Banks that serve as custodians for funds get sued ALL THE DAMN TIME if they fail to implement anti-money laundering “know your customer rules.” They aren’t being sued because their customers are violent criminals or rapists. They are being sued because they are the custodian of a financial fraudster.

So, for instance, Madoff’s banks WERE sued:

https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/madoff-case-puts-focus-on-duties-of-custodial-banks/

Cosby and Weinstein are rapists. They weren’t laundering money. So their banks weren’t sued.

So there was a film of his cell? (Camera was reported broken)

And the guards were awake and watching him? (They testified they were asleep)

And Bill Barr never visited the prison? (He did).

“Minutes after a new state law took effect”

I’m glad she didn’t waste any time. I love that Trump might finally be held accountable for some of his crimes.

I’m sorry - I didn’t know I had to add the nickel for the spices that we all have in our cupboard. But feel free to add that if you’d like.

And as for “no-additions” box stuffing?

You’re goddamn right. Get off your high horse and try some. The water is fine in that end of the pool.

It’s not that I don’t like fancy stuffing or can’t afford it…it’s just that I also am fine with the cheap stuff. Same goes for my taste in wine and beer. Two buck chuck and PBR have their place as well.

> The Boston metro area, which includes Cambridge and Newton, tops the charts at $170 for Thanksgiving dinner. The meal includes a 10-pound turkey, several sides that include mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, peas and corn, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. Drinks include orange juice, cola, and coffee…

What? Who the hell wants to eat peas and orange juice on Thanksgiving? Have I been doing it wrong all these years?

I live in one of the most expensive Boston burbs.

Here’s our dinner for 10:

• Got a 20lb Turkey at Wegmans for 0.49 a lb. ($10)

• three cans of cranberry sauce. ($6)

• bag of potatoes ($4)

• two boxes of stuffing ($5)

• gravy made from whatever the hell drops off the bird with some flour (basically free)

• Turkey bag and disposable pan ($5)

• my wife’s parents got a pie from a farm stand ($17).

$47 for 10 people. Done. (And most of that is spent on a bougie rhubarb blackberry pie.)

The old standard T-day dinner is still super affordable in my book.

If you want your a meal fancier than that, if you want a few bottles of $20+ wine, if you want all sorts of bullshit sides…that’s cool. But don’t blame it on Thanksgiving meals being “expensive”.

I don’t know if they actually want it blocked. They just want to toss a baseless complaint at a court for the theatrics of it.

They just want to be able to create plausible controversy so they can claim the election was “stolen”

My guess is to get ready for talking points to emerge (after Warnock wins) that Warnock “only won” the election because “activist courts” and “crooked Democrats” paid and bussed “illegal voters” on a Saturday to these “fake” polling sites to cast “fraudulent” votes.

This is either 100% made up or 100% real.

The Lyndon Johnson hate being dropped on absolute strangers while looking at pudding makes me think it is real.

This is not looking good in terms of having any idea who did this.

> Police do not believe the two surviving roommates were involved. They were home at the time of the attack.

> The Idaho State Police are analyzing DNA samples, such as bedding and nail clippings, from the scene. The coroner says it’s possible some of the DNA could be from the killer.

And I get it - cops hold back info to “catch” an unsuspecting killer who might not have their guard up:

> “What we hope they are doing is they have information that they’re withholding because they don’t want the person, whoever they eventually find, to know what they’ve been talking to the press. So they can use that as part of the investigation process,” said Wolf.

But my guess is the cops still don’t have any good leads or idea what happened:

> There are currently no suspects in custody. The murder weapon has not been found.

> Investigators are asking anyone who saw suspicious behavior, or has video footage or information about the attack to call their tip line at 208-883-7180 or email tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.

I hope they find the killer. This is beyond horrific what happened to those students. Maybe they can try the cell phone triangulation data that cops used to catch the Craigslist killer in Boston about ten years ago (and that the FBI has been using to figure out who was inside the Capitol on Jan 6).

I don’t know why folks are downvoting you.

I assume you aren’t saying that’s what he “ought” to get, but it’s just your guess as to what he “will” get. And it’s not off-base.

And if folks think it is…may I remind them of this part of the article:

> He was already on parole for attempted carjacking and evading police.

HE ALREADY FUCKING DID THIS ONCE AND WE DID NOTHING.

As a society, we don’t take red flag/violent crimes like carjacking, felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm, serial DUI, or domestic violence seriously UNTIL someone is killed.

Until then…it’s plea agreements to stuff like reckless conduct and assault convictions, followed by probation or some amount of time in state-level prisons/houses of correction that gets reduced to laughably small sentences before the eventual “early” release.

On the one hand, we definitely over-police and over-incarcerate meaningless bullshit like drug possession, and I’m all for ending cash bail and massive prison/sentencing reforms.

But on the other…when someone shows you who they are…we need to listen and lock them up.

Sure, get them mental health help in prison. Reform prison so it’s not the shitty hell hole it is. But, for Christ sakes, get this guy off the streets so he doesn’t carjack and do this again.

Yes…yes you can.

As a private college, Yale can most certainly place a particular set of moral, philosophical, or religious teachings above a commitment to free expression. It has EVERY right to do so.

The freedom to associate voluntarily with others around “common goals or beliefs” is an integral part of a pluralistic and free society.

AND ITS WHAT CONSERVATIVE JUDGES AND THE FED SOC USE TO JUSTIFY EXCLUDING GAYS FROM PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE BOY SCOUTS AND FROM RELIGIOUS COLLEGES.

So, students who want to be a part of the shitty federalist society can fuck right off with their complaints about “free speech” if they get banned from private elite colleges.

Yale ain’t the government. It don’t need to accommodate.

