[Pilsner]

But in none of the Obama eligibility cases has the Solicitor General filed anything, unless you count a two-line "we don't want to file anything" statement (like the one you posted). Filing something like that doesn't require Kagan's recusal, because it doesn't say anything about the merits of the case.

I know you have to look at the particular rules involved, but... I saw a murder case overturned in Texas, because the trial judge, when he was a member of the DA's office, got sent to another court (not the one he usually worked in) one day, to ask that judge to postpone all the cases on the docket, as the prosecutor who worked that court was absent. The Texas courts ruled that any appearance, even one where, so far as we know, the judge/assistant DA never read the docket, and had no idea what cases he was asking to have postponed, was an appearance, and the former assistant DA could not hear the case a judge.

Says Pilsner, who's waiting for heads to explode because he authored a post on a Birther thread that isn't witheringly anti Birther.

[El Sordo]

“Says Pilsner, who’s waiting for heads to explode because he authored a post on a Birther thread that isn’t witheringly anti Birther. “

We’ll let this one slide. But don’t let it happen again.

[butterdezillion]

Hey, if this is your first post on a “birther” thread that isn’t witheringly “anti-birther” then how about a round of drinks on me? lol. Much better than exploding heads. It’s at least good to agree whenever we CAN.