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Judd Legum @JuddLegum
3. Apart from that there is not one scrap of paper -- not an email, not a memo, not some notes scribbled on the back of a napkin -- that proves such an agreement existed — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
2. The only contemporaneous evidence that it existed is a 2005 press release that includes the following line: "District Attorney Castor cautions all parties to this matter that he will reconsider this decision should the need arise." — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
A couple of thoughts: 1. There is no support for this kind "exception" to voting rules that create desperate racial impacts in the text of the Voting Rights Act 2. MAYBE YOUR ABILITY TO VOTE SHOULDN'T BE CONDITIONED ON HOW WEALTHY YOU ARE OR WHAT KIND OF JOB YOU HAVE — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
A STUNNING admission by the SCOTUS majority weakening the Voting Rights Act. The six justices say that disparate racial impacts of many voting rules are OK because of differences in "employment, wealth, and education" among races. https://t.co/MjPgEGpK8v — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
"By declaring some racially discriminatory burdens inconsequential, and by refusing to subject asserted state interests to serious means-end scrutiny, the majority enables voting discrimination." — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
"In sum, the majority skates over the strong words Congress drafted to accomplish its equally strong purpose: ensuring that minority citizens can access the electoral system as easily as whites." — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
"The majority’s opinion mostly inhabits a law-free zone. It congratulates itself in advance for giving Section 2’s text 'careful consideration.' And then it leaves that language almost wholly behind." — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
"Yet efforts to suppress the minority vote continue. No one would know this from reading the majority opinion. It hails the “good news” that legislative efforts had mostly shifted by the 1980s from vote denial to vote dilution." — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
"Never has a statute done more to advance the Nation’s highest ideals. And few laws are more vital in the current moment. Yet in the last decade, this Court has treated no statute worse." — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
1. SCOTUS' new decision further undermines the Voting Rights Act & KAGAN is not mincing words: "What is tragic here is that the Court has (yet again) rewritten—in order to weaken—a statute that stands as a monument to America’s greatness, and protects against its basest impulses" — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
1. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says Cosby's constitutional rights were violated because he was prosecuted after a DA (Castor) promised that he would never be prosecuted for assaulting Constand. That can only be true if such a promise EXISTED. — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@jduffyrice @JamesGleick @Junts @gvcontent @LEBassett I think it’s subjective, yes. — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@DavMicRot It had a typo — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
Castor, the DA who decided not to prosecute Cosby, takes a victory lap. Castor says his decision to decline to prosecute Cosby and (allegedly) promise Cosby he would never be prosecuted was "vindicated" https://t.co/6VzZOYhJtu — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@andrewrsorkin I’m not sure the answer to that. Certainly that was an issue with many of the allegations. — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
Castor, the DA who decided not to prosecute Cosby, take a victory lap. Castor says his decision to decline to prosecute Cosby and (allegedly) promise Cosby he would never be prosecuted was "vindicated" https://t.co/cJ70owm2TX — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
After watching this video, I'm convinced. — PolitiTweet.org
Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz
Critical Race Theory is bigoted and based on lies. I’ve introduced a bill to block federal funding for CRT in work… https://t.co/U9gxWky3cn
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
10. The more contemporaneous evidence the court points to which includes: The press release, and Cosby's decision to answer questions at the civil trial I don't think are very compelling. — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
9. I think the issue on how to confer witness immunity under PA law is relevant because there were ways to formalize an immunity deal that weren't pursued. But the larger issue is there is no evidence at all such a deal existed until Castor started asserting it a decade later — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
9. I think the issue on how to confer witness immunity under PA law is relevant, because it shows there were ways to formalize an immunity deal that didn't exist. There could also have been ways to formalize (or contemporaneously document) such a deal absent a formal grant — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
8. There is some confusion about my arguments in this thread. I explain further in a new thread. The core issue is the alleged promise made by Castor, whether it existed, and whether it was relied upon https://t.co/mYXnMeIyDb — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
1. A lot of misinformation is floating around about the nature of the PA Supreme Court's decision on Cosby. So I… https://t.co/cDeWYFB2ZC
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
"A grand jury in Manhattan filed criminal indictments Wednesday against former president Donald Trump's company and its longtime chief financial officer" https://t.co/uZniOuXSvp — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
"In contrast to being racially divisive, the 'critical' part of CRT holds there is no objective and neutral idea of merit that could explain the distribution of wealth, power, and prestige in America. The unfairness extends to whites as well as to Blacks" https://t.co/RdILnmjSXU — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
The court does quote good chunks of this, but it's very much worth reading. — PolitiTweet.org
southpaw @nycsouthpaw
It’s useful grounding in the Cosby case to look back at what Bruce Castor’s press release, which the PA Supreme Cou… https://t.co/TESEIqXlY7
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@ViceCityEsq The dissent would grant a new trial based on prejudicial testimony from other women. Not the "promise" from Castor. The main decision doesn't even discuss that issue. — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@bmaz @CJMordock I was asked a question and I answered it honestly. Now you are mocking my answer. Not sure what you'd like me to do. — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@CJMordock @bmaz Do you think I'm lying? That I've never represented a criminal defendant at trial? Why would I lie about that? — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@bmaz @CJMordock That's fine. You are entitled to your beliefs. Perhaps we just disagree on how to interpret the case. There was a dissent. And a trial court that went the other way. But maybe I'm just an idiot who doesn't know how to read a decision. I'm not going to argue. — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@CJMordock @bmaz Yes, although I do not currently practice, I defended dozens of criminal defendants in a courtroom, securing acquittal in numerous trials — PolitiTweet.org
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
@bmaz @CJMordock You are just conflating two uses of the word "immunity" that are at issue here: 1. The existence of a formal immunity agreement, which no one claims exists, 2. The court's belief that Castor effectively conferred criminal immunity from prosecution to Cosby with a promise — PolitiTweet.org
