Tell It To The Appellate Division

It’s cute how conservatives just suddenly discovered these laws. https://t.co/9iv4REXLlT

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 29, 2024

Yeah, get Trump to pay lawyers to make that argument on appeal. He’s already sold a jet to get money for lawyers. What else does he got?

People keep harping on this but are missing the context. They have to be unanimous that Trump falsified the records and did so with the intent to commit another crime.

They do not have to be unanimous on what the other crime was: that’s the rule under NY law. https://t.co/jLdLU7a0g2

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 29, 2024

For clarity. But honestly, what do these Mama’s basement lawyers think they’re doing? Vying for Trump’s portable printer? (There are a lot of Constitutional scholars in replies insisting the statute or the charge, or both, are unconstitutional. Well, it is if a court says it is . Until then, it isn’t. (Or if the courts, as is more likely, have already said it isn’t.))

I know I repost it a lot, but legal Twitter really can be the fucking worst.

Now they have moved onto this other red herring.

Richardson dealt with a specific FEDERAL statute. Not a state crime.

The relevant case is Schad, in which SCOTUS upheld an AZ Supreme Court ruling stating: “Although a defendant is entitled to a unanimous jury verdict on whether… https://t.co/JreRJwpKwx

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 29, 2024

See?

And speaking of the fucking worst:

Alpha males blame their wives.

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 29, 2024

Three guesses who he’s referring to; first two don’t count.

Also talks about his wife being an independent person whose rights to make her own choices he respects.

Mind you, this is the author of the Dobbs opinion. https://t.co/fbH3mca8nT

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 29, 2024

Just so we’re all on the same page:

Justice Alito has sent a three page letter on his household’s flag practices to the Senate. He again blames his wife and says he won’t recuse himself from any cases. pic.twitter.com/3oFu1c08IP

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 29, 2024

Analysis: Alito portrays himself as so subordinate to his wife’s dominion that he won’t act to remove an insurrection flag he objects to from a flagpole at his house for days. But he also asserts no reasonable person could question his independence on insurrection matters.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 29, 2024

There was a time (Abe Fortas, hem-hem) when Supreme Court justices recognized the problem of damage to the institution. Alito’s attitude is “I’m on the Supreme Court, bitch! What the fuck you gonna do about it? I’ll recuse when I decide to recuse, and that’ll be half-past fuckin’ never! That work for you? Works for me just fuckin’ fine! Fuck all y’all if you don’t like it!”

And there’s not a damned thing Roberts can do about it. If he even wants to. Of which, BTW, there is no public evidence. Besides, Alito is preaching it round and square:

Justice Alito's insistence in his letters to Congress that he has an "obligation to sit" in the January 6 cases *because* the Code of Conduct says so is an interesting data point for those who have insisted that the Code doesn't impose *any* requirements on the justices.

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 29, 2024

Clearly it imposes the requirements the individual Justices want it to impose. In them, individually. Nice work if you can get it. (This effectively puts each Justice above every other branch of the government, for a lifetime. It’s beginning to be clear there’s a problem here.)

Completing our sojourn through BMoss’s Twitter feed:

This data shows Trump has rallied his base more than Biden has at this point.

Good for Trump for now but also leaves him less room to grow compared to Biden. https://t.co/7NKy94Lnbd

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 29, 2024

Q: Can Trump keep his base rallied until November?

A: if you thought that 5 hour summation by Steinglass was too long…(Shorter: “Signs point to ‘No.’”)