Zylon
3352
It’s literally a high crime, e.g. “a crime of infamous nature contrary to public morality but not technically constituting a felony”. *
How would that get rid of hanging chads and other issues with punch cards? The fundamental problem is that analog machines produce analog results, and voting is fundamental a digital or binary process, e.g. I vote for Candidate D. But translating that to a ballot, involves an analog process, e.g. have fill in bubble by candidate D name. Someone or some thing has to decide how much of the bubble needs to be fill into to count as a vote for candidate D.
It is an actual crime, a violation of campaign finance laws.
CraigM
3356
I have no love for Amash, but given the trend I have to imagine that Lower is an infinitely worse person. If Jr wants him, in pretty sure we don’t.
So Putin has now said Russia - US relations are getting worse by the hour. Is this how he signals Trump to do something he wants?
How do I get that “Response removed” text?
While I agree that Trump shouldn’t be told about this stuff because he’s an idiot and likely in the pocket of Putin, it does run along with the narrative of the deep state, unfortunately.
So this is a big deal: despite having 2 Trump-appointed justices added since the last time the Supreme Court looked at the issue, the Court is leaving in place the “separate sovereigns” doctrine - the rule that says both Feds and states can prosecute for the same underlying offence.
Why is this relevant? It means that a state government can still prosecute Manafort for tax evasion if Trump were to pardon him on the Federal charges.
(Oh, and also … states can still prosecute Trump when he’s out of office if Pence were to pardon him on Federal charges, or if Trump were to be impeached and the Senate didn’t convict.)
Back to the NYT story about cyberattacks on Russia - I’m all in favor of showing Trump to be the fool that he is whenever possible, but the idea that people are talking to reporters about what we are doing to the Russian power grid software bothers me.
Unless it’s on purpose, to get the Russians to chase their tail looking for it.
Or maybe this is an indirect way for some folks involved with agencies that Trump has taken a crap on to make him look like an unstable idiot.
vyshka
3368
@gruntled is right though that people breaking operational security for whatever reason probably isn’t a good idea, unless it is part of the operation itself.
I’m quite confident that Russia already knows we have cyber operations going on. I think/hope the details is what they are struggling with.
RichVR
3370
They would be foolish to think otherwise.
Timex
3372
The SCOTUS made the correct decision, in my opinion, in Gamble V. US.
Federal laws are different from State laws. Just because a single act violates multiple laws, that doesn’t mean you can only be held accountable for the violation of one of those laws.
And in this case, all of the justices except RBG and Gorsuch agreed.
