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Open Thread & Announcing Friday Evening Zoom with Immanetize (7 pm ET)

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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.

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  2. 2.

    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?

  6. 6.

    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.

  7. 7.

    TS

    This may be  9am Saturday in my world. I have attempted to send an email – hope the time & the email work.

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @mrmoshpotato: She has taken it from telling us everyday is Friday to this.

    ETA:  Going mad?

    But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
    “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
    “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
    “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

  15. 15.

    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:

    You may have seen me mention that we are coming up on 1,000 On the Road posts since I started shepherding the series.  That happens this week!

    To commemorate the occasion, I am re-running the two Farewell to Paris posts where Albatrossity and I each chose our favorites from the 5-weeks of Paris posts.  Such a lovely series of posts, it’s nice to see the favorites again, so Albatrossity and I thought that would be a fitting way to commemorate 1,000 posts.

    The comments were lovely, too, and in those threads we also talked about ideas for OTR, and it was good to see those again, too!  I hope you’ll read the posts and read the comments and think about some things we might do going forward.

    originally posted on September 21, 2020 at 10:00 pm
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  16. 16.

    Origuy

    Reposting, for the morning crew:

    Last year, I posted a request for donations for my friend Susan, who rescued an entire litter of kittens 14 years ago. At the time, her Tabitha needed several teeth removed. Jackals were very generous in helping with the bill. I’m happy to say that Tabitha is doing great. Now it’s her sister Dusty Doolittle who needed dental work. Since they have to sedate cats to do the procedure, the bill is pretty large. I’m coming again to ask you to consider throwing in a few bucks. Here’s some pictures of Dusty and the bill.

    Contributions can be sent via PayPal or Zelle to me at jlanam AT comcast DOT net or to my Venmo account at @Jeffery-Lanam. Anything is appreciated.

  24. 24.

    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 bbc.com/news/world-asia-33815153

  30. 30.

    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

  34. 34.

    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.

  35. 35.

    stinger

    @WaterGirl: ​
     

    “Every day is Friday, right?”

    “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….

  37. 37.

    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.

  39. 39.

    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.

  45. 45.

    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.

  47. 47.

    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.

  51. 51.

    mvr

    I’m not sure I can make it, but it sounds interesting so I will email to at least have the option.

    Mark

  54. 54.

    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!  :-)

  57. 57.

    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!

  58. 58.

    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.

  61. 61.

    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.

  64. 64.

    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).

  68. 68.

    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.

  70. 70.

    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.

  71. 71.

    O. Felix Culpa

    Adding to the requests for a recording of the eminent Immanentize. Alas, cannot attend live.

  72. 72.

    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!

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