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22 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
This is truly painful to watch. The Trump campaign just declared that Sidney Powell (who was featured by the Trump campaign a few days ago) is not representing the campaign. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Here is the statement about the person just featured in the campaign presser: "Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own. She is not a member of the Trump Legal Team. She is also not a lawyer for the President in his personal capacity.”
If B.F. Skinner was right that "chaos breeds geniuses," the Trump legal team will soon be given Mensa status.
We previously discussed how the Trump lawyers and campaign could find themselves faced with defamation suits. Given the highlighting of Powell and her allegations at the campaign press conference, such separation might not offer complete tort protection. jonathanturley.org/2020/11/19/is-…
Giuliani: "Well, this is representative of our legal team. We’re representing President Trump and we’re representing the Trump campaign. When I finish, Sidney Powell and then Jenna Ellis will follow me. And we will present in brief the evidence that we’ve collected."
That statement incorporating Powell with the team in the press conference was followed by "Also, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing are here with me. There are a lot more lawyers working on this, but I guess, we’re the senior lawyers. And Boris Epshteyn."

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22 Nov
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Giuliani is raising the "curing" issue and the Equal Protection claim. The challenge is with the number of affected "cured" ballots and the tendency of courts to use the mootness doctrine to dismiss such challenges if insufficient to change the outcome. jonathanturley.org/2020/11/18/is-…
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected one of the main arguments raised by the Trump campaign on observers. The Court found that officials are only required to be in the room not necessarily close to observe details. It deferred to the officials...
...This is a matter of state law and the Court ruled that the legislature did not specify a distance and it would not judicially add one as a matter of interpretation. That is a fairly textual approach that many conservative jurists would find compelling.
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Martha Raddatz is exploring the continued failure to officially start the transition briefings for Biden-something many of us have called for. Since the tabulation period is now effectively over, I fail to see the basis for the GSA not "ascertaining" a Biden victory...
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13 Nov
My agreement with some of Alito's points does not alter the concerns over the messenger rather than the message. I still maintain that justices should speak primarily, if not exclusively, through their opinions. jonathanturley.org/2020/11/13/unf…
...All of those issues have been and will again be before the Court. Indeed, as Alito was making these ill-considered comments, the Catholic Church was coming before his Court in these very issues.
...It is also worth noting that many liberals are objecting to Alito’s speech despite celebrating even more alarming public speeches by Justice Ginsburg during his life. Indeed, these public controversies highlight the glaring contradiction in the use of the “Ginsburg Rule.”
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Busy day. Over at the Senate, Lindsey Graham is drilling Andrew McCabe on the strange contrast in the FBI pouring in resources into investigating the Trump associates on a lead from an English bar but not a CIA referral of a Hillary Clinton/Russia allegation.
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