I understand the maths behind why 18 years is the number they’ve come up with, but it is mildly hilarious when you consider that while ofcourse Clarence Thomas is the longest Justice at 32 years, fellow Republicans John Roberts and Samuel Alito both have their terms at just over 18 years. I assume the idea would be if this actually passed, it would rotate through the existing justices, going through the longest term limits, and forcing them to retire one by one.
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Goddamn, my home town! Those dickheads have actually seen the light! This is a bigger deal than anyone who hasn’t lived there realizes.
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Violent protests have broken out in Venezuela after both Nicolás Maduro and the opposition alliance candidate Edmundo González Urrutia declared victory in the Presidential election. The “official results” released from the state run CNE showed Maduro win reelection with 53% of the vote meanwhile the opposition claims they have proof of the results being manipulated and say Edmundo González Urrutia won 69% of the vote.
How this ends is anyone’s guess. Maduro might just suppress those protesting and hold onto power, maybe the protests start a movement that successfully oust Maduro, or even the mystery card of what role might the military play in this crisis. As the Venezuelan military has a long history of launching coups or weighing in on politics in the past.
Claimed results by both sides
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Considering also which way Arizona votes will tip the electoral college further into Harris or Trump’s favor this is a very important endorsement.
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Not the best day for middle east pricks
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After the teams from China, North-Korea and South-Korea won gold/silver/bronze at team-ping-pong, all of them made a selfie together.
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USA should have sent Forrest Gump.
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Three of the 9/11 conspirators have reached a plea deal after nearly 20 years at Guantanamo Bay. The Department of Defense has not released the details of the agreement at this time.
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A plea deal? For what? They’re already locked up in a place worse than prison, all their bosses have been killed by the military by this point, and anyone left who might be important enough for them to turn over in exchange for the deal is based on info 20 years out of date. I don’t get this at all, and stuff like this is literally what I got a degree in.
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Would this bring back the dead or bring closure to all the families that lost someone on that day?
Plotter of the worst terrorist attack in history and they want to make a deal when all their superiors are dead.
I still remember that day, was around 5 pm over here, so 10 am in NY, coming home from a county fair with my dad and a friend of his and they were talking about it. They were talking about it like the end of days scenario.
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By this logic, there is no potential avenue of justice - nothing can bring back the dead, and what brings closure for the families will be very personal. Also the “plea deal” in this case is life in prison, instead of life in a military camp that is outside US borders to avoid US law. There is no evidence that torture of the victim helps the families get closure.
The between the lines is that the concern is the treatment of the prisoners has gone on well beyond the ability for them to justify it, so they’re looking to transfer them to being regular prisoners rather than an international incident waiting to happen.
Arguably it could also give families more access to closure since they can potentially communicate with them when they’re in a regular federal prison - rather than in an a military camp where an communication is analysed indefinitely to see if it’s espionage.
Big issue is that the military trials have largely been entirely ineffective due to the military alternating between torture and the attempting to prosecute, leading to large parts of the trial being about how they’re treated and what was involved in extracting the information etc.
As a result 20 years later we still don’t actually have decisive legal rulings on a lot of it. So, much like the original setting up of the situation - its less about justice and more about political manoeuvring.
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It’s coming to a close. One more vote on who will be her running mate.
- Mark Kelly
- Josh Shapiro
- Tim Walz
- Pete Buttigieg
- Andy Beshear
- J. B. Pritzker
- Other
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Hard to pick as they are all in favor of the US supporting certain inhumane actions in certain places, and have all displayed political hypocrisy at one point or another, so you really have to choose carefully whose baggage you can stomach the most, but I’m gonna go with Mark Kelly, if for no other reason than he’s from my home state of Arizona.
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I think she’ll pick Shapiro or Beshear. Though I wouldn’t also be surprised if Mark Kelly gets it.
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A federal judge has ruled that Google violated antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly over search services and advertising.
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It’s Walz.
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The US military withdrew from its final base in Niger.
It follows the withdrawal of French troops in December 2023.
The Nigerian junta had taken power since a coup in July 2023. And had since changed its alliances, shifting from western countries to Russia.
It allied with fellow military ruled after a coup Mali and Burkina Faso in the confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States.
Since this regional shift the fight against jihadist insurgents in the Sahel have gone to the worst. With more than a doubling of the number of victims in a year.
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