With all the legal ins and outs related to the upcoming trial related to Trump’s Criminal and Pathological Need to Hold on to Classified Documents, I asked Immanetize if he would be up for doing a zoom about legal stuff with us.
And he graciously said yes!
Other legal BJ peeps also most welcome to participate!
So if you’re up for joining the zoom – either with video or just audio – please chime in below and send me an email so I can reply with the zoom link.
I think this is gonna be great! Who’s interested?
Open thread.
WaterGirl
I put this up last night, but the blogfather posted 2 minutes later, so I pulled it.
NotMax
When you say Friday, is that Friday Friday or WaterGirl Friday?
:) (couldn’t resist)
Hm. That’ll be 1 p.m. here, so 50/50 chance for me. Also 4 p.m. for West coasters, so may be inconvenient for them? All the more reason to record it?
WaterGirl
@NotMax: That’s the thing about time zones. If we make it might later, it’s late for the East coast!
Sallycat
I’m interested. How do I email you?
SiubhanDuinne
I’m interested. Will email.
Amir Khalid
Off-topic: I don’t know if you saw it, but I noticed that comment #47 in today’s On The Road thread, not written by me and clearly not in my style, appears under my name. I commented #52 to ask what had happened, but haven’t had an answer yet.
TS
This may be 9am Saturday in my world. I have attempted to send an email – hope the time & the email work.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Look at the time stamp on it.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
That only leaves me more mystified than before.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: I think it is a rerun.
Rob
@Omnes Omnibus: It is a rerun; it says this fairly early in the post:
“originally posted on September 21, 2020 at 10:00 pm
49 Comments”
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: WaterGirl is trying to make us all think we’re going mad. :)
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: She has taken it from telling us everyday is Friday to this.
ETA: Going mad?
WaterGirl
@Sallycat:
Send email to watergirl at balloon-juice.com
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: Hey Amir, go back and read the blurb at the top of the post. That will explain it. Let me know if you still have questions after reading that.
copied here for your convenience:
@Amir Khalid: See the blurb up top:
Origuy
Reposting, for the morning crew:
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WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus:
Am I going to have to make a rotating tag that says “Every day is Friday, right?”
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
At last, a plausible explanation. //
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Today is Thursday. Related: I am not a number! I am a free man!
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: @mrmoshpotato:
I suppose it’s possible that I might drive you all mad, but I would never try to do that intentionally. :-)
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl:
That’s what someone who is trying to do it intentionally would say.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: hahaha
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That is very likely. But not in this case! :-)
Wyatt Salamanca
I’m interested in attending.
Speaking of time, the more you read about time zones, the more you discover their weirdness.
“While nearly all countries have hourly time zones – some are half-hourly – Nepal is one of only two places in the world that has a quarter hourly time zone, the other being the Chatham Islands (although Eucla in Western Australia unofficially uses GMT+8:45).
Nepal is 5 hours and 45 minutes ahead of GMT, because it sets the meridian of Nepal Standard Time at Gaurishankar, a mountain east of Kathmandu.
The odd time difference between Nepal and India has resulted in a national joke that Nepalis are always 15 minutes late (or, Indians are 15 minutes early).”
h/t https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33815153
NotMax
@Wyatt Salamanca
Katmanoverdu?
//
Wyatt Salamanca
@NotMax:
For the win.
brantl
I would be interested. Brantlamb1 at gmaildotcom
Raven
I hope you can record it.
OzarkHillbilly
@WaterGirl: Sure. Right. I believe you. Really, I do. You are above reproach.
Immanentize
Hi Peeps! Looking forward to Friday!
I am hoping you will bring your questions. You all are amazingly well read and informed, so it is easier to sort through the legal stuff by responding to your questions and filling in background as opposed to just blah blah blabbing about stuff you already know.
Also, Alito and Thomas can be on the menu?
Immanentize
Omnes Omnibus
@Immanentize: Dude, you are the chef. I would guess it is your decision.
stinger
Email sent!
Raven
Going in for the nuclear injection before my brain scan . I hope they find something!!
Immanentize
@Omnes Omnibus:
Scallops, pan seared, with asparagus risotto?
My law mind is going in a bunch of different directions. I have a funny story about selling dead bodies in Scotland and in Massachusetts (which includes forays into being buried alive which is on everyone’s submersible mind). I may write an amicus in a case in which some nimrod is arguing that the second amendment protects — get this — switch blades. And I am still researching a 13th amendment idea about abortion I’ve had….
So in other words, i am completely undisciplined and would welcome the directive nature of questions.
stinger
@WaterGirl:
“Every day’s a holiday, drill sergeant!”
