Harry Sandick
White collar defense @PBWTLaw. Former SDNY prosecutor. Editor @2ndcircuitblog. Podcast co-host. Views expressed here are mine own. Let's Go Mets!
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- This would have been a deferred prosecution under normal times, maybe even just a declination. DOJ is doing this type of case instead of pursuing real criminals.
- Why only Rose and Jackson and not Ed Cicotte and Chick Gandil and all of the other players who cheated, gambled on baseball, threw games?
- I now see that all of the Black Sox players have been reinstated—all of the dead, banned players are no longer on the permanently ineligible list. One wonders if soon the prohibition on gambling on baseball will be lifted as well.
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- The problem is that if the agents were acting under color of law, there is a broad right to remove the case to federal court under 28 USC 1442, which puts the case in the hands of the U.S. Attorney who will dismiss the case.
- Today’s euphemism of the day is “foreign influence opportunity” — there is a five-letter word that does the same work.
- Why are they wearing masks?
- They’re obsessed with banning masks on college campuses but apparently it’s good for law enforcement to wear masks and hide their identity from the public?
- NEW: Sources says several federal prosecutors have resigned after Trump's new U.S. Atty in Los Angeles offered a misdemeanor plea deal to a sheriff's deputy -- after a jury had already convicted him of a felony: www.latimes.com/california/s...
- For better or worse, current DOJ policy is to seek the highest readily provable charge in every case. Why only depart from this policy when it helps someone who abused their authority? Maybe the policy is not a good one; in that case, don’t apply it to anyone.
- Bessent says that little girls who are sad about having fewer dolls should just have it explained to them that they will have a better life for it
- Also don’t these little girls want Trump’s wealthy asshole friends to get tax cuts?
- Again, I’m going to keep yelling at clouds that this violates all kinds of treaty obligations that are also part of US law & requires immediate impeachment & removal bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- The article quotes James Hewitt, a National Security Council spokesman, saying: “The president has been very clear that the U.S. is concerned about the security of Greenland and the Arctic.” But the president is the only threat to the security of Greenland!
- More firings at the National Cancer Institute, including the Cancer Information Service, “which provides answers to doctors and patients about cancer, and updates to databases summarizing cancer information for healthcare providers”. I mean who needs it, right? www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...
- They seem to want more people to die from cancer. Maybe because Biden was against cancer, the enemy of my enemy is my friend?
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.- “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
- Rep. David Joyce on Trump saying girls should have fewer dolls: "The idea that the Christmas trade is already starting to slow down and there might be less around, I get it. I think the American people will understand that because the American people understand shared sacrifice."
- And what are they asking us to sacrifice for? Tax cuts for billionaires? The return of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
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- Because Putin doesn’t recognize the Pacific Front.
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- Rich for the administration to do this when the president and some cabinet members have histories of domestic violence.
- seems kind of weird that the vice president of the united states is openly supportive of german neo-nazis!
- Definitely weird. He likes fascists because he is one!
- FOX NEWS ALERT: Mike Waltz out as Trump's national security adviser
- So Waltz, who mistakenly shared the secret information with others, is being forced out. Hegseth, who intentionally shared the same information with his wife and private attorney, is staying.
- Now it appears he is not being forced out but being moved laterally to the United Nations.
- Duffy: "She wants to take people off the road and she's taxing people to do it, raising money for the subway system in New York. But then, to put people in the subway -- the subway is dirty! There's violence. There's criminals. It's not safe ... By the way, I like freedom. Let me drive my car."
- A secretary of transportation who hates most forms of transportation used by most people in American cities.
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- They also didn’t call fouls on jumpers (Towns on his second to last basket was fouled, no call).
- The whole thing was a mess. The contact off the ball, there should have been 10 fouls on Harris.
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- I would prefer a more tightly called game in Game 5, so long as it’s called that way for all 48 minutes and for both teams.
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- Two more than Brunson or Towns had. It was not a tightly called game for the duration and it’s wrong to think that at the very end of the game that should change.
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- Did they say anything about all of the no-calls from the first 47 minutes when the Pistons were fouling the Knicks over and over again?
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- Perp walks with judges. Trump, an actual felon, never had a perp walk.
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- A team of rivals!
