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10 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Dianne Feinstein led the Democrats during immensely important Supreme Court hearings in the midst of severe cognitive decline: lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/losing…
DiFi just flat-out undermined every marginal Dem Senate candidate to massage her own ego by insisting to keep doing a job she was not longer capable of doing newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
After completely botching the ACB hearings, Schumer had The Talk with Feinstein...and then *had to have it again because she immediately forgot about it*:
If you're defending Feinstein by using the 95-year-old Strom Thurmond as your baseline, you're not actually defending Feinstein
People convincing themselves they're indispensable and refusing to step aside for younger, similarly qualified people is just a huge problem among Democratic elites that really blew up in 2020

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12 Dec
One thing about all these reactionary critics who think they are upholding the Great Standards of Western Culture is that the are invariably hideously bad writers:
"Getting a Ph.D. is a snap these days, which I know from a few random anecdotes" yes really upholding uncompromising standards of intellectual rigor here. (We are in the midst of a hiring process now and all I can say is LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL)
If you do not remember Joseph Epstein from such arguments as "until 2008 presidents of the United States were chosen strictly on merit, but Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton would be affirmative action presidents," I envy you nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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11 Dec
Today's episode of Unanswerable Sotomayor Dissents involves the Supreme Court allowing Bill Barr's execution of Brandon Bernard (who, unlike Barr, has never killed anyone) to proceed supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Bernard was 18 when he was with a group of young men who murdered two people. The capital sentence was based on the (ludicrously false) premise that he was a full and equal member of a violent gang:
The prosecution knew that Bernard was in fact at the very bottom of a 13-tier hierarchy at trial:
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10 Dec
Every single lawyer representing Trump in the post-election litigation should be tossed out of the legal profession lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/disbar…
To reiterate what should not require reiteration, the 6th Amendment means that people have a right to counsel in criminal cases. It does not entail a "right" to file frivolous or abusive claims, let alone sub-frivolous claims intended to delegitimize an election.
TX v. PA is a systematic Rule 11 violation, not a lawsuit. Nothing in it even approaches a legal argument, and the statistical non-evidence is the very definition of "not even wrong." lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/texas-…
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8 Dec
Selling the idea that helping corporations pave Lake Tahoe for money is a noble enterprise lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/sellin…
The idea that taking large amounts of money from a corporation to persuade the Supreme Court to make it harder for employees to sue is actually a noble enterprise no different than representing an indigent criminal defendant is so silly that to state the argument is to refute it
...and yet it’s widely believed among elite legal liberals because…well, do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything?
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4 Dec
Mitch McConnell: criminal justice reform is a distraction from doing nothing lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/mitch-…
Incidentally, here's a useful example in how to frame an almost entirely party-line vote. This, from the WaPo, is correct: washingtonpost.com/powerpost/hous…
The NYT's framing, conversely, is extremely misleading, especially since you need to read all the way to the 14th graf to discover that the number of Republicans in this "bipartisan" coalition is "5" nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/…
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3 Dec
"Everyone who merits consideration for work in a future Democratic administration, please step forward. No, no, no, just remain right where you are, Mr. Katyal."
The idea that you have to treat clients chosen by big-time Supreme Court appellate lawyers like they're public defenders is some truly intelligence-insulting stuff, and that goes double when you tell public lies about judicial nominees you hope will favor your unsavory clients
"Would you agree that everyone is entitled to a criminal defense attorney irrespective if their ability to pay? Then surely you agree that deep-pocketed corporations who don't want to be held liable for child slavery should be able to get the precise lawyer of their choice."
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