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The widely read legal website of @BreakingMedia . Tweets by S. Zaretsky (SZ), J. Patrice (JP), K. Rubino (KR), C. Williams (CW). tips @abovethelaw .com

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4 years
Please keep our founder @DavidLat in your thoughts. He’s in critical condition and fighting hard to beat #COVID19 . If you pray, now is the time. ❤️ -Staci Z
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4 years
David Lat remains sedated and on a ventilator as he undergoes experimental treatment for COVID-19. Our thoughts re with him and his family at this difficult time.
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2 years
Trump Lawyer Files Batsh*t Motion Asking Federal Judge To Restrain NY Prosecutors As Eric Trump Whines On TV
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4 years
Update on Lat's condition -- he's out of the ICU and in stable but still serious condition
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Now that the 10th Circuit has spoken, I'm gonna need House Dems to DO THEIR JOB and impeach Brett Kavanaugh. (by @ElieNYC )
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3 years
No horsing around with threats to our democracy! @marceelias is ever vigilant - CW
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6 years
Brett #Kavanugh perjured himself before Congress in 2006. If that's not enough to stop his confirmation, it should be enough to start his Impeachment from the D.C. Circuit, starting tomorrow if Dems can get it together. (by @ElieNYC )
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3 years
Preet Bharara Reads Tea Leaves, Sees Criminal Charges In Donald Trump’s Future
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5 years
Hey look, Brett Kavanaugh hired another clerk from Yale who *just so happened* to spearheaded a campaign to defend Brett Kavanaugh. I'm sure that's just a coincidence. (by @ElieNYC )
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4 years
Harvard Law Tells Concerned Students To ‘Rent Office Space’ To Study During Online-Only Semester
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3 years
Oh Look, It’s A Former Biglaw Partner Hanging Out With Trump Before The Capitol Riot!
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2 years
If you’re a 3L wondering if you can practice law, just remember that these are the type of arguments happening in our highest court. You’ll be fine. - CW
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Again, the CORE of the Texas argument is that a STATE COURT will find Texas's own law unconstitutional... so somehow that means the Supreme Court should do nothing. It's just a goddamn RIDICULOUS argument.
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5 years
Thomas Farr’s Failure To Disenfranchise One Additional Black Man Sinks Nomination
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2 years
@MJSteilen Steve had bingo for the last 5 weeks and just kept getting snubbed - CW
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6 years
We've reached the intellectual nadir of @YaleLawSch 's clannish support for #Kavanaugh with @amychua calling him a "mentor for women" b/c he hired her own daughter, and 10 other people from Yale that she knows. (by @ElieNYC )
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2 years
Elon Musk Will Beat Twitter! WSJ Says It’s Obvious… Assuming You Change Every Single Fact And Law.
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6 years
Trump Ends Giuliani Week With Traditional Ceremony Under The Bus
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4 years
Bar Examiners Ask Applicants To Kindly Stop Being Diabetic For A Couple Days
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Roe v. Wade just got functionally overturned in Texas. Too somber to put a snarky twist on. - CW
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5 years
Hey look, it's "conservatives" overturning 40 years of precedent because... they have the votes now. It's gonna be a reoccurring feature of rule by @FedSoc (by @ElieNYC )
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5 years
Is the Cherokee Guns billboard targeting #TheSquad Constitutional? Well, yes, duh. But should it be? That's the debate between @ElieNYC and @Popehat
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8 years
Seriously. Of the dumb things that happened yesterday, this is the least dangerous.
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Melania plagiarism ultimately doesn't matter, but it drowns out the other convention fiascos from Monday to Trump's benefit.
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6 years
Wendy Vitter made the mistake of getting too close to the truth of the originalist position on segregation, without the polish of Scalia or Gorsuch. Brown is always the case that shows the moral bankruptcy of originalism (by @ElieNYC )
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5 years
Did you know that @AOC thought about going to law school, but was scared off by the high cost? Let's thank God she didn't go and did something meaningful with her life, instead of paying off debt for 30 years. (by @ElieNYC )
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5 years
Trump/McConnell nominee for a district judge is a 39yo who has only been out of law school for ten years whose main professional accomplishment was defending Brett Kavanaugh on TV. For life. (by @ElieNYC )
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6 years
Trump Proposes Ending The Crisis He Created By Creating Another Crisis. To be clear, the law does NOT require @realDonaldTrump to do what he's doing, but FORBIDS doing what he contemplates in his EO. (by @ElieNYC )
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6 years
Oh, so Rudy Giuliani wants to disparage how a woman makes her money. OK. I'll play. Let's take a look at Giuliani's *client list.* You tell me who is really willing to degrade themselves to make a buck. (by @ElieNYC )
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6 years
What did #Kavanaugh know about Alex Kozinski? What did he do to help? When will the media stop quoting his resume and start looking into it? (by @ElieNYC )
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2 years
Supreme Court Reform Has ‘Considerable Bipartisan Support’ And STILL No Chance Of Passing
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6 years
Details on the investigation into and the allegations against Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld. Maybe instead of defending Brett Kavanaugh, @YaleLawSch should focus on its compromised clerkship process? (by @ElieNYC )
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5 years
Justice Clarence Thomas has issues with his exhibit at the African-American History museum. But I bet he would like his plaque even less if I got to write it up. (by @ElieNYC )
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3 years
Another Biglaw Firm Withdraws From Election Litigation (No, Not Jones Day)
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6 years
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refers To Her Clerks’ Babies As Her ‘Grandclerks’ (by @stacizaretsky )
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5 years
The House actually passed a bill calling for an end to forced arbitration. This is a major legal reform bill that will... oh, Mitch McConnell still exists? Never mind. (by @ElieNYC )
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5 years
Just among us legal chickens, can we also talk about how @realDonaldTrump self-dealing on the G7 likely violates, you know, ALL THE LAWS about the awarding of government contracts? (by @ElieNYC )
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10 years
No-no-no NOTORIOUS: RBG's bench statement in #HobbyLobby is 19 pages long. http://t.co/DVoUCS3fpU http://t.co/gdskA10SJa
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6 years
Wow, 245 @TheJusticeDept alumni, many of them non-political, career officials, have signed a letter warning Trump not to fire Rosenstein/Mueller. This. Is. JUSTICE! (by @ElieNYC )
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4 years
#3 most read story of the week: If You Try To SLAPP John Oliver, You Best Not Miss by @ElieNYC
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4 years
Update on David Lat's condition: Lat's had "mild" improvements but he's "still very far from out of the woods."