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- Who was the real winner of the crucifixion? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
- Lots of confusion out there about what Scotus will consider on birthright citizenship. It's actually pretty clear: They are NOT ruling on the legality of Trump's EO, though the subject will surely come up and the decision will determine whether the restrictions go into partial effect right away. 1/3
- The Trump applications, which will be the subject of the May 15 argument, are all about nationwide injunctions and the standing of the states that sued. They aren't about whether the lower courts were wrong to say the EO violates the 14th Amendment and/or Scotus precedent. 2/3
- This is helpful context that I have not seen elsewhere. Interesting case for the Court to consider this issue. Could it be that children born in one district will be treated as citizens and those born in another will not be, until the end of the lawsuit when it is all resolved by SCOTUS?
- Trump’s sputtering response to Harvard standing up to him is yet another reason why institutions should refuse to bend the knee. He’s a paper tiger, unable to argue his own case.
- “Thank you for your attention to this matter” is a particularly funny way that he ends many of these tweets. It has literally no meaning in this context.
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- This country should not be and really cannot be a gerontocracy. There are other qualified people in Illinois!
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- I understand the sentiment here, but wouldn’t the charges against ICE officials just be removed to federal court and that would be that? Section 1442 removal is meant to prevent state prosecution of federal agents. It is an extension of the principle of federal supremacy.
- Proud to see my alma mater doing the right thing. Veritas is a great motto—now defend it, in court if needed.
- “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, said about President Trump's demands. nyti.ms/4jzSS9W
- At a party thrown by a conservative lifestyle publication, an “objectively beautiful lifestyle” and an “objectively superior worldview” go hand in hand.
- What the heck is this?
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- They were supposed to comply with the order days ago and the ruling last night was unanimous and not a surprise. The government has acted in bad faith throughout this process. The deadline was totally justified.
- the basic problem facing american democracy is that one party has decided it wants a king and will hand over as much authority as is necessary to make that happen
- And the Supreme Court is encouraging them and allowing it to happen.
- The NY Times bullied Krugman to leave so they could free up space for total garbage like this. Very disappointing although no longer surprising about the once-great newspaper.
- Trump admin admits it should not have deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, but tells SCOTUS no court can require his return because it would intrude on Article II powers to conduct foreign negotiations. If this stands, why can't Trump deport anyone "in error" and not have to undo?
- The party of limited government!
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- It’s broken now because he broke it!
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- Fair enough! He was excellent for the arts and movies, as I’m sure you know better than me. Great series on Criterion now about “Fun City” from this era.
- Didn’t he leave the city on the verge of bankruptcy?
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- I think it is not hard to imagine circumstances in which we would not want a court to force the government to prosecute someone that the government does not want to prosecute (because the defendant is innocent or because the prosecution is not in the public interest).
- Scoop: White House officials are studying the costs of taking over Greenland, attempting to determine price-tag to maintain & what revenue could be gained, per sources Government officials working on Greenland www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
- The cost would include the United States being viewed (correctly) by the entire world as a rogue nation that should be boycotted and punished on every possible way.
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- As goes Pago Pago, so goes the United States.
- JD Vance in Greenland: "Denmark has not kept pace in devoting the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of aggressive incursions from Russia, from China, and from other nations."
- The aggressive incursions are from Trump and Vance. The only threat to Greenland is the United States.
- If Trump issued an Executive Order requiring all newspapers to send articles to the WH for review before publication, would newspapers report it is a “requirement” or “mandate”? Or would the fact it’s preposterously illegal and unconstitutional make right into the lede and headline?
- They would describe it as a creative and aggressive approach to the issue of fake news, long heralded by Trump, and then quote someone from an Ohio diner who supported the policy. Then they would forward stories for pre-clearance and comply with the new rule.
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- It’s not clear to the headline writers at the Post because they have their heads in the sand!
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- The Justice Department says Trump derives his authority to deport migrants without due process from “Article II and the mandate of the electorate,” so it has no obligation to provide further details of the operation to Boasberg. “Trump won the election so everything he does is legal,” in DOJ speak.
- Are we a government of laws or of men?
- I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
- There were calls for Austin’s resignation because he didn’t tell anyone about his prostate treatment.
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- I agree that the words matter and I appreciate the correction. I don’t think it changes the meaning of what he was saying, in the context of what’s been said before and his wife’s upcoming “scouting visit” to Greenland.
