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2 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Amid a wave of post-election death threats across the country, a white supremacist who allegedly threatened to kill Sen. Schumer and Democrats generally has a federal court hearing this morning.

Live coverage ahead, @LawCrimeNews.

Previously: lawandcrime.com/2020-election/…
U.S. Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon has joined the call, and the arraignment is about to begin.
Through his lawyer, Brian Maiorana waives physical presence for a remote arraignment.
The judge asks whether Maiorana read the indictment.

Maiorana: "We went over it fully the other day."

His attorney enters a plea of not guilty on all counts on his behalf.
Adjourned.

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4 Dec
Big scoop by @kenvogel and three other fearsome NYT bylines here, ending the sleuthing on the "Bribery-for-pardon" probe 🔽
"A billionaire San Francisco real estate developer, Sanford Diller, enlisted their help in securing clemency for a Berkeley psychologist, Hugh L. Baras" —

Whose name, let the record show, ends with an "s."

cc: @SollenbergerRC, who got that right.
As for which S-ending name it was, it goes to show that internet guesswork tends to be wrong. It's better to pursue firsthand information or wait for the story to develop.
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3 Dec
The same plaintiffs and lawyer who tried and failed to block certification of Michigan's election are back in court again now requesting an audit.

Their last case peddled a Dominion conspiracy theory affidavit:

lawandcrime.com/2020-election/…

Watch live now:
Their lawyer David Kallman, from the Great Lakes Legal Center, is up now.

ICYMI: Read more about his charity and others backing the pro-Trump election-overturning efforts across the United States here. lawandcrime.com/2020-election/…
Judge Kenny, who is questioning him now, is the same jurist who rejected his arguments in the other case.
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1 Dec
Covering the courts for more than a decade, this is the first time that I encountered a federal judge talking about a "Bribery-for-pardon scheme" in a heavily redacted document—or any document whatsoever.
There's a lot more to unpack here in my story going live shortly on @LawCrimeNews, but for now, I will leave you with the regular admonition to #AlwaysReadTheFootnotes.
To dispel the inevitable howl of conspiracy theorists "Why is this coming out now?"—

The answer is simple and was given when the order was secretly issued on Aug. 28 this year:

Judge Howell gave the government 90 days to produce an unsealed version of his opinion.
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1 Dec
Bill Cosby's appeal to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is about to begin.

Watch LIVE with me for @LawCrimeNews lawandcrime.com/live-trials/li…
The Keystone State's Chief Justice Saylor calls the case.

Jennifer Bonjean is up first for Cosby, claiming the prosecution chose to indict her client's "entire life."

The crux of the appeal is the reliance of "prior bad act" evidence, other than the ones charged.
Bonjean argues this turned the case to a trial on Cosby's character.

Justice Dougherty questions Cosby's lawyer about why he didn't invoke his Fifth Amendment over a deposition.

Bonjean: "He believed that in order to not be prosecuted that this [was] part of the agreement."
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30 Nov
A telephone conference is about to begin in the Lev Parnas case.

I'll be following along remotely.
We're about to begin now.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos for the govt.

Attorney Joseph Bondy appears for Lev Parnas.

Attorney Todd Blanche for Igor Fruman.

Attorney Gerald Lefcourt for Andrey Kukushkin.
U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken asks whether the parties consent to remote proceedings.

They do.
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30 Nov
SCOTUS will hear the outgoing Trump admin's appeal of a unanimous three-judge ruling rejecting its memo attempting to exclude undocumented immigrants from census apportionment.

@NewYorkStateAG pointed to an ugly pedigree of redefining "persons."

Covering live, @LawCrimeNews
The Apportionment Clause:

"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State..." constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/a…
Oyez, oyez, oyez.

Here we go: c-span.org/video/?477428-…
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