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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
)
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
)
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
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.
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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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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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)
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
)