Ah, those were the days. Well, it was basic training, but also I was young and naive. Had I but known then….
stinger
@Raven: Fingers crossed!
Immanentize
@Raven: good luck! Nuclear powered Raven seems like it will be a good thing.
Seriously, I hope you dont feel that “contrast medium” but that they find the issue.
OzarkHillbilly
At the very least a brain.
;-) ;-) :-)
Joy in FL
I will be at the Zoom.
I will email you, WaterGirl.
I was having a Thursday yesterday, and now today feels like Friday. Time is so weird.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s what I was thinking!
Raven
@Immanentize: They don’t even have DatScan listed on their sheet in the main lobby!
Omnes Omnibus
@Immanentize: I say go wild. Stream of consciousness lawyer babble. People love that shit.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Omnes Omnibus: 😀
Immanentize
@Raven: ive never thought you to be a scare crow. More like the
King of the Forest.
Joy in FL
@Immanentize: I really understand the need for a focus when I talk. You know so much about a thing, and it’s hard to narrow all that and find an entry point and a focus.
So here is what I wondering about:
I think I’ve heard some people on MSNBC talk on this topic, so if it’s too obvious or already well-known, don’t bother. But I wonder what is likely to happen in any of the legal matters concerning defendant T, and what is unlikely. Time frames, procedures, venues, etc.
I hear so much speculation and so much scattered information. Possibly something more linear or at least more organized would be helpful. I think it would help me filter out the sensational from the substantive.
I just thought of this, which made me curious: what are likely voir dire questions that both defense and prosecution might ask; what are each looking to avoid and to retain in jurors? and why would those particular things matter? I already think I have ideas about this topic, but when I listen to experts talk about what I think I already know, I usually get a lot more useful and valid information than I “already knew.”
Thank you so much for doing this zoom.
Immanentize
@Omnes Omnibus: I happen to be a third level black belt in babble.
Madeleine
I can’t make it tomorrow. It’s spouse’s birthday so I’m pretending to take him out to dinner. Hoping there’s a video.
Mr. Bemused Senior
Alas I will be traveling tomorrow. Please record!
Omnes Omnibus
@Immanentize: You are all set then. Of course, my advice was worth what you paid for it.*
*Possibly less. Much less. So much less.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Omnes Omnibus: how much less, Johnny?
[Should I add, in the voice of Ed McMahon?]
mvr
I’m not sure I can make it, but it sounds interesting so I will email to at least have the option.
Mark
Omnes Omnibus
@Mr. Bemused Senior: Some things cannot be quantified.
WaterGirl
@Raven: Fingers crossed.
WaterGirl
I have sent the zoom link to the 8 people who have RSVP’d by email so far.
Hmm, I guess I should also send the link to Imm! :-)
A Good Woman
Count me in
gwangung
This might be interesting….send me something…
MomSense
Shoot. My friend is visiting from Switzerland and we are doing a fondue night. Hopefully we will have more occasions to zoom about indictments!
FelonyGovt
I’m interested. Will send you an email. As a retired contracts and real estate lawyer, I’m not likely to have anything constructive to add.
WaterGirl
@gwangung: Please send me an email message so I can reply with the zoom link. thanks
WaterGirl
@MomSense: You could have us on in the background. :-)
Almost Retired
Awesome, I’m interested! Although I’ve been practicing law for 35 years, I know jack shit about criminal law and procedure. So this will be great. Civilians who watch television crime dramas know more than I do about the subject. I am looking forward to asking stupid questions.
Manyakitty
Hoping to join the call! (Sent request email)
Maxim
I’m in, will send email …
delphinium
Am interested as well-haven’t been paying a ton of attention to the case so will be nice to have a discussion about some of the finer legal details (email sent).
featheredsprite
Count me in. Email has been sent.
Thanks.
BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️
I’m interested and hopeful that I will be off work in time to attend.
NotMax
E-mail dispatched.
Ruckus
@Raven:
I say the same thing every year when I get my MIR of my brain. I just hope that they can find it and that it never looks like a shriveled up, used Brillo pad.
kalakal
Sounds good to me, will send an email
Ruckus
@Almost Retired:
Civilians who watch television crime dramas know more than I do about the subject.
I do believe that you are giving the general public a tad more credit than they deserve. Now some of us have served on juries in criminal cases so it is possible some know more, but this is the general public after all.
O. Felix Culpa
Adding to the requests for a recording of the eminent Immanentize. Alas, cannot attend live.
WaterGirl
I believe I have sent the zoom link to everyone who requested it.
So if should have the zoom link but you do not, it’s not personal. :-) Please send me another email so I can send the link to you!