Richard Donelan
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Principal Senior Assistant Special Counsel (Ret’d). Historian manqué, WWII and Cold War. Red Sox fan. Gator fan. Practicing Utilitarian.
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@jaxs_talks
@shannonrwatts
Undisguised sadists talk like that. This is a dangerous person who should not be entrusted with authority.
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@Angry_Staffer
How does a man grow to the ripe old age of 77 and learn absolutely nothing about how the world works?
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@HelenDA48177399
@KSergatskova
@nickreeves9876
This tactic was used by the Japanese in WWIi island fighting. The net result is that no prisoners are taken when a white flag is shown by the enemy.
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@MariaGiner5
@LynnSharig8
Stefanik maneuvered to replace Cheney in the GOP leadership. Looks like she’s maneuvering to replace McCarthy as well.
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@Scout_Finch
@GTSuv
Hawley excels at the favorite GOP blood sport: Do As I Say But Not As I Do.
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@TheRickWilson
Hats off to you and the compadres of the Project. You’ve captured the tragicomic methane emissions of Fox News—it’s a dirty job but someone did it very well indeed.
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@iheartlouie13
@tburages
Spot on. Same with Strzok. Both dedicated defenders of America against the Russkis.
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@RonFilipkowski
@lesleyabravanel
The NYPD weighed Trump at 270 lbs today. Aren’t you sorry you lied about his weight, Admiral Doctor?
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@wesbeal
@RobertMaguire_
It is Insurrection Act. He’s being advised by someone to invoke it. And then to declare martial law if anyone resists Trump staying in office. This is coup material—from the My Pillow Guy? Lindell is not the author of this shit.
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@RepThomasMassie
@goinglike60
Massie, your two engineering degrees from MIT apparently.cancelled each other out. Go oppress poor Kentuckians like you usually do.
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@Exinfantrygrun1
@NatSecMulligan
The same stunt was pulled on the day Trump staged a dog/pony show to celebrate his non-divestiture of his ownership of the Trump Organization: stacks of binders full of blank paper.
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@jonathanvswan
I , for one, would not want a 6'8" prosecutor from NJ after my . . . assets.
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@OliviaTroye
@humanssuck12
DeSantis has his statement ready. He will issue it as soon as he finishes his pudding.
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@jmontforttx
DeSantis approval of permitless carry in Florida will ensure this sort of thing is normalized. Children are sacrificed daily on the altar of Moloch 2A.
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@BoutrousTed
@ecrire831
@maddow
Barr has been running unlawful interference for Trump since Valentines Day. He has now asked Trump to assert executive privilege over a document already being distributed on the DOJ website.
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@SageRobinson
@PhyllisTotri
@williamlegate
@RobAnderson2018
Does his hunger have deep roots in American history?
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@historianess
Molly Ivins famously called Texas “the national laboratory for bad government.” The ERCOT grid fiasco is more evidence of the continuing accuracy of her characterization.
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@willsommer
They were withholding payment until the bus company provided proof that Ukraine had the DNC server after all.
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@MarshallCohen
There is a criminal conspiracy under way to wreck the USPS. DeJoy is in it up to his neck.
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@MalcolmNance
Hitler required a personal oath if fealty from every soldier and public official.
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@MacFarlaneNews
Bauer is asserting standard “sovereign citizen” tropes. She claims the court has no jurisdiction over her, but only her “vessel” because she is not a legal construct but a “live person” who can’t be sued. It is, of course, nonsense.
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Bad news from Down Under
We just had the solar eclipse here in Australia. There’s no one left. For the love of god save yourselves.
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@Tom_Winter
@Robinindfw
Does it not appear that Abbott et al. went to Uvalde to create a false narrative of law enforcement heroism to win the news cycle? And blunt the truth that the killer was left to rampage in the school for 40 minutes or more because of incompetence or cowardice by police?
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What Judge Luttig says in this thread is true. One man—with the help of those who finance him—is destroying the American justice system before our eyes.
The Nation is witnessing the determined delegitimization of both its Federal and State judiciaries and the systematic dismantling of its system of justice and Rule of Law by a single man – the former President of the United States.
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@TimOBrien
Mr. Cobb had the experience—not unknown to lawyers—of trying to be a good lawyer for a bad man.
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@Deborah76744875
@JoJoFromJerz
The most monstrous aspect of the Alito draft is that it uses 98 pages of pretextual, baseless legal argument to strip Americans of their personal freedom as no Court in American history has ever done before.
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@mattskubeCTV
@beyerstein
@ctvottawa
It is tragic that the “American disease” of senseless gun violence is infecting Canada now.
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@Debra77resist
@ChrisA0213
@angeleyez407
@HeraldTribune
My thought exactly. Trump always leaves a patsy to take the fall.
