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Funny enough, this is sort of true as you are not allowed to waive the residency requirements for both schools (and all SEC schools require some type of residency) Texas is way more over the top for number of hours and has a few added wrinkles.

It looks like Texas, Vandy, and A&M require 60, UGA at 45, and the rest at 30, but how you do those 30 are up to a variety of interpretations.

Mississippi schools require the last 30 hours completed in the institution (or 25% depending on how it is written) to receive your undergraduate degree. This is typical and can be gamed a bit depending on how you assign transferred credits in major. You can easily set it up to coast as a transfer depending on how well your academic support staff is.

Texas requires 60 hours plus 6 advanced major hours. That means that Jrs and Srs are going to have to do 2 full years of course work for Texas (which gets into the weird APR model) to graduate. The additional 6 in major makes things harder, but then again can be gamed.

Grad is a max of 12 transferred in at the Mississippi schools and only 6 to Texas. That is a big deal for grad students and falls into the question of how many of there students ever actually receive a degree as a grad transfer.

So Sark has a point, but so does A&M and Vandy. The bigger deal isn’t just the hours, it is the upper division course requirements and how easy it is to game that part of the system.

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Reading through it, it seems like they only ruled on one issue (the timing) and not others as it would be moot.

This is the simplest explanation of why Alito is pissed in his response. Essentially, the Justices voted within hours of the Callias hearing and had a decision then, yet the opposition obviously slow walked it back for political means. Worse, they were lazy in doing so and only wrote one dissent.

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If you want to do some other long term crystal ball gazing, think what this does in 2028 maps as well and how easy it would be to make a “compromise” as a R presidential nominee to promise to force congress to develop an algorithm based math driven congressional district map formula.

There is no way that, on the whole, the Red states redistricting is less skewed than the Dems. Knowing that there is a 2030 census, the number of congressmen will shift significantly towards the south and out of blue states. Since we are no where near as skewed as a whole, any automated system will in the long run benefit the Republicans.

Run on forcing “gerrymandering-free” districts across the entire nation and force the dems on voting against it and have them explain why they are against the idea or embrace it and provide more competitive R races in the blue states.

I don’t think people realize how big of thing this is. We are talking about forcing the death of many of the extreme partisan blue districts that have driven a ton of the racial animosity the last 20 years.

One of the funniest things about the Callais ruling is that if there is a significant shift in the number of expected R House seats, Massie loses much of his power and political capital.

He is only "useful" if the split is limited, and so his grandstanding and threats have weight as an important needed vote that people are willing to placate.

A +12R shift means that you take the generic split and add 24 more to the total, so a 6 vote difference becomes a 30 vote difference. That makes it incredibly difficult to play the games he plays.

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Vance isn’t 80 years old. Age makes a huge difference in one’s agility. Trump appeared to fall face down as they were moving him away with the human body shield.

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Just FYI, Trump stopped and bent down to get a crawling Melania off of the ground on the way out.

The entire reason the Virginia SC allowed this to go to a vote is that if it was voted down, the point would have been moot to begin with and no action would be needed.

Yes, the common person finds that asinine, but to the court it is better to not have to make a decision that might inadvertently lead to some unthought about weird precedent that comes about as a byproduct of making the decision.

Now we will see if they actually follow through with that train of thought or try and chicken out and hide behind the old adage of it was wrong to have done it that way, but the people have spoken and we don’t want to invalidate an election and therefore disenfranchise voters…

This is also a way to force either Iran to show that Khomani II is alive and managing this disaster, and thus he is a hardliner, or he is incapacitated/dead and it has all went farce and the IRGC has been lying to the population about ruling based on his edicts.

Time is on the US’s side as long as the blockade stays in place and it just boxed the IRGC into a tighter corner.

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Where was it headed? Someone just requested a refund, lol

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Sounds like it was inbound to Iran from China. Was already on the sanctioned list and was coming from a port known to supply the raw materials for ballistic missile propellant...

You want to solve all of the NATO, EU, and Russia/Ukraine all at once?

Close all European bases except for ones in Poland, UK, and Italy. Then have Ukraine build a massive subsidized base north of Odessa. Then cut the other US handouts to NATO and expect all NATO countries to meet the 5% GDP spending goal or pay an extra national security tariff. Take 50% of all of the troops and equipment from those closed bases and put them in Ukraine and put the 25% elsewhere globally and the other 25% deploy at home.