Quantumfreakonomics
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Quantumfreakonomics
5hr ago
I mean, the facts bore out that this was an operation conducted in hostile territory. They really did need the help.
Prosecuting under §1071 is even more of an uphill battle. Everything I could find suggests that it only applies to criminal warrants, such as the diffeing penalties for whether the concealed person is being charged with a felony or a misdemeanor.
Why? The text of the statute refers to "any person for whose arrest a warrant or process has been issued under the provisions of any law of the United States". The text seems pretty broad. Any valid federal warrant must be issued under the provisions of a law of the United States right? Or am I missing something?
EDIT: Also, wouldn't 8 U.S.C. § 1324(a)(1)(3) apply? Does having ICE agents show up and present an administrative warrant count as knowledge or reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law?
Quantumfreakonomics
12hr ago
The FBI this morning arrested a Wisconsin state judge on charges of concealing an illegal alien from arrest.
The initial criminal complaint is here. For those of you who prefer to watch TV instead of read, here is attorney general Pam Bondi giving the details on Fox News. The accusation is that upon seeing federal agents waiting outside her courtroom to serve an administrative warrent for the arrest of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz (who is an illegal alien currently being charged with battery), Judge Hannah Dugan escorted Flores-Ruiz out of the courtroom through the jury door so that he could evade arrest.
For all of the "Kash Patel Arrests Judge" headlines I saw this morning, this seems totally fine? It looks like an open and shut case if the facts alleged in the complaint are true. It sounds like there ought to be plenty of witnesses (it literally took place in a courthouse). State-law judges don't have jurisdiction over federal agents executing federal functions. An illegal alien in court for an unrelated violent crime is an incredibly unsympathetic defendant. All of the smarter left-leaning commentators I follow seem to be keeping quiet on this, which seems smart.
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
How else are middle managers supposed to feel important if not by holding fancy conference calls where they get to say, “New York on the line”?
Quantumfreakonomics
1d ago
Options and futures markets are in Chicago.
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
How are things in South Africa since they ended segregation?
Better than the counterfactual scenerio for the black residents, worse than the counterfactual scenerio for the white residents?
Quantumfreakonomics
2d ago
I know that the county conceded that they would allow an opt-out for a Muslim student to not look at an image of Muhammad, but is that constitutionally required? I can imagine a hypothetical school district (backed by state law) deciding to use a picture book to teach kids about the Arab conquests. If Muslim parents complain? Tough shit. This is the kind of thing that makes school administration a nightmare.
It may be worth pointing out that coverage from outlets like NPR didn't include the name of the case or a description of the plaintiffs that brought it.
I don’t think this is because they are trying to hide who is suing here. News editing just sucks. I think the idea is that nobody wants to read a news article with a bunch of legal citations, so we end up with headlines like “Elon Musk’s DOGE Delt Legal Blow by Federal Judge”, when the substantive legal issue is that their motion to change venue was denied.
Quantumfreakonomics
3d ago
Ah, but like most Vatican II documents, Sacrosantum Concilium contains a poison pill clause.
D) Norms for adapting the Liturgy to the culture and traditions of peoples
37, Even in the liturgy, the Church has no wish to impose a rigid uniformity in matters which do not implicate the faith or the good of the whole community; rather does she respect and foster the genius and talents of the various races and peoples. Anything in these peoples' way of life which is not indissolubly bound up with superstition and error she studies with sympathy and, if possible, preserves intact. Sometimes in fact she admits such things into the liturgy itself, so long as they harmonize with its true and authentic spirit.
And thus we end up with a double digit percentage of Catholic masses in South Louisiana on amy given Autumn Sunday morning involving prayers for the literal New Orleans Saints football team. After all, NFL football is indeed important to the peoples of South Louisiana. And how can one object that the “New Orleans Saints” do not harmonize with the true and authentic spirit of the liturgy? They are named for saints after all.
Quantumfreakonomics
4d ago
My understanding is that all of his plausible successors are more conservative in terms of doctrine.
Is this true? The college of cardinals is a literal priesthood.
”Someone can have literally tens of thousands of fans for doing popular writing in a field, and the amount of extra status it gives them in the field is within a rounding error of zero. Only your reputation within the priesthood matters. “
How many legacy cardinals (those appointed before Francis) are going to be voting?
