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12 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Meadows is lawless. Trump is lawless. I'm astounded, as an attorney, that there are attorneys willing to so flagrantly ignore the law as these lawyers are. When I represented men charged with very serious crimes, it did *not* mean that I was suddenly freed of professional ethics.
(PS) I'm serious about this. A lawyer can advise Meadows that, until SCOTUS hears the issue, he can refuse to answer questions covered (arguendo) by privilege *if* Trump is explicitly raising privilege. But can an attorney advise Meadows to refuse to answer *other* questions? No.
(PS2) The idea that a House committee chairman must write to a lawyer that he has *ignored an element of a subpoena received by his client* is just further evidence of how lawless America has become. I'd like to see Meadows' current attorney referred for bar discipline, honestly.
(PS3) Meadows' attorney's duty is clear here. He *must* explain to Congress why he is advising his client to *ignore a federal subpoena* as to questions *not*—even arguendo—covered by privilege. And what did Meadows' lawyer do instead? Ignored that part of the subpoena. Like WTF?

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13 Nov
(🔒) NEW at PROOF: "Americans Must Understand Just How Badly Steve Bannon Wants to Go to Jail"

So far the insurrectionist Steve Bannon is getting exactly what he wants. It's up to the FBI, DOJ, and federal judges to change that—and they better start soon. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-american…
1/ A true story, and one any fellow former public defender (or current public defender) will be able to confirm: when you're a public defender doing the job because you believe in it zealously, you *pray* that one day a judge will hold you in contempt of court for doing your job.
2/ I can honestly say that at one or two moments in my legal career when I knew I was doing the right thing and knew it was riling up a judge to the point at which they might hold me in direct contempt, the better part of my psyche relished the prospect of being put in handcuffs.
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12 Nov
Given that the first time Steve Bannon was indicted, during the Trump presidency, he was found on the yacht of a Chinese fugitive from justice—and given that we know Bannon helped plan an armed insurrection against the United States—he's a flight risk and must be held in custody.
(PS) I would not allow *any* person who helped plan an armed insurrection against the United States—and who has contacts all over the world, including in countries without extradition treaties with the United States—to self-surrender.

Cuffs must be applied *as soon as possible*.
(PS2) I wonder how many Americans know that the primary point of deliberation for a state or federal judge in setting bail is the likelihood the defendant will return to court as required. And Steve Bannon is charged with... failure to appear for a hearing as required by law. 🧐
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12 Nov
Ronny, can you imagine what would happen if the president’s doctor repeatedly lied to an entire nation about the president’s health, then stepped down from his post to beg the president for an endorsement so he could get into Congress?

Oh, that’s right—you don’t have to imagine.
(PS) Also, Ronny—pro tip—one way to on occasion get a minor mulligan in misspeaking is to spend *decades* fighting for racial justice.

And one way to *never* get any leeway whatsoever on racial issues is to spend a whole lifetime being a virulent racist like your God-Emperor is.
(PS2) I guess this is also a good time to remind @RonnyJacksonTX that Trump referred to our soldiers as “losers and suckers” and is known to routinely use disparaging terms for Black people in private. Also he spent years and years refusing to rent to Black people. Shall I go on?
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11 Nov
(BREAKING) Pressure From RETRO, the Jobst Report, Major Media, and Two Video Game Grading Houses Pays Off: WATA to Issue Pop Reports

We won! Investigative journalism won. Not in politics—alas—but the world's fastest-growing alternative asset-class market. retrostack.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
(PS) I know this is inside baseball to 99% of you. But 1% of you may recall WATA CEO Deniz Kahn promising—3 years ago!—that population reports would be coming in a month. They never did, only the discovery that WATA insiders were *buying up games and getting them graded by WATA*.
(PS2) The fear was that this was a form of (not yet illegal) insider trading, in which men with potential access to non-public intel were making hundreds of thousands of dollars off proprietary data that was supposed to be given to all consumers years ago. So today is a big deal.
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10 Nov
I have a lot of competing thoughts about the Rittenhouse trial, but I will say this: if you're crossing state lines to be at the site of a protest to render medical aid or wash graffiti off a wall or alert police to dangerous situations, what the f*** are you doing with an AR-15?
Rittenhouse wanted to be a tough guy the far-right Proud Boys would respect. He wanted to make a statement to “the left” consistent with the Proud Boy cry, “Whose streets? Our streets!” He had a cover story that was a *lie*—being an EMT—but he was there to Be a (Far-Right) “Man.”
If he’s acquitted of the most serious charges—as I expect he will be—it’ll be because jurors have no sympathy for those of any political view who decide that a protest can include violence, arson, destruction of property, and threats. Americans have little sympathy for that idea.
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10 Nov
Fox News host Dan Bongino had a real normal one today, going on a rant about me and repeatedly imagining me being marched into a Nazi concentration camp

I'm sure Fox News Channel will get right on disciplining Bongino, the same way Kevin McCarthy is all over the Paul Gosar sitch
PS/ I'm *very* happy to post screenshots of the 2020 deposition with Steele the far right is obsessed with. In it Steele confirms 1) he didn't know Perkins Coie was Fusion GPS's client when he began his research, 2) he didn't know the Clinton campaign was the "ultimate client"...
PS2/ ...3) he never asked Fusion GPS who the client was, 4) he learned who the client was "later on," 5) by July 2016—after he'd been doing research on Trump for weeks—he came to suspect the Clinton campaign was involved and Fusion GPS confirmed it, 6) he continued not to know...
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