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Neil’s the Anti-Clapton
Neil Young calls covid-era concerts “super-spreader events”
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@ladyblu3004
@JoyceWhiteVance
Chauvin intended to kill Floyd and did. His gutless police compadres were accessories to murder who did nothing to stop the murder, and who actively sought to shield it from view.
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@DouglasEmhoff
@SecondGentleman
Doug, you’re a mensch! Thanks for showing the world how non-toxic masculinity works. Best of luck to you on the adventure that awaits the First Second Gentleman!
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@spincity615
@atrupar
@RepSwalwell
She is spouting a despicable fall back position—that an abortion of a raped 10 year old is not an “abortion” within the meaning of Ohio’s blanket prohibition of “abortions.” This is the worst sort of sophistry.
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@witch_november
@jmreycroft
@flexghost1
The video shown today showing numerous heavily armed police from a variety of agencies aimlessly milling around the crime scene yesterday did not inspire confidence.
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@clearing_fog
The “prayer” is the legal paragraph known as a “prayer for relief” at the end of a complaint or other pleading that summarizes what relief the plaintiff seeks from the tribunal. Here it’s addressed to the impeachment tribunal, the Texas Senate.
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@Ledermand
@PhyllisTotri
@SDISBEAUTIFUL1
@DrGJackBrown
It is a tribute to her cult upbringing that Barrett considers women *like herself* as nothing but reproductive instruments of the patriarchy whose values she has internalized.
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@electroboyusa
@MichaellMeister
In the immortal words of Warren Zevon: “Send lawyers, guns, and money. The shit has hit the fan.”
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@WPLGLocal10
DeSantis has been publically crowing about how there are now more registered Republicans than Democrats in Florida. Sounds like he’s in on the GOP party change op.
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@JoeReynolds2020
@Phil_Lewis_
@TheValuesVoter
Second graders were old enough to use the “White” or “Colored” drinking fountains and bathrooms—as required by law not so very long ago. And if DeSantis has his way, maybe soon—again.
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@HelenKennedy
@UrbanAchievr
The technical term is “running dogs of the capitalist imperialist aggressors.”
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@awedandflawed
@ChristopherJM
If they had surrendered, they probably would have been killed anyway. May their memory be a blessing.
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@cliffschecter
@atrupar
You could also argue that the countries Putin attacked were part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with at least as much historicity. Someone not on the Russki payroll should explain “that was then, this is now” to the self-certified ophthalmologist.
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@Acyn
@K8TDidToo
“Our Pennsylvania case is promising to humiliate both clients and counsel.”
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@phd9
@Tom_Winter
Not just cops— the entire elected Republican leadership of Texas, including the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor (head of the Texas Legislature), and the Attorney General. A fraud has been committed on the people of Texas by its supposed guardians to cover up their own failures.
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@eileen2315
@ecclesias
@BChappatta
As well as the first rule of the effective witness: don’t spar with the lawyer doing your cross-x.
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@peteroliphant2
@Gbaxta
@darcyjamesargue
@fwobthree
@bentaub91
The Pinto had a catastrophic fundamental design flaw. The 737 Max was sold with a fundamental Boeing greed flaw.
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@Dewterium2
@Angry_Staffer
She is a “stenomask” verbatim reporter. This requires her to repeat everything said into her tape recorder via the mask. This is not easy to do.
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@agentcurieuse
@UROCKlive1
@PaulCogan
Comey called Rosenstein “a survivor.” To anyone who has ever been a government lawyer, this was not a compliment.
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@rsoxPNW
@JvittalTV
@Susan_Hennessey
@7NewsAustralia
A blow like that could have ruptured the cameraman’s spleen. That was sadism, not crowd control.
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@TheRickWilson
The audio of the incident is, to coin a phrase, "disturbing." I advise wealthy clients to refrain from assaults: it is expensive.
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@MARYK33679014
@UrbanAchievr
A seditious conspiracy to overthrow the US government involving the President of the United States.
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@Gbaxta
@darcyjamesargue
@peteroliphant2
@fwobthree
@bentaub91
Yes. A perfect example of profit over public interest. Perhaps the 737 Max should be renamed “Corvair II Max.”
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@jimsciutto
Kissinger's Rule: "That which will come out eventually must come out immediately."
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@JamesTweedy19
@PhyllisTotri
@ReallyActivist
@FootballBoyMom
When I heard that her lawyer was Passantino, I immediately thought “Trump’s witness minder.” They knew she knew things Trump did not want disclosed. Didn’t work.
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@pm_mcdaniel
@CarolLeonnig
@scotusreporter
@amarimow
Exactly correct. This has been obvious since Monday. The “leak” was orchestrated with the Great White Noise Machine, of which one Justice’s wife is a card-carrying member. Many are saying she stand “insurrection.”
