r/legaladviceofftopic 12h ago

Weekend at the Whitehouse

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The president “falls asleep” on camera and gets hauled away by his staff, looking rather unresponsive. The white house staff claims he’s fine and restoring himself with his typical lunch of twelve chicken thighs with gravy.

How long could they hide an actually dead president? How would this situation resolve if his cabinet actively tried to keep it a secret?


r/legaladviceofftopic 23h ago

Can linking your heartbeat to the trigger avoid making an "auto" weapon be classified as machinegun?

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I was really curious about this one. Can you replace all that spring mechanism around the trigger with a tiny electric motor and attach the hammer to the motor. Then link the motor to an apple watch heartbeat detector to set the motor rotate exactly once for every detected heart beat. Will this make this firearm, which shoots at a steady rate, not a machinegun? I guess you can argue that your heartbeat is manually pulling the trigger so it is technally a semi-auto firearm?

Since a semi-auto firearm is basically one biological event (pulls a trigger once) → exactly one shot, so one heartbeat per shot kinda also falls into this category?


r/legaladviceofftopic 16h ago

If the President unilaterally ordered $100,000 checks to go out to everyone, would he get away with it?

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Given standing requirements of a particularized injury in fact, it's not clear that anyone would have standing to sue over a mass illegal dispersal of money. Plus, given the recent ruling regarding the ballroom construction, it certainly seems unlikely that it could be stopped by a court before the checks went out, and after that point what really could anyone do?


r/legaladviceofftopic 16h ago

Do they wait to charge someone federally after a state conviction?

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I'm trying to write a short peice of fiction and I am thinking of some ideas for a small section where I might include this happening. So, is this something that actually happens, where someone goes through the entire trial process on crimes charged by the state then afterwards they are given federal charges? Would a bank robbery be a good realistic example of that happening?


r/legaladviceofftopic 13m ago

landlord’s trying to stick me with the bill for the plumber she hired when id already hired and paid my own professional

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is my security deposit at risk?


r/legaladviceofftopic 2h ago

Can normal people sue to get their information back?

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Hi there. I just got to thinking and I guess I’ve been thinking for a while now, that I want my face back. I want my likes and dislikes and purchase history and contacts back. And I don’t see a way to actually get it back.

In order to prevent CVS from selling my data, I have to cancel their app, and it’ll delete my login and my profile and everything, making it much more difficult to reorder my meds. To not be tracked by Target, apparently I have to not only leave my watch and cell phone in the car but I also have to pay with cash, bring my own cart and cover my face. I try to go into privacy settings and tell them not to track or sell my data and then it doesn’t seem like it works because they still know what i bought off Natural Life even if i used a separate browser entirely. That doesn’t even touch my credit report, or my frequently visited locations, or apps that access photos.

It seems that once the flood gates opened, there is no going back.

My specific question is: How do we get it back? Can we sue companies who are going too far? Can I petition to have a company give me all information linked to my name? Can I sue for that? Can I sue for a portion of the funds companies made off selling my data?

I’m just turning it around in my mind lately. Cause there’s got to be a way to get our data back and protect it loving forward. 🤷‍♀️


r/legaladviceofftopic 19h ago

When homicide detectives say "they aren't the drug police, they don't care about small crimes", how much are they lying

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Comes up in a large amount of interrogation videos I have seen "we don't care about small misdemeanors crimes, we aren't the drug police".

Even in the Chandler Murder case, Lawyer was present with the girlfriend witness and he said "You are going to overlook any type of Marijuana usage you find, right? " when they took her phone.

If you have evidence relevant to the case, but would tie you to a misdemeanor or petty crime (Like Marijuana possession) would you be able to get an immunity agreement on that beforehand?