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10 Nov, 10 tweets, 3 min read
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.

cnn.com/2019/07/16/pol…
Bill Barr flew into NYC to jail a woman w/ mental health issues then in treatment. Despite release in Brooklyn, charged her w/ a federal hate crime. All to inflict pain. Today, the victim called to stop exploiting what happened. He didn’t. gothamist.com/news/bill-barr…
Barr seized on & used COVID to push for mass, indefinite detention. This is what he does. A cruel monster.
Despite his exposure to COVID, he chose to expose others to it.
Despite his hunger for harshness for all, Barr made took the highly “unusual” step to intervene to save Manafort from harsh conditions of Rikers. nytimes.com/2019/06/17/nyr…
More than 20,000 people in federal prison right now are 56 years or older. Bar couldn’t give a damn less. But for one 60 year old he cared. Roger Stone.
Barr was like this in high school. “High school tormentor.” “A classic bully.” “A sick & sadistic kid.”“Terrorized 7th graders bc they wore racial equality buttons.” In college, he “teamed up w/ NYC riot police to attack anti-war protestors.” He was always like this.
Remember when Barr said this: “They have to start showing, more than they do, the respect and support that law enforcement deserves. And if communities don’t give that support and respect, they may find themselves without the police protection they need.”

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11 Nov
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"I wish they taught this in law school." Now we will. ANNOUNCEMENT: I was just appointed Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School! In January, my colleague Alejo & I will be teaching 1Ls. On expanding their advocacy outside the courtroom. Hope this becomes a national model. Watch:
My organization Zealo.us, started off w/ a national training of defenders from around the country on a range of skills you don’t usually learn in law school. Or anywhere else for that matter. Those skills are more relevant today than ever. Part 2 of course preview:
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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.
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7 Nov
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.
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Open this photo up. Zoom in. This is tonight. In Union Square. In NYC. This is how our leaders choose to spend taxpayer money.
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:
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