Follow up to this - the one place where I can see this happening, that's not in a State, would be D.C.

While the 1973 Home Rule Act is much weaker than having the Constitution reserve certain powers to the States, I'd guess that it does empower enough so that the DC Mayor and the Metropolitan Police Department can investigate and make arrests.

To that end, I'm greatly encouraged by the fact that the one time a US President was arrested, it happened in DC: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/03/21/president-arrested-ulysses-grant-speeding/

Well, if nothing else I'm glad that Clinton v. Jones means he'd not be immune to a civil lawsuit in that case.

I'm pretty sure this would be wrong and couldn't happen. Remember then-commander of the US Strategic Command Air Force General John Hyten saying that he'd refuse to follow an illegal presidential order to launch a nuclear attack? Or retired Air Force General Robert Kehler saying the same thing?

Edit: references:

https://truthout.org/articles/the-duty-to-disobey-a-nuclear-launch-order/

https://apnews.com/article/14eb66de62fc49b181680ccbd7394646

Almost certainly Seal 6 and the military chain of command above these folks would refuse to obey any such order.

And if this guy were to do it himself - well the duties of the President don't include using weapons, let alone assassination - so a good argument would be made that this was his own personal conduct rather than something stemming from the duties of the Presidential Office.

Finally, the murder would almost certainly occur in a State - so even if federal folks have their hands tied, he could be tried and convicted by a State court in absentia. (Perhaps State Troopers wouldn't be able to actually get their hands on him until after he left office, but unless he dies in Office this guy would eventually have to pay for that crime.)

Would love to hear more about the ansible way.

Also, specific to the role of Speaker, he’s disqualified due to having been indicted of felonies with a term of more than two years.

or prison for the chump you suckered into cheap labour.

I'm not seeing the 'or' bit. The article says the driver was already sentenced to nine years back in 2019. So it might be prison and deportation.

It also says he was a new permanent resident when the crime was committed. I'm surprised how they can so easily deport someone who has PR.

allow this situation to happen and all its gonna be is a civil fine for you

Alas, this is the real problem. And this case/hearing isn't going to affect the precedent on that, it will only affect the precedent for the future chumps.

Reddit's approach to replacement mod appointments has further damaged community trust in Reddit

Interesting that an article owned by the holding company of reddit (Arstechnica and reddit are both owned by Conde Nast) would be so critical of reddit.

The one thing I never understood is why did the Oliver subs go back to normal instead of sticking with Oliver. Finally, interest was lost in the Oliver jokes and traffic was going down. So it would have been the perfect time to enforce Oliver and cut into the ads traffic that way. News articles at the time didn't show any indication that this was another moved forced by reddit admins so why did the mods seemingly cave in without cause?

Thank you @ernest for all you do and all you have done!

Absolutely do not want to see you run yourself into the ground over kbin matters, your family and your health come first.

I don't question your judgement, but I think the "step down" bit is a bit extreme, even if you fail to meet the deadline. Worst case, maybe let the community appoint a second-in-command temporarily to get some things moving along while you take a well deserved break?

Hopefully they just haven’t thought about that yet

David Weber’s Honorverse and Mother of Demons by Eric Flint both come to mind. There is also the Little Fuzzy series by H. Beam Piper.

Edit: Also, The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Honorable mention also to Dragons Egg by Robert L. Forward (humans start out more advanced in the beginning but get surpassed) and the Uplift Storm trilogy omnibus (or books 4-6) from David Brin (humans aren’t the most advanced in the entire universe but are in the planet that the stories take place on).