NY personal injury atty, dad, husband, blogger, runner, Mets fan, and beer can chicken enthusiast. Yes, that's my face on a bus. (Threads: EricTurkewitz)
At airport:
Rept: I'm a reporter who travels to Mexico a lot.
CBP: What's your story on?
Rept: I'm a US citizen.
CBP: That wasn't the question.
Rept: I'd like to call a lawyer
CBP: No.
Reporter after 3 hours in detention: Thanks for the new story.
@normative
A problem w/ trying to undo the blunder is it would have forced them inform the court that prior discovery demands/orders were no doubt violated.
The failure to tell the client is simply inexplicable.
Compare and contrast:
Trumps moronic defamation suit against CNN.
And the brilliant amicus filing by The Onion.
The worst and the best of American lawyering within a few hours.
As someone who has experienced the judicial debris of Devin Nunes’ attorney Steven Biss' frivolous litigation I am heartened to read this story by
@KateIrby
for the
@Fresno
Bee. God speed,
@DevinCow
I hope Devin Nunes never unMOOsks you!
Remember when Judge Douglas Ginsburg has to withdraw his SCOTUS nomination due to marijuana use?
And both Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood had to withdraw over nanny issues?
Good times.
@ElieNYC
That was a great old Senate custom, not taking advantage of someone being sick in the other party.
Because it could happen to you too.
But see, Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Didn’t stop the GOP from taking advantage.
You can't make this shit up:
@SenatorCollins
:
"the president has learned from this case."
Yeah, he's learned that:
1. He can't be investigated or indicted;
2. He doesn't have to cough up documents/witnesses; and
3. The Senate will acquit him of anything.
CBS NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) tells
@NorahODonnell
she will vote to acquit Pres. Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, adding that she believes "the president has learned from this case."
Watch more tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Do not believe any article or story you read or see that uses “anonymous sources” having to do with trade or any other subject. Only accept information if it has an actual living name on it. The Fake News Media makes up many “sources say” stories. Do not believe them!
Don't forget to sort them properly.
I mean, if you send the Stop the Count goons to Arizona by accident and the Count All the Votes goons to Pennsylvania, you'll have really screwed the pooch.
This is the Complaint in Trump for President v. NYT.
Linked here because most of the press is pathologically incapable of linking to legal filings in their news stories.
So I downloaded it and did it for you:
@DonaldJTrumpJr
But let's look at the bright side, there's now one less thing for Russia to blackmail the Trump administration with.
The glass is 1% full.
NB: The Ukrainian readout of the presidential phone call says explicitly Trump tied investigations & improving relations between the two countries, specifying completing “investigation of corruption cases, which inhibited the interaction between Ukraine and the USA.”
If you've been reading about a lot of protests against "stay-at-home" orders you might take them with many grains of salt.
There was a protest scheduled for Staten Island over the weekend.
No one showed up.
Communities that have been hit understand.
NBC News: The FBI has charged Riley Williams with her role in the Capitol riot.
The FBI says she told a former partner that she intended to take a laptop / hard drive stolen from Pelosi's office, ship it to Russia, where a friend would turn it over to the SVR -- Russian intel.
As I guessed yesterday, the Alex Jones document dump was an inadvertent link sent by a paralegal.
Then Jones's counsel attempted to claw it back under "snap back" provision of Texas law.
And plaintiff's counsel used it anyway?
Oy.
Here's pp 1-4 of filing from this morning:
@sargent_kris
@Popehat
@normative
Is it possible the atty didn’t know the texts were initially sent? Sure. He could have told a paralegal to send x and y and it was misinterpreted.
(Assume the simplest screw-up, not a complex one)
And, of course, it could be that Jones *was* told. And lied. Because Jones.
This headline should read:
Alex Jones hires top notch First Amendment lawyers to defend against defamation claims...
Hey
@nytimes
, you blew your headline.
@marcorandazza
Alex Jones has hired lawyers representing a founder of a neo-Nazi website to defend him against defamation claims brought by families of Sandy Hook victims
@NoahCRothman
1. This exists in NY to (at least at the Javits Center).
2. It's a way to stop people from taking pics elsewhere that might impinge on the privacy of others ("please take the pic over there").
3. Publication of such pics encourages others to go.
4. This is a good thing.
Plural/possessive name reminder:
For names that end in an s or z sound, you can either add -'s or just an apostrophe.
Going with -'s is the more common choice:
the car that belongs to Jones → Jones's car or Jones' car
@Popehat
@mirriam71
The most remarkable part of the police violence in some places is that they know they are being filmed. From a million directions.
And do it anyway.
Page 6 discusses why the First Amendment doesn't apply to attorneys in situations before the court.
"It is long recognized that “speech by an attorney is subject to greater regulation than speech by others"
Was Rudy just making stuff up all along, or did he subscribe to the theory that, if it is on the internet it must be true?
