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Richard Kalish

4 years

“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” --Franklin D. Roosevelt

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2 years

@JanuaryEmily I'm a lawyer and write for a living. I understand the rule but don't like it. To me, the material quoted, and nothing but the material quoted, should be within the quotation marks. Otherwise, doesn't the quotation misstate the material being quoted?

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@AfricanArchives It’s a fact that Whites are blind to White privilege and are surprised, even shocked, when they discover it.

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@BlackKnight10k Conservatives have an undeserved reputation for responsibility and stability, a reputation they created to mask the avarice they share with their true constituents, the wealthy.

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Richard Kalish

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4 months

@JohnJHarwood You can call her "ideological leftist," but what I've seen is that she is serious about Congress being an instrument to improve and protect the lives of Americans--all Americans, not just the wealthy who donate to benefit their private interests.

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1 year

@PopularLiberal Of all those mentioned, only one—Cannon—was found by an appeals court to have made improper decisions that actually were biased, but in favor of Trump. If Republicans oppose judicial bias, shouldn’t they start with Cannon?

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8 months

@PrezLives2022 Once having made an appearance in court on behalf of a client, the lawyer cannot withdraw or be fired without leave (meaning permission) from the court. Normally, the judge will not allow withdrawal without a compelling reason if it would delay the trial.

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1 year

@harrylitman Chutkan is smart and experienced. Cannon's lack of experience prevents her from effectively managing the documents case even if she were not biased for Trump. Allowing Cannon to try that case is like letting someone who just received a learners permit drive the school bus.

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2 years

@KevinMcCaff @bresla_linda "Miles" are something the airlines make up, literally out of thin air, and assign a value. If they decide the miles expire, they erase the value. They can declare the existence of as many miles as they want and donate them to Ukraine. They don't need the help of customers.

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2 years

@gtconway3d Russia is going to get brutal on a much larger scale. At some point more than providing equipment and intelligence will be needed to help effectively. The US will face some tough decisions.

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8 months

@KatiePhang Suddenly Cannon is in a big hurry and on Friday requires documents to be turned over to Trump no later than Saturday.

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9 months

@TomJChicago What is "core" political, or any, speech? We've all heard the tape. I can't think of any way that call can be characterized as an exercise of free speech any more than would this could: "Nice career you have there; it would be a shame if something happened to it."

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@marlene4719 He shows up in a motorcade with lights flashing and Secret Service clearing the way for him. Imagine how we would feel if John Gotti had Secret Service protection while he operated his crime empire. Absolutely disgusting.

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5 months

@glennkirschner2 Why is Trump given yet another 7 days to post a valid bond? He's had ample time to post a bond and failed. Time should have expired.

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3 years

@JoJoFromJerz @AdamParkhomenko For centuries, the Russian rulers have used their people to fight their wars, to build their opulent monuments, and otherwise treated their people as completely disposable. That's what my grandfather came to the U.S. to escape.

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3 years

@tribelaw Reminds me of the FIFA financial scandal, where one morning defendants on multiple continents were rounded up, arrested and charged. Something like that is needed here. We and our country are all victims and are entitled to see justice done.

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3 years

@B52Malmet Not counting, of course, the 2,000+ Americans who die each day.

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2 months

@joshtpm @snitstwits @TPM Isn’t this the look and feel of fascism, to change one’s behavior out of fear? If Trump the candidate has this effect on the media, just imagine how the media will cower before Trump the president.

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2 months

@secupp This is what and who the Republicans have been for decades. Their constituents are wealthy businesses and individuals, and their agenda is to protect their wealth & make them richer. What can they campaign on other than lies? If they were truthful, who would vote for them?

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5 years

@gtconway3d Mulvaney claimed Doral was selected because it emerged from "an exhaustive search" as the "perfect" site. Instead of beginning the search for another site, why don't they just select the site that came in second in the "exhaustive search"?

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1 year

@gtconway3d One of the features of our vaunted legal system is that criminals don’t dictate the terms for how they’re held accountable.

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11 months

@PoliticusSarah What nonsense. The Democrats are voting for their preference for Speaker, Hakim Jeffries. I only five of the Republicans who did not vote for Jordan would vote for Jeffries, there would be a new Speaker. Why don't Republicans step up?

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11 months

We might not like it, but it’s a fact that we, including the media, should stop denying or overlooking: The Republicans Party has become a fascist movement.

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Anyone who thinks a Republican candidate other than Trump would be a return to normalcy is fooling themselves. Trump didn't turn fascist just this year. He's always been that way. And they all supported him.

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Richard Kalish

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1 year

@davidaxelrod This is how John F. Kennedy ended his inaugural address: "[L]et us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."

