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Criminal defense, civil rights, and occasionally civil, trial atty. Former Emptywheel legal and sports writer, husband, father and generally cranky observateur.
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What Mitch McConnell and the GOP think of your objection to their healthcare monstrosity:
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Oh jfc, Nina Turner is on
@CNN
exhibiting her deep "concern" about the search warrant executed on Michael Cohen and equating it with FBI actions on MLK. It takes a LOT to out stupid Rick "Man On Dog" Santorum, and Turner effortlessly passed that mark by a mile. What a nutbag.
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This should never be forgotten, especially as to McConnell:
New post:
In light of Don Jr's emails, don't forget: Cong Rs refused to act on Russian meddling during election:
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Dear
@SenFeinstein
If this is true, there is no way you should consent to Rachel Mitchell serving in this capacity. No way whatsoever. I've practiced in Maricopa County for decades, and can't think of a worse choice than Rachel. cc:
@SenatorLeahy
@SenWhitehouse
@KamalaHarris
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This is complete bullshit. And it is heinous. It you consider yourself a First Amendment protector in the US, or elsewhere, then you ought to scream about what appears to be happening to
@ggreenwald
Brazil’s federal court of accounts gave financial crimes unit (COAF) 24 hours to clarify whether it is investigating
@ggreenwald
or not over
#VazaJato
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RIP Curly Neal. He and the Trotters brought great joy to a kid in the 60's, and to lots of kids for a very long time. He and Meadowlark Lemon were the Globetrotters in that day.
Harlem Globetrotters icon Fred 'Curly' Neal dies at 77 years old
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Holy shit, WA SG Noah Purcell is literally eating the Trump Administration+DOJ alive on
@allinwithchris
@chrislhayes
Wow. Just brutal.
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This is simply astounding. Also, Bannon now has permanent seat on the Principal's Committee, and that bodes quite ill
WH advisors Bannon and Miller overruled the Dept of Homeland Security's judgment the travel ban should not apply to Green Card holders
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If you are a media person, and think Emmet Flood is leaving "because the investigations are over with the exoneration of the Mueller Report", you need to rethink your career.
Flood is bailing.
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Hey
@realDonaldTrump
were you concerned about how police and Prosecutor Morgenthau treated the Central Park 5, even with completely questionable evidence?
No, you were ignorant and wanted them executed even after conclusively proved innocent. Why are your criminals different??
The Phony Witch Hunt continues, but Mueller and his gang of Angry Dems are only looking at one side, not the other. Wait until it comes out how horribly & viciously they are treating people, ruining lives for them refusing to lie. Mueller is a conflicted prosecutor gone rogue....
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@AOC
@trevortimm
This is absolute bullshit. She is in segregated detention fort her own safety. It is not torture. And she most certainly is NOT there for "whistleblowing". She is there because she is unconscionably refusing a lawful+proper subpoena to testify with full immunity.
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This is a sick verdict. But, until people understand the smoke and haze used to protect cops in criminal trials, it will always be thus:
Jury finds cop who shot man with arms raised was negligent but dismisses felonies
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This seems spot on
Let's be honest : The refugees being detained at JFK Airport have gone through more vetting than Donald Trump's cabinet.
#Muslimban
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@ryanjreilly
In criminal law here, we have a term, and statute, for this: Reckless endangerment.
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In about an hour, it will be exactly 19 years since the first plane, AA-11, hit the North Tower.
Pat Tillman gave up millions of dollars and NFL fame to become an Army Ranger, serve his country and die.
Trump thinks he is a loser and sucker. He is not.
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This "find" by NBC News is truly inane. Anybody can confirm a lousy status conference. Absolute garbage inference being peddled.
