Reading the just unsealed Trump federal indictment now to prepare for a BBC interview shortly.

Here are some of the choicest bits. "The Mar-a-Lago Club was not an authorized location for the storage, possession, review, display, or discussion of classified documents."

Ya think?

If this report is correct, Trump will be arraigned tomorrow on 34 FELONIES.

Each carries a possible prison term of 4 years.

Bragg would not bring this case without strong evidence. Remember, this is the same DA's office that recently convicted the Trump Org for criminal fraud.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… No one seems to be talking about this, but I remember 2018 like it was this morning.

Ap 2018: Trump denies knowing about the hush $ paid to Stormy Daniels. (Reporter on Air Force One: Did you know about the payment to Daniels? Trump: No. Q: where did Cohen get the $ to pay… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Important new decision from National Labor Relations Board that affects the rights of the 100 laid off Twitter workers I represent plus many other workers!

The severance agreement Elon Musk and Twitter offered workers last month is ILLEGAL under this decision.

Here's why. NLRA Sec. 7 strongly protects rights of workers to discuss terms and conditions of employment with coworkers.

Though NLRB often enforces these rights for union workers, you do NOT have to be in a union to have these rights. EVERYONE has the right to engage in concerted activity.

I’ve done 750 miles on the #PacificCrestTrail in the last year, up and down some of the country’s biggest mountains with 30 pounds on my back, usually 20 miles per day.

I’m in my #prime, baby. I’m 61. But also, I don’t believe in cancel culture. I believe in apologies and human growth. I know @donlemon a little and know him to be a decent, even feminist guy who said a dumb and offensive thing. I’m sure he will learn from it.

Prince Andrew reportedly asking his legal team to find a way to undo his sex abuse settlement.

Here's why chances of that are somewhere between zero and not a chance.

1/

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… Andrew was represented by experienced, top flight (not to mention expensive) lawyers. I know these defense attorneys. I am up against them all the time in my fights for sex abuse victims.

Judges will not allow parties ably represented by counsel to welch on deals.

2/

Twitter workers, many of whom I represent, were FINALLY given their "severance agreements" on Saturday.

They are really settlement agreements which SILENCE WORKERS FOR LIFE and and require them to give up important legal rights.

Let's discuss. 1/ First, any worker who wants to bring a claim, for Twitter's broken promises, discrimination, fraud etc. (the claims we are filing), SIGNS AWAY THE RIGHT TO SUE FOREVER under this agreement.

No lawsuit, no arbitration if you sign.

So it's really a settlement agreement. 2/

Wow. Elon is now considering not paying the one month of severance he promised IN WRITING, last month.

On behalf of the many Twitter workers I represent: we'll file new claims for this breach, if it happens, and add it to all the others.

#TwitterLayoffs

nytimes.com/2022/12/13/tec… Let's be clear about the many promises made, promises broken to Twitter workers.

In his acquisition agreement, Elon promised they'd get the same severance as pre-Elon laid off workers.

That didn't happen.

#TwitterLayoffs

The federal National Labor Relations Act prohibits retaliation against groups of employees working together in in a concerted action seeking better employment conditions.

Here’s how this could work for Twitter workers facing “opt in or be fired” choice today.

#TwitterLayoffs Twitter employees can opt in to Musk’s “bend the knee” mandate to hold onto their jobs.
Then a small brave group could approach management and state that while everyone is willing to work hard and strive for excellence, they oppose the mandate of “long hours at high intensity.”

Let’s talk about the legal problems Elon just created for himself with this cruel new staff email.

You’re fired if you don’t commit to long hours at high intensity within 24 hours?

Let’s start with disabled workers. Under federal and state laws, those with physical or mental disabilities are entitled to reasonable accommodations by their employers. For many, this would include working reasonable hours.

@elonmusk are you planning a mass layoff of your remaining disabled workers?

Having investigated #TwitterLayoffs with dozens of tweeps now, let's talk about important employee rights under Elon's "merger" agreement (the one he tried to wriggle out of, and couldn't.)

His promises there are important and legally enforceable by laid off folks. Here's why. Part of what Elon promises when buying Twitter was that workers laid off post-Elon would get no worse compensation and benefits than workers laid off pre-Elon.

Read it for yourself. (Or just believe me, I read boring fine print for a living.)

#TwitterLayoffs

Hey Twitter employees getting laid off tomorrow! IMPORTANT INFO from a CA employment attorney (me):

CA's "WARN" law requires Twitter to give you 60 days notice of a massive layoff.

A layoff of 50+ employees within a 30 day period qualifies.

I know you didn't get that notice. This WARN law applies to all California employers of 75+ employees, which obviously includes Twitter with its thousands of employees.

Purpose of the law is to give laid off employees time to figure out how to handle this disruption.

And Elon completely ignores it.

