What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Admiral Yi]

What happens if the judge tells Keith Richards to fuck off?

[grumbler]

What happens if the judge tells Keith Richards to fuck off?

That's where impeachment comes into play.  Federal judges (even if they are on the USSC) can be removed from office by the Senate if the House impeaches them.

[Tonitrus]

Do these codes of conduct have the force of law?

No

So really they are suggestions of conduct more than a code.

I am making an assumption that you were professionally licenced by a professional body who has the authority to remove your licence if you violate their professional requirements.  Lawyers are treated the same way, we can be disbarred if we violate our licencing body's code of conduct.

I wonder if the police forces would benefit from a similar system to the Bar Associations. 

[Valmy]

What happens if the judge tells Keith Richards to fuck off?

That's where impeachment comes into play.  Federal judges (even if they are on the USSC) can be removed from office by the Senate if the House impeaches them.

Yeah but that is very unlikely to happen in the case of the USSC, at least under current political conditions. Especially for something as mundane as committing crimes and taking bribes.

[The Minsky Moment]

What happens if the judge tells Keith Richards to fuck off?

Frowny faces and raised eyebrows in the robing rooms.

As far as I can tell, the Code Committee of the Judicial Conference limits itself to giving confidential advisory responses to inquiries.

[crazy canuck]

Do these codes of conduct have the force of law?

No

So really they are suggestions of conduct more than a code.

I am making an assumption that you were professionally licenced by a professional body who has the authority to remove your licence if you violate their professional requirements.  Lawyers are treated the same way, we can be disbarred if we violate our licencing body's code of conduct.

I wonder if the police forces would benefit from a similar system to the Bar Associations. 

Well, that would be a way of removing police unions

[Razgovory]

Trump floats UFC-style migrant league amid border crisis

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/22/trump-ufc-migrant-league-00164570

Former President Donald Trump suggested in two speeches Saturday that migrants coming to the U.S. should have their own fighting league, remarking that they're "nasty, mean" and "tough people" who could beat the country's top fighters.

Speaking first to a crowd of conservative Christians at a Faith & Freedom Coalition gathering in Washington, D.C., Trump said he shared the idea with Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

"I said, 'Dana I have an idea. Why don't you set up a migrant league of fighters and have your regular league fighters," Trump said, "and then you have the champion of your league — these are the greatest fighters in the world — fight the champion of the migrants.'" The suggestion drew laughter and applause from the crowd, a response that continued as he spoke more about the concept.


"I think the migrant guy might win," Trump said, adding that White "didn't like that idea too much."

"But actually, it's not the worst idea I've ever had," he continued.

Trump later repeated the idea during a rally Saturday evening in Philadelphia.

UFC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump's rhetoric on Saturday was the latest in a longstanding series of remarks demonizing immigrants entering the country illegally, including previously calling them "vermin" and proclaiming they are "poisoning the blood" of America. But his comments come as voters overwhelmingly support securing the southern border, prompting President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats to propose tighter security measures at the border.

"Remember this, these migrants are tough. They're tough. They come from prisons and many other places, rough places," Trump said. "They're just getting used to a country. They're just settling in."

During his Faith & Freedom Coalition speech, he reiterated his plans to, if reelected, "begin the largest deportation operation in American history." Earlier this week, Trump shared on a podcast his plan to provide green cards to any student who graduates from a U.S. college.

After Trump's address, his supporters in the crowd largely brushed off his suggestion.

"He likes to tell jokes," said Kevin McPherson. "This is expressing how some of these illegal immigrants coming [into] this country are hardened criminals. And he's trying to show that yes, there are criminals here."

Another conference attendee, Bobbi Newman, said she didn't hear Trump make the remark but would support the idea if Trump believed in it.

It's true, it's not his worst idea.

[Josquius]

So... Heil Trump?
Between that and France is the world fucked?

[Maladict]

So... Heil Trump?
Between that and France is the world fucked?

Dust off your Spitfires, once more the UK shall stand alone against the forces of darkness.

[Tamas]

So has this border crisis actually started or it still only exists on Fox News?

[Valmy]

So has this border crisis actually started or it still only exists on Fox News?

The border crisis started in 1845. As for how long Fox News has decided it is one...not sure. Decades. Rick Perry was declaring how he was going to fix the border in like 2001 or something. Maybe this recent hysteria started with 9/11?

Though I also remember conservative talk radio demanding martial law take over the border in the 1990s so maybe it even predates Fox News. I even have distant memories of it being a topic of discussion when Reagan was President so...who knows?

Anyway it is only a crisis if you consider the normal state of the border to be a crisis.

[Sophie Scholl]

The fear of immigrants and "border issues" have been around since the colonial era. They've taken different forms and had different targets, but they've always been there.

[Admiral Yi]

Biden's executive order on immigration is that once asylum applications reach 2,500 a day, we will lower the number of applications accepted to 1,500 a day.  Those numbers are not business as usual for asylum applications.

[Valmy]

Biden's executive order on immigration is that once asylum applications reach 2,500 a day, we will lower the number of applications accepted to 1,500 a day.  Those numbers are not business as usual for asylum applications.

Situation normal: all fucked up.

Now granted people who lived around the border in the pre-1980s do talk about how it used to be much nicer before all the drug gangs and everything. But even then everybody was hand wringing about all the people slipping in.

[Admiral Yi]

Situation normal: all fucked up.

Now granted people who lived around the border in the pre-1980s do talk about how it used to be much nicer before all the drug gangs and everything. But even then everybody was hand wringing about all the people slipping in.

We have a different definition of normal.  I can't remember a time in my life when several thousand people per day filed asylum applications.