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Taking bets on either m whether Mark Kelly's lawsuit against Trump gets tossed

As always you may only take my bet by saying "I'll take...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
have you found a link to the complaint? "Kelly sugge...
Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease
  01/12/26
Forces Hegseth to say "heh, no we're not targeting him ...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72131361/1/kelly-v-hegs...
Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease
  01/12/26
It would be a 1A violation to punish any member of the milit...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
me: https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/b0d685bd9276003f29a9...
Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease
  01/12/26
Very cr
gold legend
  01/12/26
🚨 JUST IN: A federal judge has just BLOCKED SecWar Pete H...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  02/12/26
Speech and Debate clause is for real pertinent discussions o...
canary hairraiser base
  01/12/26
IIRC it's been held to protect members of Congress while the...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
aren't we talking about that professionally done video? how ...
Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease
  01/12/26
If a MOC is doing anything communicative within the halls of...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
was the vid done inside the Capitol building? seems like if ...
Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease
  01/12/26
Oh yeah. As a baseline matter that falls under the exclusive...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
I should be more clear: S&D clause says they can't be qu...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
AI: Filming Location: While the precise spot isn't specif...
Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease
  01/12/26
If you know you have the legal privilege available to you yo...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
You fucking retard
Curious Ape Toaster
  02/12/26
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Excitant zombie-like candlestick maker
  02/12/26
Has a single poster ever taken one of your retarded “b...
Offensive selfie
  01/12/26
No, which is shocking since they cost nothing and I'm so stu...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/12/26
You lose
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  02/12/26
interesting lawsuit. i don't have any idea who will win tho...
ruddy digit ratio
  01/12/26
Some shithead district court judge will of course turbo gran...
Cracking opaque parlour
  01/13/26
I think he may not have standing because no official action ...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/13/26
I'll take that bet
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/13/26
Hey cons look, I took my own bet. I think Kelly8 complaint w...
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  01/13/26
Cons lost again
carmine trailer park people who are hurt
  02/12/26
cons are really shitty at law
Curious Ape Toaster
  02/12/26
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  02/12/26


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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:41 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

As always you may only take my bet by saying "I'll take that bet." You may not add, delete or modify any words

I have no idea but I'm betting the lawsuit will NOT be tossed. I haven't read the complaint and I don't know who's repping Kelly (I know who's repping Hegseth though, lol)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49583774)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:45 PM
Author: Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease

have you found a link to the complaint?

"Kelly suggested that the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, which shields lawmakers for conduct done as part of their legislative activities, gives him immunity from many of the topics raised in Hegseth’s censure letter — from the possible commission of war crimes to the Defense secretary’s firings of admirals and generals."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49583785)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

Forces Hegseth to say "heh, no we're not targeting him for THAT" and turns it into an ordinary 1A complaint

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49583801)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:56 PM
Author: Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72131361/1/kelly-v-hegseth/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17

i have no expertise in this area but i assume it will be tossed because federal courts will defer to the military process and let Kelly appeal from the outcome if his constitutional rights are infringed.

i have no expertise in the Speech and Debate clause but i cannot imagine it will be interpreted to protect that stupid ass video Kelly did. the clause: "and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place."

from the Congressional Research Service:

Less than a decade after Johnson, the Supreme Court issued two decisions on the same day in 1972 that established important limitations on the types of actions that are protected by the Clause. In United States v. Brewster, which involved a Member's challenge to his indictment on a bribery charge, the Court reaffirmed Johnson and clarified that "a Member of Congress may be prosecuted under a criminal statute provided that the Government's case does not rely on legislative acts or the motivation for legislative acts."71 The Court made clear that the Clause does not prohibit inquiry into illegal conduct simply because it is "related" to the legislative process or has a "nexus to legislative functions," but rather, the Clause protects only the legislative acts themselves.72 By adhering to such a limitation, the Court reasoned that the result would be a Clause that was "broad enough to insure the historic independence of the Legislative Branch, essential to our separation of powers, but narrow enough to guard against the excesses of those who would corrupt the process by corrupting its Members."73

Brewster also drew an important distinction between legislative and political acts. The opinion labeled a wide array of constituent services,74 though "entirely legitimate," as "political in nature" rather than legislative.75 As a result, the Court suggested that "it has never been seriously contended that these political matters ... have the protection afforded by the Speech or Debate Clause."76

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49583816)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 2:59 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

It would be a 1A violation to punish any member of the military for this same activity unless they did it in uniform. I don't think it matters that he's a senator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49583826)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:03 PM
Author: Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease

me:

https://www.meme-arsenal.com/memes/b0d685bd9276003f29a92af2fb233943.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49583836)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 4:52 PM
Author: gold legend

Very cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584077)



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Date: February 12th, 2026 2:57 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

🚨 JUST IN: A federal judge has just BLOCKED SecWar Pete Hegseth from disciplining or demoting seditious Dem Sen. Mark Kelly after Kelly urged OPEN REBELLION within the Armed Forces

You gotta be freaking kidding me.

