Benj. Cardozo Prof. @StJohnsLaw. Robert H. Jackson biographer. Const'l Law, Crim Pro, Legal History, Nuremberg, SCOTUS. Iran-Contra & DOJ alum. WI. #JacksonList
Aug 31, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Thread re Trump's document custodian's sworn certification a couple of months ago that s/he made a diligent search for classified documents in the boxes that had been moved from White House to Mar-a-Lago, & re fingerprints --
If classified docs. weren't in the boxes or had been removed from them before the custodian searched them, the certification could be true. But then who had, and where, the highly classified documents that we now know were in MAL? 2/
Jun 24, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1/6: Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, & Kagan, in their Dobbs joint dissent, warn that this decision by five justices to discard a long-standing Court precedent because they dislike it means that every Court precedent is at risk:
2/6: "Justice [Robert H.] Jackson once called a decision he dissented from a 'loaded weapon,' ready to hand for improper uses. Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214, 246 (1944).
Nov 26, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Thread re the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn #SCOTUS decision late last night:
2/ Suggested reading order, to best see it unfold: per curiam; Breyer dissent; Gorsuch concurrence; Roberts dissent; Sotomayor dissent; Kavanaugh concurrence.
Jan 13, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
1/ Thread: In light of today’s @nytimes report that the #FBI in mid-May ‘17 began to investigate whether President Trump is a #Russian agent, look again at Special Counsel #Mueller’s Dec. 4 pre-sentencing Memorandum in the Michael #Flynn case.
2/ Mueller was appointed Special Counsel about a week after the FBI opened this investigation of Trump. Mueller was appointed to supervise it & other matters, both counter-intelligence & criminal, all related to Russia.
Dec 4, 2018 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
1/ On Michael Cohen’s upcoming federal sentencing & James McCord’s role in #Watergate—
2/ #MichaelCohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, pleaded guilty in August to eight federal crimes, two related to Trump’s campaign finances & six related to Cohen’s personal finances.
Nov 8, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
In June 2017, I was on @CNN@DonLemon a couple of times with now-Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker, @TheJusticeDept. The shows were discussions of the appointment & work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Whittaker then was practicing law in his own law firm in Des Moines (Whitaker Hagenow & Gustoff LLP). On CNN, he was critical of former @FBI Director James @Comey, the FBI 2016 election-Trump campaign-Russia investigation, Mueller’s special counsel appointment, etc.