A head shot to Rudy on the Joe Frazier claim:
Trump defends gutting the federal government's pandemic preparedness over his first 3 years in office: "I just think this is something that you can never really think is going to happen."
What appears to have happened: Border Patrol accurately described the project in early 2018 as long-planned replacement fence, then Trump's team decided in late 2018, having not built any new wall, that it was going to brand replacement fence as his wall, so a plaque went up.
Cohen attorney Lanny Davis: Cohen will cooperate with Mueller and wants to tell the truth about Trump.
He now feels liberated to tell the truth about Trump. (On Madow show)
Of course they’re not doing contact tracing of the Rose Garden event.
If they did contact tracing they would be able to show the damage that was done.
Optics have always been more important to Trump than policy.
@cathleendecker
@bylenasun
@goldsteinamy
The buried lede is this: HHS officials on Monday finalized a new data reporting protocol for hospitals, which will ELIMINATE THE CDC AS A DATA RECIPIENT, leaving health-care institutions to report information...to a federal contractor or to their state.
@AriCohn
What could possibly go wrong by angering millions of dedicated Swifties?
What could they possibly do?
Other than, I mean, vote, organize, and volunteer to get out the vote?
@gtconway3dg
@steveliesman
Same thing he did in 2016, blabbering about the election being rigged before it happened.
Like a golfer showing up to play claiming his shoulder hurts.
Line up the excuses first, just in case.
So far
@JamaalBowmanNY
, who I voted for, has:
1. Sponsored a resolution calling the establishment of Israel a catastrophe;
2. Voted *against* Biden's infrastructure bill;
3. Inexplicably pulled a fire alarm to disrupt congressional proceedings.
He needs to face a primary.
Leaving PA, the court heads to Giuliani in Georgia, which sounds like a bad movie. But here's the intro noting the "hundreds of pages of affidavits" that, oddly, were apparently never produced:
Dear
@APStylebook
:
How about requiring, as a matter of style, that when reporting on court sections, YOU LINK TO THE FUCKING ORDER.
Yours, etc,
— Everyone
Judge Blocks Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' Order Banning Mask Mandates
@simonerzim
@TeenVogue
Very impressive.
You wrote a whole piece on the nightmare in the Middle East without once mentioning Hamas.
You know, that group that was founded on the extermination of Israel.
Helluva trick to do that.
"The consequences of snitch testimony can be catastrophic. Of the 367 DNA exonerations in the United States to date, jailhouse informants played a role in nearly one in five of the underlying wrongful convictions. "
A useful guide to reading/listening to a crazy conspiracy theorist.
10 practical Rules for dealing with crazy.
One of the greatest blog posts of all time.
@sargent_kris
@Popehat
@normative
Is it possible the atty didn’t know the texts were initially sent? Sure. He could have told a paralegal to send x and y and it was misinterpreted.
(Assume the simplest screw-up, not a complex one)
And, of course, it could be that Jones *was* told. And lied. Because Jones.
@ElieNYC
I don’t know why NRA fans would be upset — if there is fraud they should be pissed about THAT, and be happy to get rid of it.
And any gun-supporting Dem running for office would make that clear.
The shirtless man with furs and a horned hat photographed on the Senate dais during the Capitol siege, Jacob Chansley, has been charged with unlawful entry. He told the FBI he came to D.C. "at the request of the President that all 'patriots' come to D.C."
@adamsteinbaugh
@realDonaldTrump
And this will result in yet more gas guzzlers in the road, which impacts both the environment and has national security implications due to increased oil demand.
@RonFilipkowski
“slimy” is the wrong word. It’s an explicit violation of law.
CPLR 3113: examination of deponents shall proceed as permitted in the trial of actions in open court
Also violates rule 221.3;
Atty shall not interrupt the depo for the purpose of communicating with the deponent
@owillis
Four years?
No.
The press has been covering Trump’s utterances since 1989 when he found he could be on the front pages by bragging about his infidelities and divorce.
He’s been trolling for a lot longer than four years.
2 /3
Trump said in an interview that he knew he couldn’t win the suit but brought it anyway to make a point. “I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees, and they spent a whole lot more. I did it to make his life miserable, which I’m happy about.”
This is a lousy tweet by
@ProjectLincoln
One person is facing violent felony charges.
The other is facing nonviolent misdemeanor charges.
Not all crimes are the same.
@YousefMunayyer
@AliaMalek
Spokesman was writing in future tense (“will try”). I thought it pretty obvious when I saw this that it was image of what was to come.
This one Alex Jones lawsuit is like a bar exam exercise in issue spotting:
Defamation
First Amendment
Discovery failures
Default judgment
Perjury
Contempt of court
1/2
@ABC
@loweringthebar
The guy punching the window is wearing a $325 Canada Goose aviators hat.
Not what you would expect from some disaffected, working class guy who claims to be politically voiceless.