Lawyers - does Tanzin v. Tanvir set precedent for suing federal health officials for violating our rights?

SCOTUS has unanimously ruled that federal agents can be sued when they violate your rights. Now do qualified immunity. https://t.co/Gec47ZMEg0 via @reason

Freedom of assembly is a Constitutional right, Mayor Bowser.

9/12/2018 President Trump declared election interference a national emergency and authorized the use of government resources to address and intercept the threat.

11/28/1861 President Lincoln “ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.”

11/26/1789 “As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration in America ....”to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God".

Today is 1/2/2021. I propose that President Trump make January 6 into a National holiday, proclaiming it “National Liberation Day” or similar.

This presumes public awareness of the reality of our situation, Biden stepping down, Pence replaced, etc. as reported unverified.

President Trump speaking momentarily.

The purpose of this thread will be to transcribe his remarks live to the extent possible.

View of the crowd.

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God be with you all.

There is no scenario where Trump lets Biden steal the election.

There is no scenario where an elected official facilitates election fraud and gets re-elected.

There is no scenario where we accept this kind of tyranny as normal.

They stole the election again in Georgia because they don’t think they can truly get caught or lose. Broken machines, extended deadlines, blocked access to observers, sudden vote flip. They don’t care.

The way this ends is going o truly shock the world. It isn’t going to be trivial. It isn’t going to depend on Mike Pence.

A thread on the most unusual “victim advocate” case I handled. Not, oddly, a SA case. This is a story for NCOs & JOs especially. 1/

I was a LT (O3) assigned to USS Mount Whitney. Not a surface warfare officer, so while they stood command duty officer watches in port, I stood the lesser officer watch: Officer of the Deck. A nonrate was often assigned to my watch team as Messenger of the Watch: 2/

Let’s call her Laila. She was a seaman (E3) w/no rating (MOS), so she chipped paint & handled lines etc in Deck Department. She was 35yo, had a BA, & spoke two languages flawlessly—English & Farsi. She was SQUARED AWAY. But: she was from Iran. Came to the US as a child 3/

to go to school & live w/her older brother, a doctor. This was 1979. She got stuck in the US during the Revolution, became a US citizen. Joined the USN when her brother was killed in a car wreck. Most of the sailors called her “The Terrorist.” She did not fit in. 4/

She was VERY squared away, & always chipper & upbeat. She was a runner. She saved every penny, trying to get enough $ to get her youngest brother to Jordan & then to help him apply for a US visa & eventually citizenship. She wanted to strike for linguist, but still had 5/

Charlie Munger on Delayed Gratification:

I've also got the money-sense gene. The first 13 years I practiced law, my income from practicing law was $300,000 total.

At the end of that 13 years, what did I have?

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A house. Two cars. And $300,000 of liquid assets. Everyone else'd have spent that slender income, not invested it shrewdly, and so forth.

I just think it was, to me, it was as natural as breathing, and of course I knew how compound interest worked!

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I knew when I saved $10 I was really saving $100 or $1,000 ,because of the future growth of the $10.

It just took a little wait. And when I quit law practice it was because I wanted to work for myself instead of my clients, because I knew I could do better than they did.

3/

You only get a few opportunities, and you have to grab them aggressively when they come because even in the most favored life, they're really rare.

I always feel that the opportunities are rare. I only get a few and then I have to seize them aggressively.

4/

Now that lesson I just talked about, it is taught in no business school I know of. But…everybody who has any sense ought to know [that] at the start of life, and practically nobody does.

I just described reality the way it really is.

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@JusticeRobers_CJ & @SCOTUSblog can the #American people trust you?

Let's peel back the surface layer and show the people...

We the people are the power.

1. Abuse of power
2. Dereliction of Duties
3. You ignored the information, to hide corruption!
4. Doc Citation

Comment???

I’ve often said that nothing is normal about Julian Assange’s case. Here’s my list of the top 10 least normal aspects, strictly on the logistical side of monitoring the extradition proceedings (this is not to mention the many substantive issues that are also far from normal).

1. The judge’s stubbornly persistent refusal to acknowledge that NGO observers are professionals and have an important role to play (separate to that of the general public) in ensuring open justice, and refusal to grant us access to be able to do our jobs properly.

2. The constantly shifting goal posts in gaining access to the public gallery, and arbitrary restrictions on numbers in all 3 courts where proceedings have been held. On any given day, it’s impossible to predict how many will be let in and when, necessitating very early queuing.

3. Receiving conflicting information from the court about remote access, including being accredited to the Cloud Video Platform and then having that access revoked in September. The same thing seems to have happened to us again for 4th January.

4. After unbelievable difficulty getting in, what we actually observed was a small screen on the other side of a large room. It was often impossible to tell who was who, and I could only follow properly as I had the lawyers’ voices memorised from February (when I could see them).

1/11🚔John M. Pierce🚔
- Lawyer Accountability
- Rudy Giuliani, George Papadopoulos, Lin Wood, Tulsi Gabbard, Russian Oligarch, Marc Mukasey, Harmeet Dhillon, Robert J. Costello, Carter Page all have/had direct ties w/ JP
- JP suggested he should rep Trump
#Whistleblower

2/11🚔John M. Pierce🚔
- JP is handling matters for Wendy Rittenhouse's child.
- JP breached child support obligs
- JP could not visit kids b/c failed to comply w/ drug testing
- Did JP do a good job raising his children?
- Ask JP that question, if he lies, we can look it up.

3/11 🚔John M. Pierce🚔
- JP's had problems with cocaine and booze
- JP owed @Citibank $90K as of 11/19
- JP owed ex-wife's mom $27K as of 11/19
- JP owed over $1M in taxes as of 11/19
- JP said in 2016: "I never grew up."
- JP lost his job at @KLGates after a physical assault

4/11🚔John M. Pierce🚔
- JP repledged the same collateral several times in exchange for millions, lawsuits followed
- JP pilfered $2.5M from a payday lender
- JP has a $4M money judgment against him
- JP been subject of default judgment requests
- JP owes money all over town

5/11🚔John M. Pierce🚔
-JP been supported over yrs by
- Virage Capital Management - $65M in capital
- David L. Hecht (Hecht Partners)
- Carolynn K. Beck (Goldstein & McClintock)
- Denver G. Edwards (Bradford Edwards & Varlack)
- Christopher N. LaVigne (Withers Bergman)
- & Others