You have no idea what you are talking about. https://t.co/rATEDD3i9c— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) May 27, 2020
No, I can't lip sync to Jarrett's tweet, but the "father" of this tweet is:
Judge in Flynn case hired an attorney to represent him in appeals court review of his actions. This is not allowed because Judge Sullivan is not a party or respondent. He is not entitled to have counsel make an appearance. The circuit court ordered Sullivan himself to respond.— Gregg Jarrett (@GreggJarrett) May 24, 2020
And the only proper response is: the appellate panel didn't text Judge Sullivan "Call me."
"Respond" in this context has a specific meaning, and it means: submit a brief with your legal argument. Sullivan is not required to write that brief himself, nor to have a law clerk do it for him. And if Sullivan did something wrong in responding, the appellate panel would deal with it. Except Sullivan isn't that stupid.
Jarrett is, though.
A person who is ignorant of legal matters is always liable to make mistakes when he tries to photograph a court scene with his pen; and so I was not willing to let the law chapters in this book go to press without first subjecting them to rigid and exhausting revision and correction by a trained barrister—if that is what they are called.
ReplyDeleteMark Twain: A Whisper To The Reader, from The Tragedy of Puddin'head Wilson
Thought you might enjoy this.
Oops, didn't copy the whole paragraph as I'd intended Twain continued:
ReplyDeleteThese chapters are right, now, in every detail, for they were rewritten under the immediate eye of William Hicks, who studied law part of a while in southwest Missouri thirty-five years ago and then came over here to Florence for his health and is still helping for exercise and board in Macaroni Vermicelli’s horse-feed shed which is up the back alley as you turn around the corner out of the Piazza del Duomo just beyond the house where that stone that Dante used to sit on six hundred years ago is let into the wall 16when he let on to be watching them build Giotto’s campanile and yet always got tired looking as soon as Beatrice passed along on her way to get a chunk of chestnut cake to defend herself with in case of a Ghibelline outbreak before she got to school, at the same old stand where they sell the same old cake to this day and it is just as light and good as it was then, too, and this is not flattery, far from it. He was a little rusty on his law, but he rubbed up for this book, and those two or three legal chapters are right and straight, now. He told me so himself.