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Dude, check out the bold italicized above. It doesn't limit it to under "this Act." It says any at all.

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I think he was talking about population. Not a lot of people in the Dakotas.

At what point does the population of the Dakotas become so small that we turn them back into a federal territory?

As far as the flag is concerned there seemed to be this lazy trend in the middle to late nineteenth century where a bunch of states just slapped their state seal on a piece of cloth and called it their flag. No creativity at all.

Luckily this trend ended in the twentieth century so Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska all have pretty cool flags.

My favorite flag is Maryland's. There is a flag with some character.

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Tht's how I read it too.

S_A_M

P.S. Have I missed the big discussion on Carla Martin, the TSA lawyer whose misconduct has just ensured that Moussaoui will _not_receive the death penalty? (Tough case anyway, but . . . .) Fucking incredible.

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2. And I think Fringe already made the point that "conspiracy" is not itself a crime (nor is "attempt"). It's a conspiracy to commit a crime, in this case performing an abortion. Inchoate offenses are not themselves offenses, only in conjunction with something otherwise unlawful.

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BTW, did Texas rip of Chile?

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Sort of.

The exclusionary rule is apparently bad.

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What's to discuss, other than it's a massive fucking bungle. Then again, the basis on which they were trying to get him was pretty thin.

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Yes. Fringe didn't think she needed to bold and italicize the "any" the first time around. It seemed pretty obvious.

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Is that set, that he won't get the death penalty? Was there another ruling, or is it that the case falls apart without the testimony of the witnesses who were coached and given info they weren't supposed to have and otherwise mishandled?

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And I don't see how it really matters, anyway. I suppose there's some chance that SD could claim it's not putting an undue burden on women by forcing them to go out of state (where they could not be subject to prosecution by SD, but could if it were a crime to procure an abortion or attempt to get one, even out of state). But I don't think they're looking to split those hairs with this one.

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Government is weighing its options.

Are there only three people at TSA who could so testify, or are they barred from adding witnesses at this point? In other words, surely there are untainted witnesses.

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Apparently even the prosecutors candidly say that he's not going to get the death penalty unless the excluded witnesses can testify. They're asking the judge to reconsider her ruling tomorrow. I can't possibly see how he'd get a fair hearing if that were to happen, and is there an appeal process for the prosecutorial side on a hearing like this one?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060315/...NlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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Yeah, it seems like it's possibly important on a political level, but probably not from the constitutionality standpoint, since I don't think they are trying to meet any kind of "no undue burden" standard here. I would presume they are hoping to get Roe dumped, so that there no longer is any burden test to impose.

BURGER!!! Its. Its. Its.

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Maybe these are the only three people who would have made the decision to change security procedures if they'd known about the plot? I wonder how many false alarms those guys followed up upon prior to 9/11. I wonder how many false alarms they follow up upon now.

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I see that. But read it again:

"Nothing in this Act may be construed to subject the pregnant mother upon whom any abortion is performed or attempted to any criminal conviction and penalty."

Nothing in this Act may be construed to subject the pregnant mother ... to any criminal conviction and penalty. What if some other law, on its face, may be construed to subject the pregnant mother to criminal conviction and penalty?