Patrick O'Dare
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PhD student at Queen Mary University of London. Thesis entitled: 'Watergate, The Failure of Presidential Power.'
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Can't wait for this where I will talk about Watergate in modern film, television, academic works, and the differing uses of Watergate during the Trump years.
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This has to be one for
@DougJBalloon
While Democrats continue to pursue the imprisonment of their top political opponent, the death of 47-year-old Putin opponent Navalny in prison in Russia is a grim reminder of how evil the strategy is.
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@BadLegalTakes
The irony here is that jury instructions are far more useful to lawyers then statues. The instructions are literally what the jury is told. Plus the jury instructions may correct as-applied unconstitutional laws.
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@SimpleSCOTUS
'Hover Crafts are not deeply rooted in America's history and tradition' - Jonathan Turley.
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@Timodc
Vance and others are adopting a theory of the Constitution that allows the federal goverment not to count a State's electoral college votes because they don't like how they managed their own election - so much for states rights
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@msolurin
In the UK the police reform movement came about in large part because of white middle class youths sudden victimisation at the hands of the police in the context of anti-Vietnam War protests.
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@KatiePhang
@MSNBC
Again, commentators like
@KatiePhang
have missed the fact that an "appearance" of impropriety is sufficient to disqualify a prosecutor under current Georgia Supreme Court precedent.
They simply have misread, or misunderstood, the GA Supreme Court's approach to these issues.
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@ElieNYC
Then why didn't Wade put the fact that he was paid these large sums in cash in his affidavit. Why did he wait until he was asked where the bank transactions were until he suddenly revealed it was a cash transfer.
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@NormEisen
@Edanyaperry
@JoshuaGKolb
@Slate
No, that's factually not correct. They did not uphold that, it wasn't part of the holding, and they did not need to reach that issue to get to the judgment. Under that logic if the Court had never taken the case you could say they upheld the finding of the Colorado Supreme Court.
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@AWeissmann_
Criminal trials do not give defendants an opportunity to clear their name, only an opportunity to prove a defendant guilty. No one, even falsely accused defendants would ever want to go to trial.
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@TylerClemons
A quasi-official event is like this is not sufficient to transform Chemerinsky's private property into a public forum. At best it being quasi-official merely means that he could not unlawfully discriminate on who was being invited into the property.
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@BadLegalTakes
I have a First Amendment right to be invited to dinner by state actors is a new one for me. Let's go with it.
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@ASFleischman
Even if you have a First Amendment right to pay off a pornstar you would never have a right to falsify business records to cover it up.
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@LawCrimeNetwork
"We've been in trial a long time." Yes, because of the governments prosecutorial choices! The defence does not loose it's due process rights because this trial is taking too long due to those choices!
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@DavidKlion
Harris has the most "legitimacy" in that she is the consensus candidate in a period of emergency.
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@hebagowayed
Again the 1968 Columbia protests led to a dean of the university being held hostage. That's not a legacy Columbia should try to replicate even if you agree with the specific viewpoint here.
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@JoyceWhiteVance
Judge McAfee has already said that the appearance of a conflict and an actual conflict is sufficient for DQ under GA law. GA precedent already allows for DQ of attorneys for "appearance of impropriety," and this likely extends to prosecutors as well.
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@ZcohenCNN
Note how the State sought sanctions against Merchant for allegedly distorting what Bradley's testimony would be only to close the door by preventing Bradley from actual testifying.
You can't use the attorney-client privilege as both a sword and a shield.
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@KatiePhang
@MSNBC
As the GA Supreme Court ruled in Blumenfeld v. Bornstein (1981), "the appearance of impropriety based on conduct on the part of the attorney" may be grounds to disqualify a defence lawyer. (1)
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@JameelJaffer
Yeah, but I don't think these young people think pro-Israel supporters deserve free speech on campus. Maybe I'm cynical, but I think everyone (and I mean everyone) is a hypocrite when it comes to free speech. (Apart from me of course).
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@IlhanMN
The 1968 Columbia University protests literally resulted in the acting dean Henry S. Coleman being taken hostage. Perhaps maybe not the best inspiration for a protest.
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@melnickjeffrey1
In the videos were they accusing you of blood libel the day before? In the videos were they trespassing on your home illegally? In the videos did they use a microphone to harass your guests? In the videos was there a group of other students also trespassing on your home?
