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Bam

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Part of Twexit. #SCOTUS junkie. Legal practice is never perfect. Follower of #appellatelaw #ASOIF #ElfQuest and other interesting things. Father of Cats. Fan of snarkasm. Lover of #Lego. Addicted to Toot! (Toot!.app) US based but loves to learn about the other side of the pond. הנני. Esther 4:13. Just happy to be here.

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Of all cases...

Via Lisa Rubin:

#Trump is further beefing up his legal team in the #EJeanCarroll case with a second appellate lawyer, Will Scharf, who is also a candidate for Missouri AG. (Scharf moved to be admitted in SDNY for purposes of the case today.) #legal

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@GottaLaff @Danetteb

Man, Trump’s gonna be super pissed when he learned about preservation of error. 😳

GottaLaff , to random
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I'm beginning to think this is National WTAF Day.

Via The Hill:

Chris Cuomo to interview Tucker Carlson on NewsNation

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@GottaLaff @aliza

Evergreen toot. 🌲

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Really, really disappointed in Katie Porter. Just not okay.

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@RiaResists

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4515806-katie-porter-calls-california-senate-race-rigged-billionaires/amp/

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@RiaResists @GottaLaff

Saying her fair election was “rigged” is the exact populist anti-democratic way Trump and his ilk want to toss democracy to the side. She lost. Does money play a part in elections? No doubt. We have a privately financed election system. But it doesn’t mean the election was illegitimate or “rigged.”

When you’re the good guys, you need to do better.

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📌 Via Anna Bower:

Mark your calendars: Oral argument on ’s presidential immunity appeal is set for Thursday, April 25 at the United States Supreme Court.

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@GottaLaff @Danetteb

Seeing people saying that they’re taking their sweet time with that schedule. The order was that it would be scheduled that week. The Court does not generally hold OA on Thursdays. Usually Monday through Wednesday, so Thursday is out of the ordinary.

Yes, the Court has moved some cases faster, like the lightening speed Pentagon Papers case. But this is pretty quick for a case that doesn’t have a built in decisional deadline.

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@GottaLaff @Danetteb

I’m of the opinion that they should have denied cert, so 🤷‍♂️. I’m just saying that it’s not like they’re holding it over for next term either.

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I promised to write something up on legal pundits and how to listen to them.

This is a preliminary draft of my answer.

Monday, when the Supreme Court decision came down, I said this:

If you are upset or angry about the Supreme Court decision in the 14th Amendment ballot case, you are the victim of rage merchants.

I also promised to explain. Here is my explanation.

This is not a crowd pleaser. Sorry.

https://terikanefield.com/the-outrage-machine-strikes-again-14th-amendment-section-3/

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@Teri_Kanefield

What if I fully expected the result for practical and policy reasons, but think the reasoning is still atrocious, undercuts the originalist principles that the majority of Court purports to decide on, further upends the federal power/federalism balance (based on a seed Justice Story planted wrongly ages ago), and extends its holding far beyond what needed to be addressed with minimal justification, particularly when there’s a much more intellectually honest method to get the Court where it obviously wanted to go?

🤔

(I know you addressed that. I’m just being sassy 😉)

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@mastodonmigration

Us SCOTUS watchers and legal geeks are always going to have that discussion, irrespective of the political impact. Our geeky love of constitutional jurisprudence is why you love us. 🤓

@Teri_Kanefield

GottaLaff , to random
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One down.

Via Victor Shi:

Wow. A lifelong Republican voter in Oklahoma just published an op-ed, saying how he “voted for Trump – twice” but that after reading “Liz Cheney's book & the DOJ Jan. 6 indictment,” he totally changed his mind & now will not support Trump this election. This is good.

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@GottaLaff @Adventurer

I’m telling you, I know it’s 600 pages, but that J6 report is a must read. It is compellingly written and, even after watching the hearings, still shocking. I know it’s a big ask, but people need to read it.

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Via Klasfeld:

News

Sen. Menendez LOSES his bid to suppress evidence obtained through search warrants.

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@GottaLaff Womp womp.

GottaLaff , to random
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Here we go again: Someone replies “we DESERVE” who we get in elections… Me: No, we didn’t DESERVE Trump. (There were dirty tricks, election interference, 7 million more for Hillary). He then felt he had to explain we don’t use pop vote in elections. No kidding. I asked that he “please don’t twist my words, my issue was “DESERVE”. His reply? “I’ll make a conscious effort to passively consume your content without further engagement moving fwd.”

I never sugg he shouldn’t opine. Debating here is 🤪

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@GottaLaff @Danetteb

*and an antiquated system to select the President that was created to perpetuate Southern in a time when most statewide, much less nationwide, elections were not possible.

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Via Scott MacFarlane:

Per House Speaker Mike Johnson office, new spending deal to fund government thru September cuts the FBI. By 6%

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@GottaLaff @Npars01

Back the blue. Law and order. 🫠

GottaLaff , to random
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Today was Block Around the Clock Day.

I was in no mood to tolerate fools.

I should do this more often.

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@GottaLaff 🎶 Block around the clock tonight. We’re gonna block, block, block till broad daylight 🎶

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Here is Stephanie P. Jones' take on SCOTUS's decision to grant cert in the immunity case.

https://blog.stephaniejones.com/2024/03/01/yes-the-supreme-court-could-have-declined-the-case-but-then-what/

(She gets annoyed at a few of the influential TV lawyers.)

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@Teri_Kanefield @GottaLaff @GiddingsMJ

That’s exactly right.

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🤦🏻‍♀️ Judge Delay McTrumpTool lives down to her name again.

Via Anna Bower:

Update: Judge heard argument on the special counsel’s request that she reconsider an earlier order to unseal the names of potential witnesses & other sensitive docs.

No decision from the bench, but Cannon sounded skeptical of prosecutors’ claims that she clearly erred.

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@GottaLaff @littleEva

I think she means a basis to appeal. I don’t know more specifically though.

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