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@Lawrence Compare with Trump’s constant gibberish, his inability to put together comprehensible statements or even written narratives. Media should be making this distinction rather than constantly hammering on Biden’s age without even mentioning Trump, whose age is about the same.

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8 months

@JoyceWhiteVance She knows that once he starts talking he will defy anyone who tries to stop him. I've known federal judges who wouldn't hesitate to jail him if he did that in their court.

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@stengel Commentators have been begging the media to do their job and have shown the media very clearly what they must do. Nevertheless the media report the Trump fascists as though they are a normal political party & the media have no idea what Trump is up to.

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3 years

@gtconway3d Trump at least learned they’re not his justices and it’s not his court.

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11 months

@lawofruby If Trump has something say about issues in the case, the jury should hear it from the witness stand under oath, and the jury should hear him cross-examined. No more testifying outside of court and not subject to cross-examination.

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4 months

@JRubinBlogger Trump is a total mob boss. Like every mob boss, he sees anyone who stands in his way as having no right to be there.

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2 years

@B52Malmet It’s not unprecedented to prosecute a person for stealing documents containing highly sensitive government secrets.

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1 year

@davidgura @LynneleeRevis @SenTuberville @BloombergTV The more Tuberville talked, the more disgusted were his words. I had to stop listening. What he said was sickening.

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3 years

@NUMBCat9 @selectedwisdom The real quandary here seems to be either you poke the bear or you hand the world over to it. At some point, Putin has to be stopped, which won’t happen if only zero risk is acceptable. Of course, this just restates but doesn’t answer the question.

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1 year

@BeschlossDC @ItWasACoup Huddled with their lawyers planning strategies for their defense.

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@AWeissmann_ I've written many confidentiality agreements. They *always* have an exception for when disclosure is required by subpoena. Weisselberg's agreement is void as against public policy. If kept from the jury, this outright criminality will succeed.

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2 years

@gtconway3d I hope it matters. Trump was on the Access Hollywood tape with no consequences. Nothing negative seems to penetrate MAGA World. The answer is to get these people in a courtroom and see them convicted and sentenced. Those are consequences they will not escape.

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@PrezLives2022 Beats me. When I clerked for a federal judge, lawyers had to file a motion to withdraw as counsel, and that motion would sometimes be denied. Once a lawyer makes an appearance on behalf of a client, they can withdraw only with leave of court.

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3 years

@SouthPoint1000 @BillKristol I love this comment. If I weren't already following you, I would now. The Court's role is to review constitutionality; instead, they chose to legislate according to their ideological preference.

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@eorden The clerk’s job is to advise the judge. Notes to the judge on the bench are appropriate. I used them when I clerked.

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@JoJoFromJerz @RonFilipkowski Great line from someone (forgot who) on Twitter this morning: "I’m starting to think the only person Trump ever hired who was actually qualified to do her job was Stormy Daniels."

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@BrainFood4any1 @RpsAgainstTrump Left unsaid of #2 is that because NATO has no payment requirement, Trump will determine in his personal judgment whether a country that is attacked has paid enough. We know he'll do what Putin tells him to do.

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3 years

@SRuhle @NBCNews @MSNBC @11thHour I hope you become the permanent anchor of 11th Hour. You are the only anchor who insists that guests answer you questions and doesn't move on until they do. No one else says, "You didn't answer the question." I really appreciate it!

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2 years

@SethAbramson The media know what you know but are afraid--yes, afraid--that reporting it will be attacked by the right as "taking sides" against "conservatives". They're fascists, not conservatives, and the media's fear is materially aiding and abetting fascism.

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@lawofruby Why on earth is it so important for Trump to insult the law clerk? I was a law clerk to a federal judge. Anyone who insulted me would be wasting their time and would accomplish absolutely nothing.

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1 year

@igorbobic Republicans wouldn’t allow a temporary replacement for Feinstein on the Judiciary Comm. when she was in the hospital. Republicans always—always—use every available power to the fullest extent possible. Democrats willingly allow themselves to be handcuffed by norms.

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5 months

@OurShallowState No one speaks in any courtroom in America unless given permission by the judge. Trump will be treated like every other person in the courtroom. What's the problem?

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4 years

@palazzo214 @kaitlancollins Real court means a real jury and real judge, rules of evidence, careful and meticulous trial preparation based on investigations aided by subpoenas that will be enforced, jury instructions the jury can be expected to apply. Result: Justice.

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2 years

@OJChristensen @JanuaryEmily Putting material within quotation marks that does not appear in the original is a misrepresentation. I can’t make misrepresentations to the court or other counsel. That’s my rule.

