriously and possibly let the real perpetrator(s) get away. They aren’t acting shady by doing things like ignoring evidence or even worse, destroying evidence. In fact…

Oh no, I agree if Lin Wood is taking a case like this there is either something “there”, or Lin has some extreme political views I’ve never heard about from people who do know him pretty well. Though it’s also possible some right wing billionaires are funding this whole thing and paying Lin’s (presumably huge) hourly…

Yes. Plaintiff side employment law primarily focused on the FLSA and FMLA. But I have done some Title VII (no longer. It’s a nightmare) and I worked at the EEOC during law school doing first level review of claims the investigators thought were worth considering.

What does it matter if the productivity gains were based on improvements in physical capital (e.g. faster computers, bigger forklifts, etc.) or in human capital (e.g. more workers acquiring skills, workers acquiring more advanced skills, etc.) when it comes to “deciding” how gains from any increases in productivity…

I suspect he’s doing some type of mixed fee arrangement with a greatly reduced hourly rate (or flat cash amount) and a percentage of part of any award/settlement. Since defamation claims in the US are normally hard for a plaintiff to win and even more so when the defendant is a newspaper. That’s why I would think the…

Yeah, I noted in a comment on an other GMG family of outlets post about this lawsuit that Lin Wood isn’t some random right wing nut job lawyer. Here in Atlanta he’s a legend among plaintiff side litigators.

Are the banks claiming that if they came to Warren or Sanders and presented a proposed regulatory change which would allow the banks to create a banking product which (for example) would lower the cost of banking, help more people get basic financial services (like depositing a pay check instead of going to a check…

Oh wow, Lin Wood is involved. He’s actually a big time plaintiff’s litigator. I assumed this would be liberty U law school right wing nut jobs. But Lin Wood is the real deal. Here in Atlanta among plaintiff side attorneys he is a bit of a legend. I’ve met him once or twice, I think one of the times he was going to…

I’m not totally up to date on your little tiff, but generally candidates for President present lots of policy proposals which they technically don’t have the power to implement unilaterally due to our system of checks and balances.

companies totally hire management side firms to do internal investigations of reported Title VII violations in order to fairly compensate the victims and punish the perpetrator/themselves so it doesn’t happen in the future. Never for ensuring any ensuing litigation will be effectively quashed by laundering evidence,…

Good point. Helping firms get away with systemic violations of Title VII, decertifying FLSA collective actions to help firms get away with committing relatively small amounts of wage theft against lots and lots of employees, and best of all helping to draft and enforce mandatory individual action only arbitration…