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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)

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Eric Turkewitz
6 years
I'm just gonna say this once. I'm sick of comic book super hero movies. There. I said it. I'm done.
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With Harris and Walz we are about to enter apostrophe hell.
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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.
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Rudy Giuliani suspended from practice of law in New York:
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I don’t want Trump shot. I want him to lose. That’s how democracy works.
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6 months
If I understand today’s SCOTUS argument, Biden can kill Trump because he’s a threat to the country, and do so with immunity. Did I get that right?
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2 years
@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.
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2 years
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.
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3 years
There is no cure for this.
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The Good Liars
3 years
This woman at the Trucker Convoy explained to us what covid19 REALLY means.
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It appears that the #apostrocolypse is upon us. If you can pronounce it.
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4 years
Well played, @DevinNunes . You did a great job making @DevinCow famous.
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The Sparrow Project
4 years
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!
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Will Trumpers understand that they were betrayed by him?
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3 years
Interim suspensions, by the way, are rare in New York. These are the rules in New York that Giuliani is alleged to have violated:
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5 years
Remember, if there is a virus in the U.S. it is the fault of the POTUS.
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Donald J. Trump
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Ebola has been confirmed in N.Y.C., with officials frantically trying to find all of the people and things he had contact with.Obama's fault
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@DonaldJTrumpJr Holy shit. Trump Jr. just posted the email string showing deliberate efforts to collude with Russia. #TrumpRussia
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@waltshaub @cristianafarias Why do I think we will be hearing more from @waltshaub after July 19th? #ethics
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6 years
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.
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Trump signed an order honoring Woody Guthrie? Does he know?
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Ben Jacobs
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Full list of those getting statues in the National Garden of American Heroes per Trump's EO just now
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The remarkable thing is that she was apparently recording her own assault on the cop.
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@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.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr No collusion, they said. No collusion. It's all a media hit job. And here it is from Trump Jr. himself.
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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.
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CBS Evening News
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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.
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John Miller, aka, John Barron, aka, David Denison, aka, Donald Trump, says:
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Donald J. Trump
5 years
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!
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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.
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HARLAN Z. HILL 🇺🇸
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Republican groups should start bussing Trump supporters to Philly, Phoenix, and Detroit. Make them feel our level of pissed off.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr And here's the Trump Jr. email string as screen cap in case his lawyer screams at him to hit delete, delete, delete!!
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@RyanLizza Ha! Nailed the ghostwriting thing this morning…I’m in the wrong business…
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Did Kristi Noem forget to read her own book written by a ghostwriter?
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I continue to be amazed at the way people will willingly debase themselves.
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Hill Reporter
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Fox’s Bartiromo: An Intelligence Source Told Me Trump Actually Won the Election
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@Popehat Woody Guthrie once wrote a song about Trump’s racist father.
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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:
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Eric Turkewitz
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Regarding his claims that more PA absentee ballots were returned than sent out, Giuliani shoots blanks in response:
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@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.
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Trump to Ukraine: ‘I will give you American tax payer dollars if you help me win the election.’
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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.”
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@maggieNYT If @HowardSchultz wants to run for POTUS then let him primary Trump. And I’ll be happy to register Republican to help him.
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Did Giuliani knowingly make false statements or is he utterly incompetent? Or both?
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Out of tiny Whitefish, Montana comes this spectacular photo and the bio of the woman who took it. @graciejensn
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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.
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So patriotic.
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Tom Winter
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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.
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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:
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@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.
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This headline should read: Alex Jones hires top notch First Amendment lawyers to defend against defamation claims... Hey @nytimes , you blew your headline. @marcorandazza
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The New York Times
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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
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@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.
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Yeah, the court was pretty clear that his allegation of fraud was, in essence, fraudulent:
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And @MerriamWebster has now weighed in on the coming #apostrocolypse that will occur if Harris/Walz win:
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Merriam-Webster
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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
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@amitan1595 I would answer you in French with a clever quip mais je ne parle pas Francais.
