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Morning Reads – Thursday, October 26, 2017

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On this date in 1984, “Baby Fae” was given the heart of baboon after being born with a severe heart defect. She lived for 21 days with the animal heart.

Peaches

Jimmy Carter

Sweet Tea

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Jessica Szilagyi

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  1. evergreentree

    This lawsuit was bonkers. What on earth made them believe that illegal immigrants should be entitled to in-state tuition when citizens from other states aren’t?

    “Charles Kuck, the attorney representing the DACA recipients in the case, said they would appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court. Rigoberto Rivera, a plaintiff and Roswell High School graduate who was brought to the U.S. from Mexico as a child, wrote on Facebook the appeals court’s decision was “erroneous and an injustice” to the DACA recipients in Georgia who “pay taxes and that have fought for the past four years for their right to in-state tuition.” ”

    Except that a citizen of the United States who moves from, say, Ohio to Georgia can pay federal and state taxes while living and working in Georgia and still not qualify for in state tuition if they don’t meet the residency requirements. Which means that this isn’t even an immigration issue per se as natural born citizens, naturalized citizens and permanent residents and people here on various visas often don’t meet the residency requirements and have to pay out of state tuition also. International students – foreign students who receive visas for the express purpose of coming to America to attend college – often do not qualify for in state tuition even if they spend like 12 years here from undergraduate to postdoctoral/medical school and work the entire time, and in some states never do. If a state wants to grant in-state tuition to noncitizens that is their prerogative but there is no legal compulsion to. And no, continuous residence in a state is not the sole determination of in-state tuition status. There are other qualifications that you have to meet.

    The judge who made the previous ruling is an activist judge who needs to be removed from the bench. Again, this has nothing to do with undocumented immigrants because even people who have proper documentation often can’t qualify for in state tuition either.

    That list of top 5 high school QBs is strange. It only includes QBs who were also great college players. It doesn’t include great high school QBs who for whatever reason didn’t stand out in college ball. And if you are going to put Trevor Lawrence over Deshaun Watson because of Lawrence’s superior passing numbers – ignoring Watson’s rushing numbers – why have Charlie Ward over both when Ward didn’t do much passing in high school? And what of Ward’s high school nemesis and cross-town rival Shawn Jones, who led Georgia Tech to a national title? So Buck Belue gets on there for leading UGA to a national title but Jones doesn’t get on for leading Tech to one? Ah well …

    • drjay

      every state may be different, but one of the reasons i came home to finish school after a year in virginia was because the requirements to get in state tuition if you didn’t graduate from a virginia high school were quite stringent and would have required dropping out of school and working in virginia for a year, in addition to filing state taxes, not being able to be claimed by my out of state parents a couple of other things…so it may not be a slam dunk for that kid from ohio to do it here either…

    • bethebalance

      You have more patience than I do, ACP, to address the clear need for legal education.
      As for that whole “activist judge” thing, that’s been a red herring that’s been duping many, mostly the targeted Republican audiences, for over a generation. The bottom line– every decision that every judge makes takes a side, and “acts” upon the law. It’s not as if the Constitution or statue spells out every issue in detail. Which is why a “case” or “controversy” exists. If you take a side in a controversy- as every judge must in every decision- you are being an activist for that side of the controversy. But it seems so pointless to even try to educate nowadays.

      • evergreentree

        Andrew C. Pope and bethebalance:

        All right fine. I will simplify this and simply ask: what is the legal basis for determining that in-state tuition must be granted to undocumented students? Give the rationale using either state or federal law. Since I am so uneducated on this matter it should be pretty easy for you to do so.

    • evergreentree

      @Andrew C. Pope:

      “Because they got into a public university in the state of Georgia after graduating from Georgia high schools and, aside from the fact their parents brought them here as children, they meet criteria the Board of Regents has set forth for in-state tuition.”

      That isn’t what this says. http://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section4/C329/

      They can’t qualify as an independent student because: “An individual who is not claimed as a dependent on the federal or state income tax returns of a parent or United States court appointed legal guardian, and whose parent or guardian has ceased to provide support and rights to that individual’s care, custody, and earnings”.

      So they would need to qualify as a dependent student. But there: “A dependent student shall be classified as in-state for tuition purposes if such dependent student’s parent has established and maintained domicile in the State of Georgia for at least twelve (12) consecutive months immediately preceding the first day of classes for the term and:

      The student has graduated from a Georgia high school; or,
      The parent claimed the student as a dependent on the parent’s most recent federal or state income tax return.”

      No federal or state tax return, no in-state tuition status even if you graduated from a Georgia high school and you are a citizen. You – or your parents – paying into Social Security doesn’t count. An undocumented person would have to pretty much be full time military in order to qualify for in-state tuition status, and even that would be as an independent student. There is no way for an undocumented student to meet the requirement as a dependent student.

      That is why I said that the first judge showed absolutely no respect for the law when making the decision and needs to be removed. It was an activist decision designed to pursue a specific outcome or public policy goal. Fine, but that is the job of the legislature, and within certain parameters executive branch bodies like the BOR. It isn’t the job of the judiciary.

  2. Benevolus

    “One day, robots will have an IQ of 10,000”
    That won’t make Trump happy.
    Oh wait, his is probably 100,000.

  3. Benevolus

    We need more cowbell Josh McKoon stories.

  5. Will Durant

    Electing Republicans is not useless if you are planning to gun down an entire village and have a business need to fire your AK/AR at four or five hundred rounds per minute.
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-weeks-after-las-vegas-legislation-to-ban-bump-stocks-has-stalled-out-in-congress

  6. Benevolus

    The same Russian lawyer who was in that meeting with Junior had allegedly been working with Fusion GPS to smear Magnitsky, presumably at the behest of the Russian government in order to remove the reason for the Magnitsky sanctions.
    So therefore, supposedly Fusion and lawyer Veselnitskaya were working for the Russians, looking for dirt on Trump, and offering Trump dirt on Clinton!
    I don’t know what to make of it yet.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/25/the-clinton-camp-and-the-dnc-helped-pay-for-that-trump-russia-dossier-heres-what-it-means/?utm_term=.559bdded83ac

    • Noway2016

      This has the makings of a nightmare for the Dems! Lol! Collusion, Corruption and Clintons! What a Trinity!!

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