The US DoJ is relevant to a great many things. Posts don't only have to be about AI.

I wouldn't hold out any hope that her replacement will be any different on this particular point.

Alas I am trying to be optimistic but you may be closer to reality.

MTG claims Trump said exposing the client list would hurt his friends. Elon said Trump is implicated in them and we all know he was extremely Epstein-adjacent. Trump also cares about the impact of the market indexes on his ego so he'd probably want to avoid a major shakeup.

Any of these reasons or the unmentioned ones is enough to be pretty confident Trump will nominate someone who will want to make the files go away quietly.

They might be, but that’s not really a reason to let bad people stay in jobs they shouldn’t have. Otherwise e might as well give up any pretense of accountability and just let them do whatever they want.

And I didn't say she should remain.

I'm not sure about the "bad people" characterization though. Certainly she is a terrible person but if you are interested in having the least terrible AG you need to worry about her replacement. If by "bad people" you mean people who betrayed the electorate, I think she's been an extremely faithful advocate of the MAGA agenda.

Considering the president is unable to acknowledge anything that could be regarded as unflattering, I think it's safe to say we voted away the pretense of accountability.

I think quite a lot of MAGA wanted the complete release of the Epstein files, so maybe not extremely faithful to the electorate...

The timing coincides with her office getting embarrassed in front of the Supreme Court, with Trump in artendance.

P2025 had a plan but it was always going to struggle against the president's personality issues.

Also with Swallwell becoming aware the FBI had him under investigation. And he and Bondi are buds.

Trying to argue the 14th amendment doesn’t read as plainly as it does was a no-win situation. The government would have to argue it does not have jurisdiction (subject to the jurisdiction thereof) over illegal immigrants which would seemingly (IANAL) mean they’re immune to prosecution for any crime.

You could probably find a hair splitting argument that the child must be born in an actual ‘State’, but aside from that, jus soli citizenship is pretty clearly part of the constitution.

That being said, Pam Bondi was very bad at her job.

> That being said, Pam Bondi was very bad at her job.

Perhaps so. (In fact, I suspect so.) But having a boss that keeps putting you in impossible situations is not conducive to good performance reviews. She got fired for failing to deliver on Trump's fantasies of how the legal system ought to treat him. A different AG isn't going to do too much better, because too many of Trump's positions are legally insane.

So did he, like, Uber back from Waffle House or was it a round trip portal?

The indexes buy based on market cap or float?

Most serious index do float, nasdaq has somewhat different rules (but it's a weird index...)

It was never intended to save money. It was about a crusade against remote work, eliminating civil servants who might be loyal to the Constitution rather than the president, and planting a seed of government dysfunction for later years.

They should switch out to a quad fin fish, it'll handle the chop much better.

... federalized voting, birthright citizenship... it is amazing how space exploration can be a unifying moment of positivity.

You know why you chose 6 9s.

... 1/0