They didn’t get control of the state senate, but they did win lieutenant governor, who is the President of the senate and has a lot of power to set the floor agenda.

It’s show your hoohaw to a doctor or submit a DNA test result.

The Washington state “genital exam” measure for girls sports passed.

They also voted down the gerrymandered map that the supreme court had to shut down three times.

The only way to counteract it now is to take it to the Supremes (which isn’t likely)

Technically, there is an alternative option to request “super” en banc with all 29 judges. But the 9th circuit has never once granted super en banc in the entire history of super en banc.

This case got really unlucky with the 11 judge panel lottery: 5 Trump appointees out of 11 plus one judge from the original 3-judge panel.

I’m hearing about a whole bunch of feds being deployed to polling sites as “observers.”. I haven’t heard of them doing anything other than “observing,” yet.

I recommend voting, even if you get observed in the process.

Edit: the threats and intimidation against the CA election workers are currently prohibited by court order. A court in DC has ordered that the “observers” may do no more than just that.

2nd edit: if you see irregularities at the polls, call the ACLU Election Protection Hotline.

English: 1-866-OUR-VOTE / 1-866-687-8683 Spanish: 1-888-VE-Y-VOTA / 1-888-839-8682 Arabic: 1-844-YALLA-US / 1-844-925-5287 Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, Mandarin, Tagalog or Vietnamese: 1-888-274-8683

Specifically, standing that the plaintiff here, an immigrant rights group, has to be suffering or has to be about to suffer, some kind of real, articulatable harm.

So the group’s argument is probably, “the group of people we represent are being harmed by these bullshit allegations.”. And the DOJ’s argument is probably like, “the group is not the people they represent. If people on the list are harmed, then they need to file their own lawsuits.”

It’s dumb. DOJ has been doing these dumbass, legalistic arguments for the last 22 months.

So far at least the distinction has been whether it’s a state disrupting its own election or a federal court.

Federal court coming in and disrupting a state’s election: not okay. State screwing up its own election: It’s not our place to tell them what to do.

We had damn well better not.

Aside from the lack of merit, and the intrusion on state sovereignty contrary to the 10th amendment, this supreme court spent much of the last 4 or 5 years haranguing lower courts for intervening to block illegal district maps too close to the election. It’s called the Purcell Principle: it’s better to allow some illegal aspect of an election to occur than to disrupt the democratic process. The cutoff deadline the supreme court used in these map cases was months or even years in advance of the election. They can’t turnaround and say now it’s okay to intervene and disrupt when the election is less than 24 hours away.

Let’s say that the rate of some cancer in the population is 1 in 400,000, and there’s a cheap and non-invasive screening test for this cancer that is pretty accurate. The screening test has a false positive rate of just 0.1%.

If you screen 10,000,000 regular people with the test, it might find around 25 who really have the cancer. But it will also flag 10,000 healthy people for additional testing that is more invasive, carries its own unwarranted medical risks, and imposes unnecessary costs. No medical board is going to recommend applying this screening test to the general population.

Anyhow, the original post was about voting.

Under the Administrative Procedure Act, you, a citizen, can’t challenge an illegal agency action until it’s a final agency action.

This came up in the recent supreme court case about the post office ballot crap. It went up first based just on the Trump executive order, and the Supremes said it’s too soon. A Trump order is not a final agency action. So then they had to wait for the post office to publish the “final rules”, and then it went back up again, and then Supremes said, “okay, this time it is final, and also plainly illegal. lol.”

So the game they’re playing now in this arch case, is they’re going to claim that there is no final agency action right up until the final plans are published, about half an hour before the construction crews move in, and right around 5:00 pm on a holiday weekend.

The arch case judge is really not buying into that plan.

If there is any class or category of people who have no rights, then no one has any rights.

Because the government can just disappear full citizens into the no-rights category, and there is no right to challenge the designation.

Impeach Trump for the high crimes and misdemeanors of raping children. Make him defend that shit in a public trial. Make John Roberts watch that. Make the senators vote to acquit on that shit.

Ain’t no statute of limitations on impeachment.

And I reckon if there’s a dem majority they can vote to hear witnesses on the floor of the senate.

In the United States, if you’re going to call a man a pedo, you really need to make sure your shit is buttoned up tight. Because if it’s not, you’re going to have a tough time defending the libel lawsuit.

Now, if you’re a homeless person on the street, or an anonymous Internet poster with “dozens” of views, you probably won’t get sued. Because the chances are you don’t have enough money to make a lawsuit worthwhile.

For a company that has money that could be collected in such a lawsuit, it’s a lot easier and cheaper to just not say that.

Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)

Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.