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Mitchell Epner

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Attorney, former AUSA, father, husband, former JBLC, long-time Knicks fan and occasional talking head
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Your opponent’s request for “summary affirmance” suggests to me that he won below. Is that correct? If so, what was the ratio descendí?

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We have to be the people we have been waiting for. No one else is coming to save us.

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While the rest of the movie was Crash-level Hollywood pontification, the gun shot scene of Grand Canyon was a great corrective to Hollywood’s ongoing canard that “tough guys” can just grit their teeth through gun shot wounds.

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I think he is a COWARD who was afraid the right would come after him if he stood up to Trump. I think he thinks his legacy will be adjudicated by the Heritage/Cato/Federalist Societies. I think he would be horrified to learn he will be remembered as the moral equivalent of Roland Freisler.

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Because seeing Trump refuse to answer and/or not care likely would cause several thousand “undecided” voters to decide to vote for the person capable of beating Trump.

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I am confident, based on knowing many former Supreme Court clerks, that Roberts thinks a great deal about his legacy.

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Let me be clear. In my opinion, John Roberts has joined Roger Taney (Dred Scott - slavery) as a Chief Justice who will be remembered as an evil man. Not just wrong, but worthy of eternal condemnation for trying to destroy the Republic.

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But now Chief Justice Roberts has (to his everlasting shame) enabled fascism by taking away the prospect for criminal prosecution. I hope Roberts receives total consciousness on his deathbed and goes to his grave knowing that his entire legacy will be as a minion of evil.

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I mean this literally. When all of these things combine in one individual, they are unfit for office. Prior drug abuse, alone, may not be disqualifying.

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To be clear, I understand that leg wounds can easily be fatal. I just would love to hear whether Trump understood “shoot them in the legs” was an impossible-to-achieve, idiotic request when dealing massed troops confronting a mass protest from a distance.

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Brain worms + Steroids + History of cocaine/heroin abuse + Entitled arrogance + Misogyny = A person who should not receive a single vote for any office.

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I hope we never find out because Trump never returns to the White House. I’m doing everything in my power to prevent that nightmare.

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Fair.

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Except, as @mglovesfun.bsky.social points out, in the entirety of the United States, Chief Justice Roberts and his fellow fascism-enablers have declared commanding troops to shoot protestors to be an “official act” that cannot be the basis for criminal prosecution.

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With regard to former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper’s chilling account that then-President Trump wanted troops confronting protestors in Lafayette Park to “shoot them in the legs”, I’d love to hear someone ask the follow up question whether Trump understood that people would fall & get hit in torso.

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I’m an Irish Republican (pro-reunification (through referendum)) and a British Republican (anti-monarchy). I’m as far as possible from being an American Republican. In fact, I believe the current American Republican Party is a threat to the survival of the American Republic.

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Since my childhood on LI, I’ve been an Irish Republican. “England Out Of Ireland” has always resonated with me. I cheered the Good Friday Accords. I believe Brexit made Irish reunification more likely. I think the crazy-quilt economic border with GB & EU will make referendum more likely soon.

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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.

"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"

Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...

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I do not believe they can. It seems much more likely to me that we will see Irish reunification gain in popularity over the next five years. We’ll see.

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Labour did run off Corbyn. That’s not everything, but it’s also not nothing.

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Congratulations to the Labour Party, which will now have a 5 year run with a strong majority in Commons. As a practical matter, Labour can enact its entire platform without meaningful opportunity for opposition to derail anything.

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The NY Times is doing its best NOT to serve as a local paper. For example, they completely missed the George Santos story when he first ran for Congress on LI in 2020. They missed it again when he ran for and won an open seat in 2022. They choose not to use their resources on local journalism.

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I do my best to avoid groups (on any subject) where the extreme lack of knowledge of the participants is matched by an extreme lack of humility.

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Things that I found charming about U.K. elections when I lived there (briefly): 1. Very short election season. 2. All candidates gather on platform in town square for reading of results. 3. The attire of the candidates of the Monster Raving Loony Party.

