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6 Oct, 4 tweets, 3 min read
"There is not a single person in the United States—not the President and not anyone else—whose job description includes slandering women they sexually assaulted."

Tonight, @kaplanrobbie & I filed our brief opposing DOJ's effort to hijack @ejeancarroll's case against Donald Trump
You can read the brief here:

kaplanhecker.com/sites/default/…

As is always true of filings at @KaplanHecker, it reflects a team effort and vital contributions from many extraordinary colleagues.
Last month, @LeahLitman published a powerful @PostEverything analysis of the case (which we quote in our brief), explaining why DOJ's motion to substitute the United States as the defendant is both meritless and deplorable

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
For insightful coverage of the brief we filed tonight, check this @nytimes article by @BenWeiserNYT and Alan Feuer

nytimes.com/2020/10/05/nyr…

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23 Apr
Today was @tribelaw's last day in the classroom at Harvard Law School

Of course, he will continue to teach us all in op-eds, essays, tweets, TV appearances, and many other settings

Still, I'd like to mark the occasion & celebrate my friend, mentor, hero, and co-author
Without exaggeration, @tribelaw is one of the most important legal thinkers in American history. His legacy and contributions are hard to overstate. Few judges -- indeed, few #SCOTUS justices -- come anywhere close to matching his influence or mastery of the Constitution.
Yet in many ways, @tribelaw has been just as influential through his teaching as his scholarship and advocacy

Generations of bright-eyed students at @Harvard_Law have explored the Constitution -- its secrets, structure, harmony, and history -- under his masterful tutelage
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20 Mar
BREAKING: Major opinion from the Second Circuit in Federal Defenders of New York v Bureau of Prisons

"The Defenders describe a course of events that demands the attention of all components of the system that our country relies on for meting out justice."

ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isys…
In its powerful, unanimous decision -- authored by all three judges on the panel (Walker, Parker, Carney) -- the Second Circuit emphasizes the importance of "real-time, comprehensive solutions" to healthy & safety crises at federal prisons.
This lawsuit was filed after the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn lost heat and power last winter, causing a humanitarian crisis & illegal limits on attorney access

Here, the Second Circuit also highlights the "drastic challenge" to prison safety "presented by COVID-19"
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7 Feb
On October 15, I joined the staff of the House Judiciary Committee to serve among counsel for the impeachment inquiry. Since then, I've worked alongside extraordinarily talented lawyers, officials & public servants in defense of our democracy. Today was my last day in that role.
I am eternally grateful to @RepJerryNadler and his team for welcoming me aboard. It was an honor to share offices with @NormEisen, @BarryBerke, @SarahIstel, and many other brilliant, hardworking members of the Judiciary Committee staff.
I am also grateful to the House Managers—@RepAdamSchiff, @RepJerryNadler, @RepJeffries, @RepSylviaGarcia, @RepZoeLofgren, @RepValDemings & @RepJasonCrow—for their zealous advocacy, grace under pressure, and inspirational leadership of the Senate trial team.
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5 Jul 19
A thread with some thoughts on DOJ's letter in the #Census2020 case, which can be found (alongside some great analysis from @rickhasen) here.

electionlawblog.org/?p=106089
First, it's unsurprising for DOJ to assert that any "new" decision to add the Q must be assessed w/o reference to the history of the policy

As I noted at @ShallTakeCare, it's a standard, oft-repeated move in the Trump DOJ's 'animus-laundering' playbook

takecareblog.com/blog/thoughts-…
Indeed, amid debate over the #TransBan and #TravelBan, I wrote an op-ed for @PostOpinions in *March 2018* identifying this animus-laundering strategy and warning that we could expect to see a lot more of it

washingtonpost.com/opinions/getti…
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26 Apr 19
I'm late to the party but have four thoughts on how this statement affects a number of the ongoing battles between #Trump and the #House -- including those relating to investigations, subpoenas, and obstruction of justice.
First, to the extent Trump disputes the accuracy of key facts in the #Mueller report, that massively enhances Congress's case for seeing the unredacted report, having #Mueller testify, having #McGahn testify, and having its subpoenas honored. So Trump shot himself in the foot.
Second, McGahn is a potentially dangerous witness for Trump, so Trump's pattern of attacking him (manifested yet again here) is very risky. Indeed, Trump's penchant for publicly blasting current and former officials may well cause him many more headaches going forward.
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24 Apr 19
A number of folks have expressed doubt that any of this matters. In their view, officials currently defying Congress (and any judges who would uphold such defiance) will persist in doing so regardless of Congress's source of authority.
It seems fair to say that this view partakes of a more general nihilism about the the rule of law under Trump: the creeping, paralyzing sense that nothing matters anymore except partisan loyalty, tribal truth, and the will to power.
To be sure, that's certainly true of Trump and his die-hard allies. Rather than follow the law, these officials cynically assert that it cloaks them with powers that defy judicial review or congressional oversight, no matter how egregious their illegality and animus.
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