Tango

Was it Jeffries that vetted her?

Only sorta in NYC; they use it for primaries but not the general, IIRC. Better than nothing though, since it helped Mamdani get past the primary stage.

America NEEDS Ranked Choice Voting (RCV).

“They have no shame, do they? They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”

Excellent. The Dems need to run a young candidate and have her spend the entire campaign focused on discussing her own talking points and with all of her attack ads focused on disparaging JD Vance.

Call him Donnie; he reportedly hates it

Additionally, they left Twitter in the first place because they perceived it as too liberal. X doesn’t have that reputation.

I don’t disagree; I’m just pointing out that the judge was unlikely to be targeting the barrister for any political reason. Courts always discourage any overly obvious suggestion of jury nullification, regardless of the case being tried or whether it does or does not relate to Israel.

The whole point of a jury system is that jurors aren’t morons.

Given that even before his closing statement, the judge had already warned him not to encourage jury nullification, he can’t have been that subtle.

With an argument like that, it sounds like you have a lot of contempt for the court system. So if the barrister also argued in open court that “ignoring all law and evidence is the right thing to do”…

Juries can practice jury nullification if they want and nobody can stop them, but barristers aren’t supposed to suggest it. Imagine if, say, a prosecutor told an Israeli jury that they didn’t technically need evidence to arrive at a “guilty” verdict for a Palestinian defendant, just “their conscience”. Jury nullification can’t become just another trial strategy, or the whole legal system becomes worthless.

That would matter in a criminal prosecution where guilt must be proven beyond all reasonable doubt. However in a civil suit, all the BBC needs to do is convince a jury.

If you insist that strict capitalism has never failed because neither the USA nor any other Western nation has ever practiced pure unadulterated capitalism, then you necessarily have to accept that strict Marxism has never failed either, because neither the USSR nor any other communist nation has ever practiced pure unadulterated Marxism.

Yep.

If Trump refuses discovery it would be a huge payout for the BBC, not from them

I’d be shocked if the BBC’s defence didn’t include a countersuit to the effect that his original suit calling them liars amounted to defamation. Trump can drop his suit but has no control over whether the BBC can file or continue a countersuit.

TBH I never thought that it would be Iran that would be the last nation on Earth to figure this out.