It looks like the House Democrats were right, and
@RudyGiuliani was up to no good in 2019.

(But we knew that) Phony impeachment 🤣

Remember what was happening then? I do . . .

1/
November 25, 2018: Russia attacked and seized Ukrainian military vessels heading to a Ukrainian port.

Christopher Anderson (State Department Foreign Service Officer since 2005) prepared a statement condemning Russia.

Trump wouldn't release it. pbs.org/newshour/polit…

2/
About this time, Ambassador Yovanovitch first became aware Giuliani was trying to make contact and communicate with officials in Ukraine.

She knew Giuliani had Ukrainian clients, so at first she wasn’t sure why he was interested in Ukrainians.

Yovanovitch = 🤔

3/
January 2019: Giuliani met Lutsenko in New York. (From Volker’s statement to Congress.)

Lutsenko was spreading two lies:

(1) Ukrainians interfered in the 2016 election, not the Russians.
(2) The Bidens had corrupt dealings in Ukraine.

Giuliani is like "My kinda guy!"

4/
Volker said Lutsenko was telling these lies to get in good with Trump. He wanted Trump to keep him in power.

Yovanovich and Lutseno didn't get along because he was totally corrupt and she wanted him to clean up his act.

5/
P.S.

No, I'm not getting all of this out of my head. I can't remember what I did yesterday.

I took good notes: impeachment-trump.com

Okay, back to the story of Guiliani.
In February, now that Guilini and Lutsenko were good buddies, this happened:

A Ukrainian official, Avakov, told Yovanovitch that she needed to “watch her back” because Giuliani was looking to “hurt” her in the US.

6/
Giuliani, teaming up with Lutsenko, a guy in good with the Russians, was trying to hurt the American Ambassador to Ukraine.

What we know is that Giuliani, working (presumably) for Trump was running a secret, shadow foreign policy looking to help Trump politically.

7/
That's what we KNOW.

What don't we know?

I don't know. But I know that the prosecutors had probable evidence that Giuliani was committing crimes.

(Good thing I saved my notes from 2019, right?)

Me = 🤓

8/
And of course, this is all before the crimes that came after 2019: The bribery / extortion stuff.

But something was already going on in 2019 for a judge to sign off on that search.

9/

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(Thread) Fascist Lies

This thread started out as a 10 minute YouTube video:

I'll offer a Twitter summary here.

What I think struck all of us this week was the stunning audacity of some of the lies coming from Republican leaders.
1/ For example, Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted this after the Derick Chauvin verdict

Her tweet proven false in real time as residents of DC read her tweet, looked around, and posted photographs and testimonials to social media.
2/ A few other breathtaking lies:

Kayleigh McEnany chided Biden, saying presidents shouldn't "inflame tensions."

A keynote speaker at a Minnesota County GOP event told attendees that George Floyd’s murder was a hoax.


Or how about this one:
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Today, April 23, is the day to remember Barbara Johns and the Moton student strike.

What? YOU don’t know who she was?

(Well, new followers might not)

On this day in 1951, in Farmville, VA, she led a walkout to protest the deplorable conditions of her segregated high school.
1/
She was 16. She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality.

After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down, she called in the NAACP.

2/
The NAACP took their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Barbara and her classmates became plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that ended segregation in America.

Their case was combined with cases from other states.

3/
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Every every criminal defense appellate lawyer knows that appeals rarely succeed.

In California, the "success" rate is about 20%, but that includes "wins" that don't actually change the outcome much for the defendant.
There's also "harmless error." On appeal you have to show error, plus you have to show that the error might have actually changed the outcome. law.cornell.edu/wex/harmless_e…
Errors are common.
Errors that were not "harmless" are rare.
Actually, now that I poke around, that 20% is high. I haven't done appeals for about 6 years now.

I think the number is more like 10-15%, but again, that includes "wins" on something small that doesn't change the outcome.
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This is because so far we have only indictments and pretrial motions.

We haven't yet had any trials.

Prosecutors never put all their evidence into indictments. There is a lower standard of proof for indictments.

Moreover . . .
.. they are putting evidence of planning into the pretrial detention motions.


Indictments require only probable cause that a crime was committed. At trial, the standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt."

Moreover, investigations are ongoing.
A few people asked me about this. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

You can see how the headline is based on speculation⤵️

Also, the prosecution has presented such evidence—but only when necessary. Image
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19 Apr
Last night, @HC_Richardson ended her thought-provoking letter by asking this:

"Last month, six in ten Republicans in a Reuters/Ipsos poll said they believed the election was stolen. Where do Republican lawmakers think this is going to end?"

1/
Heather Cox Richardson is the author of⤵️, so the question comes from someone with a deep knowledge of party history.

It seems to me that the GOP leaders have no long-term plan, and no long-range ideas or visions.

They have a short-term plan: Win at any cost and hold power.

2/
Scholar @jasonintrator defines fascism as a set of tactics for seizing and maintaining power."

The fascist wants power. They do what it takes to achieve that power.

It comes from cynicism: They think everyone is out for power.

3/
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Here you go: More than you ever wanted to know about the history of the Second Amendment:

I did a short thread yesterday, but I think I'll expand it today into a more complete thread.

Stand by for an [edited] transcription if you prefer to read.
Transcription: terikanefield.com/wp-admin/post.…

So what do we learn from the history of the Second Amendment?

Takeaway #1: There have always been gun control laws in America.


Examples from this incredible work of scholarship by @MarkFrassetto papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
2/ This one, from Jamestown, 1631, makes it illegal to sell or give guns to Native Americans. Several other colonies passed similar laws.

White traders were profiting from the selling of guns, and the leaders of the colony said no. (Also "we want to be the only ones with guns").
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