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1 year

@OurShallowState The Trump family seems to have no existence outside of their own sense of victimhood.

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5 months

@OurShallowState @richsignorelli For 50 years, Trump has been unimpeded in playing exclusively by his own rules. Weeks of sitting in the courtroom with no one fawning over him, no one catering to his needs, and being forced to comply with the judge's rules, orders, and schedule are bound to take a toll.

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@leghorn1357 And they and others, a large number, all have worked overtime to shield themselves from testifying. This fraud against the U.S. just might be the largest conspiracy in U.S. history. Just like in Watergate, the whole lot of them should go to prison.

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Richard Kalish

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3 years

@McFaul Nice thought. But didn’t we learn from the experience with Khashoggi, that if Navalny dies in custody, the world will impose no consequences on Putin and will move on and conduct its business as though Navalny never existed?

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@OurShallowState They won't and they can't for reasons no one has been able to explain. Dan Pfeiffer takes a good whack at this today: "The general tone of 2024 political coverage is that everything is bad news for Biden and nothing hurts Trump."

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2 years

@DanRather I don't like getting shots. I'm glad I am vaccinated against polio, shingles, and many other diseases that can impair my life. Staying healthy isn't always fun. The alternative is worse.

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@OurShallowState How many times has he made such an announcement, only to get media attention and use the occasion for some other purpose? The media should either expose him or ignore him. Instead, they promote him by letting themselves be used time and again.

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4 months

@JoyceWhiteVance They wouldn’t pull this garbage in Trump’s other cases. They know Canon will buy into any fantasy scenario they weave. Replacing her is the only way to restore justice to this proceeding.

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7 months

@TomJChicago Please post a list of media covering this phenomenon. I haven't seen it except in non-mainstream publications.

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2 years

@DearAuntCrabby @RudyGiuliani "We" don't need TFG back, but Rudy does because receiving a pardon is his only chance of staying or getting out of the slammer. TFG, though, might withhold a pardon to punish Rudy for his bad advice, incompetence, and uninterrupted string of legal failures.

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2 years

@LauriBrenner @Out5p0ken Shouldn’t #3 say this: “Helping the poor is wrong. Being poor is their own fault, and if you help them they’ll never learn.”

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@marlene4719 “Played it down”? No. Those are his words that keep getting repeated. He didn’t “play it down”. He lied and his lies caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

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@TomJChicago I laughed when I read this because I’ve lost count of how many reports of “knockout punches” I’ve read. Anyone else would have negotiated a plea. Can’t wait for the trial.

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@steve_vladeck I'm sorry, but I'm not surprised. I have long believed the Republican Party is a criminal enterprise dedicated to power and with no core beliefs. They are essentially in the same industry as Putin but on a different scale.

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7 years

@NBCPolitics That doesn’t speak well for Iowa.

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@DamicoCm I don’t and probably never will understand why so many people are attracted to him rather than having this reaction.

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@lawofruby The origin and scope of the relationship are irrelevant to the legal standard: Did she receive a financial benefit. Since Georgia law allows husbands and wives to be on the same side and even opposite sides of a criminal case, the mere fact of relationship is not relevant.

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@Sifill_LDF @KevinMKruse My son worked in a restaurant. He overheard a father tell his son to do well in school or he'll end out like "him" (my son). That same day my son received notification of a Fulbright Grant to study Ibsen at the Center for Ibsen Studies in Norway. Work is honorable.

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@richsignorelli Having anyone like one of my tweets is kind of cool.

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@HC_Richardson Answer 1: Ayn Rand. Poor people are on their own. Answer 2: Their constituents don't want to pay for other people's insulin.

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@DGreen4Life @PrezLives2022 Possibly, but judges sometimes deny the requests for the purpose of protecting the integrity of the proceeding.

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@MarkJacob16 NYU historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s accounts in “Strongmen” of the rise of fascism in Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere are chillingly similar to what’s taking place here.

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2 years

@TravisAllen02 @duty2warn They make stuff up, which has the effect they want, and listing facts in response accomplishes nothing whatsoever. I don't know how, but their model of making things up has to be exposed and delegitimized so the response can be "There you go again, making stuff up."

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@CAKitchener Say goodbye to the filibuster the minute Republicans need to enact this ban with a simple majority.

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@duty2warn What they're thinking now is that their strategy is effective and working and that they're on the verge of taking complete power in the country.

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@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar Undermining Biden and the Dems in every way is more important to these people than the security of the U.S. and the world. Power is their Holy Grail, worth risking everything and anything for. The only reality they know is the one they create to further their goal of power.

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@PrezLives2022 Isn't the path they're counting on voter suppression and intimidation, gerrymandering, massive voter disinformation, and other methods of manipulating the outcome of the Electoral College?

