Wut? This was entirely about the separation of powers. As in:

Right, sort of. That's constitutional issue. The court looks at the matter at hand, and then says, "Nope, what he's trying to do is unconstitutional." Note that the constitution doesn't spell out dollar amounts that make the power to raise and assign the spending of money a legislative activity. The threshold isn't in dollars, it's in statute. If congress doesn't pass a bill supporting a specific type of spending, nobody else gets to. The constitution is structured that way on purpose, and there's no little dollar-dial that pushes the constitution aside when you dial it down from "Medium High" to "Low."

How to tell us you haven't actually read the Heroes Act without saying it out loud, right? And that aside, yes, the Judiciary absolutely has the power to overrule congress when congressional activities (legislation, certain kinds of committee actions, etc) don't pass a test of constitutionality. But that's not the case here. Congress didn't do anything unconstitutional, the executive did.

Why? It's fine as is, and has nothing to do with someone from Suburban DC in a dual-income household making $250,000 having a plumber from Idaho work part of his day to pay off some of that prosperous couple's law school debt.

No, Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer didn't have the votes to actually pass legislation aimed at the broader (non-Heroes-Act targeted) audience whose mid-term votes they were looking to buy, so Biden's handlers took a stab at abusing executive power knowing it would still work as a sales pitch for low-information, constitutionally illiterate college students even though it would of course fail scrutiny later. Pelosi, of course, said this out loud in advance, in specific detail. Her own chamber's and party's constitutional lawyers TOLD the Dems this was an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, and she said it. Because she knew this is exactly how it would wind up.

Activist Court? Sure, if by "activist," you mean, "acting as the check and balancing power exactly as intended by the founders who wrote the constitution and people of the nation who ratified it." If acting to preserve the separation of powers and keep the power of the purse in congress is "activism," sure, why not, call it that.

Where in California are you?

When you turn shoplifters over to the cops and press charges, how often are the cases taken to trial?

How many repeat offenders do you turn over to the cops?

I stopped going to conference (post-pandemic) in San Fran due to crime and filth.

I go to MORE conferences than ever now, but non in San Fran, and 100% of that reason is crime and filth.

It's not a WSJ thing, it's a filthy street and high crime problem in SFO problem, period.

And me without mod points today. Mod this up!

At a prior gig, I introduced the IT manager to a wiki. It was free software which ran on a Windows server (they were an MS shop). At first, he didn't see the value in it. I started putting stuff in there. He'd come ask me something. Have you checked the wiki? Uhh ... oh ... yeah ... there's that info. He quickly saw the value in it and started using it as well.

Fast forward a few months. We hired some more IT folks. We quickly discovered what was poorly- and well-organized. It became a rite of passage for new folks to hit the wiki to find stuff and, if something wasn't there, someone with more experience would help them write it up. New folks quickly came to see the value in it and contribute to it. Stuff got doc'ed, widely, and well-used.

Fast forward a few years. I'm at a new gig. I'm trying to learn my way around the infrastructure and the coding standards. Oh, go ask so-and-so about that. Are there no docs? Nah, just go ask that super-busy person who is juggling the jobs of three people.

We had a wiki (mediawiki, no less) but it wasn't getting used. I used it. I wrote stuff up. More new hires, interns, etc. They're being told "oh, check his wiki page; he's got a ton of stuff linked from there." They start doing the same. It's become a running joke. Can anyone tell me how to do such-and-such? Yeah, I have a page about that; try not to act surprised. After about a month, they're not surprised; they're laughing along with everyone else.

If only one person in the organization knows how to do that task, that task has Bus Factor = 1 (only one person needs to get hit by a bus, or otherwise rendered unavailable, before your organization suffers). A good wiki, where it's easy to write clear docs, and search them 'cuz plain text, can quickly take any task to Bus Factor = infinite. If you want your organization to thrive, you need the Bus Factor as high as possible on everything.

Anytime I have to wrestle with how to do something, I doc it on the wiki. If I need to do it again, next week, I might remember how to do it. After a couple months, it's good thing I doc'ed it. Eagleson's Law says that any code you wrote, but haven't touched for at least 6 months, might as well be written by someone else. It's been flushed from your short-term memory. If you have a mortgage and car payments, cut that number in half. If you have a significant other, cut it in half. For each kid, cut it in half. Pretty soon, you're lucky if you can keep stuff in short-term memory for a week at a time. Spending 5 minutes putting it on a wiki page, which you can find when you need it, will save you a lot of "wrestling."

