If it’s Friday, it’s Carl has too many tabs open and is sharing some with you! Only realized after assembling them that it’s even more Seattle focused than usual.
– Joe Mallahan is running for mayor again. Hard no thank you in the primary.
– I don’t know enough about the Bar’s rules to know what will happen with Judge Pooja Vaddadi’s complaint, but Ann Davison seems to have acted unethically from a moral standpoint.
– Finally, Seattle elected officials do what the public most wants: Self dealing.
– And hey, the people spending big on Sara Nelson are who you think they are.
I certainly hope that the Bidens continue to speak publicly on behalf of the Democrat party.
I’d like to thank RBG for cancelling out GHWB41’s error in nominating Souter. It took nearly three decades, of course, but the end result is glorious.
For a guy who claims sobriety and tells tales of alcohol killing his brother Donnie sure likes to surround himself with people showing all the red flags of substance abuse disorder.
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For a guy who famously claimed his POS son did nothing wrong and who defended the other POS members of his family ol’ Joe sure handed out a lot of pardons to his family members.
It’s really too bad the resurrection card he handed to Beau was a dud.
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I can answer that question in two parts.
1. Donnie doesn’t care about businesses that can’t ‘donate’ a couple three million
2. Donnie hasn’t the slightest grasp of Tariffs and how they work.
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Second Verse SAME AS THE FIRST!
I’m Henry the Eighth I am I am….
#BREAKING
Irony is ironic.
Columbia University, of Journalism School Renown, has suspended three students one from Campus radio WKCR and two from Columbia Daily Spectator who Identified themselves as Press to campus police, attended and filed stories on this weeks protests.
The University has stated they will not be able to take final exams.
Judge Sessions, defendant appearing via Zoom from Louisiana concentration camp.
More Judge Sessions
Bondi is going to dox him by the afternoon.
There are two things going on here, Carl. First is the ACLU lawsuit against the city attorney. Standing could be problematical, because the plaintiffs are only members of the community, not individuals specifically harmed by the city attorney’s policy or practice.
In addition, the only case cited in the complaint — an appeal of a criminal conviction and sentence — is factually unlike the situation with the city attorney, in that the court found the prosecutor’s policy violated the defendant’s due process rights, whereas Davison’s policy or practice did not violate any defendant’s due process rights. At most, it meant defendants’ cases would be heard by one of the other seven municipal court judges. Defendants don’t have a right to a specific judge.
Second, Vaddadi’s bar complaint against Davison and named members of her staff may have merit and therefore potentially could result in disciplinary action, depending on the eventual factual findings. RPC 8.2(a) prohibits lawyers from knowingly or recklessly making false statements about judges, so if this complaint goes to a hearing, the issue likely will be the truth or falsity of the city attorney office’s public statements about Vaddadi — not the policy or practice itself.
Vaddadi’s complaint doesn’t allege the RPC’s were violated by the blanket affidavit. The bar complaint is about whether Davison et al. publicly lied about the judge. If the disciplinary authority finds they did, that could result in sanctions ranging from reprimand to disbarment, although the latter is very unlikely in this case.
Any party can affidavit a judge, and isn’t required to prove the judge is prejudiced against the filer. But affidavits are frowned on, and for that reason, rare. A prosecutor’s blanket affidavit of a judge would be controversial under any circumstances. I think most lawyers would expect a prosecutor questioning a judge’s competence or fairness would take that complaint to the state judicial conduct commission instead.
A brief comment about “morality”: You won’t find this term in the RPCs or court decisions. It’s too vague and indefinite a term and concept for the law to work with. However, the RPCs in many places impose moral obligations on lawyers, for example an obligation not to lie to courts, or to steal client funds. But the moral component of lawyer ethics will always be found in specific duties, admonitions, or prohibitions set forth in the RPCs, and you will not find courts, judicial commissions, or bar disciplinary officials speaking about lawyer ethics in “morality” language.
@2 Celebrating someone’s death again? I’m asking because that seems to be a habit of yours. You’re possibly the most morbid person I’ve ever encountered.
@7 It appears all four student journalists have been unsuspended as of today, see story here, but they shouldn’t have been suspended in the first place. It appears the Columbia and Barnard administrators acted in a knee-jerk manner instead of investigating and making a decision based on facts. That’s a pretty poor showing by people purporting to be academicians.
We have conquered the Island of Misfit Toys as well!
Donnie ‘Aced the Cognitive Test’ Trump.
This didn’t take long:
https://www.rawstory.com/pope-leo-xiv-racial-slur/
Sen. Chris Murphy telling IceIce Barbie that she’s on target to blow through the entire FY Homeland Security budget by July is pretty cool.