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@fatrabit17 You mean like this from my own congressman?
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And Four Seasons Total Landscaping gets another 15 minutes of fame!
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@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.
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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"
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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:
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94% GOP approval rating.
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Aaron Rupar
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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."
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Lifted right from the pages of George Orwell's 1984 👇👇👇
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Daniel Dale
6 years
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.
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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)
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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.
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Trump: If you don’t collect the data, there will be fewer infections.
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🐝Kat Sheridan 🐝
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@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.
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Wow. A DA gets indicted. For helping to torpedo the investigation/prosecution of a police shooting of an unarmed man. @radleybalko @ScottGreenfield
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@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?
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@baseballcrank Being rigid in the face of conflicting facts isn’t the flex you think it is.
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@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.
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@Patterico Think about how many lawyers a Chief Judge must know. And this is who he picked.
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More on Frazier: Rudy was citing a "blogger." Gives bloggers a bad name, but here's the bit:
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How to make it into @BadLegalTakes ? By demonstrating a delightful combination of both ignorance and arrogance.
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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.
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Eric Turkewitz
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Rule of thumb: If you ever speak with Trump, one day you’ll need a lawyer.
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A rush hour train back to Westchester.
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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:
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Eric Turkewitz
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@Weinsteinlaw The GOP Senators claim to care about protecting and defending the Constitution, then do this:
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Given the #1 killer of cops is the virus, And given that Trump deliberately downplayed it, This would appear to be accurate.
@greg_doucette
T. Greg Doucette
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The #1 cop killer in 2020 is Donald Trump
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@realDonaldTrump Small cars are low margin. If it can’t be made elsewhere Ford won’t make it here.
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Eric Turkewitz
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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
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@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.
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Eric Turkewitz
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If this Congress can make it illegal to support the anti-semites of BDS, a new Congress in 10 years can make it illegal to support Israel.
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Blake Hounshell
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45 senators want to make it a felony to support an international boycott against Israel
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"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. "
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@evanperez And that is how a lawyer falls on his sword.
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When a short stay in jail is a death sentence.
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@radleybalko And that’s how you know when a police department is overfunded.
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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.
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@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.
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From a transcript I am reading: Q. Have you ever been married? A. Yes. Q. Who were you married to? A. My ex-husband. I blame the lawyer.
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Eric Turkewitz
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@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.
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Eric Turkewitz
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When you outsource your legal marketing:
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And just like that, another human self-destructs whatever reputation they spent decades developing.
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Andrew Weinstein
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“Democratic pigs. All of you.” This is Trump’s America.
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Eric Turkewitz
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Some fine representation.....
@EdKrassen
Ed Krassenstein
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Fox News host @seanhannity tried to book one of Roy Moore's accusers for an on-air interview, and she replies with this EPIC response:
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If Washington, D.C. becomes a state, what will it be called? Washington is already taken. And it would no longer be a district.
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@Popehat The odd thing is that removing special privileges for Disney is the right thing to do. But they are doing it for the wrong reason.
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Americans’ trend in tattoos is making the job of identification much easier.
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Brad Heath
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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."
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@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.
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@AriMelber He and Bibi can swap tips.
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@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
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Eric Turkewitz
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@MaxKennerly @DavidSug @trabernlaw @dissentingj You gotta admit, Trump hiring a lawyer who misspells "president" is pretty priceless.
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Eric Turkewitz
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@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.
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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.”
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Eric Turkewitz
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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.
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@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.
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Eric Turkewitz
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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
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Eric Turkewitz
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The @NRA is now comparing Trump to mobster Al Capone. Bizarrely, they think this is a defense.
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Media Matters
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Dana Loesch: Democrats are “trying to Al Capone the president”
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@marceelias You don’t need a calendar for this You need a stopwatch.
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Eric Turkewitz
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@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.
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Eric Turkewitz
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Tell me you’re from North Carolina without telling me you’re from North Carolina.
@greg_doucette
T. Greg Doucette
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South Carolina is a real sh*thole
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