20 seconds on Google will also find you ample reports on how the Egyptian pyramids were actually made by aliens, and how mermaids, unicorns, and various forms of Sasquatch/Yeti/Bigfoot are running circles around "scientists" that just can't seem to find a single scrap of Yeti poop, a Sasquatch bone, or a tuft of Bigfoot hair despite - we're assured - thousands of years of them living in the woods behind your house.

20 seconds of Google will indeed find you reports of UFO stuff from all around the world ... but can't find you single piece of real evidence, even one, ever. How about that.

You mean the $2B that you can actually point to as being an investment in businesses that aren't a nest of phony shell LLCs, and which actually pay taxes on earnings, and which didn't distribute cash to ex-wives, and grandchildren? You mean $2B that was actually handled with proper paperwork, and about which both the investor and the company in which the money was invested are happy to discuss with anyone who asks?

Let's compare that to the web of meaningless Biden-spawned LLCs that don't actually produce anything, aren't operating as foreign agents with proper State paperwork, exchange all kinds of internal emails and texts about how to conduct their organizing meetings in secret and use code names and words to obscure the fact that loads of cash are funneled to them from the CCP and corrupt entities in the Ukraine that got beneficial treatment from The Big Guy. See? Exactly the same! Right.

The FBI just got done telling congress that they literally can't vouch for the life of the whistleblower who informed them about a straight-up quid pro quo between millions flowing from Biden's protected interests in Ukraine and bank accounts run by shells of shells of LLCs formed by the Bidens while he was VP. I know, you don't want to hear about any of that because it takes the fun out of your narrative.

You probably believe that women can have penises, right?

What do new plumbers train against?

What do new landscapers train against?

Fucking idiot alert.

We have unrestrained statism.

Thinking you're going to make ANY sort of constructive comment on this by invoking "the gun people" shows how deliberately mal-informed you are on the topic.

"The" gun people aren't the lazy, casual owners who allow their firearms to be handled by people too young or too witless to be safe with them. Untold millions of people owning the 400+ million firearms in this country manage just fine, just like most also manage to keep young kids from backing the family car out into the street. If there was a problem with "the" gun people, it would be on a scale so enormously huge compared to the rare (but wildly hyped by the media) event of an unsupervised child doing something dreadful with a firearm.

If you're relying on remaining covert in, say, a home invasion situation or while in the back of your store that's being robbed, having to talk out loud to your gun is a truly terrible idea. Just about as bad as not being able to wear gloves so fingerprints of your nice, clean, dry fingers can be scanned ... or having to take off your sunglasses so your face can be recognized (assuming your back isn't directly to the bright sun right when you literally need to save your life), or not having the thing on which you're gambling your life be low on battery power. Or when your visiting friend needs to be handed your self defense weapon because you're incapacitated. Or, or, or. Not a chance on any of that, if you are putting your life on the line.

I said this for 25 years and then crime and politics sent me packing.

10 years in the burbs, I would never ever move back into a big city.

And it has nothing to do with me being old. Even young adults out here are cooler and more refined and less chaotic.

You can keep your urban planned ghettos.

Healthier how?

Every law that was passed to disclose lobbying has only made lobbying easier to hide.

Free speech should not be impeded, even if someone wants to yell fire in a theater.

Rabbit hole starting here: https://www.vox.com/platform/a...

Your bodyâ(TM)s hormones wonâ(TM)t allow you to have a net energy deficit daily if it can avoid it.

Iâ(TM)ve âoeprovenâ this casually for 30 days trying to reach nerds not to be obese and have worked with hundreds of folks if not thousands.

You canâ(TM)t outrun the kitchen unless youâ(TM)re in a rare 1-2% of people who can.

Everyone else? The gym builds muscle but doesnâ(TM)t burn fat.

So you want doctors to work for free?

Or you want me to pay for someone's medical treatment even if they lived an entire lifetime of shit lifestyle?

What percentage of cancer patients got cancer because of lifestyle choices?

45%? 55%?

And you want me to suffer for it?