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6/6. . . most likely to beat the fascists, EVEN IF there is another candidate who comes closer to my ideological preferences.

I hope that you will join me in SOLIDARITY.

Happy Independence Day.

poets.org/poem/let-ame...

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5/ . . . *for certain* about the future is that it has not happened yet. For the next months, everyday I will do my best to contribute to the preservation of our Republic by working for the defeat of FPOTUS and his fascist enablers. That means, in every constituency, working for the candidate . .

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4/ I have been carried by the strength of family, friends and strangers. I have done my best to give back, but I know I have received far more than I have given. Today, many things seem bleak in the political world of the United States. We will see how things turn out. The only thing I know . . .

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3/ . . . gotten worse. Personally, I survived the alienation of my teenage years and Stage 3 colon cancer when I was 49. I have the great joy of being married to the love of my life and the father to an incredible 21-year old daughter. When I did not have the strength to fend for myself, . . .

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2/ They held me up to watch the moon landing two weeks later. By the time Watergate drove Nixon from office, I was watching the hearings (and mad Sesame Street was pre-empted). In the decades since then, some things have gotten much better. Many things have vacillated. Some things have steadily .

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1/ 55 years ago today, I was born at Yale University hospital. It was the middle of the Vietnam War. My father was Lt. Commander at the New London Navy base, serving as a pediatrician. Once week, my mother brought to my first protests to hear the reading of the names of the troops killed in action.

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Hello, bsky followers of my dad! (this is Madison; you might occasionally see me being snarky in his replies.) Today is his birthday, and he loves validation, so in honor of that, please list your favorite of the ten-or-so sayings he repeats in conversation. I think he’ll appreciate it!

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FCI Danbury has both a men’s facility and a woman’s facility (actually two women’s facilities).

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For the same reason handlers of search & rescue dogs occasionally have volunteers put themselves in a position to be "found" alive in a grim disaster scene -- to keep up morale so that these dogs keep working -- I give you this screen shot from the BOP showing the current location of Steve Bannon.

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Solidarity, my friend. To get to you, they have to go through me.

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Before I answer that question, thank you for doing what you have already done. Another thing that you can do (if you have the time and the resources) is volunteer to do phone banking for Biden and candidates in swing Senate/House seats.

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Yes, you have three choices. 1. Vote for Trump & fascism; 2. Vote for the one person with a chance to defeat Trump and decrease the likelihood of fascism; 3. Vote for someone else, who has no chance of blocking Trump & fascism. There is no dilemma here. This IS our system. We live in it.

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Here is a link to the Daily Beast article, which gives a synopsis of the longer piece in Vanity Fair on RFK Jr.'s purported awful, misogynistic & assaultive behavior. The woman reporting Jr.'s assault on her was working as the family's babysitter at the time and is identified by name.

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Yes, a President can still be impeach by a majority of the House and removed by 2/3 of the Senate. We have seen in the last 25 years that the likelihood of Senate removal is extremely (Clinton (1x), Trump (2x)). The threat of criminal sanctions has now been (almost entirely) removed.

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1. Some of the evidence that was admitted might fall afoul of the Supreme Court's rules against using "official acts". 2. All of the fraudulent checks and entries were created after 1/21/2021. 3. I do not think that Trump's arguments are likely to win, but we will see.

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Donald Trump's July 11 sentencing in New York almost certainly will be adjourned, after DA's office filed a letter this morning consenting to adjournment to allow briefing on the issues raised by Trump based upon yesterday's SCOTUS decision on Presidential immunity.

www.law360.com/articles/185...

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I would be very happy if part of Donald Trump's sentence in New York was requiring him to make a public reading, without edits, of today's 31 page decision for the disbarment of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, which debunks most of FPOTUS's claims of election fraud in 2020.

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Blackmun, Stevens, O’Connor and Souter were four GOP nominees that were nothing like what the GOP expected them to be. O’Connor was a true swing vote (who sometimes voted GOP interests (Bush v. Gore)). The other three became liberal stalwarts. Rehnquist would have loved to be in Roberts’ position.

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