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@IAmSophiaNelson
Disagree. She's not allowed to accuse the defendants or their lawyers of being racist. She's not allowed to talk about this case, the defendants, or their lawyers at all except in very limited circumstances. It prejudices a jury. She needs a gag order against her fast.
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@ElieNYC
Reasonable people can disagree about the interpretation of Section 3. The idea that the three liberals who did not agree with you must be doing it out of bad faith is just wrong.
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@katewillett
It doesn't matter how polite you are, if someone asks you to leave their property and you refuse you are breaking the law. Besides, this is the context of what this student's group was saying before the dinner.
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@Will_Bunch
Ironically the phone hacking scandal was our version of Watergate, except it was the press who took on the role of Nixon's White House Plumbers.
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@ijbailey
I think universities (including public universities) should have a viewpoint neutral rule that you can't slag off your students in public.
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@RDEliason
What are the odds McAfee rules that there was a conflict of interest from 2021-2023 when Wade was using his salary to give Willis gifts and trips, but that now the relationship has ended the conflict no longer exists so the point is mute?
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@AriCohn
The First Amendment allows me to attend dinner parties has to be up there with the First Amendment allows me to tweet memes.
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@RameshPonnuru
Highly inappropriate. Federal judges should not be engaged in culture war politics. It degrades the institution of law.
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@AnnaBower
@lawfare
Lawfare is the only website I know that's accessible to both experts and the general public at the same time. From the U.K: Keep up the great work!
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@jaywillis
Almost certainly Alito - she did not like him, nor had a chance to develop any rapport like she did with Thomas or Scalia, and he replaced her.
She loved Roberts originally but came to be more sceptical of him during retirement.
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@SanaSaeed
The longer video demonstrates she was repeatedly told to leave and failed to comply before Fiske intervened. Nor was Fiske holding onto her in a way that prevented her from leaving. Fiske was trying to take the mic and escort her out, not prevent her from leaving
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@chrislhayes
People have fallen the myth that courts act slowly because of how long it took to investigate Donald Trump in both the Mueller and January 6 investigations. The reality is once a case is actually filed, judges can move a case on quickly if they have the will power to do so
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@OrinKerr
If you're describing an idea and you're borrowing it, or it originates from, a terrible person who you don't then cite I'm pretty sure this is academic misconduct.
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@BitecoferStan
Also, JFK would almost certainly would not be a Republican today. He had neoconservative views on foreign policy, and fairly centrist views on most aspects of domestic policy, with a liberal streak that led him to proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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@ASFleischman
When I teach history I always use Naomi Wolf as an example of how not to engage with legal sources and the dangers of using legal sources if you don't have a legal knowledge.
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@KatiePhang
@MSNBC
Correct, but the Court in that same case made clear that the "appearance of impropriety based on conduct" could be a basis for disqualification (although the Court recognised this was a high bar and would be unlikely due to 6th Amendment issues which don't exist with prosecutors)
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@BinhamidAli
Thank you for saying this. If a Zionist student suddenly stood up and started making a pro-Israeli speech and refused to leave when asked to by a Palestinian professor we would all say that's wrong. Freedom of speech is not freedom to inflict your speech on a captive audience.
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@BallouxFrancois
If a female black professor had racist caricatures of her posted on campus and then 10 white students protesting DEI trespassed on her home after she told them to leave the idea of touching one of them as assault would be rightfully decried as tone policing.
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@RDEliason
It's the timing of the data that's the issue.
Wade gets a phone call from Willis around 23:00.
Arrives close to Willis' home soon after.
Does not arrive back home until the morning around 04:00 and soon after texts Willis.
I mean, seriously, we all know what happened there.
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@WhatAboutClass
As a British PhD student in London studying U.S history I completely disagree with this and will now block you.
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@AnthonyMKreis
Especially for asserting that Merchant was lying about Bradley's testimony, only for the DA's office to then refuse to allow Bradley to testify to the judge.
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@KatiePhang
@MSNBC
This is a bad faith reading of the defence's arguments. It's not that the whole indictment was designed to generate profit to Willis and Wade from the beginning, but merely that the possibility that Willis may profit from prolonging the case is sufficient to disqualify.
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@AnthonyMKreis
Also bear in mind that whether or not Trump gets an appeal bond after conviction will depend on how open the appellate issues are. The more the Court makes clear what all the legal issues are pre-conviction the more likely Trump goes to prison pre-election
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@AnthonyMKreis
I guarantee there at least 12 people in Fulton County who have never heard of Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, or even January 6.
Never underestimate the ignorance of the American people.