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@DanielMillerEsq Why are the media so unconcerned that their focus is entirely on peripheral matters?

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@FrankFigliuzzi1 Excuse me for being cynical. No revelation has ever moved the needle. I'm doubtful there will be any consequences whatsoever until DOJ indictments are followed by trials and convictions.

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@WajahatAli True, except there is no sense in which today’s Republican Party is a conservative movement. Their focused quest for complete power without an agenda related to the welfare of the American public is an outright fascist movement.

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@lawofruby The purpose of the appeal bond is to protect the judgment creditor, not to show mercy for the judgment debtor. Posting less than the full amount of the judgment, including interest accruing during the appeal, would leave the judgment creditor unsecured and unprotected.

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@caslernoel It’s shocking that anyone believes he’s entitled to any of the courtesies afforded other former presidents rather than be treated like any other indicted defendant.

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@TeamPelosi @BeSeeForPeace Biden is delivering despite a Republican Party whose agenda is devoted solely to making him fail. Just imagine how he could benefit American workers and their families if he had a cooperative Congress!

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@tribelaw Yes, but political reporters seem to work overtime to make a name for themselves by finding and writing about any stumble, error, or weakness they can find. Doesn't this create in the public mind an aura of ineffectiveness rather than the reality of Biden's successes?

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@NormOrnstein What did she “accomplish” that benefited the American people in any way?

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It is mindbendingly bizarre that Mark Jacob's characterization reads every bit like fictional hyperbole but is literally true. Doesn't it leave you with the feeling of taking off the special glasses at a 3D movie and finding out the characters really are leaping from the screen?

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An entire political party is slavishly devoted to a treasonous sociopath who would trash every American value that gives the world hope. We have 6 months to stop Trump from killing our country. Please get involved.

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@drdave1999 Failing to comply with an order of the court is contempt. Congress makes the rules, and judges issue orders in accordance with those rules. Defendants don't make rules; they obey the court's orders or face the consequences.

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@rainnwilson Gasp! They even tell us what we can do with our own children in our own cars. "Florida law requires children age 5 and under to be secured properly in a crash-tested, federally approved child restraint device."

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@duty2warn I've practiced law nearly 50 years and am just now learning that, to my surprise, complying with a subpoena is optional.

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@jayrosen_nyu The WHCD strikes me as a Davos-level celebration of access journalism, where the people in journalism and in government come together and bond in the realization that "Actually, we're all in the same business." Doesn't this bond undermine the journalists' mission?.

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@BeschlossDC Hopefully one of those sealed indictments in D.C. has Jordan's name on it.

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@MarkJacob16 Just the kind of person they’re looking for. They want soldiers in their effort to achieve power, not leaders who are harder to control. They don’t want another Romney.

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@MarkJacob16 What position would WaPo take if they recognized the reality that Republicans in the House are a fascist movement to seize and hold control of government?

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@BettyBowers Actually it is one of the most dangerous things in jurisprudence. Courts have authority because orders are obeyed. Dictators ignore court rulings, then place sycophants on the court and control the rulings. Ignoring a court ruling is contempt. He should be jailed if he disobeys.

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@sbg1 Republicans are untethered to reality in how they seek votes. No lie is out of bounds if it will fetch votes. Do other democracies suffer from this?

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@SocialistBowden I had a tumor in my spine wrapped around a root nerve. Operating under a microscope and tediously freeing the affected nerves, a neurosurgeon at U.C. San Francisco successfully removed the tumor. Might be worth looking into.

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@MarkJacob16 Indicting anyone who committed a crime is a good precedent. Fani Willis believes that and is proceeding to uncover and follow the evidence and present it to a grand jury. This precedent is so important it is inscribed on the Supreme Court building: "Equal Justice Under Law".

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@brianklaas The Republican Party has decided to be a criminal enterprise, dropping the pretense that they are a political party.

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@cjane87 This is sickening. What’s even more sickening is that the incidents caught on camera are the tip of a vast iceberg of systemic abuse of Black people. I’m Jewish, and I don’t use this word thoughtlessly or lightly, but this is our country’s Holocaust we have to face.

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@AWeissmann_ That's exactly what knowledgeable people said about Garland. I'm disappointed in the delay, but hopefully this will all land right.

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@UROCKlive1 @MysterySolvent Isn't it what they hope will happen? Do you suppose they carry these weapons hoping they won't have to use them? Or fantasizing that they will get to use them?

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@KatiePhang If this record does not support imposing the maximum sentence, please explain the purpose of having a maximum and under what circumstances imposing the maximum would ever be justified.

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