https://mobile.twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1275866323332091907
True… 
BIG MAC & FRIES!
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Also, the War of 1812 was not the 1,812th war
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Which law school?
Fyp
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CAGNEY & LACEY
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More like a paternity test, am I right Nestor?
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Dude has been pushing this for a month and has dropped like 5%. This is the sort of persistent chicken fucking one rarely observes.
Really shoring up Mississippi. You go Donald!
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Sort of like persistently defending our current legal system as being up the the challenge of protecting and preserving the rule of law?
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I don’t think this is fair. The lawbros get a lot of grief around here. I think too much.
The legal system isn’t some inherent feature of a democracy. It’s simply a serious of rules, processes and repercussions.
The thing people forget is a significant portion of the what we think of as the legal system isn’t codified in the law. It’s just norms. We have all just agreed to accept them.
I think of Trump like the coronavirus. Like our immune system, democracy has some built in defences. However. Trump is a brand new threat the system has never encountered. He simply tossed aside the entire norms part of the system. It’s not designed for that. Like Covid it will take some time, and the development of new defences, to prevent the next infection.
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I remember when the SCOTUS was dunking all over Trump. Last week.
Ordering Flynn released isn’t even inconsistent with the rule of law. It was bizarre in the first place for the judge to not rubber stamp the dismissal.
https://mobile.twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1275881031569215488
https://mobile.twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1275877809739759618
Yeah, I’m certainly not team LawBro, but I just got done yelling to my wife about this (she put on headphones 1/3rd of the way through, and had a pleasant smile on her face the rest of my rant).
The GOP has learned that they don’t have to follow rules and norms, and there are no consequences for not doing so–in fact, the only danger to them is getting primaried by Tea Partiers and more extreme deplorables if they follow norms.
What is the purpose of these hearings, besides getting some things into the public record?
If Nadler removes the disrupters and no-maskers, then that becomes the story of the hearings, and the testimony of these officials drops from 15 seconds of air time on the nightly news to zero.
The group most willing to follow rules and norms will always be at a disadvantage to the group not bound by them. What will happen the next time the GOP takes the house? They’ll have AOC removed from every hearing, and their reason will be “you did it to us.”
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I’m more concerned with the DOJ persecuting people with threats of 10 years in prison for graffiti and stuff like that than whatever they do with Michael Flynn. How about fixing those laws Congress?
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I’m particularly amused by the Lawbro line that the “rule of law is under attack.” Motherfuckers, we straight up live in a banana republic. The rule of law is long gone. And where were you in 2000 when the Supreme Court straight up stole the fucking election?
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Nunes still out there pursuing legal remedies proves the rule of law is not dead. Just ask the cow.
https://twitter.com/DevinCow/status/1275869421408415744?s=19
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The Supreme Court did not steal the 2000 election.
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post better
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