Whatever makes someone happy, brah. I’m not here to tell people how to live when it doesn’t hurt anyone else.

As long as he enjoyed himself, like that’s what a vacations about.

Like...I go on cruises yearly and on some cruises I’m active, out and about aboard the ship, while on other years, I’ve been hooked reading a Novel and would just sit on the deck with my ipad reading novels while sipping icy alcoholic beverages.

Old Kanye was the best. New Kanye, not so much

more stars! fuck the prosecutors good grief they probably felt “threatened”

Yep.

One other thing, this is the same judge that upon learning that Obergefell had made same sex marriage legal, announced he would refuse to perform any marriages. There's a history here of an inability to separate his personal beliefs from his job.

Yes, shorts and a pin are exactly the same. Thanks for playing.

But WHY do you think that there is a difference between an American flag pin and cross pendant and a Black Lives Matter pin? I wear a Black Lives Matter pin for a simple expression of emotion: I love black people. How is that different?

I am so fucking sick of explaining the concept over and over, to the point that an argument with an All Lives Matter advocate was a huge contributing factor in me disabling my Facebook account. What is so radical about saying, “hey, please stop killing black people.”? I’m so done with humanity rn.

You are wrong; it is very much a political statement.

this is what I was thinking throughout reading this piece. BLM is a political movement insofar as it has been forced to be. In reality, it’s simply a statement that should in no way be considered extreme: that cops shouldn’t be allowed to be judge, jury, and executioner, and that this dynamic disproportionately falls…

You are missing the point. That one would even consider black lives matter a political issue shows that the value of black lives is somehow (still*) up for debate.

As the legal counsel for the NAACP in this case, I can tell you the following: 1. Attorney Burton had worn the pin before in court, without incident.2. The button, in question, was the size of a nickel and mostly obstrued by her label. 3. The judge would never have noticed the pin, but for the complaint of one of the…

There’s a difference between a flag, a pin from your church or the Eagles and having a pin that’s on a political issue.

I look forward to the day when the concept of Black lives mattering is not a “political” stance.

But you are protected by the First Amendment in front of the bench if the court is exercising viewpoint discrimination. The court can prohibit political expressions altogether, but it cannot allow only political expressions in support of particular causes. Once a government actor allows some political expression, the…

Judges can be idiosyncratic assholes, but if this is how he wants to handle the situation, then he needs to amend his local court rules to make clear what he expects. There’s no way to know right now what is or isn’t okay in his mind, since apparently attorneys are allowed to indicate their membership in the Eagles (a…

You are absolutely right. Flag pins are political just the same as BLM pins. If the judge allows one but not the other, he is endorsing one viewpoint over another, and that is problematic under the First Amendment.

I agree that it’s not a slam-dunk for this attorney on appeal, but it’s not so clear that flag pins are exempt from scrutiny in the way that the First Circuit suggests military and religious accessories in the case you cite. (Indeed, expressly notes that “military and religious symbols, standing alone, do not…

A BLM pin shouldn’t be something that indicates any political stance, but unfortunately I have to agree that it is. As long as racism runs rampant in political and social institutions, and as long as it can be used as a basis for a political platform, then racism is a political issue*, and therefore so is anti-racism.