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- Lombardo to appoint replacement for Judge Bridget Robb. [MyNews4]
- The Nevada “fake electors” case resumes. [RJ; TNI; 8NewsNow]
- Alleged sexual assault by Las Vegas eighth graders: what police in Costa Rica say. [8NewsNow]
Does anyone have the time and crayons to explain the law to Michelle Fiore today? I give up.
No but if you have $70k maybe you can get her to pay attention
No one said she was expensive or had taste.
Only if it’s money intended for a worthy cause that she can somehow spend on weddings and crappy surgeries.
Speaking of the wedding, someone told me that her daughter Savannah is being sued for HoneyPotting some dude. I could not find the case but was really interested to see if her family was and is still up to the same tricks.
Sometimes apples fall straight down
https://www.newyorkupstate.com/news/2026/02/new-york-judge-agrees-to-retire-after-being-charged-with-dozens-of-undisclosed-conflicts.html
She “will retire effective April 28, 2026.” What the hell is this? Why is she “retiring” three months from now and not effective immediately? How absurd.
Pension?
Most likely has to take accrued vacation before retirement. So will be on vacation until April 28th and then will retire.
Couldn’t they cash her out? When I left state employment they just paid me my unused vacation. But I wasn’t a judge.
I think it is a longevity issue. If she cashes out, she is no longer employed. Taking vacation until 4/28 moves her termination date to 4/28.
This is 11:50. That makes sense to me. Unless there is a special rule for judges, I don’t know why she’d *have to* stay in service until exhausting her vacation. But I can imagine that for whatever reason it’s financially best to push back her term date.
Maybe it triggers another year of vesting. We will not know.
https://pvtimes.com/news/former-nye-county-republican-chairman-arrested-on-child-pornography-weapons-charges-175577/
Manufacturing and distributing CSAM is what the MAGA set should refer to as “praxis” (if they knew what that word meant).
New chief judge is being selected in March.
re the fake electors case, the proposition that the defendants were “exercising their First Amendment rights to preserve their future First Amendment rights to petition the government and challenge the results of that election” feels like a Mr. Fantastic-level stretch.
I still don’t understand, and probably never will, the fake electors case. I mean, the way I understand it, their actions were nothing more than symbolic. The equivalent, to me, would be me taking a “marriage license” drawn in crayon that says I’m married to (insert celeb of choice) and then being prosecuted. It’s just absurd to me that this is even a thing.
It’s because it was one part of a larger scheme. Fortunately, we have actual legal memos outlining the scheme (e.g., https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/chesebro-dec-6-memo/ce55d6abd79c2c71/full.pdf)
Have the fake electors meet and sign their ballots.
Transmit those fake ballots to congress.
Have Pence assert that he, as president of the Senate, is the only one empowered to count the votes.
Pence counts the fake electors ballots, not the legitimate ballots.
Trump wins.
And they knew it was wrong, because when the fake electors in PA raised concerns about knowingly signing false documents, language was added (only to the PA ballots) that the ballots would only count if Trump actually won in court to overturn the election results.
In your scenario, it would be more like you making a valid-looking marriage license to a celeb, with the date of their actual marriage on it, and then taking it to their bank and trying to get access to their bank accounts.
My understanding is that they didn’t even need Pence to declare Trump the winner. He could’ve just said “there are two sets of EVs from these states and either one could be correct so let’s just not count the votes from these states to be safe.” The result would be the House electing the president, which, under the Constitution’s very strange procedure, would’ve almost certainly resulted in Trump winning.
Replying to my own post to say that I bring this up because if things had gotten farther, I think this was the more likely than Pence just throwing the election to Trump. It lets Pence look like he’s splitting the baby, the “we’re just not really sure who’s right” narrative is tailor made for getting the media to both-sides the issue, it gets credibility from going through another democratically elected branch, etc.
But the absurdity of it is what still gets me. That would never happen. And they knew it would never happen. And I really don’t see they even wanted it to happen.
That memo is laughable, adding to the view that the prosecution of the fake electors is dumb. Might as well charge pro se defendants who relinquish their citizenship under the UCC to argue the court has no jurisdiction over them with illegal immigration.
If I succeed I was serious, if I fail I was just joking.
You want to draw up your own Looney Tunes bucks to be artistic, have at it. You go to the IRS and try to pass off your Looney Tunes bucks as authentic currency, you are going to jail. This was fraudulent action, not merely symbolic action.
Um, no, 2:49. No one would go to jail for that. But that reminds me, let me take my oversized Publisher’s Clearinghouse check to the bank to cash today.
The fake electors sent fake, signed certificates indicating that Trump won Nevada to the National Archives. In no uncertain terms, this is fraud.
The plan was to give the Senate and VP an alternative slate of electors to give them the option of throwing the election to Trump. Alternatively, attempt to create a fake dispute to send the election to the courts or House of Representative.
Their actions only became “symbolic” once they failed.
Yes, it’s that absurd, but they were really trying to take the crayon certificate and claim it was for reals. It makes as much sense as everything else Trump does and he gets away with most of it. That’s the upside down land twilight zone we are in.
It’s more like if they broke into the celebrity’s house and crawled into bed with them and said there’s nothing wrong with what I did because we’re married. Just stop with the belatedly-thought up “merely symbolic” story that’s being peddled.
DOJ Attorney says what many lawyers think every day.
https://www.fox9.com/news/federal-attorney-ice-cases-the-system-sucks
She joined up in 2025. She knew exactly what she was supporting. She gets no sympathy from me.
Has anyone noted that vice presidents Nixon, Mondale, Gore and a few others ran for president, lost and still did not refuse to certify the votes? They knew the vice-president has no control over the electoral college. Trump is the biggest crook ever to live in the White House