Tuesday Tunes
I keep feeling better and better. We are in day 7 of Trump 2.0 and it keeps getting better.
Watching the left melt down just feels good.
Tuesday Tunes + SCOTUS babble
Next Monday we will see Snope and Ocean State Tactical granted cert or relisted.
Right now, there are 100s of lawyers writing briefs for these cases. I expect to see over a thousand pages submitted to the Supreme Court.
Bruen was distributed for Conference on 4/1/2021, 4/16/2021, and 4/23/2021. Cert was granted 4/26/2021.
The parties requested, and were granted, two extensions to file briefs on the merits.
From the time of being granted certiorari, the petitioner has 45 days to file their initial brief. The opposing party has 30 days from then to respond. Extensions may be granted at the discretion of the Court.
From there, the petitioner can file a reply brief. The opposing party can file a reply brief.
About 100 days total, if everybody stays on schedule.
The case was scheduled for oral arguments on 8/15/2021. The date for arguments was set for November 3rd, 2021.
The case was argued on 11/3/2021.
The court published their opinion on 6/23/2022 with the judgement being issued on 7/25/2022.
Because the case was conferenced in April, the case wasn’t heard in the 2021 term. We are teed up to have the opinion issue for these cases in June 2025.
Tuesday Tunes
There is a light at the end of this tunnel. I think that I might have the new router up and running tomorrow. I’ll be turning down two servers. Many good things happening.
Tuesday Tunes
Sexual assault is a real thing. It happens, way too often. It is likely underreported. The statistics on sexual assault can’t be trusted due to this.
In high school, we had to do a mock trial. Because I knew the District Attorney for the area, I spoke to him and asked if he could provide a real case for us to use for the mock trail.
He gave me a case. I took it to my teacher, and we agreed to use it.
The case had been redacted before I got it. I then broke it down into what each person would have known and would have seen.
The students getting the different parts got only their part. Only they knew what they had said and done.
We went through the mock trail. They “jury” discussed it for a bit, then came back with a not guilty verdict.
The next day, the District Attorney came to talk to us about the case. He tore us apart. 15 minutes to come to a verdict? This case had been through three trails so far, all ended in a hung jury.
Why? Because the victim was raped, and the case was a rape trial. Proving rape was extremely difficult. There were enough places in the two stories where it could have been consensual and not rape. There were too many places where it was unclear if a sexual assault had taken place.
There was too much “she said” vs. “he said”.
And then he dropped the kicker, if she had gone for assault, the asshole would have been in jail. If she had gone for battery, he would have been in jail.
There is good reason to believe that most women have been sexually assaulted at some point in their lives. I do not mean a mistaken action, but the real thing. It is a sad state of affairs.