Kristi….maybe a few fewer tailored boob accentuating Kevlar Vests and Concentration Camp modeling shoots are in order?
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A better way to put it might have been that the City Attorney acted unethcially from a professional standpoint, which as you point out, may have some merit.
If the reporting about this is correct the campaign of blanket AOPs resulted from a ruling the CAO didn’t like disqualifying one of the office’s ACAs.
The ACA in question brough it upon herself by taking a formal statement from a witness in a criminal case and then not bothering to document that satement. Those are both fairly bright line fuckups. She should not have been interviewing witnesses. And if she received a statement from a witness unbidden, it should have been documented elsehwere. But because she fuckedup on both counts she becomes a direct witness herself to the credibility of the other witness, who apparently changed her testimony multiple times during the investigation of the incident (some kind of simple assault). So upon motion from the defense, the judge ruled to DQ the ACA so that she could be available as a witness. The CAO appealed the ruling to the county superior court and the ruling was upheld. But even before that the CAO launched their campaign of AOPs.
The def deserves every opportunity to challenge and disqualify testimony that could result in her conviction. As we both know the role of the prosecutor is not to seek “conviction” per se but to seek justice. So it’s not just petty to be this butt hurt about an adverse ruling. It’s contrary to the CAOs obligations to the court and to the rights of the accused. It describes real prejudice. But also not an insignificant level of pure insanity within your CAO. They sound unhinged as fuck.
From the folks who have ordered the baseless FBI police arrests on faked criminal charges of two state court judges and one big city mayor…
…so far.
While Fat Hitler stole, concealed, sold, and destroyed national defense intelligence and was never arrested by federal police for any of it.
@16 In case you’re not intimately familiar with Seattle politics, Davison ran for city attorney as a “law and order” candidate, and is one of the few rightwing officeholders in this town.
Does that help explain things?
Isn’t that a little like the Commandant of the Coast Guard advocating for Soviet confrontation?
Has she sought the death penalty in a shoplifting case yet?
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That’s a pretty poor showing by people purporting to be academicians.
So is allowing pro-Palestinian protestors to harass and threaten Jewish students on campus. But that doesn’t bother you.
Does it. Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.
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As we both know …
You give Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit far too much credit. There is simply no reason to assume he recalls anything he learned in law school. He has proven too many times that he does not.
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Davison ran for city attorney as a “law and order” candidate …
Actually, she ran as someone who would provide a choice to those Seattle Democrats who think George Soros is an asshole.
She was endorsed by two former governors who subsequently joined the Obama administration, Gregoire and Locke. That’s not exactly law-and-order cred.
The dumb cunt she ran against is a police abolitionist. People had just gotten done experiencing the Durkan Kill Zone during the “Summer of Love”.
Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit describes Davison incorrectly by making it seem as if she ran against someone who has good ideas.
@20 “So is allowing pro-Palestinian protestors to harass and threaten Jewish students on campus.”
Made-up bullshit doesn’t cut it here, dumbfuck. You’re gonna have to do better than that.
What’s your evidence these student journalists harassed or threatened Jewish students, or were even “protestors”?
Ever notice how the dumbfuck troll has to lie about people to have any argument at all? Weak sauce indeed.
Ham sandwich alert.
When you know better than to just say, “Because she’s black.”
The Library of Congress since 1870 has attempted to obtain copies of all publications within the US. Works are rarely rejected and usually because the publisher fails to provide.
In today’s “Making America Goose-stepping Aryan” news,
“Top White House adviser Stephen Miller says ‘we’re actively looking at’ suspending due process for migrants”
while
“The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees”
Now it’s Fat Hitler’s turn to face an empty witness chair.
Have fun with that. She has a NY State Police protection detail that includes former Seals.
Send well armed bachelors wearing plate carriers.
Unless you believe all Canadians are liars, it sure sounds like Canadian visitors are being screened at some border crossings for political loyalty to Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZr4LPde2A
@28 She could offer to waive the Fifth Amendment in exchange for immunity …
I didn’t know Clark County sheriff’s deputies carry bayonets for their Glocks.
https://www.columbian.com/news/2025/may/08/clark-county-sheriffs-deputy-fatally-stabs-a-dui-suspect-at-wsp-scale-house-in-ridgefield/
This has to be a Democratic dirty trick played on Republicans. Why else would they try to amend an immigration bill to prohibit using federal funds to deport U.S. citizens? They knew damn well their Republican colleagues would face plant on that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_moDlKh9ys
Which, of course, they did.
https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/us-house-republicans-vote-against-blocking-ice-from-deporting-us-citizens/