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Rhett Derrick
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I don't know if this part of the ad means @kenwhite.bsky.social is safe or he's in a lot of danger
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Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social |
124447 followers 478 following 10257 posts
Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report.
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Rhett Derrick
@lawzag.bsky.social
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I don't know if this part of the ad means @kenwhite.bsky.social is safe or he's in a lot of danger
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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When I run into you in the gulag we’re having words
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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That’s why I gave a warning.
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Frostellicus
@maxellxlii.bsky.social
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Mr. Hutz, aka Miguel Sanchez, I hope you saw the post going around earlier: No one is above the law No, one is above the law!
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Lots of assassinations and bombings and shit in that era though.
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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The largely silent ad, which will reportedly air in battleground states across the country, features a sequence of headshots depicting politicians, former Trump White House officials, journalists, and seemingly random average Americans with big red X’s over their faces.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/6 My grandparents didn’t whine about it. Nor, for that matter, did my college classmate who survived as a child in 1970s Cambodia by hiding in a pile of his neighbor’s bodies. So, keep calm and fight.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/4 (Grandpa’s parents had a car, but grandma had a flair for drama, I think.) He did well and went off to be the supply officer on a ship in the Pacific. Went with absolutely no guarantee of coming back. That’s what people did.
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Popehat
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/3 I think about Grandma taking a taxi to the hospital to have my mom, forbidding my grandpa’s parents from calling him to let him know — he was on base studying for the supply officer test the next day, and doing well would determine where he was assigned, and maybe whether he’d live or die.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/2 There were absolutely no guarantees that everything would be all right. Terrible things were happening and more terrible things were a distinct possibility. But they got through it, relying on the fundamental things they cared about.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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Bethany Albertson
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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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ICYMI: This episode of Serious Trouble is pretty grim.
It’s also our 101st episode!
www.serioustrouble.show/p/donald-tru...
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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While DOJ independence was already a dead letter for purposes of a second Trump term since Attorney General E. Trump or J. Turley or whoever will have been chosen expressly because he's willing to take orders, also worth noting that Roberts blessed POTUS telling AG whom to prosecute.
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Kashana
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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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THAT’S WHAT MADE IT FUNNY
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Popehat
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/3 I rejected it because (1) Iove and also fear her and (2) she’s smarter than the Gibson and O’Melveny and Latham associates whom I supervised as rookie federal prosecutors and wouldn’t fall for it like they did.
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Popehat
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/2 I considered hazing her like we used to do to the rookie federal prosecutors by telling her before her first hearing “the most important thing with a judge is not showing fear, you have to get in their face and tell them they’re wrong.”
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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My wife, who is doing a great job as a volunteer with CASA (which provides volunteer advocates for kids in foster care, who troubleshoot the system for the kids), has her first court hearing as a CASA today. /1
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Except I don’t see how it matters if Trump is elected. I don’t see the opportunity for a case to proceed unless Trump wants it.
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Ellie Margolis
@elliemargolis.bsky.social
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I'm sorry, what? How did any lawyer sign their name to this lawsuit?
Missouri has filed against New York under SOCTUS's original jurisdiction to stay Trump's sentencing.
ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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What the fuck
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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“SEE DAD? I’ve destroyed two and a half centuries of America. WHO’S NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING NOW?”
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Popehat
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Right. The question I was responding to was about whether a sentence is appealable irrespective of the guilty verdict. There the answer is yes. Yes, I think you could seek an interlocutory appeal before sentencing on the theory you have a right for the proceeding not to go forward.
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Popehat
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No. A couple of them might have an “ah well. Regrettable” moment after Trump starts really being Trump.
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LurkyMcLurk
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“We would like clean water and a bit of health care” Claremont: we have to kill you now
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Joel Mathis
@joelmathis.bsky.social
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I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...
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Director, Basque Space Program
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
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This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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The reference seemed to be to the official record of a vote, offered in a bribery case.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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You mean BEFORE he’s sentenced?
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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She could vote on whether to take the case like any other justice. But the route is not through the Circuit.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Yes, I didn’t consider the ludicrous possibility he could appeal because angry tweets are official acts. My vestigial connection to humanity occasionally impairs my ability to predict FedSoc arguments.
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Peter Sagal
@petersagal.bsky.social
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Trump’s lawyer made that explicit argument this AM to @steveinskeep.bsky.social, citing the court decisions that held his social media feeds are official communications so he couldn’t block people, hah hah hah.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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From a cert petition from a decision of the Florida Supreme Court, Florida’s highest court?
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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No, it still wouldn’t be to the 2nd Circuit. You appeal from the highest court of the jurisdiction to the Supreme Court. So whatever pretentious shit New Yorkers call their highest court straight to SCOTUS.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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We’re approaching July 4, the day Erick won’t eat Spotted Dick.
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Denys Beecher
@dbeecher.bsky.social
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Erick son of Erick can always be counted on.
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Denys Beecher
@dbeecher.bsky.social
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Oh, they've already been accusing Sotomayor of encouraging violence against Trump because of her "unhinged, irresponsible, and dishonest dissent."
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Yes, for joint task forces and stuff like that.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Watch for the American Right to begin to make claims that by overreacting to and mischaracterizing the Trump immunity decision, critics are causing “unrest”, and then watch for them to use that to justify the things Trump does.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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No, I don’t think so. It’s a NY state case. It goes through the NY appellate system.
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Cristian Farias
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I’d only add that: After decades of insistence that finality of state court judgments and no retroactivity are sacred, the Supreme Court can absolutely be expected to interfere with a final state-law judgment against Donald Trump, and to do so retroactively.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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He wouldn’t be able to appeal directly to SCOTUS anyway. I mean, unless SCOTUS were willing to ignore all procedural rules and norms or something.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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You can appeal it when you are sentenced. Along with the conviction.
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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com
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Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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“Appealable” is wrong. There’s nowhere to appeal! You can petition them to rehear the case, but that’s almost always pointless.
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Popehat
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“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election
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