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    Francey Hakes to Newsmax: Abrego Garcia Received "Due Process"

    That then presents a conundrum for those justices who claim to be textualists and rely only the language of the statute or constitution rather than pulling in other sources to justify what those words mean today. IMO the language is very clear and not at all ambiguous: "All persons born or...
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    Francey Hakes to Newsmax: Abrego Garcia Received "Due Process"

    As many dictators have demonstrated dehumanizing a group of people is the first step to mistreating and abusing them, and in some regimes, killing them. There are good people, bad people, smart people, dumb people, etc but they all have one thing in common: they are all people.
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    Francey Hakes to Newsmax: Abrego Garcia Received "Due Process"

    Because the Constitution protects everyone in the U.S. There is no provision in the Constitution that states the rights we have are conditioned on being citizens. Once we start excluding groups from the rights we have under the Constitution it'll make it easier to the next group, and then the...
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    Francey Hakes to Newsmax: Abrego Garcia Received "Due Process"

    It's hard for me to extend much sympathy to a member of MS-13. MS-13 is very violent criminal organization that unfortunately terrorized and torn down systems in El Salvador that the citizens there really need. El Salvador could be thriving more with these leeches sucking up so much of the money...
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    SSA Changes Communications Platform to Muskrat's Notorious "X" Thingy

    Trump's favoritism of his rich friends really shows through with this.
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    required to lift 80# concrete, despite job description

    There is a difference between an unsafe working condition and a job duty that you are just physically unable to do. However, there are more things involved in determining whether the statutes OSHA enforces would apply to a situation in which an employee is called upon to do heavy lifting. The...
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    Trump Admin Files Lawsuit in Waco Federal Court Seeking to End Union Created CBAs & Adding New HR/Payroll Policies for Federal Employees

    I can't see Trump or any congressional Republican thinking that tanking the economy would somehow be good for reelection chances. What would be the logic in that? IMO they are thinking the economic pain we are having now will be just temporary and by 2026 the economy will bounce back even...
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    Trump Admin Files Lawsuit in Waco Federal Court Seeking to End Union Created CBAs & Adding New HR/Payroll Policies for Federal Employees

    I'm not surprised that Trump would take this approach and I don't have any objections to it. Testing it in federal court should give the administration, unions, and union members clarity on what federal agencies may do with respect to the role of unions in the federal government. When I worked...
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    Tesla Owners Forced to Rebrand Politically Toxic Vehicles

    Musk tends to steal the spotlight from Trump when they appear together. Trump wouldn't let anyone else upstage him if he could help it. Musk may be a briiliant business person but from watching his DOGE activity it's clear he doesn't understand government very well. I think Trump would do...
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    23andMe bankruptcy = How to delete your data and stay safe from the 2023 breach!

    Thank God I never sent any samples to that company or any of the others that are in the same business. Curiousity killed the cat, as the expression goes, and I'm not that curious about what these results would reveal to give up unique medical information.
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    Tesla Owners Forced to Rebrand Politically Toxic Vehicles

    I agree, at least among those who are familiar with the look of Tesla cars. IMO Musk is more of a liaibility than an asset for Trump. A lot of the bad press that administration gets seems to originate from something Musk has said and done. He also upstages Trump whenever they appear together...
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    Creating a trust to protect inheritance

    If your mother is still mentally competent then she can create a living trust for you or have the trust for you created out of her will (known as testamentary will). Your inheritance is not community property unless you do something that converts it to community property. You can also create a...
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    US-born citizens returning from overseas travels

    There is no connection between the two and therefore strikes me as a poltical statement rather than a logical one.
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    US-born citizens returning from overseas travels

    When you trave abroad, your U.S. passport is your best friend as it is easiest and fastest way for a citizen get through the immgration a customs lines at the airport. The federal governmant may not deny entry to a U.S. citizen. However if there is an outstanding arrest warrant for you are...
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    Trump to cut taxes on Social Security

    It doesn't quite work that way, though your general premise is on point. Government agencies borrow from SSA to finance some of their activities. They agencies borrowing the money do pay interest when the bill come due. In 1937 that was a sound idea considering the country was still in the great...
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