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Senior Legal Correspondent @FDRLST, Of Counsel @NCLALegal, ~25 yrs 7thCir law clerk, former full-time univ. faculty, Catholic conservative, wife to DH/mom to DS
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Mar 18 4 tweets 1 min read
I've found what appears to be one factual mistake in Judge "Solomon" Scott McAfee's opinion. 1/
documentcloud.org/documents/2448… 2/ Judge says "no evidence introduced" that Wade ever received permission to exceed 60 hour cap. BUT Image
Mar 10 4 tweets 1 min read
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Feb 29 31 tweets 8 min read
🚨🚨🚨THREAD on Hunter Biden's testimony, just released by @RepJamesComer. 1/ 2/ Here's the transcript.
Feb 27 5 tweets 2 min read
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Big win for @KenPaxtonTX on quorum clause case. Remedy is narrow & only strikes so-called Pregnant Workers Fairness Act but appalling blot on Dem.-controlled Congress who passed & President Biden who signed 1.7 trillion spending bill never constitutionally passed. 1/Image
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2/ I think I'm one of few who continued to cover b/c I realized strength of constitutional argument & significance. (thanks @FDRLST for backing me) Here's post-argument write-up: thefederalist.com/2024/01/22/con…
Feb 21 14 tweets 3 min read
🚨🚨🚨THREAD on latest re Smirnov: Completely at loss to understand what the hell Weiss is doing, other than CYA. There are 3 possibilities: (1) Smirnov was completely honest w/ his handler; (2) Smirnov is a foreign agent; or (3) Smirnov is a dishonest highly credible source.1/ 2/ As I wrote today, if #2, which seems to by Weiss' pitch, the Delaware U.S. Attorney's office basically gave a foreign agent--a Russian one at that per Weiss' filings--3 years to feed our IC/FBI misinformation b/c of desire to protect the Bidens. thefederalist.com/2024/02/21/dav…
Feb 19 8 tweets 2 min read
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2/ Thrilled to see them catch up, but come on, man. thefederalist.com/2023/10/23/joe…
Feb 16 5 tweets 1 min read
🔥🔥🔥THREADETTE: Yesterday something struck me as "off," but I only now had a chance now to relisten to the testimony to confirm. Check the 5:43:38 point from @RobGouveiaEsq video below & note Fani Willis volunteering she did NOT go to college with Robin Yeartie. Why would Fani make that point in response to a question of whether she knew Yeartie? 1/ 2/ ...because Yeartie testified she met Willis when she was in college. (1:00:00 mark). Note Yeartie didn't say she went to college with Willis, just that they met when she Yeartie was in college. Willis making a point that they didn't go to college together only
Feb 15 6 tweets 1 min read
THREADETTE on indictment of CHS behind 1023 implicating Bidens. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… 2/ If allegations are correct, the CHS lied his ass off and nothing in that FD1023 should be considered related to Biden family scandal.
Feb 10 9 tweets 2 min read
THREAD: Post re $VRTX cc @matthewherper @megtirrell. Because of DS's cystic fibrosis, we started following @VertexPharma some 14 years ago. This week Vertex announced results on next gen meds for CF but also for other. Here's transcript. 1/ fool.com/earnings/call-… 2/ investors.vrtx.com/static-files/d…
Feb 9 5 tweets 2 min read
THREADETTE: As @HansMahncke noted at the time, Biden's lawyers really spun the discovery as a "nothingburger" by framing it as "six items." 1/ 2/ Here's my take (crediting Hans of course): thefederalist.com/2023/01/23/dis…
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Feb 8 5 tweets 2 min read
So here's Hunter's email to Burisma:
1/ nypost.com/2023/01/25/sus…
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Jan 27 4 tweets 1 min read
So, doing a little mental exercise here. Could feds just start building a tent city on a ranchers property? No. That property is the state or city government's doesn't matter. What if an emergency? Hmm, well there's "necessity," under tort law, and post-deprev. proceedings 1/ 2/ sometimes, "excuse" the lack of due process before, and if a "Taking," then need just compensation....But at least from latest, feds are presenting different argument: We own the property or have an easement over the property. "Self-help" isn't typically allowed in those
Jan 17 11 tweets 2 min read
🚨🚨🚨THREAD: Some quick hot takes on the Chevron arguments (notes for myself too!).
1/ Ridiculous whipsaw: Left Justices--Chevron never arises, it's nothing, it's really only a rare tie breaker. Biden Administration: Overruling Chevron will destroy our Republic. 2/ Oh the humility...Kagan (I think) frames overruling Chevron as proving the Court is a bunch of right-wing fanatics with no humility. Backfires totally, when humility means admitting you are wrong is raised with Scalia as example.
Dec 28, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
THREADETTE: I'm working on a lawsplainer re section 1512(c), which is basis for 2 of counts Smith brought against Trump. As many already know, Supreme Court has granted cert. to decide scope of that section in J6 case. Two quick points: 1/ 2/ First, having reviewed briefs & key cases, I'm 95% sure Supreme Court majority will hold section 1512(c) does not criminalize conduct charged against J6 or Trump; 2) I'm 99.9% sure S.Ct. grant of cert in Fischer case will keep Trump's trial from proceeding pre-decision.
Dec 8, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Indictment of Hunter Biden on tax charges. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… 2/ LOL. At least Hunter was planning for retirement...Joe's...contributing $50K to a Roth IRA. Image
Nov 4, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
In the context of the Israel-Hamas war, "free Palestine" has no meaning. Hamas, which was elected to govern Gaza, committed an act of war (and of terrorism) against Israel, and that is the war Israel is fighting. 1/ 2/ Not some hypothetical war against a hypothetical enemy...but a war against Hamas.
Oct 20, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
THREAD! Americore scandal has been overlooked by many! BUT! 1/ 2/ ...not me. (You know the GIF). Here's me noting Americore is one of the scandals to watch in 2023. thefederalist.com/2023/01/03/10-…
Sep 29, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
THREAD: This is frickin' NUTS. 1/documentcloud.org/documents/2399… 2/ Here's your background: thefederalist.com/2023/09/25/jud…
Sep 27, 2023 16 tweets 5 min read
THREAD: So adding a few thoughts of what jumps out to me here. This reference to $5 is interesting.
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Sep 14, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
THREADETE: Here's the gun indictment against Hunter. You'll note it is filed in the docket that as I previously noted had NOT been closed. As @McAdooGordon highlighted that keeps case in b/f same judge. Few thoughts on charges. 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… 2/ Weiss, at least so far, is not pulling punches on gun charges, as he indicts on 3 counts not merely one that was part of pretrial diversion agreement. That really was gift b/c it only alleged possessing gun as drug addict which is a constitutionally suspect crime.
Sep 5, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
🚨🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE: Thanks so @OversightPR of @Heritage FOIA lawsuit against DOJ we now know FBI's lies @nytimes peddled that FD-1023 was Giuliani disinformation were spoonfed to Weiss! @FDRLST 1/thefederalist.com/2023/09/05/exc… 2/ Some key points: Weiss was NOT in meeting when Delaware briefed on FD-1023. Nor were IRS whistleblowers who only first learned of FD-1023 after separate whistleblower alerted Grassley to FD-1023.