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Right now, my favorite thing is promoting my friends’ projects - be it a book, a podcast, a substack, legal work, acting, comedy, music - we are all storytellers. Telling your story helps people feel like they’re not alone, and that’s the most important feeling there is!
Check out my friend @Victorshi2020 and his new podcast about Gen Z voters, who helped preserve democracy in the midterms!
Or listen to my friend @MollyJongFast on the #FastPolitics pod. She also writes for @VanityFair! The @nytimes did an amazing above-the-fold piece on her here: nytimes.com/2022/11/06/bus…
"We don’t know what, if anything, Trump did with the materials at Mar-a-Lago. But DOJ appears to be interested in that question. For one thing, they’ve obtained video surveillance tapes of MAL.
"There’s been speculation that the large and seemingly unwarranted investment of $2 billion by the Saudis in Jared Kushner’s new business venture along with the large sums of money paid to Trump to host a Saudi-backed golf tournament could be payoffs.
"But for now, that is just speculation and I’d encourage you to be careful about buying into conjecture unless and until it’s backed up by evidence—even when the speculation makes a certain amount of intuitive sense.
There was an episode of this podcast #SistersInLaw (great show) where one of the hosts discussed the media coverage of a case her team was prosecuting. And there is a weird media fallacy at play where they pressure prosecution and then take credit for work that was done.
Media pundits by their nature tend to be a bit narcissistic and believe they are literally creating the news and applying pressure with their coverage. Meanwhile in the case she was discussing her team had already been doing work the entire time. They weren't concerned w/ media.
And as adversarial as the media was to them, the second her team started announcing their progress in the case.. the media took credit for "pressuring" the team to do their jobs.
It's such a ridiculous fallacy that requires no proof on the part of the media.
It's such a ridiculous fallacy that requires no proof on the part of the media.
1/Just listened to my #SistersInLaw co-host @JoyceWhiteVance answering great questions from @JoyAnnReid. I admire both & almost always agree with Joyce, but I'm with Joy on the issue of AG Garland's slow pace. Justice delayed creates impression that Trump is above the law &...
2/...lets his lies infect upcoming primaries. Similiarly, the delay in acting on a clear case of obstruction of Congress by @MarkMeadows puts him above the law &,even if he's about to be indicted for a substantive crime, inaction on his obstr emboldens others to not cooperate,...
3/Joyce is right that there may be cases in development, and one could be announced tomorrow and we wouldn't & shouldn't know (don't want AG to violate rules I criticized Comey for doing) but many crimes were committed in plain sight and require action now.
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After first waves of commentary on #Weisselberg indictment, I sat down with @AWeissmann_.
Several important insights by him:
1. Prosecutors have another option to obtain Weisselberg testimony if he does not cooperate.
justsecurity.org/77369/how-to-r…
After first waves of commentary on #Weisselberg indictment, I sat down with @AWeissmann_.
Several important insights by him:
1. Prosecutors have another option to obtain Weisselberg testimony if he does not cooperate.
justsecurity.org/77369/how-to-r…
2. Weissmann: "After Weisselberg is prosecuted...the prosecution can put him in the grand jury and compel him to testify."
That option is also discussed in #SistersInLaw podcast (@KimberlyEAtkins @JillWineBanks @JoyceWhiteVance @BarbMcQuade)
politicon.com/podcasts/trump…
That option is also discussed in #SistersInLaw podcast (@KimberlyEAtkins @JillWineBanks @JoyceWhiteVance @BarbMcQuade)
politicon.com/podcasts/trump…
3. Weissmann details why he thinks (a) the content of the indictment, (b) the prosecutors' requests in the arraignment hearing, and (c) the press conference by defense attorneys points toward a criminal investigation with much more to come.
Last but not least, it’s the cursing cheerleader case where the 1st amendment has won the day. We discussed this case on #SistersInLaw when it was argued. I confess, she’s my kind of cheerleader. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Not last, I failed to check for the R number, assuming we’d just get 3. Sorry about that.
Justice Thomas, in his lone dissent, ponders why we can’t just do things the way we’ve always done them. (The majority obviously disagrees with this assessment of the law)