NEW: Hacked e-mails from Wikileaks appear to show Clinton campaign spokesman in touch with DOJ officials regarding e-mail litigation:
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Honestly, this Atlantic article by
@Popehat
is pretty much perfect. People are not wrong to flinch at how Ellis sentenced Manafort. In fact they should. But the bigger picture is so much more complicated than that. Ken paints that as well as can be done:
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@GregStohr
@RMFifthCircuit
Next time these bigot pricks talk about religious protection, remember this in your reportage.
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This is a horrible, and silly, article. Women defense lawyers are exactly what that means: defense lawyers. They get paid for giving criminal defendants their constitutionally guaranteed defense, whether said clients are male or female. It is what they do. Jeebus.
I am so excited to be making my
@TheCut
debut talking about all the soulless women cashing in defending (alleged) rapists
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@ProfDBernstein
@jadler1969
@rickhasen
@FedSoc
Lol, is that a joke?? The FedSoc exists to exert political advantage for right wing causes. Your tweet is complete gaslighting.
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RIP Kiki. Feb 14, 2006 - Oct 22, 2019. All dogs are good, and this one was truly special:
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The greatest threat facing the United States is its own president
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Listen
@MalcolmNance
, I don't always agree with
@ggreenwald
's views on this subject but calling him an "agent of Trump and Russia" and stating that
@Snowden
is a "defector" is straight up asinine.
👇🏽 READ: Glen Greenwald shows his true colors as an agent of Trump & Moscow. now we know why he helped Snowden defect, covers for Wikileaks attack on Democracy & shills for Fox News. He’s deep in the Kremlin pocket.
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Thanks for waiting 8 days you craven assholes.
At
@ricardorossello
request,
@POTUS
has authorized the Jones Act be waived for Puerto Rico. It will go into effect immediately.
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@ProjectLincoln
@edbott
@parscale
You have to hand it to
@jwgop
and the Lincoln Project, they are killing this stuff. It is wonderful.
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This by
@emptywheel
is exactly right. Stop the Barr hagiography:
The Press Continues to Help Billy Barr Whitewash His Complicity in January 6
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There is more evidence that
@Jim_Jordan
participated in a sexual abuse scheme at Ohio State than there is that Pete Strzok did in an anti-Trump scheme at FBI
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@JamesSurowiecki
@mikethemadbiol
Uh, this is not a 1A issue, it is a tort law issue. Depp did not sue the press. What I believe in is juries, and since they saw every second and ounce of evidence, who are you to second guess them? And the verdicts are not inconsistent in the least if you know the facts and law.
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If Trump doesn’t know, how could executive privilege have been competently asserted?
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At this point, I kind of think this is likely right. Trump is not going to substantively defend impeachment. Just treat it as a "hoax" and have Graham, Cruz and McConnell et. al do his dirty work. And maybe he can't even afford to pay real lawyers.
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Oh, the wife of one of the Michigan canvassing board was not only a poll "challenger", she is a Trump plaintiff!
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Police unions are the worst people in the world, Part 3,192:
The Mesa police union's move to oust Batista shows what happens when a chief tries to reform toxic departmental culture. A survey obtained by New Times shows Mesa cops excoriating the chief for starting "irrelevant" implicit bias & de-escalation training
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@SenMcSallyAZ
@realDonaldTrump
@RepDLesko
@RepGosar
All three of you are a fucking disgrace to this state.
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This is cray:
the president mocking asian people by mimicking their accents at a fundraiser in front of 500 people isn’t even the headline or lead of this story because apparently that is totally fine now.
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Further Trump implosion. Via Eureka at
@emptywheel
Trump Plaza implosion on Wednesday: Everything you should know via
@6abc
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What kind of nation wants to be associated with a mass murder of men asked Trump. The asshole who just hired an advocate of the mass murder of people without just cause, John Bolton.
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"Molar City" is Los Algodones, just across border from Yuma. It is a wonderful little town with superb, and cheap, dental care. Great report
Welcome to Molar City, the dental oasis in the Mexican desert Making American Mouths Great Again
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Jesus christ, have you bothered to determine why Sanders voted that way?? There was more to the sanctions bill than Russia. Wasn't that.
