Lawsuits seem like the wrong way to decide medical efficacy of treatments.
His defense will be “I’m too stupid to be sued”.
Watching people think the courts are still effective is darkly funny.
Trump is (unfortunately) immune but those beneath him are not.
He owns DoJ. He owns Congress. He owns SCOTUS. People and organizations can sue them all they want, wait and wait through all the delays - oh, but in the meantime, they’ll drag their opponents into criminal court on some made up shit.
And he has ICE as his new imperial guard, so opponents will start to poison themselves out of windows soon enough.
Effective is a funny word though. Because you can’t discount everything if you want to use that word. I don’t think anyone should rely on the courts to protect them, however that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective in styming or distracting or wearing down or draining or depriving the enemy. At least for now they still have to take Court seriously. They still have to pay court fees. They have to spend time defending themselves. They have to pay lawyers and outside counsel and deposition fees and a dozen other legal costs. They have to spend time on depositions and giving testimony. Maybe one day they will reach the point where they don’t bother with those trappings of the Court. Right now however they still are. So the courts can be effective if not maybe in the way we wish they were.
At least for now they still have to take Court seriously.
They already don’t take the Court seriously. This is justified, as evidenced by their flouting Court orders with no repercussions, or running them up to the SCOTUS they own. Even if by some fluke they’re actually held accountable and bow to the Court when they disagree, they can just delay until the Court’s opinion is irrelevant, while they continue to do what they want right now.
They still have to pay court fees.
Eventually, which they will just put off forever.
They have to spend time defending themselves.
This is their job. Like how you and I have our jobs to go to, this is theirs.
They have to pay lawyers and outside counsel and deposition fees and a dozen other legal costs.
They just don’t pay, or if they ever do, not nearly as much as they said they would, and as the literal government, they just do it with the taxes collected from you and not from their own pockets. (Which, by the way, are certainly already being lined from that same tax pool.)
They have to spend time on depositions and giving testimony.
This is the same as the previous “time” statement. Again, this is their job.
Their job is to *take, right now, and delay. As long as they can delay, run another scheme to take more, and delay on that one, too. It’s like a Ponzi scheme of corruption. You know it. They know it. We all know it.
US doctors and health care professionals in red states should strike.
Archived and readable without whitelisting apnews in your script blocker:
I noticed a couple months back that I hadn’t changed my homepage in years and usually used some stupid launcher that never made things quicker for me.
Ended up realizing the best homepage for myself would just be one of the archive sites, so I set it to archive.ph so anytime I click on an article and it loads like shit I can just copy the link click home and paste. Has been surprisingly helpful. Although I am wondering if we archive would have been better. Time will tell u suppose
There might be a plugin for that. I used some on FF a while ago, but for Wayback Machine. It helped me read blocked articles when my vpn malfunctioned.
Maybe I just haven’t paid attention but this last section seems to hit different now:
“The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.”
The fuck is that, journalistic integrity? Updating an article when there is a potential mistake and owning it…
