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Christ on a damn cracker, for all the legitimate criticisms that can be leveled at HRC, a failure to have a platform isn’t one of them. For god’s sake, the woman is a policy wonk to the Nth degree. Her campaign site had lord only knows how many white papers detailing her policies.

The AG has that authority up to a point, but there are things outside of his control, and this sort of contempt citation would be one of them. Congress has the legal authority to hold someone in contempt. That contempt citation can be appealed for a federal court, which is what happened in the Holder case. Holder got

“Don’t move, they can’t see you if you don’t move.” So basically they’re a cross between the Jurassic Park version of a raptor and the Jurassic Park version of the T-Rex?

You make it sound as though the process is nothing more than an accuser making a statement and it’s automatically taken at face value. That’s not the case. No, the accused isn’t allowed to confront the accuser directly - and the accuser also isn’t allowed to confront the accuser directly. But the accused can provide a

It depends on how the law itself is written in a particular state. If they mandate a specific speech, then there’s a limit to what sort of additional commentary they could add.

The problem is that in order to place a measure directly on the calendar, a majority of the Senate has to pass a motion to place the measure directly on the calendar. Republicans haven’t exactly fallen all over themselves to go against the turtle man. 

After this round of “shall doesn’t mean must, it means maybe maybe not,” there’s something I would definitely love to see. I’d love to see someone start dumping all that redacted info from the Mueller report as well as all of the tapes and records taken from Cohen’s office on the public. Wikileaks his ass. And when he

But it also establishes a precedent that someone being investigated can demand that whatever agency or group is investigating them comply with conditions that aren’t actually listed anywhere in the law.

“My guess is that they’ll argue some form of severance between being President for all State matters and being a private person for all personal financial matters, thus Congressional overreach. ??”

Candidates haven’t traditionally released their financial records, but that’s not going to give the Trump camp a valid case. Allegations have been made that he’s giving one set of numbers to the tax collector and a different set of numbers to the bankers. If he is, then he’s defrauding at least one of them (and

That is a Fashion Statement. 

Just for the record, if you’re ever in need of a lawyer, I’d avoid Gerry197. His grasp of the law is a little fuzzy. 

There’s a few other circumstances where it can be. A mechanic’s lien comes to mind. It’s rare for a DA to charge it as auto theft, but that’s usually a matter of prosecutorial discretion, not a matter of law. 

Except you’re actually wrong on the law. Intent is very much an element of the crime of theft. It’s an element of most crimes. That’s why accidentally knocking over a tiki torch and setting the deck on fire at your neighbor’s party isn’t arson but setting your neighbor’s deck on fire throwing a molotov cocktail at it w

That’s not how umbrella coverage works. Umbrella coverage literally provides nothing more than higher limits for whatever liability is covered by the base policies.

Charged for service hours? Yeah, that’s not actually a thing. While I’m sure there are a few exceptions, almost service techs in pretty much all industries now charge a flat fee for service. It eliminates complaints from customers that someone milked a job to run up the bill. 

Does your car have a system that verifies your buttcheek imprint or something and then flashes a signal to let the police know that it is, indeed, the owner of the car behind the wheel? No? Then you can probably safely assume that if you are driving a car that’s been reported stolen, you’re going to be treated like

Except that’s really not how it works. If it’s stolen from the dealership, the dealer reports it stolen; the police will contact the owner to make sure that they don’t actually have the car and it’s just a mix-up at the dealer, but no, the owner isn’t going to need to sign an affidavit (or anything else).

While it’s probably a bad idea to acknowledge this level of familiarity, please allow me to point out that you and your ferret-wrangling friend were probably doing Whip-its, not whippets. The first are small nitrous cartridges used in kitchens to make whipped cream (and in balloons to make stoners laugh hysterically),

I love dogs but wouldn’t enjoy the 5am wake up calls to go walkies in a thunderstorm.