The fine is $998 per day for “willfully” failing to depart after a final order of removal. $3,000 for failing to depart after voluntarily agreeing to do so, per incident. $250 for entering the United States not at a port of entry (increased to $5,130 after 4 July, 2025).

The per-day fines accrue to a limit of $1.8 million per individual.

The $998 per day fine was part of the 1996 immigration reform package. Previous administrations didn’t bother with it too much, because how the heck are going to collect the money from people you’ve already deported to foreign country? And how will people pay you hundreds of thousands if they’re already poor and broke?

This administration doesn’t care about the practical limits of collection, and I suspect they don’t care too much about proving the “willfully” part of it either.

Who needs most of the Pacific fleet anyway?

The problem with lethal injections is they use untrained or low trained prison guards to do the injections. If board certified anesthesiologists were doing it, it would be much more painless, and complications could be handled and responded to.

Anesthesiologists don’t become executioners because they all swore to the Hippocratic oath.

Okay. Now go to File Explorer and right click to create a new text file and try to name it “con”. That’s three letters: con. You can’t do it. Not allowed. Because CON has been reserved (in every directory on every drive) for piping to and from console since MS-DOS 2 or so. (I think 2 is when they stole pipes from Unix)

Okay. Now, open just about any kind of desktop window and double click in its upper left corner. In > 9 windows out of 10 that action still closes the window even though the “close window” button was moved to the upper right corner by Windows 3. Even though a bunch of modern applications don’t even have any icon there at all any more.

What the lawyers say is not under oath unless they go to the witness stand and swear in. The main reason is that lawyers mainly are in the court to make opinionated arguments, not to give facts.

Lawyers do have a “duty of candor” to the “tribunal” at all times, however. This is because they have taken an oath (different from the witness oath) to become “officers of the court”. This means they cannot knowingly misstate facts or law to the court.

But the maximum exposure on a duty of candor violation is court sanctions, like fines or adverse court outcomes, possibly contempt, and bar discipline, and so on. It’s not the crime of perjury.

There is a rule that covers fake citations, AI or not. But it’s not immediate.

What’s happens is the court makes a disciplinary referral to the state bar association, which handles barring and disbarring. At minimum there’s some kind of additional bar discipline hearing before adverse action.

Each federal court, district or appellate, can also independently revoke admission to the bar of that individual court.

I’ve had that happen in Rome and Barcelona. The sing and dance was invariably followed by a tipping phase where they sent ten year olds around to pass the hat while also trying to pick my pocket.

For a long time I was really confused about what is so bad about the Atlanta Hawks that you might need an alibi to go see them.

It turns out that the second part of this wacko’s conspiracy theory is that Jack Smith used the Atlanta Hawks (which, again, Smith never actually went to) as a cover to secretly meet with Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis.

Absolutely no evidence as to this “meeting” with Willis was presented whatsoever.

And if you live in Texas, don’t rely on DPS to process your voter registration through the driver license system. File an application directly with your county registrar.

There’s a provision in the law where they can’t do any mass purges within 90 days of an election. So this ruling is limited to “individualized queries” for the rest of the 2026 cycle. But you can expect it to be a much bigger deal in the 2028 cycle if it doesn’t get overturned.

(This is a situation where Congress has the power to change the law. Hint, hint.)

Before two days ago, there was a period of several months where the African deportations were legal because everyone’s favorite Supreme Court decided to allow them during the litigation.

Update: in a recent filing, the white house claims all press passes are restored, but it took like all morning to find and process then

EDIT update: lol

Judge ordered the gov to provide some response by 12:30, on about half an hour.

This is apparently direct contempt of court by the white house, and it’s going to be very well covered because guess who the plaintiffs are.

Meanwhile, the government may also be defying the 1st circuit order that bars no-notice third country deportations to Africa. But it’s hard to tell. There’s evidence that some planes may be heading to Africa today. But who is on the planes? ADS-B doesn’t tell us that.

Update: the hearing on the proposed restraining order is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Something to keep in mind is that the lawsuit to reverse this has already been filed, and it seems like a solid winner on first amendment viewpoint discrimination grounds. I think it’s likely an injunction will come down pretty fast to restore the credentials.

The Netanyahu arrest warrant is controversial because of the jurisdiction issue.

Here’s what Wikipedia says about the ICC’s jurisdiction:

The ICC can generally exercise jurisdiction in cases where the accused is a national of a state party, the alleged crime took place on the territory of a state party, or a situation is referred to the Court by the United Nations Security Council.

If Israel is not a state party to the ICC, there are two remaining possibilities that I can see:

• the court is acting on referral from the UNSC (I haven’t heard of such a thing, and it seems like the US would veto).
• the court is claiming that Palestine is a state party to the court. In order to make this claim, one must first also establish that Palestine is a state.

And in fact, France took the position that it would not enforce the warrant because the court lacks jurisdiction.

EDIT: I finally found a source on the ICC’s position on this jurisdiction question. The ICC ruling is that the state of Palestine signed onto the Rome Statute in 2015, and the ICC accepted Palestine’s membership in 2021. And that this gives ICC jurisdiction within the territory of the West Bank and Gaza going back to 2014.

The 2021 court ruling explicitly determined that Palestine is a state.

What’s going to happen is:

• The big players know that the token pricing crisis is coming up.
• When the price increases hit, regular users are going to scramble for alternatives.
• Local models will be an attractive alternative for many users. The cost of hardware and energy will constrain local model power, but many will be willing to live with it.
• So these would-be cartel members want to hit the local and open weight models with the “safety” card. Otherwise they might be holding the bag on all of those data centers.

“You see, it’s just too dangerous to humanity to experiment with AI at home. You need to use a safe provider like Open AI.”

Man this shit pisses me off so much. At the turn off the twentieth century Germany was absolutely cleaning up in theoretical physics. And they pissed it all away with their fascist bullshit.

None of these people care to read the basics of history at all.

Apparently, Hoskins was at the hearing, but it sounds like he might have escaped with some light ass chewing.

The court found that Hoskins was in contempt, but he managed to purge the contempt by hearing time. (i.e. he came into compliance with the court order by directing election officials to use the 2022 map.)