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davidrlurie
@davidrlurie
Lawyer, and occasional writer about the law and related matters. Tweets are never legal advice.
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May 3 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
This lawsuit against alleged Hamas front organizations in the U.S. merits careful attention from the press. 1/
gtlaw.com/en/-/media/fil… Leaving to one side the legal merits of the case, which will be decided in the courts, the complaint provides detailed allegations regarding the claimed connections between the defendants and the student groups that lead most anti-Israel student activities, in.... 2/
Apr 23 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
@jedshug calls the criminal trial unfolding against Donald Trump in a Manhattan courtroom a "historic mistake." IMHO, it that case will be a historic vindication of the rule of law, however the jury decides. 1/



lnytimes.com/2024/04/23/opi… Jed contends the prosecution failed to elucidate its legal theory in its opening statement. But an opening statement in a jury trial is not a legal argument, but rather (in case of the prosecution) is supposed to provide account of the evidence the jury will see. 2/
Sep 26, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
GOP wants to make cuts to funding geared towards neediest schools that "could cost up to 224,000 teachers their jobs" because "that's where the money is."

washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/… This move demonstrates that GOP extremists are not actually focused on dismantling the government as claimed, but rather on gutting those portions of the government that help the neediest, and particularly the young.
Apr 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pressure mounts in the minds of pundits.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/… McCarthy "defied expectations," by passing a bill that he made even more cruel and unacceptable at the last minute to eek out 117 GOP votes.
Apr 5, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Hyperbole is not analysis. With all due respect to @jedshug , DA Bragg has no reason to be "embarrassed" by the indictment voted against Trump by a Manhattan Grand Jury -- though Trump's lack of embarrassment at the conduct recounted in the court filings is notable, 1/ Some of @jedshug's complaints concern settled elements of the criminal justice system which may have normative merit, but are certainly no basis to get a criminal case dismissed. For example, he complains that, during a press conference, DA Bragg 2/
Apr 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
He's definitely not a Young American. But his face is a mess.
Mar 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Jew hatred is being normalized in our society.
There are gravely culpable actors are on the left and the right; but the Republican Party has now made antisemitic conspiracism central to its rhetoric and ideology. 1/ When the same thing happened to the Labour Party in the UK, the party ultimately acted to purge itself of the scourge of antisemitic bigotry. 2/
Mar 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For the moment Trump's: (i) gotten a fundraising bump; and (ii) induced compliant GOP "leaders" to close ranks behind him.
But it is increasingly clear that criminal charges are likely to loom over Trump, as well as the party he's captured, through the election year. For example, McCarthy found himself characteristically tongue-tied as he half-heartedly spoke out against potential pro-Trump violence, while defending Trump for trying to call his suburban brownshirts to the barricades. 1/
Mar 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
GOP politicians like McCarthy, Trump and JD Vance now routinely include antisemitic conspiracism in their political rhetoric. I discussed the phenomenon here, in Public Notice. 1/ aaronrupar.substack.com/p/trump-bannon… JD Vance is advancing a claim that a Jew "bought" a respected prosecutor, who just happens to be Black.
Double bigotry in just one tweet. 2/
Mar 10, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
"Liars are fragile, because, over time, lying makes you weak and afraid," Tucker Carlson said recently, just before unleashing a volley of lies.
As @atrupar and I discuss, lies are rhetorical fuel for the right wing media machine Tucker exemplifies. 1/

aaronrupar.substack.com/p/tucker-carls… Carlson was apoplectic after Fox (accurately) reported Biden had won Arizona in 2020:
“We worked really hard to build what we have,” Carlson texted his producer on November 5, 2020. "Those f******s [that called Arizona for Biden] are destroying our credibility. It enrages me."
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Mar 2, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The DOJ's brief in this civil case is very important for anyone seeking to read the tea leaves regarding potential criminal charges against Trump respecting 1/6. 1/ While DOJ is careful to state that it is not opining on issue of criminal liability, and that it is focusing on plaintiffs' allegations, not making or accepting factual allegations, the Government's arguments are very relevant to a potential criminal case. 2/
Jan 22, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
If Trump (or, as unlikely as it is, Biden) is indicted for conduct rated to government documents, it will be for knowing misconduct - not, to use Comey's formulation, "extreme carelessness." 1/ The Supreme Court has construed the Espionage Act to reach only knowing disclosures of classified materials. 2/
Jan 21, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
As the judge explained, DeSantis won his case against Andrew Warren because the governor lied about his reasons for firing the prosecutor. 1/ DeSantis claimed that he fired Warren because the prosecutor had supposedly adopted a blanket policy not to prosecute certain types of criminal cases. But Warren had not adopted any such policy, as the governor knew or should have known. But .... 2/
Dec 22, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Tucker Carlson claims Zelensky is trying to overthow Putin -- Repeating the absurd diversionary propaganda of ... Putin. 1/ Repeating another, not very veiled antisemitic, Russian line, Carlson claims the (Jewish) Zelensky is an opponent of "Christianity". 2/
Dec 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Dean Chemerinsky derided critics of the bigoted policy as "outside agitators". By defensively lashing out at critics, whom he plainly views as ideological opponents, he focused on the wrong problem. 1/ nyti.ms/3YG6ypX 2/
Dec 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Ai Weiwei's experience in China demonstrated the beautifully disruptive possibilities of a medium like Twitter, as well as how rapidly, and completely, such expression can be crushed by an authoritarian power.1/

foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/13/twi… The gutting of Twitter could be deeply destructive to activists and others outside the West with very limited communications options. Here in the U.S., it will ultimately amount to only an inconvenience. 2
Dec 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Weiss is now supplementing her marketing of Musk's recycled Trump/Russia conspiracism with recycled anti-mask conspiracism. Just in time for the uptick in COVID infection rates.
Dec 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is an absurd version of bothsideism. 1/

politico.com/news/magazine/… Comparing the GOP's Trump/fascism problem to Biden's low approval numbers is absurd. 2/
Dec 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Supreme Court's most reactionary Justices veer from one formalist theory, "originalism," to another (inconsistent) formalist theory, "textualism, depending upon the desired outcome. "Independent state legislature theory" is perhaps the most absurd iteration of textualism. 1/ It cannot be reconciled with the structure of the Constitution, and certainly has no historically cogent basis which could justify the theory on "originalist" grounds. 2/
Sep 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
And let's believe implicitly this guy, who wrote "complaint" transparently calculated to pander to Elon Musk. By the way, Musk wants to open up Twitter's service to any and all misinformation.
Sep 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Whew! I was worried about the Democrats' chances in The Green Mountain State. To add to your sense of comfort, I overheard similar talk in Tribeca.