Professor Samuel Issacharoff. Literally wrote the law textbook & course called The Law of Democracy. This is his first & only (so far) tweet. He literally signed up & came onto Twitter just to tell Jared Kushner & Trump’s legal team to sit the f*ck down.
This calm, rational tweet is exactly how the professor would take down over-confident law students. Let you lead yourself down a rabbithole that is wrong w/ some nice Socratic banter, & then point out methodically how your entire premise was wrong. Then call on someone else.
As an aside I took his Law of Democracy course & also was in his first year civil procedure class. One of the great teachers. His first year course was terrifying. Not bc he was mean. But once you were cold called, it was you & him for up to 30 minutes. In front of 100+ students.
Oh he is VERY much against Bush v Gore. It’s unfortunately law though and the conservatives have a 6-3 majority.
Just found a powerful blog post from Sam Issacharoff: "Trump will have to show fraud in state after state, & he will have to provide evidence more substantial than Rudy Giuliani peacocking it for a microphone. He will be rejected by court after court." electionlawblog.org/?p=118324
The best line: In court, "He will not be able to blaspheme about “Mexican judges” and all the nonsense of the past four years. He will appear a whiner, unmoored and, most of all, a loser."
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During his confirmation, Barr said mass incarceration was “working well” & refused to admit it had a harmful impact on Black people. I argued last year that alone should have disqualified him from serving as Attorney General. Thread of Barr being the worst:nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Reminder: Barr wrote legal rationale for Gulf War, Panama invasion, & officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad. He also designed mass incarceration and signed off on a paper called “The Case for More Incarceration.”
Barr made the call not to hold Eric Garner's killer accountable federally. Not to intervene. Claimed Eric Garner was not in a chokehold when he repeatedly gasped, "I can’t breathe." It was on camera. Broad daylight. Didn’t matter to the beast.
Watching Chris Hayes in MSNBC right now. Reminded about the time I randomly met him in the first week of Trump presidency. In front of the federal court in Brooklyn as the ACLU argued the first Muslim Ban case. Late night & cold. Thousands of people outside chanting. Short story:
Was at JFK airport earlier doing legal volunteering & protesting. Had gotten home & was just getting ready to crawl into bed when I got word a Brooklyn judge was about to hear the first case arguing for an injunction of the policy. Bundled up & raced to the court 3 miles away.
I wanted to try to get into the courtroom to actually watch the argument. When I got there hundreds of people were already outside chanting. I worked my way to the front. I had clerked for two judges in the courthouse & knew the court officers. They weren’t letting people in yet.
I’ve watched hundreds of videos of NYPD policing protests since May. People make light of them, but bicycle cops have been among the most violent & brutal. Just last night video of attacking w/ bikes & dragging a protestor by the neck. This train of bicycle cops is ominous.
The NYPD is *unreformable.* Despite decades of reform, they're still using banned chokeholds. Cars, chemicals, bicycles & batons as weapons. Conduct that, if committed by people I represented, would be prosecuted as violent felonies. Wrote on it here: nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
NYPD rioting & assaulting civilians in NYC. This billboard last month. Times Square. Across from NYPD station. “Hey NYPD. It’s us. NYC residents. The ones who pay your salary. We paid $300 million to settle your lawsuits. You paid nothing. We need to talk.”
The $300 million to settle NYPD lawsuits over the last five years could instead fund proven non-police violence interruption programs and summer youth employment in every neighborhood in NYC for the next 5 years.
The $327 million per year that NYC residents pay for police in schools with no impact on public safety, could instead fund full four-year scholarships for over 4000 students to attend NY state colleges.
The best and most unexpected part of this video as it :32 when some dude just nonchalantly walks behind her in a t-shirt reading something & paying her no attention whatsoever like he has no idea she’s even there.