Maxine Waters is from Missouri who deserves deportation from California.

The original trial was in Simi Valley, where a lot of LAPD officers lived, and I imagine still do. When the acquittal was read, L.A. blew up, due in no small part to Maxine Waters’ inflammatory rhetoric.

A friend of mine was on the LAPD at the time, and he explained to me that King was uncooperative, belligerent, and showed signs of PCP intoxication. Conventional restraint methods failed to subdue him, so they tuned him up and even then had difficulty getting him under control. Another man who was in the car cooperated with the police and was unharmed.

The second trial set the table for the O.J. Simpson case a few years later, which was a cut-and-dried case of jury nullification.

they stole this country, to twist and bend and loot it, of all its treasure, to corrupt children, to torment and even kill christians if need be,

Yes. Yes they will. Yes they do. And they have the power to not only shield those attorneys who represent terrorists and rioters from the consequences that they gleefully impose on conservative lawyers, but they actually celebrate the progressive lawyers as exemplars in the grand tradition of John Adams!

Believe me, the illiberal forces in the legal profession are not the majority. The majority simply wants to make a living and support their families. The cost of speaking up is already high enough. When you force would be dissenters to also answer for Trumpworld nonsense, like Trump’s antics or John Eastman’s crackpot January 6th theories, the chances of any meaningful objection to the left go down even further.

That’s nearly as frightening as the 65 Project. John Eastman is going to be disbarred for being wrong on a matter of first impression. That’s extremely chilling. Don’t doubt for a minute that the Eastman precedent is going to act as an implicit threat against any lawyers who are thinking about representing the Republican party in election disputes or that it will be repeatedly cited by Democrats to explicitly make the same threat.

BUT – and this is a big but – Eastman advised Trump based on a theory that even Eastman didn’t believe would prevail in court, and Trump used that theory to try to extra-legally reverse an election. That’s the case regardless of whether you believe the 2020 election was stolen. The idea that the VP had the power to prevent the certification of the election result is (and has always been) bonkers.

So the argument that Eastman should be disbarred under these particular circumstances is non-frivilous. I think that argument is wrong. I think the precedent will be grossly abused. But, in these particular circumstances, the case for disbarring Eastman is not frivilous.

I think it was Lenin who quipped that capitalists would sell the rope used to hang them. The problem with Trumpworld is that they give the rope away for free.

Did anyone catch Trump’s interview with Brett Baier last night? I guaranty Jack Smith didn’t. At best, Trump gave Smith a preview of his defense. At worst, he admitted to facts that establish obstruction. Trump is not just a troublesome client, he is an absolute nightmare of a client.

Trump is doing more than half of the 65 Project’s work for them. The 65 Project is just gliding in under the radar to clean up the remnants of the legal profession who aren’t already horrified at the prospect of representing Trump, all the while creating precedent for “de-representing” undesirables. (Their response? I’m sure it will be something about how they’re just political advocates and that reasonable attorneys didnt’ need any persuasion to avoid representing Trump. And you know what, there will be a kernal of truth to that.)