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Susan Simpson
@TheViewFromLL2
Attorney in Washington, DC; blogger at The View From LL2; podcaster at @proofcrimepod.
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Aug 8 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This isn't true. But the reality is almost weirder.

There are "field offices," but they're under the banner of Trump Force 47, overwhelmingly funded by different entities other than Trump campaign, and focused on Trump to the exclusion of downticket races. Under new election rules, the Trump campaign is allowed to coordinate with the various PACs and local groups that are running the various GOTV operations. And the campaign provides some general infrastructure.

But mostly they aren't running things themselves.
Aug 8, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
WTAF. A Southwest flight attendant was fired after sending harassing messages to colleagues via Facebook, including videos of aborted fetuses. She sued for discrimination, arguing that her "religious beliefs require her to share with others that abortion is the taking of a human life."
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Feb 27, 2023 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
If you listened to the @Undisclosedpod series on Jeff Titus, you learned a lot about how the criminal justice system can get things wrong.

But Jeff's release from prison last week shows how — sometimes, eventually — the system gets things right. In 2012, @UofMInnocence took up Jeff's case. For over a decade now, Dave Moran and a small army of student attorneys have worked diligently on his behalf.

Then in 2019 @MIAttyGen @dananessel took office, and announced the formation of a statewide Conviction Integrity Unit.
Dec 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
After nearly 26 years in prison, the judicial system has finally acknowledged that Lee Clark and Cain Josh Storey are innocent.

Their convictions have been overturned – and we're on the way to the jail now to pick them up. @proofcrimepod Unfortunately, the prison is saying it's too late in the day to book them out.

They're free men now. But they may have to spend one last night behind bars.
Dec 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Okay well add trying to figure out what the removed tweets were to my list of life regrets. Dick pics. Lots and lots of dick pics.
Nov 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
True story: I grew up in the house of the guy who was murdered by Colombian drug smugglers because his business partner tried to steal 880 lbs. of cocaine from them, only for the heist to go awry, leading to the stolen drugs being found and consumed by Cocaine Bear I was researching the guys involved in Cocaine Bear's origin story because they had tangential connections to an @Undisclosedpod case I was working on. And while looking into the guy who got murdered, I discovered that the house he lived in had been sold.......to my parents.
Nov 16, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
When you're losing even the QAnon vote... Image Oh honey. Image
Jul 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The response from the anti-abortion side is that these situations only happen because doctors are interpreting the law wrong.

Doctors should know the ban applies only to abortions for women who were being slutty, and not to non-slutty abortions like the one in this story. For example, see this horrific article that claims no one is being denied "necessary and potentially life-saving procedures" – and if they are, then "it is the fault of the doctors themselves, not the fault of the pro-life laws, which are eminently clear." nationalreview.com/2022/07/how-ev…
Jul 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Georgia has declared that things there's no way to prove exist** are actually people, with all the rights people have, and now Georgia's agencies are faced with implementing this insane command.

**short of forcible regular pregnancy tests, but hey, maybe that's where GA is going In reality, the way this is going to work out is that 99% of the time, embryos and fetuses will in no way be treated as persons, because hypothetical entities that don't exist separate from the mother are not something government agencies can actually apply policies to.
Jun 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Holy shit.

Trump was upset that people with weapons were being turned away from the Jan 6th rally: "I don't fucking care that they have weapons, let them in." Holy SHIT.

Trump, on January 6th: "I'm the fucking President, take me to the Capitol now." When he was told no, he *tried to grab the steering wheel.*
Jun 24, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Things have changed a lot since 1973. As a practical matter, it's a lot harder now for the government to block access to abortion.

So if states want to stop abortions – and they do – they're going to have to get a lot more invasive, and a lot more draconian, to do it. The advocates of enforced gestation have at long last succeeded in stripping away Roe's Constitutional protections – only to find themselves in a world where, even after it's been outlawed, abortion care will still be available with a quick google search and a few mouse clicks.
Jul 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The secret to being a successful Trump grifter, you see, is to have made sure that – at some point along the way – you secured a formal role in the Trump administration.

