Thread by @lawofruby

When I’m wrong, I’ll tell you—and I missed something today. Roughly 1872 pages into Trump’s filing this morning, his lawyers *do* respond to the court system’s cataloguing of threats against Judge Engoron and his principal law clerk. 1/

Not only is there no indication Trump has encourages or condones the direct threats to her, but they fall short, his lawyers argue, of posing the clear and present danger of imminent harm necessary under First Amendment precedent to restrain their speech. 2/

They also argue the court officer’s affirmation is devoid of dates & times of the calls and is hearsay in any event. 3/

But most troublingly, their brief has a distinct “blame the victim” stench: ln light of the principal law clerk’s willingness to be photographed, her continued sitting next to Engoron, and engagement in partisan political activity, her security concerns are “disingenuous.”