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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Writer, lawyer, Dodger fan, idealist, hater. nycsouthpaw18 at gmail. RTs = endorsement or scorn. Insta / bluesky / threads same handle.
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May 31 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The commentariat loves to keep saying this presumably because they’ve heard it smarmy pundit friends say it, but it’s still completely false.

Businesspeople in New York are prosecuted for cooking their books in exactly this way all the fucking time.

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Image A couple months ago I did a radio interview for The Truce and the conservative host asked me whether the (then upcoming) Trump trial would lead to people no longer doing business in New York, and I tried to be accommodating and say maybe some die-hard Trump Republicans you know..
Aug 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
After propublica’s work, Harlan Crow appears quite prominently on Justice Thomas’s latest disclosure form. documentcloud.org/documents/2393…
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Aug 7, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It appears the Special Counsel’s office filed under seal its support for a Garcia hearing to evaluate Walt Nauta’s lawyer’s alleged conflicts, and Judge Cannon has decided to have it out in public. The issue is that discussing Stanley Woodward’s representation of three potential witnesses in the secret documents case would reveal the fact of their grand jury testimony. Cannon has decided in a conclusory line that isn’t reason enough, but it’s not clear why she thinks so.
Aug 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The interesting thing about this order imo is judge chutkan deciding the battle of the forms in the govt’s favor. By popular request, I will try to explain. According to the govt’s motion, they proposed a protective order, Trump responded with an entirely different form, and then the govt came back with a form based on a case before Judge Nichols.
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Aug 1, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The third indictment of Donald J. Trump — this one for trying to steal the government of the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… A fascinating and artful third paragraph. Image
Jul 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
What I find lamentable about DeSantis’s curriculum is the strong echo of antebellum pro-slavery ideology it contains, apportioning credit to the slaveholders and the slave system for supposedly improving enslaved people. I’ll explain. The chattel slavery practiced in the southern states and the colonies before them was a hideously cruel cradle-to-grave form to bondage. The contemporaneous pro-slavery ideology held that slaveholders were civilizing and improving a savage race from a state of pagan incivility.
Jun 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's unfortunate to let unserious MAGA lawyers vamp with background statements like this. No attorney who has gone on the record that I've seen has said the case is weak—including Tim Parlatore, who represented Trump. Prima facie, it's founded on a lot of documentary evidence. There are the classified docs themselves, found in his house. There are text messages and photos his employees and his family sent to one another. There are notes written down by Trump's own attorney. There is audio tape of Trump consensually recorded by Meadows' ghostwriters.
Jun 9, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The first federal indictment of Donald Trump. politico.com/f/?id=00000188… The release of this document shows that Trump and Nauta are actually codefendants in the same case.
May 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The eldest of Nancy Pelosi’s children has recently assumed a central role in Sen. Feinstein’s life, Politico reports. politico.com/newsletters/pl… Taken together, these two pieces of reporting today suggest the Pelosi family had unique access to Feinstein when virtually everyone else was being shut out. nytimes.com/2023/05/18/us/… Image
May 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Reporting indicates that “some content” that twitter is suppressing in Turkey primarily consists of accounts that promised to make the Erdogan regime look bad on the eve of the election. turkishminute.com/2023/05/13/twi… A thing I’ll never forget from the Trump years is when Erdogan’s goons beat up protesters in DC, apparently on Erdogan’s own orders, during his visit to the country, and the US government welcomed him at the White House after the fact and didn’t do anything meaningful about it.
May 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The jury has found Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming Carroll, but not for rape. Total awards of $5 million.

CNN will host the loser of this civil case in a presidential town hall tomorrow night.
May 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Typically for Ross, this analysis is not just wrong but wholly backwards. Trump left office seeking to overthrow democracyand install himself as a an authoritarian dictator. If he regains office, it’ll be as an avenging autocrat bent on revolutionizing the government, pardoning his fellow traitors, and remaining in power, not a second term wet noodle.
Apr 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
How did he communicate the denial? Signal? The faster Senate Democrats realize they’re facing an inter-branch struggle at least as serious as dealing with a Republican White House, the better they’re gonna do.
Apr 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Nine days after Gorsuch was appointed to the Supreme Court, the head of Greenberg Traurig—a major law firm that’s before the Court all the time—bought land he’d been trying to sell for two years. Gorsuch did not report the identity of the purchaser. politico.com/news/2023/04/2… It took a fair amount of digging to even find out it was a real estate transaction. Image
Apr 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I can’t keep up with the @dril check mark drama. It’s flickering on and off every time I check like a dying neon bulb.
Feb 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Dominion’s nearly 200-page brief in support of its motion for summary judgment against Fox News in its 2020 election defamation suit, presumably containing its most damning findings from discovery. int.nyt.com/data/documentt… I’d expected redactions to mostly concern private personal information and stipulated proprietary corporate data, like internal numbers, but these redactions are much more substantial. It seems to me the evidence pertaining to the Fox Corp parent is redacted too, e.g.:
Feb 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A panel of 5th Cir dismisses the lawsuit of a Louisiana man who was imprisoned beyond the expiration of his sentence because … he didn’t adequately explain in writing why it was unreasonable to imprison him longer than the court ordered. QI strikes again. ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/2… I know the Declaration isn’t a source of law but I do think the Fifth Circuit would do well to think about what truths are self-evident.
Feb 13, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Botheration. documentcloud.org/documents/2360… So, as widely reported, the judge will publish excerpts of the Fulton special purpose grand jury’s report on Thursday: the introduction, conclusion and a section they wrote about perjury concerns.
Feb 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"I'm not able to categorize how they stay aloft," General VanHerck says of the objects, distinguishing them from the balloon off the Carolina coast, which was "clearly a balloon." The general also says they haven't located the wreckage of the object shot down off northern Alaska yet.
Feb 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Lake shot? The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
Jan 20, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Fascinating development. FWIW, everyone else who works at the Court had to sign sworn affidavits, despite no leads implicating them. Everyone who works at the Court *and had access to the Dobbs opinion or was interviewed* I guess.

Incidentally, this clears up the question of whether the investigative report refers to the Justices as either "personnel" or "employees." They are neither. supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/pre…