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Unfortunately, this is becoming the norm in BR. Has happened to me more times than I can count, but usually at the Walmarts off Burbank or College

A few points:
-Budget deficits now are the result of past administrations
-The house and senate draw up the budget and spending laws, not the president

Trump can’t even cut a couple of million for studies on whether transgenders can have babies without some Obama appointed federal judge saying he can’t cut any money to anything. So how is this Trump’s fault again?

Sorry, will is what I meant.

I just think these companies are so focused on being the first to break ground that potential liabilities are not being considered as seriously as they should be.

AI has already proven adept at breaking into private companies’ sites and stealing information. The end game for AI is to think and act on its own with minimal human input. IMO these two things together almost guarantee a world changing catastrophe.

Oh really? And what’s stopping AI from doing something like this if it keeps advancing?

So, you’ve got a technology that can think and act on its own, break into any system it wants to (including nuclear weapons systems), and it’s largely unregulated. Once operational to the point they want it, it may be unregulateable BTW. What could possibly go wrong?

Just looking at the party platform alone, Democrats are worse in every aspect. Look what Democrats have done to Michigan. I’m no fan of the Republican Party as it is now, but the Democrats are outright dangerous and will cause the fall of America

Well, the front page of The Sadvocate this morning had the date listed as April 22 IIRC so nothing surprises me in BR anymore. It’s a city of idiots

Absolutely not. The Democrats, yes. The RINOs, yes. Trump is doing what he can to save America with most of his policies. I understand why some people have a problem with the way he is getting things done, and some of those arguments are justified. I consider myself a libertarian and he has my support.

Bought and paid for judges and a wholly corrupt legal system will be the downfall of this country.

LINK

In a possible blow to the Trump administration's efforts to charge noncitizens with voting in U.S. elections, a judge has dismissed a federal case against a Jamaican national accused of illegally voting, finding the law she was charged under is unconstitutional.

Miami-based U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz ruled Thursday in a 31-page order that the criminal case against Chelsea Cox, who was charged in October 2025 with a misdemeanor for illegally voting in 2020, must be dismissed. He said a decades-old federal law that prohibits a non-U.S. citizen from voting in a federal election, 18 U.S.C. § 611, is unconstitutional.

Under the U.S. Constitution, Leibowitz wrote, only states can set voter qualifications, not Congress. The judge said state prosecutors in Florida could prosecute Cox under state law for unlawfully voting, not the federal government.

The decision applies only to Cox and appears to be the first time a court has deemed the statute unconstitutional. But it could dent the Justice Department's push to pursue noncitizen voting, a practice that most elections experts say is rare but that President Trump has long alleged — without evidence — is common.



Shortly after Leibowitz's decision, the Justice Department moved to appeal the ruling. A spokesperson for the Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The decision involved a federal law that makes it a misdemeanor for noncitizens to vote. It does not cover a separate law barring people from making false claims of citizenship in order to vote, another tool used by the Justice Department in recent months.

"This is an unusual criminal case. It rests upon a forty-year-old federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 611, that prohibits the act of voting in a federal election by a non-U.S. citizen. Until very recently, no federal court has been presented with the following question about that statute: Did Congress have Constitutional authority to enact it? That's unusual, all by itself," Leibowitz wrote.

The Biden-appointed judge went on to say the Justice Department's "principal defense of the statute's constitutionality invokes a single Supreme Court case that is very, very weak."

"So why does the Government lead with such a weak hand? Because it's the best hand it can play," he said. "And why is that? Because the text, structure, and original public meaning of the Constitution show that Congress does not have the constitutional power to enact this statute."


In a phone conversation Friday night, Cox's attorney Bruce Udolf said his client is "gratified" by Leibowitz's ruling and said it was a "huge relief to her." Udolf said Cox recently underwent a medical procedure, and he is working with the government to determine the next steps in the case and whether the Trump administration moves to deport her.

In court papers, federal prosecutors accused Cox of overstaying a U.S. tourist visa more than 20 years ago and obtaining a Florida driver's license by presenting a fraudulent U.S. Virgin Islands birth certificate. They alleged she cast ballots in several federal elections starting in 2012, with a vote in the 2020 general election leading to last year's charges.

Cox's lawyers asked the court to dismiss the charges earlier this year, arguing the law used to charge her "exceeds Congress's authority and intrudes on a power reserved to the States."

Federal prosecutors pushed back, arguing the Constitution "provides that the federal government play a significant role in overseeing such elections."

"Whether it is to regulate the manner of federal elections or to preserve a distinct privilege of federal citizenship, surely the United States has the right to exclude non-citizens from voting in federal elections," attorneys for the Justice Department wrote.

The problem with her and her ilk is that they have no idea how lucky they are to live in America. Even with our problems, which I would argue are mostly created by her and her ilk, this is the greatest nation on Earth. She doesn’t deserve America