The Supreme Court doesn’t hear every case. Appellants petition the Court to be heard, but four out of nine Justices have to vote to hear the case before it can go anywhere. This case didn’t clear the first hurdle.

It only takes one person intent on nullification to hang a jury. The prosecution can retry the case, but they have to decide if it’s worth it.

It’s a no-win scenario for him. Showing that the BBC hurt his financials is admitting weakness. Not being able to show a financial loss defeats his case.

Check the tapes.

Agree. The sleuth in me wants to say “It’s Threads, so we at least know it’s no older than July 2023,” but an actual date is more useful.

Andreas Katsulas had a recurring role as Commander Tomalak on TNG, but he absolutely shone as G’Kar on Babylon 5, especially in later seasons.

How come the 131 foot altitude in the headline is never mentioned in the article? These turbine operates at 4,921 feet, a number that makes a lot more sense when you convert it to metric, 1.5 km. The article is littered with these odd imperial measurements that should have just been left as nice round metric numbers, or least re-rounded after conversion. 130 feet would have read better, but the original number was 40 m.

Is it just that they were pissed at loosing the gold medal finals in overtime, or is there something more?

I’ve seen in the trailers that the

Scenario is in the game. I’m curious if the developers will have any way to generate statistics about which way players make that decision.

Congress members got access to the unredacted Epstein files this week. I’m sure he’d love to reset the news cycle.

The Daily Beast includes Trump’s age whenever his name is in a headline.

For anyone who hasn’t heard this one: When the Concorde flew at supersonic speeds, the airframe got hot enough that it expanded about a foot longer than it was on the ground. This opened up a small gap between the flight engineer’s console and the rear bulkhead of the cockpit. On each plane’s final flight, the flight engineers stuffed their hats into the gap, which then closed up after cooling off.

No. States are allocated a number of seats in the House of Representatives based on population. It’s up to each state to decide how to subdivide its territory into roughly equal population districts to elect each of their allocated House seats. Texas decided to redraw their map to make them advantageous to the Republican Party, so California has retaliated by redrawing their maps to be more advantageous to Democrats.

The US Senate is much more straightforward: Each state gets two senators, but they’re on non-overlapping six year terms. Only one is up for election at a time, so it’s statewide election for the seat.

My one hope is that this eye-for-an-eye redistricting will eventually lead to a constitutional amendment to have all congressional districts drawn via some nonpartisan algorithm rather than by state politicians. Probably over optimistic of me, though.

Like Putin is an expert in free and fair elections.

What’s not to love about print-on-demand pancakes?

If there’s concern about criminals in DC, let’s start with the sexual predator living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

At least, that’s acceptable cover from any MAGA backlash if they have to blacklist ICE for “violating the terms of use.”

Honestly, how is the average person supposed to tell the difference between a federal raid and gang activity?

How did they vote on this if they don’t have a quorum?