Fogbow

I made us each a quite strong Manhattan, with a plate of pistachios and fennel taralli on the side.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1796336098618327314

Acyn
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Blanche: He went into court everyday and he sat there and he had questions and he helped us.. fighting every single day

Ok. Hypothetical question for the Fogbow School of Lawyer Stuff. On any appeal (state or federal) you have to allege specific error(s) in the charges, verdict, conduct of the court, etc. Something specific went wrong, not just "I didn't like this verdict, please toss it out". Yes/No? Yeah...

Jim Wright pointed out Trump the Felon cannot vote in Florida :) I've read that the Florida rule for voting by residents with out-of-state felony convictions is that Florida applies the law of the state in which the resident was convicted. And I believe that the recently reformed voting law in New ...

Onto the next round: Sentencing. From what I understand, in comparable cases (even felony ones), the sentence is usually a fine and probation. But this case (read: the defendant) is unusual. I would not be surprised if there was some modest jail time added. I also would not be surprised by "ju...

From the NYT live feed

31 minutes ago
Jonah Bromwich
Reporting from inside the courthouse

Alvin L. Bragg has become the first prosecutor ever to convict a former president. The prosecution's trial team is packing up its bags, evincing no visible emotion, really.

Professional all the way.

Yabut, in many places there is a well-defined category of food that does not include fish but does include serve mollusks, crustaceans, echinoderms, cephalopods, whelks, and the like. For better or worse, the accepted name for this is "seafood." Like much of human language, the usage is il...

https://jessica.substack.com/p/texas-professors-want-to-punish-students Some wild news out of Texas (I know, not surprising): The New Republic reports that professors at the University of Texas at Austin are suing for the ability to punish students who take time off for abortion. The complaint, brou...

https://x.com/MrJonCryer/status/1795937171263648248

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The guy who could have called those witnesses is Todd Blanche.

THE GUY STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO HIM.

Acyn
@Acyn


Trump: A lot key witnessers were not called

In most parts of the world, fish are generally not considered seafood even if they are from the sea.

Wikipedia Seafood.

I don't consider salmon seafood. It is fish. Crustaceans are not fish. :confuzzled: Don't be. I spent much of my life casually and Ignorantly treating "fish" and "seafood" as practically synonymous. I guess I never called crabs or lobsters "fish," but it certainly neve...

https://x.com/EricLisann/status/1795805249564774402 Asha Rangappa reposted Eric Lisann @EricLisann Setting aside, for a moment, the muddled issue of what neighborly interaction supposedly prompted the Alitos to hoist the upside-down flag outside their home (and setting aside a similar flag they hoi...

https://x.com/Larry_C_Fitz/status/1795878673419030963 Asha Rangappa reposted Laurence C Fitzgerald🇺🇦 @Larry_C_Fitz A reasonable and unbiased person would take his changing stories and the lies he told as an indication that he has been less than forthright and is biased, so it does for the criteria ...

https://x.com/secretsandlaws/status/1795875581831061786

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The Alito letter, a breakdown.

1. I mean, GTFO with this!

Read the whole thread; most of it isn't quoted.

https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1795879150936367227 Josh Marshall @joshtpm "there were no additional steps that I could have taken to have the flag taken down more promptly" Longer quote in the tweet. https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1795879464527634796 Josh Marshall @joshtpm not sure whether th...

"right," IMO.

A current president may return a salute from a member of the military, such as the Marines at their post, :snippity: :fingerwag: Although before Reagan presidents would occasionally return a salute, the routine, daily return of the salute was a stunt begun by Reagan. A Senseless Salute By John Luka...

Yeah Rolodex , I grok your point, but having stood with my hand on my heart four* times yesterday while a high school bugler played taps at a small town's Memorial Day observance, I'm feeling tolerant about the use of the hand on the heart (is there a short term for this?) as an all-purpose gesture...

It's a hopeless case, but the business of civilians saluting in formal settings is complete baloney, nonsense on stilts. And the tradition of the President saluting is particularly wrong-headed in light of the law and tradition of civilian control of the military, plus the whole "no kings"...

<shaking my head>

Own goal. Particularly with this arguably corrupt judge, it's necessary not to give her any excuse for ruling against you on a procedural issue. It weakens your position when you eventually go up to the 11th circuit.

Defense goes first in New York criminal trials. News to me; all the New York jury trials in which I've participated have been in federal court.

https://x.com/elizaorlins/status/1795298245230628916

TFB friend and alumnus Mike Dunford gets a couple of paragraphs in this surprisingly good New York Times story about his current boss, Akiva Cohen, who coined the term "Litigation Disaster Tour," and how Cohen assembled a law firm group from people he met on the notorious (and enormous) Th...

I have a good deal of sympathy with outside counsel here. Just because a plaintiff has good grounds to allege one kind of awful conduct (installing a camera in a place where she is entitled to privacy) doesn't mean that she also has a claim for a different and more intense flavor of awful conduct (i...

Variety @Variety EXCLUSIVE: Attorneys for Donald Trump have sent a cease and desist letter to the filmmakers behind “The Apprentice” in an effort to block its U.S. sale and release. It warns the team behind the film not to pursue a distribution deal, according to two people who have read the letter...