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

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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

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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.

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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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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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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. 🫠

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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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BREAKING: Supreme Court won't order a new congressional map for the 2024 election, declining a request to reopen a previous case challenging the districts. Liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz did not take part in deciding the case. https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/wisconsin-redistricting-challenge-will/

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@GottaLaff

cough, cough Dobbs cough, cough

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@artemesia @GottaLaff

The existing map, which more accurately apportions the horrifically politically malapportioned state, remains in effect. You’re happy here.

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@rainefish11 @GottaLaff

They denied the petition without her participation.

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@GiddingsMJ @rainefish11 @GottaLaff

Unless you want conservative weighted districts in Wisconsin, you’re happy with this result.

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@GottaLaff Once the composition of the SCOTUS changed, the conservatives ran there to overturn Roe.

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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

A very egregious pattern of action. The Eleventh has to live with what they write because it’s going to be a published decision. They don’t reassign cases to different district judges easily.

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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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Another day, another…

“ A court employee and a police officer were fatally shot Thursday after the court process server tried to serve an eviction notice at a home in Independence, , authorities said.”

https://apnews.com/article/officers-shot-wounded-independence-missouri-3f60983d3f06f1538e5ba00a6f779659?taid=65e1150315d5a500012eee1b&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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@GottaLaff @_L1vY_

Nothing says respecting the rule of law more than…checks notes…shooting a process server. 🫠

Talk about shooting the messenger…

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Via @emptywheel:

For those asking why Jack Smith wasn't appointed until after the Trump obstruction was already 5 months in the works (oh! you didn't know that!!) it's because it had nothing to do with investigating Trump, which was already in process.

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@GottaLaff @emptywheel

They didn’t need a special counsel until Trump declared for office. That’s what created a conflict for DOJ. Prior to that he was just a citizen.

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The Republican justices know why they were put there and have delivered for their party once again. Not sure why anyone really expects them to be non-political at this point.

Trump appointed 3 of them. I’d be sure to be doing everything I can voting-wise to be sure he doesn’t get back in.

Supreme Court to hear Trump's appeal for presidential immunity, further delaying Jan. 6 trial -
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-agrees-hear-trumps-case-presidential-immunity/story?id=107373438

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@TonyStark @WizardBear

Just noting that relying on old people’s pancreases to keep working maintain the republic is a rather ineffective strategy. And there’s another one on the Court right now. So yeah, voting matters.

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@TonyStark @WizardBear

I was thinking about Soto. 6-3 is bad. 7-2 is a disaster. And they’re already salivating for it. DeSantis was fundraising on it.

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‼️#BREAKING 💥 1/...

Supreme Court to weigh #Trump immunity, keeps D.C. trial on hold— Bloomberg #SCOTUS

“Supreme Court to decide Trump’s immunity claim in election interference case

“Even if the justices ultimately rule against Trump, the court’s intervention adds a further delay, meaning his trial will not start for weeks, if not months.

Supreme Court to decide Trump’s immunity claim in election interference case” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-decide-trumps-immunity-claim-election-interference-case-rcna139026

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@TCatInReality @GottaLaff

Probably a decision in late June.

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🎯Via Shannon Watts:

Sen. Mitch ’s legacy will be that he purposefully undermined America’s first Black president, he broke the Supreme Court, he helped elect a fascist President, and he abetted up an insurrection on American soil.

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@GottaLaff @soc_i_ety

And with all that, the devil we don’t know could be worse.

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Via Roger Parloff:

On Fri will hear arguments on public access, as well as on whether to postpone the trial date—and till when.

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@GottaLaff @JonChevreau

Bet I can predict what it will be after. 🫠

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Three miscellaneous orders this morning on an Idaho execution. Still nothing on the immunity stay. 🤷‍♂️

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@otownKim Beats me. 🤷‍♂️

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OFFS. 1/...

Via Aaron Rupar:

"He comes at the invitation of Congress. Republicans are in control of the House. There's no reason that we need to invite him" -- Rep. Scott Perry wants House Republicans to cancel #SOTU

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@GottaLaff

She’s brilliant. She predicted 1/6.

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“We are mere days away from a partial government shutdown on March 1. Unless Republicans get serious, the extreme Republican shutdown will endanger our economy, raise costs, lower safety, and exact untold pain on the American people,” Schumer wrote in a letter to lawmakers on Sunday.

https://trib.al/Gq68KHj

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@GottaLaff @Npars01

I really don’t think the average person realizes that all of these close calls also are a giant waste of government resources as government employees are forced to spend time preparing for a shutdown. Yes, the shutdowns are worse as services are curtailed (and you end up paying the employees when it reopens for time they were furloughed) but even getting close is an absurd waste of tax dollars too.

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Donald Trump, Stable Genius:

Person.
Woman.
Man.
Wife.
Mercedes.

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@tomiahonen @GottaLaff

Give him a break. Not every man has to remember the names of three wives. 🫠

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For your consideration, some / folks:

@tristansnell

@evacide

@heidilifeldman

@emptywheel

@molly0xfff

@chrisgeidner

@Bam

@Wolven

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@icymi_law

How kind of you. Thanks!