Those guys are mostly safe. It's the Trump grifters who never drew a government paycheck that get prosecuted. Manafort and Gates? Prosecuted. Manafort's banker who tried but failed to bribe his way into a government job? Prosecuted. Papadopoulos, who also failed to get a job? Prosecuted. Guys who tried to use Trump connections to lobby – Barrack, Nader, Stone, Broidy, Patten? Prosecuted.
Jul 19, 2021 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
In 2003, when Dennis Perry was convicted of a murder he did not commit, the DA in Camden County did everything in his power to ensure Dennis's wrongful conviction would never be discovered.

Today, Dennis Perry is in court in Brunswick, GA, where he will finally be exonerated. We covered Dennis Perry's case in Season 3 of @Undisclosedpod – although his case was seemingly a hopeless one. After his conviction, the DA had made him an offer: if you agree to never challenge your conviction, I will spare your life. To avoid being executed, Dennis accepted.
Jul 1, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The Weisselberg indictment notes that it was Trump who signed off on the tuition checks for Weisselberg's grandkids.

Trump Org recorded the payments internally as compensation to Weisselberg, but did not report it for tax purposes. Although it's pretty obvious that payments for Weisselberg's new carpets and flat-screen TVs were in fact employee compensation and not Trump Org business expenses, Trump Org made sure there was no room for confusion and dutifully recorded the payments as Weisselberg's income.
Jun 30, 2021 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
Wow. After Castor's successor reopened the Cosby case, Castor informed her he made an agreement not to prosecute Cosby, but that he'd made the deal WITH COSBY'S ATTORNEY ONLY, and never even informed the victim of the deal he made – even though the deal was allegedly for her benefit!
Jun 9, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The report says that the U.S. Park Police didn't learn of Trump's plan to walk to the church until shortly before 3pm that day...

But the report also notes USPP made its decision about when and how to clear to park at around 5pm. USPP was informed that Trump would make a visit of Lafayette Park "after protesters had been removed from the area."

And yet the report guilelessly concludes that the manner of timing of how the protesters were cleared had nothing to do with Trump's plans for a photo op.
May 11, 2021 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
For @just_security, I wrote a deep dive into the evidence Giuliani was indeed a foreign agent who – on behalf of Ukrainian nationals – lobbied Trump and other officials to fire Yovanovitch.

But instead of registering under FARA, he tried to disguise his status as foreign agent. Giuliani has indicated his defense will be that, in seeking the ambassador's removal, he was acting only on Trump's behalf, and not for any Ukrainians: "My sole concentration... was to find evidence that proved [Trump] was innocent of Russian collusion."
Jan 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
At one point, a large crowd of rioters is blocked from moving further into the building by Capitol police.

Then at 24:40, a rioter with a bullhorn announces: "We have permission to go into this room... We can go into this room if we are calm and we commit no violence, ok?" The Trump mob does not obey; they start to push through. For a moment, a few officers try to bar the way.

Then a rioter chastises a cop: "I would just stop, bro, dude, you're not helping... you're going to get me hurt and other people."

Then it appears police let them through.
Jan 7, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
If Trump were remaining in power, this wouldn't change anything for Trump's enablers. They'd make the same clucking noises they made after Charlottesville, and then continue on by Trump's side exactly as they had before. Even now, Republicans are pointedly refusing to break with Trump, or even blame him for what happened, let alone condemn him. The exceptions to this are so few they hardly exist – the VT governor, Romney, Sasse, that Illinois Rep who is basically Amash-lite, maybe 1 or 2 more?
Jan 5, 2021 • 33 tweets • 5 min read
May this be the last Trump rally I ever watch, but one last time, here we go.

Trump begins his griping right from the get-go: "I told Kelly, if you lose, you lose, and that's acceptable. But when you win in a landslide and they steal it, that's unacceptable." Trump, after heaping some fawning praise on his VP: "I hope Mike Pence comes through for us. Of course, if he doesn't come through with us, I won't like him quite as much."
Nov 5, 2020 • 50 tweets • 6 min read
All right, let's do this. I'm watching Fox tonight. For old time's sake.

Tucker is on with @JennaEllisEsq. Only caught the end of it, but the discussion is very abstract, with generic invocations of transparency and right to vote, etc. Very detached air to the whole exchange. My Pillow commercial, drink.