(Thread) Do Tara Reade's advocates now accept that, put at its most charitable, that Reade likes to tell "stories"? There are so many different accounts of why she left Biden's office that you need a spreadsheet to keep track. There are six very stories she's recounted (cont...) (2) The first was that her boyfriend got a new job on the other side of the country, and kept her up all night begging her to move with him. The second was that capitol hill was too anti-Russian and she refused to be part of the imperialist war machine. The third was that she

(Thread) The story of the 'Great Crown Jewel Heist' of 1303. In the early years of the 1300s, there was great laxity among the monks of Westminster Abbey and the palace servants of the Palace of Westminster. Edward I had moved out of the palace in 1298 due to fire, and spent (2) much of these years out of London completely, in the north fighting wars against the Scots. The abbot, Walter of Wenlock, was living primarily in his manors outside London during this time. The absence of any meaningful supervision led to extraordinary neglect and delinquency

(Thread) How do I know Michael Harriot is motivated by homophobia in his intensely personal, almost obsessive, criticism of Mayor Pete? Well, it starts with my legal training and experience. Doing race and sex discrimination cases in the employment tribunal, I had several that (2) involved a white/male boss singling out black or women employees for harassment. The harassment was not explicitly sexist or racist. In other words, they didn't use sexist or racial epithets ('bitch', the N-word, etc). But when you have a manager with nine male employees

(Thread) One passage in the Inner House judgment had the effect of, if unintentionally, disparaging English law. It said, "The power of the
sovereign was, by immemorial tradition, restricted by the laws and customs of the people.
This was different from England". James I was (2) famously taken aback by the independence and audacity of the English parliament in daring to decline his commands and place conditions upon him, something to which he was apparently unused in Scotland. Furthermore, there is a long history of England as a land of laws, in

The members of the royal commission (to prorogue parliament) are in their seats, about to execute their warrant They announced, "Let the Commons know the lords commissioners desire their presence to hear the commission read"

A fascinating late-medieval case involving Eleanor Moleyns, wife of Robert Hungerford, 3rd Baron Hungerford. Eleanor was the daughter of Sir William Moleyns, landowner, MP, Justice of the Peace (pictured: a group of young, fashionable late-medievals much like Eleanor and Robert) and the owner of 17 manors. Robert was the grandson of Walter Hungerford, KG, the first Speaker of the House of Commons, later ennobled as 1st Baron Hungerford. Robert and Eleanor married young, when he was 12 and she (pictured: a respectable late-medieval 'belted' knight)

(1) A fascinating 15th-century case involving sorcery, defamation and a late-medieval schedule of loss and bill of damages! Hold on to your hats, folks; it's Damsell v Green (1495). (2) The plaintiff is one "Sir John Damsell preest", a priest of the Chapel of St Thomas on the Bridge. In medieval days, London Bridge had buildings on each side of the roadway, much like the Ponte Vecchio. In the centre of the bridge, there was a stone chapel that had been

(1) As promised yesterday, I will now write a thread on the time a Chief Justice of the King's Bench dressed up as a hobo and climbed onto the roof of a pub in order to spy on parliamentary proceedings, and was later found to have occult amulets on his person. (2) It is, in some ways, a sad story. It is also highly significant, constitutionally-speaking. My thread is a bit circuitous in getting there, but please bear with me. It all starts with the death of king Edward III in 1377 (Edw III pictured)