Nah, just kidding. I like to stir the pot once in a great while…

This is the LOL money quote: “If Miranda had committed a crime, then he would have been indicted and convicted.” ”

Word. ROFLMAO

Yeah, everyone who commits a crime is indicted for it and everyone who is indicted for a crime committed it.

[falling sideways out of chair laughing]

Ok, I’m saying this again:

how many judges do y’all know? There is not a human being on this earth who can so much as sign their name without it being informed by who they are and the sum of their experience.

That’s all she said.

I did appeals when I practiced law. I also wrote opinions for the state Court of Appeals in Dallas as a staff attorney. You can always tell which judge wrote which opinion, just like you can tell which lawyer wrote which brief. Thinking is thinking and you can only use what you have in your head to do it. Writing is writing.

Now – this country has courts overflowing with White Male Christian judgers – for 300 years y’all ran every damn thing. You bet there is a different way of seeing things – a Hispanic woman has a different experience than the average over-privileged white male.

Deal with it.

Our country is not predominantly White Male Christian any more and our courts should reflect different experiences and most especially, the SCOTUS.

All you outraged jackasses don’t know the first thing about being a judge, or the 2d, or the 3d, and so on and so on.

From 1990 until 1992, Estrada served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York. In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General for the Clinton Administration. In those capacities, Estrada represented the government in numerous jury trials and in many appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

There are laws against “unauthorized access to computer systems”. Poor security is NOT an excuse for entering a computer system without authorization. It’s a crime.. black and white. It’s an extremely serious crime that would have warranted prison time had it been anyone else [outside the beltway].

As for Miguel Estrada, the reason he was opposed was because he was appointed to a federal court of appeals position with exactly ZERO judicial experience. He had a very impressive educational background and had clerked for at least two judges but Bush attempted to appoint someone with no time Behind the bench to a very power position. 4 of our current SCOTUS were on that bench.

It’s only reason we don’t have significantly more computer criminals in prison is because it’s generally difficult to prove an intrusion. Most systems don’t even notice an intrusion unless it’s disruptive.

It’s amazing how little the political class has to fear from the law.

As I recall, this guys defenders claimed the Dems had unsecured shares on the network so.. it like wasn’t his fault he stole the documents. That makes zero difference in the eyes of the law.. any more than an open garage door as an excuse for stealing someone’s lawn mower.

Oh, wait. That was Orrin Hatch who said that. Never mind.

The Democrats’ strategy memos were no different from a trade secret: You are responsible for securing your confidential trade secrets. If a competitor manages to get hold of them via dumpster diving or any other legal method (as opposed to illegal methods such as breach of NDA), well it’s your own damn fault.