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@joncoopertweets
@Woman_on_Pause
The purpose of manners is to reduce friction in society. Trump has given millions permission to act as if there is no mutual obligation for humans to keep the peace. Unfortunately for them, ubiquitous cell phone cameras preserve their boorishness for the world to see.
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@AZVotes
@Rowdygirlinmt
@IAPonomarenko
The vehicle destroyed was a TEL carrying rockets for the Buk antiaircraft launcher, the same Russian system that shot down Malaysian Air MH-17 in 2014 over Ukrainian air space during the Donbas takeover.
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@BeschlossDC
“Thanks for the memory . . . Of influence peddling nights. . . Of insurrection frights. . . “
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@coolauntV
@Decervelage
@IwriteOK
@MidniteMadwoman
“Florida Man Demands School District Ban Epic of Gilgamesh.”
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@kinsellawarren
@lisaboban
Theodore Roosevelt famously said “Life should be led like a cavalry charge.” It appears that Bunky internalized this message. His next incarnation will be an interesting one.
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@guardianogeloso
More eliminationist language from the GOP. It is noteworthy that “this won’t go well for you” is the same thing DeSantis told Disney before he began to strangle the Mouse That Made Gold For Florida.
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@JRubinBlogger
@justinjm1
Actual government sponsored anti-abortion terrorism, courtesy of the Texas Legislature. Is this a great country, or what?
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@co_rapunzel4
@Analisa_Swan
@EarlOfEnough
It is thrilling that the chant is primarily the voices of women. Thank you, sisters!
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@samebatchannel
@Kimberly_SoFL
@MuellerSheWrote
Around $4.5 million. A scandalous waste of public funds for no valid public purpose.
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@elliotcwilliams
@CapehartJ
An admission elicited by deft questioning of Lewandowski by Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia.
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@alisonaher
@Bronsays
Gorsuch—quite surprisingly, given his record of juridical insensitivity—appears to hold a modern Westerner’s enlightened appreciation of the status of Indian nations. This is in stark contrast to the myopic view of the scofflaw majority in the OK case.
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I just listened to the House reading of the articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas. It was impossible to understand them—and I’ve been a lawyer since Gerald Ford was President. Mayorkas is the GOP scapegoat for problems they are unwilling to pass legislation to end.
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@marceelias
@djrothkopf
Brilliant legal work by you and your colleagues, Marc. Kudos to you all.
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@LarrySabato
@Kathlee71013772
@politico
Here is a simple framework for Court expansion. Call it the 1313 Plan. A Justice for each Circuit. Same as in 1789. 13 Circuits—13 Justices. Simple as that.
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@imillhiser
@HC_Richardson
The intellectual dishonesty of Bruen, Dobbs, and Bremerton is staggering. The Court is shredding its credibility and legitimacy as if it thinks that no one is watching—or is capable of identifying ideologically driven, result-oriented, poorly reasoned legal work.
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@marceelias
@JBPritzker
“This has been done in the past—and it doesn’t stop with snuffing out ideas.” A powerful truth, powerfully stated by the eloquent Mr. Pritzker.
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@barbfitz19
@jasonintrator
You can say that again. It’s like replacing a skilled attorney with Cousin Vinny.
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@Ledermand
@PhyllisTotri
@SDISBEAUTIFUL1
@DrGJackBrown
We don’t even know what direct control, if any, her cult has over her decisions in cases. She was picked expressly because the Federalist “hidden imams” knew she would vote the *right* way on GOP donors’ issues, not for her legal acumen.
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@Dan_F_Jacobson
@bpmckeon64
They are, in essence, suggesting that the plaintiffs have already consented to litigate the issue in the Supreme Court by dint of submitting the Hofeller material to the Court. The Supreme Court is a court of review, not of record, and it should not be a court of first resort.
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@KrauseForIowa
@DoonesburyComic
@Gannett
@DMRegister
Doonesbury has been axed from the Tallahassee Democrat, another depressing Gannett rag these days.
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@FrankFigliuzzi1
And yet the Catholic bishops are more worried about Pride Month than this actual anti-Catholic outrage. I guess Our Lady of Fatima is chopped liver to the Trump Administration—and to the US Conference of Bishops.
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@willsommer
It is painfully evident that the Deep State has disabled Sidney’s spell check function.
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@cheetahweb
@SteveSchmidtSES
@DanielDefense
This is a sign of the ongoing coalescence of paranoid gun culture and Dominionist religion. The AR-15 is now sacral: an outward sign of the owners Christianity. Taking away a battle rifle is now a godless, communist act equivalent to persecuting Christianity itself.
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@RonFilipkowski
He loves the word “weaponized” these days. It appears now in every rant like a random Homeric epithet.
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@PressSec
@REELPOLITIK_LA
For one shining moment, Plains, GA, will become the nation’s epicenter of decency.
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