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
It's not quite true to say that he was "denied" due process, but there is definitely a sense in which his due process was "violated"
Say you are accused of a crime. You are put on trial. The trial proceeds as normal and results in a judgement of aquittal. The cops throw you in prison anyway. Were you "denied" due process? You technically got a trial. The issue is that the due process didn't actually do anything. Despite the aquittal, you were still imprisoned.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
What makes this case so deliciously ironic is that the only reason that Abrego Garcia was granted withholding of removal in 2019 was because his life was in danger due to rampant gang activity. The thing that actually solved the problem was locking up all the gangsters with little to no due process.
This kind of thing is exactly why trust in institutionalism is collapsing. I originally thought that this was a stupid hill for the administration to die on. It may still turn out to be a bad idea, but Trumps instincts have once again shown a method to his madness.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
It’s largely aesthetic reasons, but grad-student TAs who speak unintelligible English are a well-known and yet unaddressed practical problem.
It is alienating and subconsciously hostile to one’s innate sense of community when the prevalence of myriad exotic accents reaches a certain level.
Also, the Chinese nationals are totally spies for the PRC. It’s fine if you’re not a China hawk (I’m not either), but it’s obviously happening.
Quantumfreakonomics
8d ago
Maybe the cops in Utah are different, but speeding and fishing without a license are both incredibly low catch-rate offenses. There are hundreds, if not thousands of individual offenses for every recorded encounter. You have to commit a lot of minor infractions to get caught three times.
Three adverse law-enforcement encounters over the course of one’s college career is not a particularly good record. I’m sure the decision was made that we have too many foreign students in the country (honestly a completely reasonable opinion if you’ve ever spent a significant amount of time on a major university campus), and they decided to revoke the visas of the xx% least law-abiding F1 holders.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
Is there any practical reason why China couldn’t simply pirate all of the entertainment IP they wanted? As if we won’t soon have AI capable of turning a shitty camrip into a feature-quality product?
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
This means that everyone who invested valuable early 21st century dollars into fixed-income dollar-denominated assets gets paid back in worthless middle 21st century dollars. Look at the underlying movement of goods and services. Printing money increases demand without increasing supply. A debt crisis is about not having enough stuff people want in order to pay for the stuff people expected to have. The numbers in account statements are just an accounting strategy
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
I’m not against the idea of a penal colony, but sending prisoners into the hands of foreign sovereigns is inherently risky.
Quantumfreakonomics
10d ago
Here’s an anecdote: I was 80% of the way through writing a giant post on the Abrego Garcia kerfuffle. I stopped when I realized that the absurd straw premise that I was arguing against — the idea that the core function of the US-Mexico border wall, Customs and Border Patrol, ICE, etc. is to be a gigantic obstacle course that weeds out the weaklings and ensures that only the strongest and most determined migrants survive to enter the heartland of The United States — is actually literally true. The extant US immigration system makes absolutely no sense unless you accept that the purpose of it is not to do any of the things people say it is for, but instead is the thing that it actually does.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
Wait, nostalgia? Is your inner monologue not composed of at least 20% Leonard Nimoy Civ IV quotes?
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
I don’t think it’s out of the question that a judge could rule that deportation to the current El Salvador regime is a per se violation of the convention against torture.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
"Oh, we are sorry your honor, we honestly thought that you had authorized that no-knock raid against that (suspected) Tesla-burning terrorist. Anyhow, now he is dead, so there is nothing we can do about that misunderstanding. All's well that ends well, I guess."
Obviously the court doesn’t have jurisdiction to bring people back from the dead. Perhaps that case is instructive. Maybe the proper remedy is to find the officer who screwed-up and charge him with kidnapping?
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
Alright, I’m crossing the streams.
We need to take the regulatory shackles off of AMERICAN correctional institutions instead of shipping our prisoners overseas for cheap. Our national security is at risk if we don’t have a vibrant and flourishing prison industrial base. We cannot entrust foreign nations with our incarceratory needs forever.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
I’m actually not sure. He is a Salvadorian National and a suspected gang member. The Bukele government might want him in jail anyways.
Quantumfreakonomics
11d ago
The crux of the Abrego Garcia controversy is a dispute about who "morally" counts as an American citizen.
I’m not so sure that fits this particular case (it’s a better match for Mahmoud Khalil IMO). I think the deeper controversy is about what level of process is necessary to permanently remove someone from US jurisdiction.
Trump has dropped plenty of hints that he is thinking about sending American citizens to El Salvador prisons.
No it isn't. There was a separate law that was passed at about the same time as the Alien Enemies Act that really did give the president the power to do what Trump did. That law is no longer in effect.
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