[View here as a Twitter thread] Four crimes / theories of liability are listed in the indictment: 18 USC 2 principals; aiding and abetting 1001: false statements 1512: Witness tampering. 1505: Obstruction of justice 1/ Now for the list of unnamed people: Company 1 = Wikileaks Head of Wikileaks=Assange “senior Trump Campaign officials.” Notice that …
[View here as a Twitter thread] @champasoft asks how we can repair in 2020 with Trump stacking the courts. I hear despair in that question. Despair comes partly from not understanding our history and thus thinking: “This never happened before!” and then feeling doomed. 1/ For example, about those judges: Through most of U.S. history, the …
[View as a Twitter thread]. Hi, Patrick, I think that, in the end, the only real way to save liberal democracy is through public opinion and elections. It’s easier to write about how we got into this mess than to chart pathways out. (A crystal ball would be helpful) 1/ By “this mess” I mean …
[View here as a Twitter thread] I mentioned that Trump has no legal strategy or defense. @sdterp pointed out that Trump has lots of lawyers & looking for more, so he must be preparing for a legal battle. I suspect Trump will never have a traditional legal defense. Here’s why. 1/ Trump, Giuliani, Sarah Sanders, etc., …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Yesterday, Special Counsel filed a memo with the court describing Manafort’s lies (for the purpose of showing that Manafort violated his plea agreement). A lot of the memo looks like this: But we learn a few new details. 1/ I’ll work the new stuff into what we already know …
[View as a Twitter thread] Hi, Holly Jolly, As things stand, the electoral college gives an advantage to sparsely populated states. 1/ There are three ways to solve the problem. The hardest is to amend the Constitution, a ridiculously complicated and lengthy process. 2/ There are two easier ways, but both require grassroots organizing. The …
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[View here as a Twitter thread] Hi, James, In that particular thread, I was simply demonstrating that Mueller was fulfilling his mandate. But—now that you mention it—the facts given in the documents (along with Trump’s public actions) do constitute crimes. Let’s start with a few easy ones. 1/ How about accessory after the fact? 2/ …
On Friday, January 4, I appeared on KVEC News/Talk 920 AM and 96.5 FM to talk about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. On Thursday, January 3, I did a Q&A on Ruth Bader Ginsburg as part of the SLO Jewish Film Festival. The radio show is here as a podcast. Here is a transcript of a four …
[View here as a Twitter thread] Trump supporters don’t care if Trump lies. If they repeat something Trump says, and then find out it isn’t factual, they don’t care. That’s a hard one for non-Trump supporters to wrap their minds around. 1/ I wrote about this in my Slate article a few months ago. hWhen you …
[View here as a Twitter thread] What we learn from the new indictment of Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya Spoiler: A few more pieces come together (I finally read the indictment!) 1/ In 2007 a “corrupt Russian organization” called Prevezon defrauded Russian taxpayers of millions of rubles and then laundered the money in NY. In 2013 the SDNY …
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