Ex-CTLawyer

@AAQ
Black support is a real thing, it does not matter that Obama was half white and Harris half Indian.
They sell in the urban ghettos and Black churches. I have seen the voters whipped up by the cleverly and the grassroots get out the vote effort.

The descendants of slaves idea is one only considered by the elite, not the masses

@CA
Properties are in Trusts, haven’t been in personal name for decades

@AAQ
The CT Presidential Primary was in April
The August Primary is for state offices

Gadolhadorah

You are quite wrong about the mechanics.
If a candidate releases delegates, they may vote for others at the convention.
It is not Biden who has a place on the 50 state ballots, but the official nominee of the Democrat Party and that person is not chosen until the convention in August.

In most states absentee ballots can be mailed 30 days before Election Day, not soon after the August Convention.

Replacing a named candidate on the ballots after the convention can be tricky.

FYI, I still hold my position as Asst. Registrar of Voters back in CT and have to keep up on the laws. I will be overseeing the August 13 primaries this year.

@Reb Eliezer

As my mother , the strict grammarian, A”L always said:
Dogs get mad, people get angry.

@UJM
I was asked to comment on experience in the past when I was a lawyer in CT
I am now an Ex-CT lawyer as I surrendered my license, but still licensed attorney in NY, MA and FL

I just can’t legally identify as a lawyer in connection with the word Connecticut

@AAQ
Absolutely no difference based on insurance
My mother was Title XIX Medicaid
MIL was traditional Medicare
Late wife a Medicare Advantage Plan through State Exchange

Three different hospice companies providing care
All at zero cost to patient providing a equipment and personnel
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Please look at ematai on line or Facebook
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a childhood friend is director of the accociation of Hospices of the USA and has been invaluable proving guidance and law over the years

@jdf007

My experiences were at a Catholic hospital (hospital of choice where we lived in CT). No Jewish or government hospitals in the area and far better care than the university affiliated hospital.
As a family law trust attorney I dealt with hospices and associated issues for decades and did not run into what you experienced.
Certainly at the Catholic hospital every effort is made to keep the patient alive as long as possible.

It is terrible to be put in the position to discontinue further medical procedures. It happened to me with the late Mrs. CTL. After coding three times in a few years, 140 surgeries, a dozen long term ICU stays in comas in life support, we were presented with one final medical procedure that could be attempted. Both the surgeon and nephrologist agreed with my observation that she could not survive the procedure. 100% medical opinion that she would die on the table in pain.
Decision made to start hospice care in ICU, remove artificial life support and let her die with me and daughters in dignity. Small doses of morphine to handle pain (not hasten death), she passed in two hours with no further suffering.

The medical establishment would have been happy to keep billing insurance for things that could not have saved her life. Hashem had a way of let us know her time on earth was up

Look for the group Ematai on line. They hold on line and in person events in assorted Frum communities dealing with these issues.

Having run a family law and estate practice for decades, I found them to be an invaluable resource in this area.

@Chaim87
What was offensive about your June 6 reply was the false statement you made that I copy and paste ….,
I am a septuagenarian who does not copy and paste. I choose my own words carefully.
Anyone who has read my comments and/or posts the last 15 years can see that they are my own words.
I also don’t call names when disagreeing with another viewpoint.

That said, I oppose government censorship of the press. The First Amendment to the Constitution which protects us from a government sponsored religion also guarantees this freedom.
I only believe in certain limitations as they apply to national security or protecting privacy ( such as not posting names of rape victims).

Back in the day newspapers had political ideology and one bought and read the one you agreed with. Today you chose an online news source you identify with.
I grew up in New Haven and the Jackson Family who owned and published the two local papers were staunch republicans. We didn’t read the editorial pages for this reason, but it was the only source of local news and advertising.
Today almost every daily in CT is owned by Hearst and not worth reading, circulation is in the toilet tans I have no friends who buy the papers. I check obituaries free on line.

It is not the job of government to protect us from populist/fascist candidates by censoring the press. That would make the government as evil as the candidate you want silenced.

Yes, the masses may be taken in by the populist, but that freedom of expression and the vote is the spine of our country.

@Chaim87
Re: your June 6th reply.

I don’t like lies posted about me.
You may not agree with my political views, I don’t care, BUT despite your lies, I have never copied and pasted liberal or any other arguments. My thoughts expressed are in my own words.
I don’t drink Kool-Aid and I don’t hurl personal insults at others in the CR just because I don’t agree with them.

