That painting should be old enough to be in the public domain. (Although photographs thereof get their own copyright terms.)

That could be a tricky legal question. The current law is that changes in the line of succession must be approved by all 15 Commonwealth realms. But this law was itself a regular statute passed by the Westminster parliament.

The principle of parliamentary supremacy demands that no parliament may bind the will of a future parliament. That is, could Westminster just override the 1931 statute when they pass this special “cut out Andrew” bill? There might not be a whole lot that says they can’t.

This is the look of a man who has had a day. (He was released with no charge after questioning.)

I’d be on board with reactivating the Tower.

Damn revenuers!

And severance pay and notice of layoffs are de facto fairly common in corporate America.

Just to be clear, the astronaut was cleared of wrongdoing, meaning there was no real space crime. The false report charge is an earth crime.

This was the very first time that a space crime was investigated.

For reference, Oklahoma has quite a history with alcohol prohibition. The state retained full prohibition until 1959, some 20 years after the 21st amendment and repeal of the Volstead Act.

Liquor by the drink, aka bars, were not legalized until 1984. Before then you had to pay a membership fee to join a “private club” where you could then have a bartender pour you shots out of “your” personal bottle that was kept behind the bar.

Oklahoma had 3.2 beer until 2018 when it was repealed by state referendum.

Hey,

The Air Force has experience with balloons now.

Update: It now seems possible that the “cartel drones” may have actually been party balloons.

Rumor I heard is that the military is planning to start testing some counter drone system, and in discussions with FAA, they couldn’t promise that civilian flights would be safe, so FAA pulled out the big gun.

It sounds like this counter drone system would only be for use on drones that cross the river into us airspace, but I’m not sure of that.

For reference, the US has operated an Air Defense Identification Zone for a long time, that covers Mexican airspace near the border. The air force tries to identify, track, and sometimes intercept all air traffic in the ADIZ. Civilian air traffic is supposed to be on a filed flight plan, in communication with ATC, and have an assigned four digit transponder code. Failure to do so may result in interception by scrambled aircraft.

I would imagine that “cartel drones” in or around Juarez would not be doing the above. But there may also be too many of them to economically intercept with F15s.

Not even. ed is The Standard Editor.

this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class,

That’s, uh, not why DoD occasionally sends officers to Harvard and other elite universities. DoD does this because they want some of their officers to have high quality advanced degrees.

Update: the government fired the attorney the next day, so she can at least get some sleep.

(The judge declined to grant her request for contempt.)

She could say what exactly the feds are doing wrong, for example, with federal officers’ names and dates and details. Create the record.

My guess is that the ICE and DHS people who are breaking the law have figured out not to tell the attorneys this stuff, for precisely this reason. The attorneys have a duty of candor to the court, but ICE does not.

She could refuse to file motions supporting the feds.

She may already be doing this, at least with respect to 100% dilatory motions. I haven’t kept up with her case work.

Then the people would win those uncontested cases.

In this case, and in many others like it in MN, the petitioners already won their case. They’ve been ordered to be released, but they aren’t getting released in a timely manner.

When a judge issues a release order, it is the responsibility of the federal attorney to communicate the contents of that order into the federal bureaucracy, to ensure it is carried out. That process has turned into an all-consuming job, because that’s how ICE wants it.

I agree in general, though, that the only ethical or moral move here is to resign.

Boasberg’s allegedly inappropriate remarks were delivered in a private breakfast with other judges prior to judicial conference. The point is that it was the kind of judicial conference that’s supposed to remain private. So much so, that the DOJ refused to provide the court with their copy of Boasberg’s actual words, because then they would have to explain how they got hold of them (probably illegally).

So that gave the court an easy reason to dismiss the complaint.

“It’s a bit scary to know that the most valuable private company in the world has your address and has shown up and has questions for you,”

That’s how “service of process” works. “Process server” is an entire career for people who figure out how to deliver legal documents to people personally.

alcohol in pretty much any quality has negative effects

The key is that this guidance came out somewhere between millennial and gen z coming of age.

When I was a child the TV news would run “health” stories about how moderate amounts of red wine are good for you. It turned out those studies were funded by the alcohol industry.

They did some wildly unprecedented legal maneuvers to try to get these warrants.

1. Went to magistrate duty judge, who approved 3/8 warrants.
2. Went to that judge’s manager, Chief Judge Schlitz. He didn’t outright deny the warrants, he just wanted to take a few days to think about it.
3. That wasn’t good enough. They went to the judge-manager’s manager, the 8th circuit court of appeals. In a sealed emergency petition for writ of mandamus.
4. Judge Schlitz was required to defend himself in this mandamus action with two hours of notice and he wasn’t even allowed to read the papers.

Since the mandamus action failed, it seems likely that the government has gotten a grand jury indictment. Which process bypasses judges nearly entirely.

Note that it’s pretty normal to get indictments first in the federal courts (before the current times), because if the feds arrest someone on a complaint, they have a 30 day deadline to get that indictment. If they don’t arrest first, there’s no deadline and they can retry as many times as they want.

So normally the feds only use complaints when they need to get someone off the street urgently. These feds use complaints because they only care about splashing the perp walk on social media. They don’t care what happens to the case after that.