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  1. What is the "coal-burner" reference? Does she like men in grey slacks?
  2. So I guess this demonstrates what a bunch of puds patent lawyers are but I had no idea there was a pm feature in there. But also, if I am taking the depo, I try hard to listen and ignore the instant transcript. And us patent types tended not to send more than one lawyer to a depo, and if we did the second one was pretty junior, ie cheap.
  3. Oh I am sure you'll find some tidbits but reading transcripts can be one of the dullest things known to man.
  4. For the record, that was not a forum-shop. Jack Smith chose the forum and, to his detriment, chose the single most unimpeachably not forum-shopped forum in the entire United States. I believe he could have filed anywhere in the Southern District of Florida, including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Key West and venue would have been legally correct, subject to Trump's motion to move it to Fort Pierce or West Palm Beach, which would not have been a slam dunk.
  5. Well a law student does have to apply for a clerkship, so it's voluntary. But I imagine those interested in clerkships that don't have a connection shoot them to all the judges in a city they want to work in. And would probably accept a clerkship with any judge that will have them. Albright probably gets a bunch of Baylor resumes by default. Some with patent litigation aspirations from wherever, but probably not many from Ivies. And, I don't imagine politics plays a huge role, maybe among FedSoc geekazoids, but not law students at large. A long time ago, I wandered the campus at Yale, including the law school. Not many or any district judge clerkships listed among the employment destinations of the graduating class. Quite a smattering of Court of Appeals and a handful of SCOTUS, but district court is slumming for them.
  6. Well, he worked for Baker Botts' Dallas office then that nutbar Christian outfit in Plano. And took a judicial assignment in Amarillo, where he'd be the only judge. So he's complicit as fuck. I hope the smell of feedlots nauseates him.
  7. The Georgia case was never going to be tried before the election. The Young Thug case has been in trial since November after 10 months of jury selection. Also, interlocutory appeals like this do not normally stay trial proceedings. It might here, it might not; that remains to be seen. But trial of this case before the election was never a realistic possibility.
  8. Good piece from Lawfare about what the NY prosecutors must prove: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-must-prosecutors-prove-in-trump-s-ny-trial
  9. There is a notion lurking somewhere in the law that certain criminal offenses may not apply to POTUS or other federal officials unless Congress makes that clear. The better view is that Congress knows how to exclude persons from the reach of criminal statutes, and unless it does so explicitly, did not so exclude.
  10. I didn't take a position. But, it appears that yes, the first amendment protects lies and disinformation. However, all she apparently did is post photos. Whether her status as a LEO diminishes her 1A protections, legally, I do not know. "Colorable" means, in lawdogtalk, facially plausible if not winning. Thus, the department was going to have to defend the suit at a cost likely exceeding the amount of settlement. Whether they would win or lose, not quite sure. Also, insurance, as you likely know, will insure a claim for X amount, say $1M. The amount they pay in attorneys fees defending reduces that payout. So, when, as appears to be the case here, insurance is paying the claim and the defense, they have nearly 100% say in whether to settle and for how much. Right and wrong tends to go out the window.
  11. Against a charge of perjury, absolutely. Against contempt of court, no.
  12. It's the cost of defense of the lawsuit. She apparently never entered the Capitol and was never criminally charged. Thus, she had a colorable claim of retaliatory discharge for exercising 1A rights.
  13. No need. https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-hush-money-trial-transcripts.html https://ww2.nycourts.gov/press/index.shtml You will find them stultifying.
  14. What a shitty article. Note all the weasel-words. It is highly unlikely that Trump or any other contemnor in NYC winds up at Rikers. Most courthouses have their own jail facilities for short-term incarcerations and to hold prisoners awaiting transport to and from court. And even if it was Rikers, there are several different facilities there of varying levels of security and violence. As a general proposition, most jails keep pretrial detainees separate from the convicted serving a sentence.
  15. Kind of the nature of the beast.
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