💠The truth to come out
💠Investigations to continue unhampered
💠Independent prosecutors to decide what to prosecute.
💠All money obtained illegally to be returned.
💠Congress to pass a relief bill that gives relief to ordinary people.
💠The new administration to undo the damage to our institutions done by the previous administration, which will take a lot of work and focus on building back agencies so they can do their jobs.
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I also want people to understand the extent to which your emotions and rage have been manipulated by people who profit from keeping you riled.
When I went to law school, I vowed to use my legal degree for "justice" . . .
I've said that I never represented anyone who could pay (during the years I had a private appellate practice.)
I only represented indigents up against an unfair system. (I was court-appointed and paid through the CA general budget.)
Most of my clients were poor women. . .
. . .very few were white. I won't tell you what they were accused of, other than that they were victims who were treated like criminals. I spent 12 years doing that work.
In 2018 and 2019 I spent a few weeks as a volunteer lawyer in a detention center in TX . . .
. . . offering legal assistance to asylum seekers. I spent dozens of hours offering legal assistance to voter rights groups this past year.
If you don't like the unfairness you see, find productive work. Help causes and organizations.
Warning: I'm about to go on a tear . . .
Actually, I'm on a tear 😉
The point of my bio was to tell you to get the hell out of my feed if you're here to tell me that progress can only be made if we continue to stoke divisions and hatred.
So if, for example, a majority of voters choose a form of government not based on rule of law, rule of law will die.
How do you persuade such voters not to vote for lawbreakers?
Maybe we can't. Maybe we outnumber them.
Anti-democratic voters have always been with us. . .
The Trumps and McConnells and Loeffler supporters have always been with us. They supported slavery, which was obviously not "rule of law" in the sense we mean. They supported Jim Crow, which was obviously not democratic.
Have you ever noticed that the great leaders of the world, the ones who have brought about the most enduring and positive changes, did not go out of their way to stoke anger and rage?
I am personally not seeing anyone preaching that Trump should be forgiven.
Maybe I'm missing it, but almost every source I read understands that investigation will (and must) continue.
Maybe we just read different sources.
The Biden administration includes the FBI and DOJ.
Many of the investigations must happen in the Biden administration because that's where the records are.
But Biden himself must be disengaged, or we have the same corruption we had under Trump.
Here's the filing in which (among other things) they ask the court to stay the certification in PA pending appeal. drive.google.com/file/d/1_492c-…
I attached the rules of appellate procedure explaining that the request must first be made at the trial court (which they didn't do.)
The other part of this is that the certification is at 7 tonight. The rules require that all parties be given reasonable notice.
Yeah, and the TRO couldn't be filed in the district court because the district court THREW OUT THE ENTIRE LAWSUIT on a motion to dismiss, which is what is being appealed.
They're asking for a chance to refile in the lower court.
You see, the question for the GOP is who controls the voters. A few decades ago, the GOP made the mistake of outsourcing voter mobilization. They teamed up with FOX and the NRA, who got the voters to the polls. So FOX and the NRA control the voters, which gives them power. . .
. . . over the voters. (That insight on GOP voter mobilization is from Yale political scientist @Jacob_S_Hacker and Berkeley political scientist Paul Pierson.
This gives FOX power over candidates, which as forced candidates to adopt more extreme positions.
Technically what Judge Brann did was grant the defendant's motion to dismiss.
A motion to dismiss is what a defendant brings at the start of a lawsuit to get rid of totally frivolous claims so the court doesn't have to waste time.