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   Lawfare (lawfare@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 22:46:54 JST Lawfare

   "This was a more righteous case than a lot of people gave it credit for. And it has played an important role in a broader effort by multiple jurisdictions to use the criminal law as a democracy-protective instrument against Trump."
   -Benjamin Wittes https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thoughts-on-donald-trump-s-conviction

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 03:56:14 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #Legal #TrumpTrials

     #BenjaminWittes, editor in chief of #Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the #BrookingsInstitution, writes an excellent assessment of the NYC criminal trial and its political repercussions.

     "...We were told by a great many pundits that the case was weak. This was false. The evidence was voluminous. It was powerfully corroborative. It was diverse. The case was quite strong..."

     https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thoughts-on-donald-trump-s-conviction