@coffeeaddit

This Democrat never starts treads on political topics, whether or not based on current events. I only comment on threads.
In most cases I may eplain the law or how the system works under the constitution but don’t politic for a candidate

@Always
I was quite specific about the NY DA, etc.
You conflate this with a story about Merrick Garland who is a Federal official.
Trump was tried and convicted on state charges.
Biden is Garland’s boss

@Lostspark
CTLawyer has substantially removed himself from most of social media.
Preoccupied with upcoming marriage and disposition of a lifetime of stuff in the compound before my relocation to NY.
Effective this year, I no longer active in politics.
There are more important things in my life at this time..

That said, I will not vote for Trump but am not a Biden supporter this time around. Wish we had better choices this year.

@drp
Don’t reply, but don’t make false accusations.
I did not call you a five year old, I said calling names like a five year old.
My words are chosen carefully.
No one (who you do not pay) owes you a direct answer to any question.
I often spend time away from the coffee room and upon return may not visit previous threads.

I don’t act as in 1944, a decade before my birth.
I shall not vote for the serial adulterer, election denier, grifter under any circumstances. That does not mean I shall vote for anyone else. In November I shall decide.

I disagree about white male evangelical Christians not being a threat to world Jewry. If they destroy American Jewry, then Israel has lost its biggest source of political and financial support.

As for liberalism, most Jews in The US are not frum. Liberal action such as the Civil Rights Act and doing away with forced Christian prayer in public schools benefited Jews.
I got an Ivy League and Law School education. My older brother was legally told that the Jew quota was closed when denied admission by Princeton.

My younger brother didn’t have to leave the country for medical school as our uncle did.

There is a difference between liberal and leftist.

Despite it all, I wish you a zissen Pesach, Chag lasher v’sameach.

@Akuperma

Sorry, there would not be physical evidence of an assault.
Assault is threat of imminent physical harm or danger. It is not the same as battery which is the unwanted of unlawful touching of another.
Assault is the perception of the person sensing the attack.
I I raise my arm in a fist and move towards you, it is assault, if I make contact with you it is battery. In most jurisdictions the crime charged is assault and battery.

I am merely explaining the legal concept of the crime and in no way expressing an opinion on this particular trial.

@SACT5
Sorry about stretching out population

Have been a Lamont supporter/delegate from his initial decision to run statewide.
A decent man, definitely not radical left.

Lieberman abandoned his Democratic roots but didn’t have the guts to switch parties.

edited That didn’t end a friendship.

@Squareroot
quoting an article from Right wing Murdoch CT Post about internal CT Democratic Politics, what a joke.

I am probably the best qualified in the CR ti speak to Lieberman/Lamont history.

I knew Joe Lieberman very well for 55 years. I worked in his first campaign, a primary to unseat State Senator Edward Marcus in 1970, and many campaigns after that. I was a delegate at the National convention that nominated the Gore/Lieberman ticket.
My friendship and support continued through the middle of his second term in the Senate. He may have been pro-Israel, but he ignored the needs and wishes of his constituents as he gained prominence in Washington.

Current Governor Lamont was not backed by the party’s left fringe, but by middle of the road Old school Dems who had been abandoned by Lieberman moving to the right and becoming a awk on foreign policy. I was a delegate a the state convention that denied Lieberman the renomination. He was no longer the best man to represent the citizens of CT.

He had enough name power to win the general election as an independent, Similar to Lowell Weicker’s run for Governor. Lieberman was not sent to the Senate to represent the Jewish people, the interests of Israel, etc. He was sent to represent the 5 million residents of CT.

I knew both of Lieberman’s wives, all his children, his mother, sister and Hadassah’s parents. I attended his funeral (invited by his son Mathew). Just because his politics moved on the right and I didn’t support him in his third run for Senate, did not end a 55 year friendship.

@damoshe

There is no LLD in law, it is a JD (Juris Doctor) which I hold.
Prior to 1961 most US law degrees were LLB

American law is the only discipline where a masters degree LLM is higher than the doctorate JD.

Rav Henkin’s other son:Dr. Hillel Henkin PHd was head of the Bureau of Jewish Education in New Haven when I was growing up. He wrote many of our textbooks, workbooks and the curriculum for all Hebrew schools in the community. Dr. Hillel’s wife went to Hunter College with my mother in the early 40s, and was my Hebrew /religion teacher for 5 years.