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@ASFleischman
Even more interesting, Aaron Burr was prosecuted by the State for while he was Vice President - something that indicates federalism concerns did not extend to criminal prosecution of federal officials - even the vice president.
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@kevinbaum013
@jbarro
has the best line on this. Trump being prosecuted is a terrible thing for the country and sets a bad precedent for the future. Which is exactly why he should not have done it.
Be angry at Trump for doing the crimes which caused this, not prosecutors for doing their jobs
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@chrisgeidner
In my mind there's a difference between an illegal policy pursuant to a presidential power (like internment) and one that is divorced completely from Article II but I get your point.
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This is a coup d'état of the public defenders office in Louisiana. It will effectively put the Governor in charge of handing out public defence work to private law firms. This creates an incentive for lawyers to play buddy-buddy with the prosecution - big Sixth Amendment problem.
Mine for
@TheHill
: “Don’t look now, but there’s a power grab in Louisiana — one that might well destroy the ideal of equal justice in that state.”
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@hebagowayed
Taking a university dean hostage for 24 hours was not a small detail in the history of that protest.
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@harrylitman
Yeah, but I think McAfee deliberately used that term because it makes clear Willis was in the wrong while at the same time it's hardly a line that you can put in a 30 second partisan campaign ad.
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@NormEisen
@JoyceWhiteVance
@RWPUSA
@just_security
@rgoodlaw
I'm sorry
@NormEisen
but you focus too much on whether or not there is a financial incentive to receive a conviction. But the real issue is whether there is a financial incentive to reject a plea offer by Roman to keep the case going, thereby enriching Willis through Wade
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@AliAbunimah
It doesn't matter if it was public/private or anything in-between. You don't have a First Amendment right to disrupt a dinner, nor do you have a First Amendment right to trespass on private property, nor a First Amendment right to trespass on public land.
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@PopulismUpdates
Italy is on the verge of civil war. Whose on on team Aosta and whose on team di Savoia?
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@ASFleischman
@BerkeleyCAboy
@AnnaBower
@GsuGrinding
@mucha_carlos
@AnthonyMKreis
Have you seen this! Judge McAfee gives an interview for his re-election where he says that he had a rough draft of the DQ motion before he was challenged in the election and won't be swayed.
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@melnickjeffrey1
Clear use of old fashioned antisemitic stereotypes, not to mention just plain old offensive and unfair. Chemerinsky was being targeted because he was Jewish in a way that other Deans at UC Berkeley were not.
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@AliAbunimah
Cry me a river. She was trespassing on private property and was repeatedly told to leave the premisses multiple times. California law permits reasonable force to remove a trespassers. If it had been a security guard or a police officer removing her it would be the same analysis.
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@ASFleischman
Also the Constitution demands that the president "faithfully" execute the law, which is inherently about presidential intent.
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@glukianoff
As someone studying this period we should note how the Columbia protests of 1968 directly evolved into the Underground Weather terrorism of the early 1970's.
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@msolurin
I agree, but at the same time I think we have to ask the question whether we would have the same reaction to Columbia's action if it was pro-Israel students doing the same thing? If the answer is no then we're in dangerous territory free speech wise.
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@OsitaNwanevu
I consider this more like the Curb Your Enthusiasm finale of the last eight years in American politics in that Trump will somehow unexplainable walk free at the end.
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Delighted to have written a review of the APG/BAAS colloquium for U.S Studies Online. An excellent event thanks to
@davies_pjd
@DrTJC
@KatePruszynski
@rudalev
@gloefflmann
@AlexWaddan
@gregwalden
@PSA_APG
@OfficialBAAS
and many others
#ConferenceReview
@PatrickODare1
reviews the "vibrant and interdisciplinary" 2023
@PSA_APG
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@OfficialBAAS
colloquium
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@NormEisen
@cnni
@paulanewtonCNN
Eisen is not being honest with his audience. The judge clearly does not believe Bradley's absurd claims that he was gossiping.
Yes, it's not what the defence wanted, he refused to say when the relationship began, but his explanation around his texts were impeached repeatedly.
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@AnthonyMKreis
I haven't read this yet, but this seems good policy that would be best for everyone, but I'm not sure how legally grounded this is.