The judge claims Kelly has a "1st Amendment" to say what he said.

THIS IS INSANE! There is NO 1ST AMENDMENT to help carry out a military rebellion. Appeal and COURT MARTIAL KELLY!

https://x.com/i/status/2022003924711145910

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49666195)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:00 PM
Author: canary hairraiser base

Speech and Debate clause is for real pertinent discussions on the floor, like describing the gangbang you had with your ex-fiancé in detail (including photos)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584718)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:04 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

IIRC it's been held to protect members of Congress while they are coming and going from Congress, and so the zone of immunity extends at least as far as their homes in DC. It may be that he made the most offensive remarks while he was physically located either in Congress or in his DC residence. At the very least it shifts the burden to DOJ to explain why he doesn't have that protection here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584737)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:18 PM
Author: Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease

aren't we talking about that professionally done video? how would that get S/D immunity?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584784)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:25 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

If a MOC is doing anything communicative within the halls of Congress they are supposed to be untouchable. The framers wrote more about this in Article I than they wrote in all of Article III IIRC, because they all expected to become members of this new Congress.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584806)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:42 PM
Author: Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease

was the vid done inside the Capitol building? seems like if so he could be immune.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584832)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:50 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

Oh yeah. As a baseline matter that falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of Capitol Police, a legislative branch authority that does not answer to DOJ. The FBI isn't supposed to have any authority to investigate that kind of thing. If the FBI is spying on Congress there needs to be a counterintelligence angle, if that would even fly. A good illustration was the Paul Pelosi home invasion where Capitol Police had everything on camera but would not share it with law enforcement.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584846)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:55 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

I should be more clear: S&D clause says they can't be questioned, i.e. interrogated, i.e. nothing they say is admissible, IIRC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584854)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 8:56 PM
Author: Onyx Location Mad Cow Disease

AI:

Filming Location: While the precise spot isn't specified in the initial reports, it was filmed in Washington D.C., likely in a professional setting or public area like the Capitol grounds, to project a unified message from lawmakers.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584858)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 9:00 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

If you know you have the legal privilege available to you you'd be a fool not to use it. Maybe that's why these people only take questions from reporters when they're walking into out of their offices in Congress. Worst case scenario you got dat immunity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49584869)



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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:45 PM
Author: Curious Ape Toaster

You fucking retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49666005)



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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:58 PM
Author: Excitant zombie-like candlestick maker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49666049)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:02 PM
Author: Offensive selfie

Has a single poster ever taken one of your retarded “bets”?

Serious question.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49583833)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 3:05 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

No, which is shocking since they cost nothing and I'm so stupid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49583838)



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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:03 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

You lose

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49665870)



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Date: January 12th, 2026 11:10 PM
Author: ruddy digit ratio

interesting lawsuit. i don't have any idea who will win though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49585263)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 12:08 AM
Author: Cracking opaque parlour

Some shithead district court judge will of course turbo grant him relief as usual

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49585391)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 12:26 AM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

I think he may not have standing because no official action has been taken, only proposed. Still, no one is taking my bet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49585414)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 12:26 AM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

I'll take that bet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49585415)



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Date: January 13th, 2026 12:27 AM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

Hey cons look, I took my own bet. I think Kelly8 complaint will get tossed now. I think he lacks standing. You have no excuse for not also taking my bet now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49585416)



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Date: February 12th, 2026 1:03 PM
Author: carmine trailer park people who are hurt

Cons lost again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49665873)



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Date: February 12th, 2026 3:13 PM
Author: Curious Ape Toaster

cons are really shitty at law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5821142&forum_id=2Reputation#49666227)



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Date: February 12th, 2026 3:48 PM
Author: Idiotic charcoal hissy fit

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