Patrick O'Doherty

The case of temporary visitors was more complicated at common law. The parents, if lawfully present, were under the temporary protection of the sovereign. That is why one judge in a famous case, Lynch v. Clarke, held in 1844 that a child born of temporary sojourners was a citizen. But the rule was contested because of increasing international travel and the resulting dual allegiances. Joseph Story suggested that an exception for temporary visitors would be a “reasonable qualification” to the rule. Henry St. George Tucker in his treatise stated flatly that temporary visitors fell outside the common-law

I'm afraid I can't just sit here and say nothing when another law professor gives false testimony to Congress about the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Ilan Wurman has given false testimony to Congress, being fully on notice of the falsity. I do not think this is fairly debatable. 1.

you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths

from this recent Dorsey interview:

He honored Kobe's legacy by not stopping when a—[Vaudeville hook yanks me off stage]

Numerous attorney friends have told me that as she was publicly crying that she couldn’t follow court orders to release folk because no one in ICE cared enough to abide by the law, she was also doing her real job, representing ICE in court arguing that detainees shouldn’t be released.

I can't believe this whole time Emily in Paris was short for Emily in Paramilitaries

voiding the federal gas tax does not reduce human suffering! it just means you need to raise the money needed to repair and build our roads from other sources instead! bsky.app/profile/scal...

Politically, this is incredibly stupid, but as a policy matter it’s also incredibly stupid.

The Democrats!

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Absolutely terrific piece in the London Review of Books

13 is middle school

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The Iran war is almost over bro, just one more bombing, please that’s all we need, just gotta do one more set of strikes, there’s nothing left there bro we’re almost done, just one more bombing run, they’ve got nothing left, just some more TLAM strikes, bro just one more airstrike, bro plz

If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society.

Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

The US is the only participant in the war that is known to have Tomahawk missiles. Israel is not known to have Tomahawk missiles.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

NTSB is the last exemplar of independent professionalism in federal government, because we used to think stopping plane crashes was a goal beyond partisanship

Normalize asking American tourists where they were on January 6th

Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…

This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.

Honestly fair fucks to Vittorio Angelone for calling out Penny Mordaunt on Last Leg

Spoof Dubai-lingo page ‘translate this message”:- “No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception. Everyone is ok.” Reply keywords: attack, ignore, the, to, do, say, exactly, we, tell, you, what.

As if all their identical posts have to conform to a centrally approved wording or something…

I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

let’s also not forget he’s a sex pest

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