I agree w
@ArianeBellamar
that
@SenSanders
anti-sanctions vote, given Putin's cyberattack on our democracy, is pretty fuc*ed up at best.
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Passion of the ..... JFC:
Actor Jim Caviezel appeared at a right-wing COVID conspiracy theorist conference yesterday and promoted the QAnon blood-harvesting conspiracy theory () about "the adrenochroming of children." (clip 1/2)
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US still torturing detainees at Guantanamo:
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Jesus, this is an insane recommended departure. Hunter screwed over the government every inch of the way, how in the world is this the suggestion. Gobsmacked.
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And BOOM, there it is. John Kelly, in addition to his dripping racism and misogyny, flat out lied about Rep. Wilson.
What a disgrace.
Breaking: Video of Miami ceremony shows John Kelly lied about Rep. Wilson's comments.
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Jeebus, the
@CNN
anchors are flat out accusing the
@MnDPS_MSP
of racism for arresting their correspondent of color and not the white one. And they are correct in doing so. The Minnesota State Police should be disbanded immediately.
#Trumpland
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@MollyMcKew
@jimsciutto
@CNN
Starr was absolutely disgusting. And, I think we should add in on International Women's Day that Starr also aided and abetted a serious rape culture at Baylor University and relentless covered it up.
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This is idiotic. And false. Are you running out of oxygen in your Ecuadoran broom closet?
Trump: I was "wire tapped"
CNN: Haha. That idiot
@realDonaldTrump
thinks he was wiretapped.
..Six months later..
CNN: Trump was wiretapped
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Only American, and no other, ships have a right to be in the ocean
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Lol. The political press is gonna fall for this Lucy Van Pelt act again, aren't they? Rubes.
Sen. Susan Collins backed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to maybe, later, consider the possibility of calling witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial. via
@HuffPostPol
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@sharinyles
@CNN
Nina Turner does not represent any competent political group. Whay in the world
@CNN
and
@CNNSotu
keeps fostering her on to the American public is beyond explanation. It is almost to the point of intentional bullshit, same as with Rick Santorum. Both puke inducing.
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Jeebus, John Dean on CNN just said that Trump's legal team may face §1001 liability for lying on the Senate floor. That is just nuts.
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Jesus christ - Stephen Miller called the EDNY US Atty to dictate initial defense of the Muslim Ban EO. This is nuts
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This post by
@emptywheel
is both critical and crucial:
Have Mark Judge Testify Along with Christine Blasey Ford (and Kavanaugh)
Note the quote from the one and only Brett Kavanaugh in the past re: Clinton. Goose-----> Gander:
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Yes,
@ThePlumLineGS
has a good point here. Barr is neither crazy nor delusional. He is evil and very determined, but he knows exactly what he is doing.
Stop calling Bill Barr crazy and delusional. This is a serious conceptual error. He is a deliberate propagandist who is methodically helping Trump actively weaponize the government in numerous corrupt ways, all serving the end of keeping him in power:
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Ignorant and irresponsible assholes compared to normal people:
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@KFaulders
@MLevineReports
This is dumb framing. It was NOY a "raid", it was an execution of a valid search warrant. Calling it a "raid" is ludicrous.
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Another crackpot election lawsuit dismissed.
DECISION: Nevada judge denies petition by a GOP congressional candidate to toss out and re-do the election in Clark County.
The Trump campaign wasn't involved in this case but it could have helped him, if successful, b/c Clark is a heavily Democratic county.
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Outstanding question
Why would the Supreme Court agree to do this? I can think of no legitimate reason to dine with a litigant.
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Trump's pressers at NATO are simply embarrassing. No other leader has used time to vent personal grievances. And, frankly, the US press are being jerks for insisting he have the opportunity to do so. This is screwed up and exactly why the Europeans think Americans are ugly.
