Hey #law and #legal adjacent folks on general interest instances, should the mood strike you esq.social is over here whenever you want to check us out.
This is how far the Republican Party has fallen for hitching their wagon to the most disgusting piece of human trash our country has ever encountered. The biggest criminal in American history. Charged with Espionage crimes. The most dangerous national security threat in American history. No republicans speak out against the convicted felon.
“Judge Aileen #Cannon is again ripping up the court schedule in #Trump’s classified #documents case – pushing some of the legal questions that have been before her for months even further down the road.” #legal
@GottaLaff The incoherent scheduling and delay aren’t even the most shocking aspects of Cannon’s latest decisions. Her ruling that people like Ed Meese and Michael Mukasey can participate in oral arguments over Jack Smith’s appointment as special prosecutor is outrageous. This gives people with no standing in the case a platform to air their views. #LawFedi
Does anyone else find it absurd that every June we wait for 9 unelected officials to issue decrees about what rights we have and what rights we have lost?
What happened to the Article III judicary being the least dangerour branch of government?
This week's column is a bit niche, but in it I argue against a proposed bill in NY that would make presence of a sales suppression device a felony punishable by up to 7 years in prison.
The reality is these sales tax audits often have a racial component, and such a law will merely serve to incarcerate minority business owners left holding the bag -- leaving the makers and marketers of the tools to continue unabated well outside the state's reach.
The Biden Administration has weaponized the DOJ so much that jury selection in Hunter Biden's trial starts today & Sen. Bob Menendez is currently on trial and Rep. Henry Cuellar has been indicted.
NBC News: Trump supporters are trying to doxx the jurors in Trump's criminal trial.
A non-profit that conducts public interest research found posts of the purported addresses of jurors on a fringe message board known for pro-Trump content.
The same group found a high volume of violent social posts targeting Judge Merchan and DA Bragg
Maga Mike is an unprincipled man who lacks integrity. He traveled to NY to speak on behalf of a man who has been convicted of crimes against the United States of America, and to attempt to undermine our system of justice. Mike Johnson is what happens when men don't have the strength or fortitude to act with integrity.
And the greatest evil is the dozens of elected Republicans so willing to immediately denigrate our constitutional jury system of justice and demand, of all things, payback. This fever needs to break.
Over the last few years the practice portion of my #legal work has slowly transitioned to consulting for other attorneys on #tax or #tech matters and let me tell you, for all the stick our profession gets we don’t make terrible clients.*
*Results not typical, your mileage may vary, see stores for details.
Do take the time to read #Alito ‘s letter, in which he cloaks his own misapplicof the recusal standard in a self-righteous assertion of his wife’s First Amendment rights. He is correct that she has these. He is wrong to think that her exercise of them does not raise questions about his own impartiality. https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/ae3feb5a-13a4-4f0f-9046-b61a530c40fb.pdf#LawFedi 1/
#Alito, who is avowedly motivated by political and ideological considerations - per his own public comments as well as his many law-free judicial opinions - has no standing to insist either that the hypothetical “reasonable person” is supposed to be free from commitments to #RuleOfLaw. 2/ #LawFedi
It makes zero difference whether #Alito had “nothing to do with” flying the U.S. flag upside down or with flying the “Appeal to Heaven” flag. Both were flown at his residences. This would give any reasonable person grounds to believe he condones the sentiments and ideas those flags represent. 3/ #LawFedi
In my column this week I talk about one of my favorite tax frauds (to write about, that is) -- biofuel "rounding."
Basically, one tanker of #biofuel is circled between the refinery and some distribution point to generate multiple tax credits on the same x gallons of fuel.
Simple billion-dollar fraud made possible by loopholes you can drive a tanker truck through.
Apropos of nothing, I'm heartened by the degree to which huge swaths of communities I'm attached to (thinking #lawfedi / #legal, #technology, #policy, #podcast, etc.) have seemingly rejected the siren call of going all-in on #Threads as a Twitter/X replacement.
I know many have been sailing under their own flag for quite some time, but we're hurdling towards two years and it feels like something that can persist.
Excellent read, as always, by Steve Vladeck, on the potential of creating a Supreme Court Inspector General:
Could the Legislature“rest the creation of a fifth Supreme Court office, an Article III Inspector General[?] It seems to me that the answer, at least as a matter of constitutional law, is clearly ‘yes.’”
Does anyone know any civil rights lawyers? It looks like I need to sue the government. They'd have to cooperate--they can make me sound completely crazy if they want--but any doctor could tell what they're doing to me. That's why the clinics literally close in front of me and reopen after I leave. I caught them doing that once by going to a distant bathroom and returning.
#Alito’s letter explaining his refusal to recuse in Jan 6th cases includes false statements to Congress (18 USC §1001) Watch how credible Alito’s neighbor is in her first TV interview
⚖️ She contradicts Alitos account and cites the police report and another eye witness. The facts, eye witness, and police report show Alito is lying because the Alitos were flying the flag upside down in solidarity with the insurrection, when the Alitos' verbal attack on the neighbors occurred three weeks later.
Alito's lie about the pretext cast an even greater shadow because his consciousness of guilt over flying the flag in support of the overthrow of our government.
Argument with neighbors took place THREE WEEKS LATER.
"Evidence that data centers drive job creation simply isn’t there ... they create few jobs and cost about $2 million for each they do manage to conjure up.
[They're] more energy-intensive than labor-intensive and resource usage drives up resource costs and shift financial burdens to other resident businesses and individuals.”