Right. For example the Ontario Securities Act gives the securities commission the power to issue administrative fines up to $1 million, and it gives investors certain rights to sue securities issuers for certain violations, such as a misrepresentation in a prospectus.
I just wanted to say that these takes are partially a weird sort of allegiance to my dad and a lack of the deep understanding that you guys have.
He never really had the chance for anything but trade school. He was pretty much forced into military service by poverty. He never had a mom or a dad. He still managed to raise a family, start a baseball park where nobody ever got cut, was a union leader for 20+ years, and help out my Mom’s side of the family who grew up poor in Augusta.
He drilled it into my head to get a college degree. I’m a college dropout.
He’s deteriorating on the back end of recovering from pancreatic cancer. Sometimes I stop by my parents house just to give my dad a hug and having to hear Tucker Carlson…I don’t know what to do with that.
My dad always helped people so I just need to figure out a way to do that.
I know everyone here is dealing with way more shit than I am.
I’m sorry everyone. This post is all over the fucking place.
goots
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Aww the issue of LGBT parents on birth certificates. What’s old is new again. It really is like the federalist society just stuck a pencil in the tape of American society and is cranking it back slowly. Who’s ready to hear about civil unions and how they’re really just as good as marriages, but they’re for the gays (but also they’re not as good)?
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The real highlight will be gay plague panics again.
My sisters-in-law in Ohio adopted from the foster care system. I believe they could only have one name on the original adoption but then added the second name after Obergfell and getting married.
Finality is not something the American criminal-justice system has much trouble with. Fans of Law & Order might have the impression that wily defendants and their corrupt lawyers are constantly getting away with crimes, but in practice, trials are extremely rare; upwards of 90 percent of state and federal prosecutions are settled by plea bargain, a process that did not exist at the time of the founding. Originalists know that but tend to accept plea bargains because trials in every case would render the system nonfunctional, and unlike environmental regulations or voting-rights laws, the conveyor belt of mass incarceration is one aspect of government they don’t want to toss a wrench into.
Does anyone know what would have happened if RBG died in the lame duck period? I assume they would have still been able to push ACB through?
Mitch would’ve found a way to push ACB through if RBG died on New Year’s Day.
I kinda wonder what the absolute latest they could have gotten it done actually would be. January 10th? 15th?
It would have to have been before January 3, when they swore in the new Senate.
So maybe not New Year’s Day, but probably Christmas.
Democrats didn’t have majority until January 20, when the two GA winners were sworn in and Harris took over as tiebreaker.
Could the GOP have confirmed someone with only 50 votes, though?
Yeah, Pence was still VP til 1/20 or whenever.
True, but he could only cast a tie breaking vote and it wouldn’t have been a tie at 50-48.
You only need a majority of senators present, not a majority of 100.
post jan 6 they couldn’t
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The symmetry between Ginni and Clarence Thomas’ work has never been more obvious. While Clarence fought to give state legislatures the constitutional authority to reject election results, Ginni lobbied state legislators to do exactly that. A casual observer might assume they were working in tandem, with Clarence handling the law and Ginni working on the political side. They aren’t particularly subtle about it. You need only read Ginni’s emails and Clarence’s opinions to see exactly how the 2024 coup attempt will go down because it’s identical to the 2020 coup attempt: If a Democrat prevails, red state officials will question the legitimacy of the results, giving state legislatures an opportunity to throw them out and declare the Republican to be the real winner. This has nothing to do with liberals squelching Ginni Thomas’ feminist drive to have a separate and distinct political life apart from that of her spouse. More power to her. This has everything to do with two public actors working together to ensure that red state legislatures decide future elections in lieu of the voters.
The question remaining isn’t whether it’ll happen; the question is whether it’ll succeed. The Thomases tried this approach in 2020, but like Trump’s other allies, they developed their strategy a bit too late and didn’t buff out the crackpot edges until recently. But this time they’re putting in the work with plenty of time to spare. If Republicans succeed in pulling off a much more respectable coup in 2024, Americans will have every right to be furious and appalled. But no one will have any excuse to be surprised, because Clarence, Ginni, Eastman, Clark, and their many powerful friends are currently laying out the game plan right before our eyes.