Pretty wild. April 30, 1968 - NYPD bust of Hamilton Hall protestors at Columbia University.

April 30, 2024 - NYPD bust of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University.
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Trump to TIME: Trump has sought to recast an insurrectionist riot as an act of patriotism. “I call them the J-6 patriots,” he says. When I ask whether he would consider pardoning every one of them, he says, “Yes, absolutely.”

While we focus on what SCOTUS means for Trump, we forget what Trump means for SCOTUS. If he wins, he could replace Thomas, Alito, and 40+ federal judges over 75 with young zealots.

Trump is the means to the end of an ongoing Federalist Society coup. That coup, in charts: 🧵

For the NY case I added some things to the diagram from Asha Rangappa.

One path to conviction:

AMI falsified their business records (crime 1) as part of swaying the election (crime 2) and Trump falsified his business records to conceal crime 2 (so felony crime 3).

Luttig: If a president cannot be held accountable under the constitution for having to attempted to overturn an election that he lost fair and square, remain in power, and all the while preventing the peaceful transfer of power, then that is to cut the heart and soul out of

What’s great about democracy is that everyone gets one vote, so I don’t have to base mine on your values. But thank you for the feedback!

This is one of the dumbest “gotcha” talking points. I don’t love the drone program — Obama actually lost my vote in 2012 for the Awlaki killing (I wrote in a candidate). But as a DOJ white paper later revealed, Awlaki was identified as a senior operational leader of al Qaeda

Which provision of the US Constitution expressly confers criminal immunity—much less absolute criminal immunity—upon the President of the United States?

If you’re an “originalist” or a “textualist,” no such provision exists.

In fact, the Impeachment Judgements Clause

BREAKING: Michigan executed new warrants against Chesebro 👀 cnn.com/2024/04/29/pol…

It's almost like if you give someone uncontested, unchecked power they're more likely to abuse it

If only there were some document that set in place institutions and procedures that would guard against authoritarianism

Also a court who could interpret that document for the ages

Asha Rangappa Alito: “What checks are there on rogue prosecutors charging former Presidents with crimes?”

Anyone with Brain: “Justice Alito, in addition to normal legal ethics required of lawyers, grand jury, petit jury, extremely high burden of proof, trial judge, appellate judges…1/

Today OAN has announced it is retracting a false story about my client Michael Cohen. This is a total vindication for Mr. Cohen -- and a warning: Mr. Cohen is telling the truth, and there will be legal consequences for those who lie about him.

See our full statement:

The combination of Presidential immunity with unlimited pardon power would create a constitutionally permissible dictatorship with the imprimatur of SCOTUS. Unchallengeable in the courts.

What don’t republicans get about that?

Or he can threaten to execute them for not following his illegal orders. It’s absurd.

Justice Alito & Co. parroted Trump and Fox News talking points that a rogue President isn't too worrisome because officials/military can simply refuse to do their bidding or they will be prosecuted. Except that POTUS can simply pardon them before leaving office, and of course

Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman, one of the so-called fake electors charged in the Arizona 2020 election subversion case, announced Saturday that he’s been elected as a Republican National Committee national committeeman for the state. cnn.com/2024/04/29/pol…

1. So what about that Ben Franklin quote that Trump's lawyer, John Sauer, read to the Supreme Court during the Supreme Court case on presidential immunity? Was it accurate? The words are fine, but Sauer's interpretation was deliberately misleading. Franklin would be horrified.

👇🏽Trump’s lawyer claimed that absolute immunity comes from the Vestiture Clause, which vests executive power in the President. By attempting to block the certification, he was preventing power from vesting in the newly-elected President, i.e., making the Constitution itself