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31 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Trump Administration officials were "doing deals and lots of favors for people, including foreign countries. Then they go out into the private sector and are finding they made a lot of friends in government and now they’re being rewarded.”
Cashing in....
nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/…
"gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any public official, former public official, or person selected to be a public official, for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such public official, former public official...
18 USC 201.
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
This is the federal bribery and gratuity statute.
Summary for Saudi businesspeople doing deals with Americans: Gratuities ("tips") thanking someone for services previously rendered are for waiters, bellhops and drivers, not for former Treasury Secretaries.
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
"Whoever ..
(A) directly or indirectly gives, offers, or promises anything of value to any public official, former public official, or person selected to be a public official, for or because of any official act ..."
goes to jail!
18 USC 201.
It sure looks like Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin wants to collect his foreign emoluments on the "deferred compensation plan" ...

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2 Nov
Attn. law professors:
Earn $1000 honorarium and trip to Squaw Creek ski resort. Learn all about free market economics and evils of government regulation. Let the corporate donors foot the bill!
There's an even fancier program too -- but that's for judges.
masonlec.org/events/worksho…
"public choice, including interest group theory, rent-seeking, rent-extraction, agency capture, bureaucracy and constitutional economics, regulatory competition, the political theory of loopholes, Bootleggers and Baptists phenomena, and public choice of the judiciary."
Bootleggers and Baptists is a theory about opposing groups supporting regulation that benefits them but not the public. E.g. Prohibition. Then we can compare all government regulation to Prohibition.
But let's not talk about abortion. That might upset the right wing donors.
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2 Nov
Did Leiter bother to check this person's blog before promoting her. She posted (see comment below) saying Biden's DOJ Civil Rights head, Obama’s 21st Century Policing Task Force, the Yale administration and myself are all "Woke KKK."
MAGA Meltdown?
Yup.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2021/09/b…
Leiter makes a fundraising pitch for the litigation against Yale here. What is he trying to accomplish with this?
Makes absolutely no sense.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2021/02/s…
This person just opened a Patreon account and is using this "woke" theme and attacks on myself and others to raise money. We have entered the realm of the absurd.
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17 Oct
Most Federalist Society members are more conservative than I am on most issues, but this flap is ridiculous. The Federalist Society contributes to much needed debate at law schools. My objection is when they get involved with nominating, confirming or blocking judges.
An organization such as the Federalist Society can and should promote the conservative viewpoint in open debate of legal issues, but it loses credibility if it also gets involved in behind the scenes lobbying on selection of judges who decide those issues.
This blog is nuts. Leiter says I'm immoral because I object to my name being in a Tweet about a "hoax" by law schools and "Fake News Press" against the Federalist Society. Then he says I'm not part of the "conspricy." Why is he republishing this rubbish?
leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2021/09…
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4 Oct
The push is on to re-elect the Mayor of Minneapolis as other candidates get pushed into the background.
Remind me, who is in charge of the Minneapolis Police Department?
How's that been working out?
startribune.com/paper-discount…
What did the Mayor of Minneapolis know about abusive policing in 2020?
In Falcon Heights, MN the City Council knew about racial profiling BEFORE Philando Castile was killed and they did nothing. One of them (a lawyer!!??) admitted it on the record (pg. 6).
falconheights.org/home/showdocum…
"She had known when she was on the council that there was a problem with racial profiling. She has the responsibility to ask questions and to get these answers, but she didn’t do it when she was on the council."
Huh?
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30 Sep
Gov. @Tim_Walz needs to OPPOSE the PolyMet and Twin Metals sulfide mines, stop Line 3, fix corruption in the pollution control agency and election of Regents of the University, and get money OUT of Minnesota politics. Don't bet on the GOP to do any of it.
startribune.com/minnesota-poll…
Think corruption in the election of University of Minnesota Regents doesn't matter? Corruption, sky high salaries at the top, wasteful spending, and diminished state support for higher education have driven tuition from $522 in 1970 to over $15,000 today.
ohe.state.mn.us/dPg.cfm?pageID…
University Regents formed a PAC to help elect new Regents.
This is not an honest way to choose a University Board of Regents.
kstp.com/news/donations…
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30 Sep
Driving while Black? Pulled over.
Napping while Black? Somebody calls the cops.
Voting while Black? Voter suppression laws discourage that.
Yet there's always the apologist for racism who says "race had nothing to do with it." Right.
forbes.com/sites/forbesth…
Members of Congress such as @tedcruz who refuse to support voting rights bills (of any kind) remind me of the delusional academic who blogged about being "Anti Anti-Racist".
Just drop the double negative.
A commentator insisted race has little to do with unjustified killings by police. The same guy then raised money on-line for someone who called the cops on a Black person for doing nothing wrong. Reminds me of @tedcruz talking about voting rights. We know what motivates this.
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