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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 3 min read
The late RBG once famously compared gutting the Voting Rights Act because of social gains to tossing an umbrella because you're dry.

On the latest "Objections" podcast, @CommonCause director @TheSylviaAlbert says we're about to get "soaked to the bone." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sto…
In the clip at the top of the thread, Ms. Albert was talking about the legacy of the SCOTUS ruling in Shelby County. She talked about what's at stake in the Brnovich case heard earlier this month here.

You can listen to the full podcast here.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sto…

You can also watch the interview on the YouTube page.

In case you missed it, here's an overview of this week's episode:

"This Week on the ‘Objections’ Podcast: A Storm of Threats to the Ballot Is Brewing and SCOTUS Battered the Umbrella, Voting Rights Advocate Says" lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…

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19 Mar
Lots of responses to this headline:

If the phrasing "sensational and impure" strikes you as something out of the late 19th century, that's because it is.

A quick tumble into this ruling's citations.
In the Maxwell decision, the phrase "sensational and impure" is cited to the Second Circuit case U.S. v. Amodeo, decided in 1995 and governing public access issues, including for SDNY.

That case, in turn, cites another case for that language.
That citation goes to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island from 1893, a state court decision outside the Second Circuit's jurisdiction from the turn of the century.

Back then, a reporter wanted divorce records, the judges found, to satisfy mere curiosity. casetext.com/case/request-o…
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16 Mar
BREAKING and Developing on a new ODNI-released report:

"New U.S. Intelligence Community Report Confirms 2020 Election Was Secure, Despite Campaigns By Putin's Russia and Iran"

The report is inside the story, @lawcrimenews. lawandcrime.com/high-profile/n…
🚨The IC found Russian military fingerprints behind the Burisma narrative:

"In late 2019, GRU cyber actors conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden's family and Burisma."
The IC found multiple men tied to both Trump allies and Russian intelligence gravitating around Ukraine narratives, including Paul Manafort's associate Konstantin Kilimnik and Rudy Giuliani-tied Andriy Derkach.

These details have been woven into the updated story above.
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15 Mar
The initial appearance is about to begin for the two men arrested and charged with assaulting Officer Sicknick.

Background here, via @Matt_Naham.

Stick around here for news, @lawcrimenews. lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-si…
George Pierre Tanios has been sworn in for his initial appearance. He has been informed of the charges against him.

The government has filed a motion to detain him.
The judge is reciting the charges against him and the maximum penalties connected to each one. (Those charges are detailed in the story at the top of the thread and they are found in the court papers at the bottom of the story.)
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9 Mar
NEW on my @LawCrimeNews podcast "Objections":

Albany @TimesUnion editor @CaseySeiler joined me to talk Cuomo two days before his paper called for the governor to resign.

Insight into why his hometown paper that endorsed him 3x made that call.

LISTEN: lawandcrime.com/objections-pod…
I first met @CaseySeiler covering the "Albany on Trial" cases, including that of the governor's former right-hand man Joseph Percoco.

There's a through line between that case and the nursing home and the sexual harassment scandals: how Cuomo tried to handle the investigations.
Before the Percoco case, Cuomo shut down the Moreland Commission, and the Times Union reported how a sexual harassment complaint against Cuomo went to his special counsel.

Casey identifies it as Cuomo's need for control as his "Shakespearean flaw."

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/obj…
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5 Mar
"As they say in TV parlance, you're on the air."

Attorney Albert Watkins to his client Jacob 'QAnon Shaman' Chansley, a day after he was in fact on the air with 60 Minutes+.

Watkins is referring to a telephone conference now.

Live-tweet ahead podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
Watkins rattles off the civil, criminal and congressional actions and inquiries since the Jan. 6th siege.

He calls for a shifting of the dialogue from a "lynch mob" mentality, a phrase Watkins has repeatedly used to describe the *reaction* to the noose-brandishing pro-Trump mob.
Watkins:

"Jacob Chansley is 33 years old. He does not have a passport. He has zero criminal history."

Save for his military history, Chansley has never been out of the country, he adds.
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4 Mar
Weeks ago, I pressed Chansley's lawyer Al Watkins on whether his client would renounce QAnon. He first ducked the question and said his client would deliver a statement.

Chansley never did, and as seems clear here, stands by it.



podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/obj…
After Chansley's self-professed shamanism won him organic meals behind bars, I reached out to a top shamanism scholar Michael Brown for context:

"Jacob Chansley’s shamanism bears scant resemblance to the real thing, although he gets high sartorial marks for headgear and ink."
FWIW, the argument that this topic does not deserve a platform strikes me as off-base and counterproductive.

This conspiracy theory helped inspire an insurrection, claims millions of adherents, and arguably closed a branch of Congress today.

It must be covered, critically.
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