18 USC sec. 611 is a federal law that makes it a crime for a non-citizen to vote. But a federal judge in another district ruled that 611 is unconstitutional, because the constitution gives states the power to decide who can vote, subject to constraints (age 18, women, poll taxes, etc.)

Nothing in the constitution says you have to be a US citizen to vote in a federal election. That’s just a rule that every state has adopted.

So I’m interested in whether they have actually charged 611 here or not.

In most places in the United States speeding is a criminal offense. Each element of the crime must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. And the accused has the right to confront the witnesses against him in court.

I sort of understand the argument about cops needing to hold the radar gun, but I also don’t really get what they’re contributing to the legal validity of the case.

The biggest thing they contribute is proof of identity. When they pull you over and run your license, they can testify with pretty strong credibility that it was you driving the car.

To prove speeding you have to prove that the car was going too fast and that someone in particular was driving.

Having a cop signing the ticket also gives the government a convenient witness who can be subpoenaed to come to court and to testify with personal knowledge of the incident. That satisfies the confrontation clause. Whereas in jurisdictions that have tried pure camera enforcement, the only witness they can usually bring is a low level camera company representative who has no personal knowledge. This leads defendants to demand a lot of discovery into the automated processes of the camera system, because that is what is really accusing them.

Conclusion: US jurisdictions do a lot better with camera enforcement when they create civil infraction liability under state law. But then some forms of enforcement, like license points, may be taken off the table.

In US machine shops if they’re getting down to that level of measurement, they’ll switch over to milli-inches.

Yes, milli-inches are an actual unit in use.

And it’s been this way since 1893. The US customary system has been sneaky metric that whole time.

It’s about 350 millimooches.

For what it’s worth, the orange man put out a Truth or whatever today that says the live stream is off, but the firing squad is going ahead.

The polling was like 80% against the live stream.

It’s green card and citizenship applications from decades ago. They’re attacking the paperwork because they want to reverse her naturalization, strip her of citizenship, and deport her.

That would be quite some red meat for the supremacist wing of the party.

Married into the royal family of Abu Dhabi. No apparent relation to UK royal family.

Witnesses say that a man was ejected from his car and fell, striking either the car or parts of the ride structure at least three times on the way down.

Another car that was not the accident car halted on an incline tow, and riders were evacuated down the stairs.

Witnesses say that attendants checked the harnesses on the accident car before dispatch.

This inJustice Department had any credibility with her?

There is a legal principle established by case law called the “presumption of regularity.” By precedent, Judge Reyes is required to presume that the government lawyers are being credible and straight up with her

Regardless of whatever she personally believes, she is putting them on notice that they have now lost that presumption through their behavior.

The petition for writ of habeas corpus must be filed in the district of confinement, and it must name the individual “jailer” as the defendant.

Habeas evasion was one of the offenses perpetrated by George III, as listed in the Declaration of Independence.

Yep. My aunt got in trouble for exactly this when she was a child. Abused the grocery line of credit all summer getting unnecessary candy for herself and her siblings.