Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(Honestly though, the *gall* to be sending Granite Staters political messages from a non-603 number! You might as well *broadcast* that you’re an out-of-state operation. In any case, both these men are Libertarians, but they’re pretending to be Democrats today. Very frustrating!) — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(📢) If you got this message today in New Hampshire and you are a Democrat, please ignore it. These are not Democrats; rather, they are—actually or as good as—Free Staters pretending to be Democrats. If that’s your bag, fine, but don’t be fooled into thinking these are Democrats. https://t.co/jRA6ST0WJa — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) Another write-in reminder for New Hampshire Democrats, this one for Manchester Ward 5. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

(📢) I’m retweeting trusted sources on the subject of write-ins on primary day here in New Hampshire. If the ward below applies to you, take note! (Today’s Democratic primary ballot has several empty races in which write-ins will be essential.) Side note: huge fan of @RepWilhelm. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RepWilhelm: Hope is ready for a nap following a warm afternoon of primary GOTV canvassing in Manchester Ward 1! This Tuesday, vote fo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnBonifaz: These revelations from Berman's new book renew once again this question: why has the DOJ, under AG Garland, not reopened t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kylegriffin1: Leader Schumer says the Senate has confirmed 80 judicial nominations from President Biden.   "That's more judges confirme… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: We have our special master! In a... uh... theft case... not involving attorney-client privilege or executive privilege o… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I’m *very* into House of the Dragon. I think it’s excellent in every feature—and indeed *improves* on the precious few weak-spots I ever found in its predecessor, Games of Thrones. Anyone else enjoying this as much as I am? #HouseOfTheDragon #HouseOfTheDragonHBO https://t.co/3zqbAvTrZS — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CBSNews: More than 30 people associated with fmr. Pres. Trump have received federal grand jury subpoenas over alleged efforts to influe… — PolitiTweet.org

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@dweldredge Trump is winning every day he is not in the prison cell he long ago earned and has since earned a hundred or even a thousand times over. — PolitiTweet.org

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So yes, I do believe that every legal analysis of this case should begin with a disclaimer explaining that nothing about this case has been handled in the manner it would be handled were the defendant anyone but Donald Trump—and that the rule of law has been bent at *every* turn. — PolitiTweet.org

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Special masters are for cases that look nothing like this one—for instance when the office of a defendant’s attorney is searched. Trump has yet to even make the argument—because he could never make it—that he had a right to retain classified documents in his home post-presidency. — PolitiTweet.org

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This judge impeded a federal criminal investigation and will appoint a special master without Donald Trump having even identified any documents he thinks were wrongly taken or making any attempt to negotiate their return (or have the judge herself review them). It is all a sham. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

...personally review the *handful* of documents answering to that description (and indeed it would only be a handful of documents). There would be no special master, no delay of the criminal investigation. None of the abject, embarrassing BS we are seeing in the Mar-a-Lago case. — PolitiTweet.org

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...he has his attorney ask government agents for them back. If the government agents refuse, the defendant has his attorney go to the judge and a hearing is held and an order (if appropriate) issued. If the parties *dispute* whether something was properly taken, the judge may... — PolitiTweet.org

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One last thought. It is true that in any case in which documents are seized, some documents not related to the investigation may be accidentally taken. These are returned *as a matter of course* (e.g., Trump’s passports). If the defendant thinks some items were not returned... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: We have our special master! In a... uh... theft case... not involving attorney-client privilege or executive privilege o… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

So when I write on the Mar-a-Lago case, I’ll write about a case in which the defendant has no defense and should already be in prison (remember, DOJ/NARA—extraordinarily—gave Trump 18 months to remedy his crime, and he refused *and committed more*) and the legal issues are banal. — PolitiTweet.org

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...but they could easily reply—or their defenders could do so on their behalf—that they’re just reacting to a corrupt judiciary that won’t let the wheels of justice turn unimpeded when the rich, powerful, and famous in politics are involved. It becomes a chicken-and-egg debate. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes, as a former federal criminal investigator I can point out all the critical investigative steps DOJ deliberately *didn’t* take—all of them derelection of duty—for purely political reasons, which makes their repeated protestations that they’re above politics morally toxic... — PolitiTweet.org

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So every single reason to cover the intricacies of the Mar-a-Lago case is depressing. And I feel the world is depressing enough already. It should be sufficient for readers to simply know that Trump is dead to rights and would be imprisoned already if he were not Donald Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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But the other reason it seems we have to talk about it is that the federal judiciary in Florida apparently corrupt, and will openly treat a very rich and very powerful and very famous white male politician in a way that it wouldn’t treat anyone else. And it’ll do so unabashedly. — PolitiTweet.org

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Mar-a-Lago case talk is a flim-flam we’re sucked into because we feel like there’s no other choice. We “have” to discuss the minute details of the case for political reasons—and because Trump’s the sort of criminal who’s never been held accountable and never takes responsibility. — PolitiTweet.org

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And don’t tell me about this being the first case of its kind involving a President of the United States. Had Trump gone to Fifth Avenue as he once promised and gunned down a bunch of innocent civilians, would that make the resultant homicide cases *legally* interesting? Hell no. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

I have committed myself to being honest with readers about the law, and also honest about my desire that our justice system be better than it is. How can I pretend to the readers of this feed that the Mar-a-Lago case is interesting when *legally* it is just effing *not*? At all? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

There are no attorney-client privilege issues here. There are no executive privilege issues here. The defendant is dead to rights and has no plausible defense. Under normal circumstances plea negotiations would’ve begun immediately, and prison time would be a given to both sides. — PolitiTweet.org

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The lawyers who are currently analyzing this case to death are doing so in good faith and are trying to be good people and lawyers. But they are also normalizing the idea that there are any actual complications to write about here. There are not. They are all invented and false. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is—I can’t emphasize this enough—nothing complicated about this case besides the political consequences and implications of it, which every lawyer in America took an oath not to consider when they became a lawyer (and that includes judges). So the whole thing is sickening. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s the equivalent of a man being caught with a gun over the dead body of his victim—smoke still rising from the gun, residue all over the hand of the shooter—with a *signed confession in his handwriting* pinned to his chest like he’s a kindergartener on his first day of school. — PolitiTweet.org