Recent content by RocksInMyHead

The fact that an "emergency" is even required in order to perform a standard medical procedure is part of the issue. And I would say that two attempts to induce a stillbirth without success would suggest that another method should be tried. Leaving a deceased fetus in the mother puts her at...

A friend of mine lost a pregnancy in a similar way several years ago - no heartbeat at her 12-week appointment, but also no signs of miscarriage. Fortunately, she lives in California, and her doctor had no issue scheduling her for an immediate D&C. She made a full recovery and went on to have...

Yeah - as I said, context matters. If you're mean and cruel and hateful, it shouldn't exactly be shocking when that colors some peoples' opinions of you and makes them question your motives.

Need a hand with those goalposts? You said no one on the left was calling for immigration reform. I provided some examples.

You can ask for it, but it doesn't appear to be public. All I know is that the executive order he issued that rescinded Trump's ban also ordered further investigation (and addressed other potentially problematic applications that Trump's order had ignored). The FTC investigation (which started...

What, has she got a wart?

I'm sure it's only a coincidence that all you need to do is remove a single letter in order to change that into a common anti-gay rallying cry from the '90s and early 2000s.

Which time was that? I can't speak for the rest of "the left", but I would have been satisfied by that, assuming it was phrased sensibly and came with supporting data. Of course, you'd need to also eliminate all of the anti-immigration rhetoric he'd spent his entire campaign spouting. Context...

The complicated part - what that book primarily addresses - comes after the pool of prospective jurors is presented to the judge and the attorneys. You're alleging interference from the judge in the selection of that pool, which is the process I outlined in those four steps. Looking at the...

The point is that there is a standard jury selection process, used for every jury trial, designed to minimize any bias or appearance of bias. Even if we assume that the judge in this particular case was biased, that's irrelevant to jury selection because the standard process is to isolate the...

There's a defined process for such things. Biden followed it. Trump did not. That's simply a statement of fact.

Unless you're claiming that a completely different jury selection process was used for this case (which, again, would make for a slam dunk appeal), I don't see the relevance of this statement to what we're discussing. We aren't talking about that though - we're just talking about the jury...

Possibly, but the whole point of the jury selection process is to minimize the chance of bias, or even the appearance of bias. As such, the jury pool is isolated from the judge and attorneys as much as possible - to the point of having a separate entrance to the courthouse (at least when I've...

Step 1: A sufficient pool of people is randomly selected for jury duty; typically from drivers license or voter registration records. Step 2: Potential jurors show up to court on their assigned day and are randomly assigned a number. This is the jury pool. Step 3: If there are any cases, the...

I'm not a mind reader, so I don't know whether he meant to say something different, but that is the gist of what he said. I agree that he wasn't suggesting that Americans inject bleach or disinfectant (that's been mildly blown out of proportion as the story has been retold), but he was...