Mitchell Epner

Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:13 UTC

A complete joke. I’m proud that I saw my first Phish show in Hanover in the summer of 1989.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

We were lined up to open for Phish, but Trey met me and decided that our aggro-snark vibe just would not work for their crowd. They went with Spin Doctors instead.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:58 UTC

“Comey” = the last minute revelation of the Weiner laptop causing Comey to reopen the Clinton investigation.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:15 UTC

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

Crop dusting or literally sat on him?

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:11 UTC

I am still bitter that Ms. Abedin refused to leave the Clinton campaign in the summer of 2016, when several Dem luminaries took her to lunch and made the ask. I literally saw it happen. If she leaves the campaign, it's likely the Weiner laptop revelation never happens & Trump never becomes POTUS.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:58 UTC

Not to mention the wonderful smells once the platform temperature breaks 100 degrees.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:56 UTC

I wish that I still felt comfortable linking to songs by Kanye.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

I tried (but failed) to think of a kind word to describe a person who "falls in love" with an ambitious Congressman, ambitious actor/director, and a billionaire - all after becoming "surrogate daughter" to a POTUS candidate. As my grandmother taught me: marry for money and you earn it every day.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:37 UTC

That was my original reaction, until I realized that she was also arrested for DWI, open container and failure to yield to a lawful order.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:36 UTC

"The commission of a lawful act which might produce death . . . without due caution and circumspection" is the relevant language in the Alec Baldwin prosecution. It is lawful to point an unloaded gun at someone and pull the trigger, but did Baldwin show "due caution & circumspection" is so doing?

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:56 UTC

Aimee Harris, the FL woman who plead guilty to attempting to sell the diary of Ashley Biden, was arrested again yesterday, 1 day before she was scheduled to start her 1 month federal sentence. Because she was held after arrest & is being transferred to BOP, her jail assignment will be much worse.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:35 UTC

Which makes John Roberts . . . Archie. He's the guy who was supposed to be protecting the system but instead joins with the criminals to feed his personal ambition.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

In my version of A Fish Called Wanda.

Rep. Boebert (Otto): Dunk-worthy ignoramuses don't read Supreme Court decisions.

Rep. Goldman (Wanda): Yes they do, they just don't understand them.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

Here is the NM involuntary manslaughter statute: Involuntary manslaughter consists of manslaughter committed in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony, or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death in an unlawful manner or without due caution and circumspection.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:41 UTC

There are 29 states & DC that have a minimum wage above the (woeful) federal minimum wage of $7.25: ME, VT, CT, RI, NY, NJ, WV, OH, MI, IL, MO, MN, AR, FL, DE, MD, CO, DC, NM, SD, NE, MT, WA, OR, NV, AZ, CA, AK & HI. Of these, 18 are under Dem control. These are the only states above $10/hour.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

Yes, Democrats can. On marriage equality, President Biden in particular can.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

I found the rule (Rule 9) in the link below. It provides no guidance on how the GOP would fill the vacancy if Trump dies, is incapacitated or withdraws.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:41 UTC

I also hope that Dan is correct. If (huge IF) Biden steps aside, I hope that (a) a successor is quickly and unanimously selected, and (b) everyone gives complete effort to electing that person to avoid the return of Trump and the imposition of fascism. *No matter who* replaces Biden, I'm all in.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:38 UTC

I'm a standard issue liberal, but from what I've seen: a. Biden's consensus-building hasn't led to many "we won" moments; b. Biden took "half a loaf" with Inflation Reduction Act when he couldn't get BBB through the Senate; & c. Many leftists are angry about Biden's diplomacy on Israel/Gaza.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:33 UTC

There is an old saying about the United State Senate: Every morning, when each US Senator looks in the mirror, they see a future President.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:20 UTC

I deleted a post in the thread that might have been read as snarky, once I saw this retraction.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:16 UTC

As far as I can tell, there is no provision in the RNC Call of the Convention as to what happens if a Presidential candidate with a majority of the delegates dies, is disabled or withdraws before the Convention. Short answer: it will be chaos if Trump dies, is incapacitated or withdraws.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:11 UTC

And that is why I think the testimony of expert will be the most important part of the trial.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:57 UTC

Dan, Thank you for admitting your original post was conjecture. You do not *know*, you infer from the logical inferences you make. That’s why the “process” issues that you deride are very much at play. Without a process to guarantee everyone lines up behind the anointed one, everyone has a veto.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:48 UTC

Here is a place where I *know* you are wrong. Whatever would end up happening, I *know* from senior Democratic insiders that it is *far* from certain that the powers arrayed to get Biden to step aside would line up behind VP Harris. Unless you have spoken to Obama, etc, you’re wishcasting.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:18 UTC

It was an authentic antique gun, chosen for “period authenticity”.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:17 UTC

[sarcasm alert] Yes, the NY Times would likely be less effective at helping Donald Trump if they were actively helping him. Other news sources would be filled with anonymous quotes from “sources at the NYT” describing the “brave” fight being waged by reporters, staff & editors against the policy.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:10 UTC

3/3 . . . lamented the “failure of soft persuasion” by the court’s judges in negotiating a more civil retirement path for Newman.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:09 UTC

2/ . . . who’s worked on cases at the court. “It’s a problem Judge Newman resisted having any cognitive testing, and it’s also a problem that the Federal Circuit has flopped about from one justification to another for removing an Article III judge against her will,” said Epner, who . . .

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:08 UTC

1/ I’m quoted in the linked story in Bloomberg on the continuing litigation about the suspension of Judge Pauline Newman by the Federal Circuit. —————— “Nobody has covered themselves in glory here,” said Mitchell Epner, a civil and commercial litigator with Kudman Trachten Aloe Posner LLP . . .

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

I think that tagging @jerilryan.bsky.social would have been appropriate, so I have gone and done it myself.

Thank you to Ms. Ryan for bringing a great character to life.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 10:46 UTC

Song for the Day: Seville - Luiz Bonfa

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 03:28 UTC

Yes.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:45 UTC

The protocols were changed after the death in 1994 of actor Brandon Lee when a prop gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks had a live round fired.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:30 UTC

The forensic gun report is one key aspect of the prosecution. If jurors do not believe, beyond a reasonable doubt, the expert’s opinion that Baldwin had to pull the trigger for the gun to fire, I believe that would lead to an acquittal. There are real issues with that report.

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