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2 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This story is a massive nothing Burger and people should be ashamed to have reported it. This isn't loans going to Trump or businesses

It's loans to businesses that happened to be located in commercial buildings owned by Trump or Kushner businesses
What was the rule supposed to be? That if you were a restaurant located at a trump property you were barred from getting a PPP loan? Is that if you were a business with offices in a Kushner property, you couldn't participate in the program?
This could have been the start of a meaningful story, with more recording. It's possible that some of those loans were pushed through despite not meeting guidelines for the program specifically because of the business addresses. But if so, that's not in this story
This is basically scandal-ish reporting. It's putting out something that looks vaguely like it could be a scandal but that, with any scrutiny of what is happening, and assuming there's no other relevant fact, appears to show no scandal at all
*reporting. Sorry, speech-to-text

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3 Dec
OK, #Squidigation fans, I think we need to talk about the new Wisconsin suit Donald Trump filed - personally - in Federal Court last night. The suit is (as usual) meritless. But it's meritless in new and disturbing ways. This thread will be long

Not, I hope, Seth Abramson long. But will see.

I apologize in advance to my wife, who would very much prefer I be billing time (today's a light day, though) and to my assistant, to whom I owe some administrative stuff this will likely keep me from 😃
First, some background. Trump's suit essentially tries to Federalize the Wisconsin Supreme Court complaint his campaign filed, which we discussed here.
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2 Dec
#Squidigation news: @DemocracyDocket has posted the Georgia transcript. So let's do a live read

democracydocket.com/wp-content/upl…
The first 2 pages of transcript are intros/is everyone ok on Zoom. Then we get to this ... which is not a good sign if you're the party asking for the TRO Image
Powell's response is "We'd like you to issue that first draft order that you circulated to the parties and my co-counsel posted to Twitter as though it had been issued"

I paraphrase. But not much. Image
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2 Dec
Hi, #Squidigation fans, Brad has you covered on the latest iteration of Sidney Powell and co putting on their whiteface and red noses and hitting each other with rubber chickens for the amusement of the court.

You may have noticed the courts are not particularly amused
But Brad just gave you the toplines. This Order doesn't really hold back. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Some highlights. First, the background: When our gal Sid filed her Wisconsin Squidlet, she simultaneously filed a motion for injunctive relief. Image
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2 Dec
@questauthority Going to add a point to your thread here. I'm just going to reply to this tweet rather than the quoted one with the continuation

@questauthority I've litigated this issue, including very very recently. To show good cause you basically have to show that you could not have held the hearing on the TRO within the 10 days provided despite your diligent efforts to hold it on time
@questauthority In that order, Batten is essentially announcing in advance that there are no circumstances where he will agree to extend the TRO. He has already found that their delay of the hearing is not good cause
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1 Dec
OK, #squidigation fans. This is a new Wisconsin case not filed by the Krake[n/d] team of Powell and Wood and NOT focusing on wild conspiracy theories. It's a competent and professional filing that raises things that would be real issues ... if you don't understand why they aren't
So buckle up, thread incoming
FYI, this is NOT the Wisconsin version of the squidigation, which Powell's merry band of fuckups appears to have ALSO filed today in Wisconsin, this time after running a spellcheck and investing in those new-fangled "space bars" cc @questauthority democracydocket.com/wp-content/upl…
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30 Nov
Hey, squid litigation fans, some news: The DNC has filed a motion to intervene in Powell's GA case - basically "look, we weren't sued in this case but our interests are impacted, so let us participate as a Defendant" - along with a proposed motion to dismiss
You can find that proposed motion to dismiss here. courtlistener.com/docket/1869465…
I'll walk you through the brief in a minute - got to finish handling some stuff for a client, and since that's what pays the bills ....
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