Reading the judge's 46 page decision rejecting Prince Andrew's attempt to throw out Virginia Giuffre's case now.

A detailed, well reasoned decision.

Noteworthy: Judge Kaplan is keenly aware "the lay public" will be reading this, so he takes pains to spell out the law clearly. As Judge Kaplan says, his obligation now is to assume all of Virginia's facts in her complaint are true -- though later the jury will decide those facts. For now, the only question is whether Prince Andrew had grounds to get her case dismissed.

Decision: nope, he does not.

LIVE now: Prince Andrew’s attorney is arguing that Virginia Giuffre’s case against him should be dismissed due to a 2009 settlement agreement in which she released all “potential defendants.”

Judge Kaplan aggressively questioning him about the law on this.

I’m listening in. Prince Andrew's attorney is now arguing that Virginia's complaint is too vague as it does not include the dates she says she was abused by him. Only says she was 17 at the time.

Judge: "that's not a dog that's gonna hunt here. She has no obligation to do that in the complaint."

Virginia Giuffre's settlement agreement with Jeffrey Epstein was released today. Prince Andrew argues that her settlement with Epstein releases him as well, and therefore her case against him should be dismissed.

I've done hundreds of these over 35 years

Here's why he is wrong Virginia's settlement agreement includes truly unusual and bizarre language that I would never allow in a settlement agreement: that claims against "any other person or entity who could have been included as a potential defendant" is also released.

WHAT???

My top ten disturbing, outrageous moments from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial this week:

10. There were pictures of topless girls, taken by amateur photographer Ghislaine, adorning her desk.

(And throughout Epstein’s revolting homes.) 9. Defense gets likeable maintenance man to admit he sometimes, when instructed, scheduled massages, paid the girls, drove Ghislaine to find girls to give massages, then:

“Does that make you guilty of sex trafficking?”

Objection sustained, but the point was made.

Testifying now in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial is Dr. Lisa Rocchio, an expert explaining grooming, delayed reporting, and the lifelong impacts of child sexual abuse. Important stuff to undermine all of the myths the defense wants to argue in this and every case. For example, the fact that a victim did not report child sexual abuse until many years later is very common. That only happens in adulthood when they have a relationship of trust with a friend or therapist.

I have seen this in so many of my cases over the last 30 years.

BREAKING: Just heard defense opening statement here at Ghislaine Maxwell trial. An appalling, fawning love letter to Jeffrey Epstein, a “charming” “21st century James Bond.”

Bond fights the bad guys. Epstein WAS the bad guy.

Are you as surprised as I am by this strategy? Prosecution's opening was masterful storytelling: Jane, 14, met a man and woman at her summer camp. They lured her with scholarship promises. The man and woman were Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. 3 more underage girls will tell a similar story.

Riveting, heartbreaking.

I believe you, Tara Reade.
You have people who remember you told them about this decades ago.
We know he is "handsy."
You're not asking for $.
You've obviously struggled mightily with this.
I still have to fight Trump, so I will still support Joe.
But I believe you. And I'm sorry

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1255998888114188288

The only alternative is Trump, credibly accused of sexual misconduct by over 20 women and who openly bragged about sexual assault. I represented 4 of them.

We’ve only 2 choices.

Trump’s ignorance and arrogance has resulted in COVID deaths of tens of thousands.

Far worse.

36 years old. 😢
I notice that "quarantine" is interpreted many ways. I've been hounding my loved ones to practice EXTREME quarantining. Stay home, period. Order in groceries no more thatn once every two weeks. Outside, remove outer box and put in trash. It never comes in. 1/

https://twitter.com/ZerlinaMaxwell/status/1242460633758666754

Take items inside w/o touching anything on the way in. Put in sink and wash thoroughly with soap and hot water or wipes. Should take about an hour. Put on loud music and do it, no excuses. Wash hands thoroughly.
No takeout. No "just seeing this one friend." No housekeeper. 2/

Just finished reading every word of Jeffrey Epstein indictment. Three anonymous victims are included, who were underage girls 2002-5. "As young as 14." He's alleged to have used other minor victims to lure them to his Manhattan penthouse. documentcloud.org/documents/6184… Three unnamed employees are named as assisting Epstein in setting up the naked massage sessions that turned into sexual assault. (Reminder: all sex with an underaged person is a SEXUAL ASSAULT, not sex.)

New accuser tells strikingly similar story of Kavanaugh drunk at a party (this time at 18, at Yale) and thrusting his penis in her face w/o her consent. I was at Yale (Law) those years, 1983-4. Culture of drinking, yes. But NO ONE would have found this OK.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk… Stop and consider the courage of new accuser, Deborah Ramirez. Knowing Dr. Ford got death threats and had to leave her home, she came out and told her story on the record anyway. If anyone else out there needs inspiration to take care of business, look to Ms. Ramirez.