@Chaim87

Presidential immunity can/does only apply to Federal action. It has nothing to do with state actions such as brought in NY for violation of state not federal laws. By convention the clock stops on state and civil actions until the President is no longer in office.

I don’t make rules, I offer personal opinion, such as prosecuting a violent crime such as murder by the President. During term of office the House can indict for high crimes and misdemeanors and the Senate conducts the trial.

In Trump’s situation, he is fabricating the premise that Presidential immunity runs with his natural life instead of ending with term in office.

BTW, the classified documents were removed from the White House while in office, it does not matter when they were discovered. Since impeachment can’t occur for someone not in office, only a federal prosecution can occur. Should he go to jail? no, fines and repay costs of retrieval and return of documents? yes…why should taxpayers bear the expense of his misdeeds?

Regarding your comments about Albany and legislative pay:
state legislators are supposed to be part-time citizen legislators and not depend on the pay for their entire livelihood. Here in CT the legislature passes a two year budget in the full session. In the short session year no new bills can be introduced from the floor, only committee chairs move necessary legislation to deal with societal change or emergency. Our legislators get 40k per year for this part time work

Lakewhut

I know thousands more Democrats than you do.
I have been a registered D since 1972
I CT state convention delegate for more than 35 years
A delegate to 6 national conventions
A Democratic Town Committee member for 40 years
Elected government official

Most Dems are not against Israel and don’t support or approve of the squad
But not being against Israel does not mean one supports each and every decision of the Israeli Government.

It is unrealistic to expect non Jewish Americans to put Israel ahead of US interests.

In 1948 D President Truman recognized Israel
In 1967 D President LBJ supported and supplied Israel in the 6 day war
R President Nixon was a known Anti-Semite and of little help with YK War

President Biden has supported Israel through all his decades in government.

The Bushes and Trump sold out to the Saudis

@AAQ

please don’t confuse being sued, a civil action (put on hold until Presidential term is over) with prosecution: a criminal charge brought by the government

Trump was subject to criminal prosecution twice during his term, it’s called impeachment and he was not convicted

Civil suits, such as the sex charges and defamation that he lost in NY had their statute of limitations clocks stopped until he was out of office

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The question the OP should have asked is whether former Presidents should be immune from prosecution?
My answer is a resounding no

@Yechiell

I”H he won’t be President and not have to follow Putin’s instructions regarding Israel or anything else.

@CoffeeAddict

Your response is confused.
#1 a city is a municipality, as are towns, villages and in Connecticut three Boros.
#2 Cities cannot vote, people vote
#3 Municipalities can determine subject to individual State laws and Constitution who may vote and requirements to serve on Municipal Commissions, Boards and Committees.
a. I cited municipalities in CT as examples. Only registered voters may vote to elect people to municipal government. Many towns have a requirement that the Town budget be approved by a referendum, not the only the Town Council. Some towns open these budet votes to all taxpayers, not just registered voters of the town. For example: I own an industrial building in the town next to where I live and am registered to vote. I pay more than 100K in yearly property tax. I have a vested interest in that town’s budget. I am permitted as a taxpayer to vote in the Tax Referendum and have done so for 20 years.
b. One must be a registered voter to be elected Mayor, First Selectman, Council Member, Board of Finance, Board of Education and many other municipal boards, committees and commissions. My town requires anyone appointed to a Town Committee, Board or Commission (I chair the Economic Development Commission) must be a registered voter and appointment approved by the Town Council. Our Charter sets limits on how many members from each party may serve on a commission to keep things balanced.
c. Constituent Agencies such as the Board of Education can establish committees and set parameters for membership as long as in compliance with State law. I explained that the Schools Athletic Committee includes high school students too young to vote.
d. Library Boards in Connecticut are actually State Chartered, not municipal (keeps local politicians from raiding library trust funds) and members need only be residents, not voters nor citizens.

San Francisco dropped (In compliance with California law) a citizenship requirement for service on NON-legislative committees, authorities and Boards. These groups cannot make laws, levy taxes, etc.

I would not be opposed to a non-citizen serving on my municipal Parks commission if he/she had a passion and some valuable contribution to make, The commission is an advisory group to the Parks and Recreation Department. It doesn’t determine budget or spending, hire or fire employees, stc.

Hope this makes it clearer.
The commission the non Citizen was appointed to in San Francisco does NOT make election law or determine who may vote. It helps select polling places, distributes voter education materials, helps spread the word that poll workers are needed, but does not hire or train them.