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@GottaLaff @icymi_law 🥰

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🤦🏻‍♀️ #Trump’s lawyers have filed several motions to dismiss the classified #documents case in #Florida, citing, among other things, presidential immunity and arguing special counsel #JackSmith was unlawfully appointed. #legal

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/politics/trump-moves-dismiss-classified-documents-case?cid=ios_app

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@GottaLaff @PandaChronicle

Generally, I’d guess they are trash with no chance of success, but in that case, I’d only be half right.

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@GottaLaff @bronakins

Not necessarily. The decision is by the DC Circuit. If SCOTUS denies the stay and denies cert, that doesn’t necessarily mean an endorsement of the DC Circuit decision.

So the DC Circuit decision would be persuasive, but not binding, because Cannon is in the 11th. She’s not required to follow decisions of the DC Circuit, just decisions of the SCOTUS and the 11th.

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@GottaLaff

That’s assuming they took the case on the merits, which I’m suggesting is not the likely way for them to rule against him with a very good DC Circuit opinion. IMHO it is the more likely is for them to deny his stay request and deny certiorari. If the Eleventh loses its mind in the Florida case (assuming Cannon rules quickly) and conflicts with the DC Circuit, then they’d have to get their hands dirty.

@bronakins

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Welp. Pay up then. 🤣 1/...

Via Acyn:

Question: Judge Engoron says that he wants this $350 million within 30 days. Does Donald have that kind of money sitting around?

: I mean, he does. Of course he has money. You know, he’s a billionaire. Um, we know that

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@GottaLaff @JonChevreau

Kind of awkward. He has it and he has to pony up. He doesn’t and he’s screwing his whole brand.

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Maybe, just maybe corporate ownership of social media isn’t the best thing in the world, particularly when a site is controlled by a narcissistic, man baby 🫠

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The handwringing over the Special Counsel response time…like Smith can’t file early, is…something. 🤦‍♂️

Cc: @Teri_Kanefield

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“ is expected to be in attendance Monday in when Judge Aileen presides over a hearing in his classified case in which attorneys will address issues surrounding the classified materials in question.

The hearings will be under seal & held in a SCIF -- a specially-equipped secure room for viewing highly classified materials -- located in Fort Pierce, Florida”

https://trib.al/8RZlVrt

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@GottaLaff @HistoPol

For a guy who complained incessantly that his legal troubles would interfere with his ability to campaign, he sure seems to be spending a lot of time in the courtroom voluntarily. If only there were some reason why he felt his presence could be impactful to the judge in some way… 🤔

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Republicans are unfit. Period.

Via Jon Favreau:

I won't vote for foreign aid without border security legislation but I voted against border security because we don't need border security legislation but I won't vote for foreign aid without border security legislation but...

Acyn:

After Republicans tanked the border security bill, Tim Scott says he voted against a stand-alone bill for Israel/Ukraine aid because: We should first secure our southern border.

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@GottaLaff @lednabwm Their constituents don’t require them to be fit or consistent. They only care about power and wins through losses of others, including the nation’s security.

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@lednabwm @GottaLaff

I just think that Trump taught them they don’t need to be consistent or care about what a majority want to make policy that appeals to most people to win. They can be about power for the sake of power and their media ecosystem will take care of the rest, because they want them to have power for the sake of power as well.

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My new favorite correction.

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@GottaLaff @Lizette603_23 @mwl

Laff, you should post this and tag his wife on threads. She will love it.

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@GottaLaff it is!

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@GottaLaff @zombiecube

Boo.

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I'm only linking to the hellsite because I'm tired of people rudely asking why I don't link so I must be some troll spreading misinformation or lies or some such BS. https://twitter.com/carlquintanilla/status/1752406103714066873

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@GottaLaff @HistoPol

Fuck em. I’d prefer not to give them further traffic.

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Thanks for the Dem ad, Nik!

Via Aaron Rupar:

#NikkiHaley on Newsmax: "Let's speak some hard truths. If Donald #Trump becomes the Republican nominee, we will get a President Kamala Harris. You mark my words. He cannot win a general election ... he can't get independents. He can't get suburban women."

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@GottaLaff @andybrwn

What if I want President Kamala Harris though? 🤔

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@GottaLaff @Teri_Kanefield Does the verdict in the E Jean Carroll case require Trump to put up a bond in order to appeal? IIRC he had to do so with the $5 Million earlier verdict. Thoughts? TY both for all you do!!

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@GottaLaff @WizardBear @Teri_Kanefield

Yes. He can either deposit the judgment with the court or purchase a bond while on appeal. The former would be returned to him in its entirely should he be successful on appeal. The latter would not be money he sees again, but he wouldn’t have to deposit the entire judgment. Also notable is that post judgment interest in New York accumulates at 9%.

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@GradientU0 @GottaLaff @WizardBear @Teri_Kanefield

Evidence at trial was that he has $400M cash on hand. A bankruptcy petition, in addition to being subject to claims of fraudulent bankruptcy, would be politically disastrous.

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