Thread by @ClaraJeffery

I am not a lawyer. But this is very bad lawyering.

maybe not the best idea top point out how easy it is to get lost in the Capitol since some of the insurrectionists seemed to know exactly where to go?

"impeaching Trump is how we got the fall of Rome" evidently

this is why you make an outline

whut

"I was going to use 'release the whirlwind' but I learned that somebody else was going to use that phrase so floodgates it is"

dude, we don't need insights into your shit writing process

Can we go back to the part where voting to impeach Trump is somehow going to reinstate George III?

This is like when somebody is giving the world's worst wedding toast and gets flustered at the lack of response and so drags it out even more

Ancient Greece, Great Britain, suburban Philly, and Nebraska....maybe we are lost in the whirlwind

This is like when you're moderating a Bay Area panel discussion and it's time for audience questions and the person who runs to the mic has a rambling manifesto to impart and no actual questions for the panelists.

Trump's lawyer just said that the people spoke and Biden was elected.

Something Trump refuses to say.

Trump's lawyer celebrating our history of a peaceful transition of power... Trump gonna hate that

"we changed our argument because the House managers were so persuasive" is probably not a thing you should say out loud?

^^ cannot believe he just said this

did he just suggest the remedy to Trump's crimes is to arrest him?

Can every single law podcast have an emergency episode just to talk about what terrible representation Castor just mounted? I would enjoy that. cc @PreetBharara @Susan_Hennessey

Ok, Schoen is a little more "angry Jack McCoy" which is better than whatever Castor just did.

Castor: Hey voters voted Trump out so we're good.
Schoen: If we impeach, we disenfranchise Trump voters.

Note how almost all the clips of Congresspeople and others calling for impeachment that Schoen is showing are people of color.

The House voted to impeach before Trump's end of office. Senate Democrats wanted to hold the trial before his term ended, McConnell refused to call Senate into session.

Thus setting the stage for their anti-common sense/Con law argument that the Senate can't rule.

"This would be better, shorter."
True of most pieces and for sure these opening arguments.

Cohen said that the House Managers arguments were so good that he and Schoen retooled.

Schoen says they sucked.