Why is that?

Well…back in 2000, Rehnquist, joined by O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas, authored a 5-4 decision in Boy Scouts of America et al. v. Dale.

And that case held that the constitutional right to freedom of association allowed the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to exclude a homosexual person from membership IN SPITE of a state law requiring equal treatment of homosexuals in public accommodations.

More generally, the court ruled that a private organization such as the BSA may exclude a person from membership when "the presence of that person affects in a significant way the group's ability to advocate public or private viewpoints".

From watching the Kavanaugh, or Thomas SCOTUS hearings…I’d beg to differ with you on that. I prefer judges who don’t sexually assault women, who don’t leave pubic hairs on soda cans, and who don’t brag how big their cock and balls are to female subordinates. But that seems to follow one party around.

And the reason why is that a huge part of conservatism is basically saying “fuck you” to women’s rights. As well as showing little to no respecting regarding the boundaries of consent. (Grab em by the pussy!).

Not Yale’s fault? Hmmm….let’s walk down memory lane with the Fed Soc to 1982.

• the Fed Soc was founded in 1982 by students at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School.

But these weren’t regular students. They were wholesale propped up by the soon-to-be Yale Dean who was the uncle of one of them.

• The group's first activity was a three-day symposium titled "A Symposium on Federalism: Legal and Political Ramifications" held at Yale in April 1982.

• The symposium, which was attended by 200 people, was organized by Steven G. Calabresi, Lee Liberman Otis, and David M. McIntosh. (Speakers included Antonin Scalia, Robert Bork, and Theodore Olson.)

How does a random law student like Calabresi organize all that and get such prominent folks on campus??

Well, for the uninitiated, he wasn’t some random student. He is the nephew of Guido Calabresi, (who would become Dean of the Yale Law School shortly thereafter…those family connections help).

And Steven Calebresi would go on to clerk for Judge Bork and Justice Scalia on SCOTUS. (Isn’t it weird how he kinda waltzes in to such competitive clerkships…clerking for the same folks who he somehow convinced to come to Yale for the Fed Sox’s first event…)

From where I sit, the Fed Soc never gets off the ground if prominent folks at Yale and (Yale itself) didn’t wholesale embrace the bullshit theories that it stands for.

I’m sure you are of the mind that it was an innocent student group that just coincidentally had its genesis at Yale.

To each his own I suppose.

They can’t.

But they could stop hiring professors who don’t want to teach the law. Yale is where the Fed Soc started in 1982…and now Fed Soc members are destroying the judiciary.

And they are also shitty people. For instance, look at Amy Chua (tiger mom) and her husband Jed Rubenfeld.

They were grooming female clerks on how to dress and how to get clerkship jobs for Kavanaugh. (Including Chua’s own daughter). Rubenfeld was sexually harassing folks to the point he was suspended for two years.

Is Yale going to abandon pumping out Federalist society judges as well?

Because the Fed Soc does far more harm than to these low-income students who want public-interest careers than the US News ranking ever did.

Yeah…this paragraph in the article hints at that damning picture:

> Chris Magnus was told to resign or be fired less than a year after he was confirmed as the Biden administration’s choice to lead the agency, according to two people who were briefed on the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. He is refusing to step down.

Regardless of how anyone feels about immigration, we can’t afford to have recalcitrant and hubristic pricks running Customs and Border Patrol.

Law students write journal articles that become “decisive” for future SCOTUS cases?

Would love to see three of those if you can provide any.

Law students do edit a lot of shit that professors write for journals…but the student written notes aren’t really changing the world or advancing the profession in any meaningful way.

If it’s “unclear”…my money is on NO.

This is great news.

Yay Kansas. Seems like republicans went a little too far with the whole abortion thing. A few weeks ago, Kansas, voting “in dramatic numbers and by an overwhelming margin, rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to ban abortion in the state.”

OMG. If only I had a free award to give you…

If that is anything like stepping on a Lego…Let me just say that I don’t agree with what he did, but I can understand.

True story, when I was in second grade they had some “international food day”.

I was a typical rich suburban Massachusetts kid, which means I had no clue about anything other than my own life.

Anyways, a Jewish kid brought in the potato pancakes and applesauce. And it was the greatest thing I’ve ever tasted.

I have loved Jewish people ever since.

So for my entire life, I have never understood people who just are anti-Semitic or hate Jewish people. They clearly haven’t tried the food or dated the women. And I strongly suggest they do. 10/10 they will become fans.

They either really hate each other or really like each other.

What is it a second grade teacher? I think that’s the age where they antagonize people they like.

Elon probably has all of the SpaceX employees working on Twitter.

I mean, to be fair, the exact same folks who prosecuted Bill Clinton, became some of the most powerful and influential Republicans alive. So why would they not be raging hypocrites when it suits them?

Personally, I think Bill Clinton was a pretty big asshole. So while I am happy that his history of cheating on his wife and sexually assaulting folks or having sex with his interns is common knowledge…It’s just interesting how Republicans give zero shits about horrific abusers and abortion-causers like Herschel Walker, or overlook all of trumps rape allegations and chronic infidelity.

And the folks who prosecuted Clinton, give zero shits about infidelity, rape, or anything of that nature:

• Ken Starr: ousted by University Regents in disgrace as Baylor’s president for covering up dozens of rapes that the football team engaged in. He’s dead now. Good riddance.

• Brett Kavanaugh: a liar, drunk, and sexual abuser who was Ken Starr’s deputy in the Clinton investigations. (If Kavanaugh had had his way, he would have asked the president nearly a dozen X-rated questions, such as this one: “If Monica Lewinsky says that you inserted a cigar into her vagina while you were in the Oval Office area, would she be lying?”)