They tell you to only consider the law as written, but that doesn’t make nullification illegal or improper. They just don’t like it.

Their duty as civil servants is to uphold the law as written. Challenging laws as unjust is the duty of the citizenry.

It’s also worth noting that being in the country illegally is not actually a crime in the US. It’s a civil issue.

The criminal system seeks pnlunishment for a crime against society. The civil system seeks relief from famages, and can take many more forms.

If someone is convicted of a crime and pays a fine or serves their prison sentence, they’ve paid their debt to society and the matter is closed.

If you want to compel someone to do something or cease doing something, you need the civil system. For instance, if someone builds a fence over your property line, you need a civil ruling to force them to remove it.

The same thing goes for the government. Illegal immigration is a civil issue because it’s the only way for the ruling to compel the person to leave.

In a criminal case, a judge can only overturn a guilty verdict.

Cotizen juries absolutely exist for jury nullification. Otherwise it would be better to have professionals who are experts in the law making the rulings like judges do in most civil cases.

But a President cannot pardon impeachment cases.

I live in Texas. Jurors are paid $20/day with no reimbursement for expenses, and employers aren’t required to pay employees on jury duty (though mine does).

So yeah - people hate it.

Jury nullification is the real reasons juries exist. Pass all the corrupt laws and appoint all the corrupt justices you want. As long as we still have trial by jury we have a check on power from the citizens.

I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.

First was a laptop that wouldn’t start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.

Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I’d ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.

I think part of it has to do with the fact that the jobs don’t require you to speak English. I’ve also seen a decent share of deaf food delivery people for the same reason.

18 is probably correct number. Its the shortest even-numbered term that doesn’t allow a normal 2-term president to replace half the court. If you want to count the extreme case of a 10-year president due to a VeeP taking over then getting elected twice, it should be 20 years with terms starting on like January 10.

athe problem.is the GOP. Texas isn’t nearly as red as people think.

The GOP got total control of the Texas government for the first time ever in the 2002 election. They then spent 2003 dedicating themselves to changing laws and voting districts to make sure they never lost that control.

But do you put work into the fake?

I like to invent P-values and fabricate not only participants, but their consent waivers. I sprinkle around terms like Tasseled Cap, Eigenvector, ANOVA, MLR, Covariance Matrices, etc.

Some people make up stuff because they’re lazy. When my lies are complete, it would have been just as easy to do the actual work because I’m in it for the love of the game.

That’s actually a pretty standard public service pension schedule.

Mine had me vesting in 5 years, but the contributions at that point aren’t high enough to mean much. It just means that if if I didn’t make it 5 years the city wouldn’t contribute to my retirement ( I put in 7 and the coty double-matches, so I get 21%). When I hit 5 years, I retroactively got the 14% from the city for my previous 5 years added to my pension. If I had quit before the 5 years, I’d have been given my 7% back as a cash payment after 5 years away from public service.

But I can’t collect until I reach retirement age or have 20 years of service.

This is why I write it as 2+(2x4). The parentheses aren’t techniclly necessary, but they do make it clearer to people who haven’t been in a school for 35 years.

My home wifi is “Terok Nor”, and my mobile hotspot is “runabout”.

More specifically, they’re just directives to federal employees. It’s the equivalent of your boss telling you how to do your job.

Lots of jobs that need unions are jobs that people don’t want to be working in a few years, because they’re terrible jobs with minimal benefits and shit pay. Those people can’t see that the reason the job is so shitty is because there isn’t a union. There’s a good chance that they’d actually want to stay with the job once the union transforms the working conditions and compensation.

Lots of people would be satisfied with a career in a “lesser” job like retail if the job didn’t suck. There’s nothing wrong with being a cashier, cook, custodian, phone attendant, etc for your whole working life if that’s what you want to do, and we should compensate people in those jobs accordingly.

What we want is a solution for customers who don’t understand the benefit of DP and won’t buy an adapter when there’s already HDMI ports on both devices.

Today was $1 corndog day at Sonic!

Yeah, but those are shots that happened to hit. They could’ve missed by a ton just as easily. It does have a longer range than a typical precision rifle, but that’s just because it’s a really big projectile with a fuckton of powder behind it.

It’s a 1-2 MOA rifle, whereas a precision rifle might be 1/4 MOA.