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Star of legal drama marries British man.
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3 years
Law School Student Famous For Saying ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Now Has Prestigious Federal Clerkship
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2 years
Kennedy v. Bremerton is totally fair game, yup - CW
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5 years
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has cancerous growth removed. But she's fine. Everything is fine. Holidays are not ruined. America is not ruined. We're okay. (by @ElieNYC )
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5 years
People comparing @Kaepernick7 settlement deal with Jay-Z's business deal need to understand the law and the difference between being part of the solution versus part of the problem. (by @ElieNYC )
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We Need Someone Whose Job Is To Read The Cases
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4 years
Rudy Hires New Lawyers To Stand By Helplessly And Watch Him Admit To Crimes On Twitter
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Trump’s Outrageous Behavior Called Out By Federal Judge In RICO Case
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Associate General Counsel Was Part Of Yesterday’s Attempted Coup. He’s No Longer Associate General Counsel.
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Judge Sullivan Orders Post Office To Actually Deliver Any Ballots They’ve Got
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6 years
Welcome to #Law2020 , our multimedia exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technologies are transforming the legal profession. Presented by @thomsonreuters .
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2 years
‘Some Geniuses’ Crash And Burn As Supreme Court Mocks Texas Abortion Law
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6 years
That time when a white family called the cops on... whales. Whales swimming in the ocean. (by @ElieNYC )
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Over 7,000 Lawyers Sign Petition To Have Josh Hawley And Ted Cruz Disbarred
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Sovereign Citizens And QAnon Team Up To Birth New Stupid Legal Tactic
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6 years
Nobody is surprised by #RoyMoore 's lawsuit. To Republicans, ALL black vote is "fraudulent." (by @ElieNYC )
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5 years
Robert Mueller did not finish the job. Instead he left it to Congress to pursue the First Family, who he treated with kid gloves. (by @ElieNYC )
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5 years
Can we lawyers just talk among ourselves and agree that this stupid wall will NEVER be built because of eminent domain concerns? Like, I know it's not as "sexy" as some of the other reasons it'll never be built, but still. It's sufficient. (by @ElieNYC )
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6 years
Supreme Court confirms today that we are a nation of bigots. And that bigotry is ENTIRELY LEGAL, as long as white people can feign ignorance. (by @ElieNYC )
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Law School Professor Doesn’t Understand Twitter, Basic Legal Concepts
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6 years
Dear mainstream media: No lawyer does what Michael Cohen claims to have done for Donald Trump. It simply doesn't happen. MOB LAWYERS DON'T DO THAT! And if he did it's an ethics violation. (by @ElieNYC )
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3 years
This is like reading 'Exxon considers it may have an ecological footprint' via @ABC - CW
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5 years
The point of the MAGA teen's lawsuit can't actually be to win a defamation claim, right? It's to chill people from writing about MAGA teens. (by @ElieNYC )
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4 years
Wow, @AndrewYang is just like us... when it comes to running away, naked and screaming, from Biglaw. (by @ElieNYC )
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7 years
Like law school debt, I'll be yours forever. #LawValentine
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6 years
The best way to describe this is that someone tried to launch a Twitter Daubert challenge to lawyer, @NatsinNY , and it went real, real wrong. (by @ElieNYC )
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4 years
Biden Plan Spares Incomes Under $400,000, Taxes Corporations And The Super Rich, Lowers National Debt
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Alex Jones Unveils Strategy Of Calling Plaintiffs’ Counsel A ‘Little White Jewboy Jerkoff Son Of A Bitch’
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6 years
Have the elites who spent two months acting as character witnesses for a liar and alleged attempted rapist LEARNED anything? Or are they just going to make the same mistakes again? (By @ElieNYC )
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