Fresh
off
his
whirlwind
tour
of
Greenland,
Yale
Law
School’s
own
very
special
boy
JD
Vance
decided
to
flex
his
degree
by
wading
into
the
legal
particulars
of
immigration.
It
started
with
a
Twitter
post
by
Politico
reporter
Kyle
Cheney:
Indeed
it
is
not.
Different
legal
standards
and
so
on
and
so
on.
Anyway,
Vance
stormed
into
the
chat
with
a
vigor
usually
reserved
for
publicly
planning
a
Yemen
bombing:
“Under
the
Biden
administration.”
2019.
What
is
it
with
conservative
commentary
and
an
inability
to
grasp
linear
time?
Donald
Trump
was,
in
fact,
the
president
in
2019.
Jonathan
Turley
pulls
this
one
a
lot,
while
he
scrounges
around
to
concoct
a
Charlie
Kelly
in
the
Mailroom
style
basis
for
prosecuting
Joe
Biden
based
on
emails
from
years
when
he
wasn’t
in
public
office.
Now
Donald
Trump
is
talking
about
a
“rematch”
with
Barack
Obama…
what
is
happening
with
these
people
and
basic
perception
of
time?
But
aside
from
that
nitpick,
Vance
is
also
substantively
wrong!
In
fact,
the
person
in
question
was
never
convicted
and
the
“evidence”
behind
the
bond
order
could
not
and
would
not
stand
up
in
any
effort
to
convict
him
of
anything.
A
confidential
informant
tagged
him
as
a
gang
member.
Which,
even
if
mere
membership
were
sufficient
to
deport
someone,
it
is
not
a
crime
in
and
of
itself
and
“dude
pointed
at
him”
is
nowhere
near
enough
to
send
a
guy
to
a
slave
labor
camp.
Shouldn’t
a
Yale
Law
School
graduate
understand
the
difference
between
convictions
and
random
assertions
from
confidential
informants?
In
fairness,
Yale
Law
doesn’t
really
do
that
as
much
as
it
teaches
you
what
Descartes
might
have
thought
about
the
Dormant
Commerce
Clause.
But
still,
shouldn’t
someone
with
a
lick
of
practical
legal
knowledge
stop
him
before
he
runs
in
like
it’s
Ashley
Home
Furniture’s
Discount
Days?
But
the
chef’s-fucking-kiss
on
this
is
that
Vance
sent
his
“analysis”
at
8:48
a.m.
yesterday.
By
1:55
p.m….
Man,
the
administration
really
hates
this
guy.
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