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Quinta Jurecic
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Apr 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One way to understand some of the recent Supreme Court reporting is that the justices live in the very small, very rarified world of elite legal circles, which reporters are now newly interested in covering The point where these buddy-buddy dynamics shade into bad behavior (eg Crow's jet) is a bit uncertain, imo, and everything being reported on isn't equally bad, but for folks saying "this isn't news, this is just how things work": the fact that it's how things work is itself news
Sep 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
encountering a new organization you've never heard of before, in 3 parts:

1. "America's Future, Inc."? Sounds like something conservative. And they're supporting North Carolina in Moore v. Harper. Let's see Text reading: Brief Amicus Curiae of America's Future Inc. i 2. Yep, general vibe seems to check out. Hard to tell what particular flavor of conservative this is, though Screenshot of a website for America's Future Inc. It says &q
Aug 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
So we have TWO subpoenas to Mar a Lago before the search warrant, one for surveillance footage and one for "sensitive national security documents" Timeline appears (??) to be:
-June 3: DOJ & FBI show up at MAL—with a subpoena—to obtain records
-"A few days later" per WSJ, DOJ asks MAL to put a lock on the door (lol)
-June 22: Trump Org gets a subpoena for surveillance footage at MAL and turns it over
-Aug 8: search of MAL
Aug 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
it took Milley until fall 2019, AFTER he accepted the job as chairman of the joint chiefs, to realize that Trump might have "a screw or two loose"? newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… “Is that the way these thin... The level of self-delusion among people working in the Trump administration—as also described in the incredible and harrowing Atlantic piece on child separations—is truly something else theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… She paused, then put this a...
Jun 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Dobbs has obliterated my well-honed instinct to explain why it's Actually A Bit More Complicated, because it's not, and the thing is that the Dobbs majority doesn't seem to really believe it is either The shoddy reasoning of the majority in Dobbs and Bruen is clarifying. If we're operating in a place where Alito can snark about abortion as eugenics or the uselessness of gun laws re Buffalo, why should we be required to evaluate those opinions on the level of cold reason?
Jun 12, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Trump’s intent is irrelevant morally, but it’s quite important for the legal aspect. Whether or not it should be, it just is, and any prosecutor is going to have to consider that You saw this again and again in the Mueller report. Whether Trump fired Comey to hamstring the Russia investigation or whether he did it because he just didn’t like the guy speaks directly to his potential criminal exposure.
Jun 10, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
thinking some more about the Jan 6 committee's invocation of Washington and Lincoln—every time those two are presented as a pair it always makes me think of Mark Twain's incredible description of "the vacant place in the Trinity of our national gods" (Washington, Lincoln, ?) this is from Twain's incredible and bitter essay To the Person Sitting in Darkness, a polemic against the Spanish-American war: "Also, it will elect the Master of the Game to the vacant place in the Trinity of our national gods..."
Apr 21, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
obama said the word "230" and my blood pressure spiked 😬😬😬
Jan 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
One thought on this really sharp piece about Trump and fascism. The core component of fascism that Trumpism has always seemed to be missing (imo) is the element of redemptive violence ... johnganz.substack.com/p/what-is-trum… .... I wonder if one way to read the surge of threats against school boards, election & public health officials etc is as a sign of the increasing acceptance of redemptive violence among followers of Trump
Oct 18, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
And against the Archivist of the US, David Ferriero—so Trump may be attempting to enjoin the Archives from handing over a tranche of documents to the J6 committee as the indispensable @jshaub explains here: lawfareblog.com/executive-priv…
Oct 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Four Trump associates and officials have announced they will defy the Jan 6 Committee's subpoenas. What happens now? With @mollyereynolds @mollyereynolds And more from the great @jshaub: lawfareblog.com/executive-priv…
Oct 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
But I thought Barr was one of the adults, soberly protecting against election subversion?judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… "FINDING 6: By pursuin... Image
Oct 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Currently burning up the @lawfareblog slack: this insane exchange from the justices in the Zubaydah oral argument today (h/t @rohini_kurup) supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments… @lawfareblog @rohini_kurup In which
•Roberts asks whether Zubaydah's lawyers have filed a habeas petition to get him out of Guantanamo
•Counsel tells Roberts, "There has been a habeas proceeding pending ... for the last 14 years."
•Breyer asks, "Don't they decide it? I mean, you just let
it sit there?"
Jul 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Good, time to flex some muscle on this lawfareblog.com/jan-6-select-c… The fact that Pelosi allowed Nehls (who also objected to certifying the electoral vote) suggests she's not going fully scorched-earth but is still willing to be aggressive
Jul 20, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote about these papers when they came out in 2015; there's some interesting stuff there, but I wouldn't describe them as a "revelation," as this story does. The material added useful details and confirmation. tinyurl.com/f94fwfd6 This is of course separate from the question of how we should think about prosecutions of people who leak classified materials to journalists, which is a lot of what the NYMag piece is about
Jul 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Jan. 6 select committee has the opportunity to conduct an aggressive investigation into the Capitol riot—if the committee majority wants to take that opportunity. lawfareblog.com/jan-6-select-c… Cheney and the Dem majority won’t need to soft-pedal their investigation or negotiate compromises in order to appeal to pro-Trump Republicans. They can—if they want—run down, with far fewer political constraints, the truth of what happened on Jan. 6. lawfareblog.com/jan-6-select-c…
Jun 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
"I've produced a lot of content this week" is a thought I really just had here's some of the Content, the rest will be out soon
Jun 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I see that the ol' Twittersphere is discussing things involving "the Mueller Report," "Trump," and "exoneration," so I'm just going to drop this here lawfareblog.com/obstruction-ju… It Got Worse
Jun 27, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There’s uh a lot going on in this story There’s useful info here. But Barr’s self justification is far too cute. The guy you thought was bad was actually (according to him) good and principled, the whole time!
Jun 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is a) an excellent response to what the NY Post did (publish nonconsensual pornography, which I'm not going to link to), and b) a response that nobody should have to give The idea that publications will release intimate images of people without their consent—even, yes, candidates for public office!—is a dangerous guardrail to breach. This is far less high-profile than the Katie Hill case but it's still very bad lawfareblog.com/nonconsensual-…
Jun 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
i hate to burst everyone's bubble but this was in the report. which is why it is in the transcript. not yelling at people for not knowing this; yelling at the press and Congress for not doing their jobs, which is why people still don't know this.