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What the actual fuck??
Betty Shelby, who killed Terence Crutcher is teaching a class on "Surviving the Aftermath" of killing a Black person.
Assuming cops like her will keep killing Black folks, Shelby will teach them how to survive "financially, legally & emotionally."
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The right verdict. Kind of surprising in a highly charged terrorism case. Kudos to the jury.
BREAKING: Widow of gunman who killed 49 people at a gay Orlando nightclub is acquitted on all charges in 2016 attack.
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The Federalist Society is a sick cancer on America that, in the long run, will make the NRA look like pikers. And this is a very good article by
@emptywheel
:
Leo’s Lane: Balls and Strikes versus Checks and Balances
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If this is true, Jim Comey owes a very hard and clear supplement saying so. The open ended inference he has presented would be unethical.
Pete Williams has sources saying not about Clinton world w/holding emails. Not about Podesta emails. Not emails from Clinton.
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Rob is right, this is a great read:
Incredible read. Josh Hawley was an early defender of the Oklahoma City bombing, and characterized it as a legitimate war of ideas btwn USG & militias
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This is a good point:
The consequences of attacking the Ukraine whistleblower: concerned officials go to the media instead of proper channels. When you take away the proper route through vindictive retribution, you cannot then complain about leaks.
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My daughter, currently in India, has sent a picture:
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This is incontrovertible:
Trump’s campaign manager is a felon.
His deputy campaign manager is a felon.
His national security advisor is a felon.
His foreign policy advisor is a felon.
His personal lawyer is a felon.
His long time advisor is a felon.
It’s not a campaign, it’s a criminal enterprise.
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Another big deal not getting enough attention because of the Trump maelstrom:
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@JeffreyToobin
@jeffhauser
Yes, but there was no chance of him recusing. Frankly, it is likely irrelevant on this vote.
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And not just any guy, Trump's Army official who oversaw White House communications at Mar-a-Lago:
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The President of the United States urges elected officials, representing actual citizens, to lie, cheat, and steel. It is literally the only thing he knows.
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This is a sick and despicable action seeking to undermine the justice system. Any decent President would condemn this in the strongest words
Pro-Trump group launches new attack ad against special counsel Robert Mueller
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Whoa, this from William Webster is damning as to Barr and Trump:
I Headed the F.B.I. and C.I.A. There’s a Dire Threat to the Country I Love.
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@joshgerstein
Did I miss something, isn't the purview of the government to decide what they want to protect (and not)?
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Trump's White House osteopath says Generalissimo Francisco Franco is, in fact, not dead.
NEW: White House physician says President Trump "is no longer considered a transmission risk to others" and that advanced diagnostic tests show "there is no longer evidence of actively replicating virus"; does not mention when last negative Covid-19 test was.
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Well, who says Trump is incompetent...he managed to renew Visa program for the Kushner family grift on the nation could be sold to Chinese
Trump signed extension of visa program 1 day before Kushner family pitched it to Chinese investors
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Rudy 911 admits to being a pathetic dumbfuck as a legal advisor
Rudy Giuliani says on Fox that Trump called him and said, "I want to do a
#MuslimBan
. How do I do it legally?"
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Indeed. That Dersh is willing to defend clients that most people hate is about the only positive trait Dersh has.
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If I just heard MSNBC correctly, there will be no live feed of Trump getting out of WH and onto Marine One. It will be taped only. Not sure I heard that right, but if so, that is troubling.
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The New York Times Trump whisperer, Maggie Haberman, is still on the job. At what point does this complete bullshit stop? How does the Times propagate this flatulence?
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Carter gets a lot of gruff, but he is one of the finest men to ever serve asPresident, and he appointed some of the most kick ass judges ever including the famous liberal lions. Sadly, the Carter Lions are almost all gone now. It is time for some new lions.
Jimmy Carter, the longest-living US president, is also now the first to reach age 95.
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