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@AnnaBower
@GsuGrinding
I think he was talking in the first case about a future appeals court finding of an appearance of impropriety with only Willis only on the case. In the other section he's discussing it in the context of both Wade and Willis currently on the case - one of them has to go completely
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@harrylitman
Because if Wade or Willis perjured themself before the Court under GA law that alone can be enough to disqualify a prosecutor
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@tage_rai
The 1968 protests were self-destructive, pointless, and violent. If that's your model then everyone involved in these protests won't just loose, they will and should end up in jail.
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@harrylitman
I think McAfee chose "odor of mendacity" because he wanted to translate to the legal community how bad this situation was, but to do so in a way that would have the least impact in the public sphere - hence the use of weird terms like "mendacity."
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@rinewithoutacat
@hebagowayed
He was warned there would be protests. She had a microphone and a loudspeaker. She is the co-chair of the UC Berkley, Law, Students-for-Palestine group. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure this one out.
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@AnnaBower
@alemzs
Under the theory that McAfee should recuse he would also end up not being able to hear any criminal case in Fulton County as, by definition, the DA brings the prosecutions.
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This is such a lie. Eisen wasn't calling for McAfee to force Wade to resign, he was saying Wade should step down for the good of the case. Elsewhere he said explicitly that there was no legal grounds to disqualify either Willis or Wade!
BREAKING: Judge McAfee has followed our recommendation and called for Wade to go👇
If he does—& he will—Willis stays
Now let’s get that trial scheduled for the summer!
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@samhaselby
@TheFIREorg
Calling for violence seems to fall within this remit even if it falls short of actual violence per say.
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@AnthonyMKreis
Anthony, you're just hoping for another hearing so you can hang out with all your cool friends in courtroom 5A.
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What's happening with the Young Thug YSL trial is a prime example of prosecutorial arrogance in the U.S. Once again the Fulton County DA's office is disrespecting the attorney-client privilege. These problems are not localised to Georgia but are national in nature.
This clip is probably the best example of how the YSL trial is going. The prosecutor demands that defense counsel give her his communications with her own witnesses, even though he is not legally required to do so, and acts like he is lying about the law.
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@AnnaBower
The irony is that Judge McAfee is a Federalist Society member who is one of the only judges in all of these Trump cases who has broad respect from both sides and has not been accused of bias.
As this case goes on and he has to make some big decisions, this is going to change.
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@jonfavs
"I have not examined the evidence in detail..."
Well, we at least have one fair and impartial juror the D.C. January 6 trial.
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@BallouxFrancois
She is the co-chair of the group that distributed this poster, so pretty antisemitic, especially in the context of singling out Chemerinsky versus the other Deans. Also she was ordered to leave, refused the order, then she was touched. If you want to call that assault, fine.
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@espinsegall
Wait until he reads Edward Gibbon and he discovers it was basically an obscure religious cult called Christianity.
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@ijbailey
Is it just me or is $30-40 billion not a particularly high number. The 2008 crash cost $3 trillion. We can rebuild Gaza if we have the geopolitical will.
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@ASFleischman
This is unpopular but I think it's a real close call as to whether you could convict. She's clearly dumb and naïve, was not being serious, and reasonable people can disagree about whether she belongs in a jail cell.
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@afneil
My family are all Irish Catholics. Bobby Sands was part of a violent terrorist campaign aiming at a political agenda contrary to the wishes of the majority of the Northern Irish people. He thought he deserved special treatment, not in spite, but because of such activities.
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@melnickjeffrey1
Yeah, it's pretty clear even to me these kids were no threat even if the university had the legal right to remove them.
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@AlanDersh
That's just silly. This was way before the disqualification hearing, before anyone knew there was going to be a disqualification hearing, and she was pressuring him in the context of reports to the media not testimony before the Court.
Seriously, you know better.
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@GsuGrinding
It's easy to compare this to Clinton and Ken Starr. Yes Clinton lied, but it was over sex, it wasn't material to the case and so who cares.
Accept this was material to the case and involves a prosecutor bringing a case, not a defendant dragged into court against their consent.
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Student chant from Columbia University:
“Al Qassam make us proud
take another soldier out
We say justice you say how
burn Tel Aviv to the ground
Go Hamas we love you
We support your rockets too”
Via
@tabletmag
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@JameelJaffer
Screw you! How dare you disagree with me! I'm going to report you to the FBI and have you prosecuted for defamation per say, which means you'll automatically be found guilty! Grrr!
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@lawofruby
Can someone please tell me what happens if some of the money paid was for legal services rendered and some of it was also for the hush payment. Is it still true to say the money was for legal services rendered if there was this dual purpose to the payments?
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