Tarlochan Singh, an elderly farmer, summed up the mood, saying: 

“It is not merely about a few legal infirmities in the laws. It is the philosophy of governance that will trigger a national crisis, a situation that will widen the conflict between the rich and the poor...

If this direction is not changed, we may be heading for civil war in this country. We have to understand the nature of the threat first; it is not about legalese, it is about life.”

“Everybody is going to be affected — the small businessmen, the agriculture workers, the consumers. We don’t need governments, courts and committees to tell us what our pain is.

Why is the government doing such a favour that will endanger our lives?

None will move from here until the laws are repealed.

The government can fire on us, unleash tanks or do bombarding from fighter planes. We die or defeat this government.”

Asked what would happen if the leaders strike a deal with the government and decide to give up, he said:

“It is not possible now. You must have a very low-grade moral fabric to strike a deal with the government on this issue. Our leaders aren’t like that.”

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Hillary’s crime against children (pg 294): https://t.co/Otrs9yTQNy

B_M & aunteefa riot index- 6,111 riot videos:

So strange that Law & Crime article questioning whether the Capitol rioters could be prosecuted for felony murder and it *never discusses* the most obvious predicate felony—burglary

https://t.co/cSFJzB5fwq via @lawcrimenews

As I will be teaching my first year criminal law students later this semester, felony murder is often a question of charging strategy for prosecutors. The defendant has often multiple felonies, some of which trigger felony murder and some of which don’t.

This article makes the classic mistake of analyzing only one possible underlying felony—sedition—and not the other, more mundane felonies, including burglary.
It’s the sort of error that loses students a lot of points on their final exam!

This basic error--misidentifying the relevant predicate felony--ends up affecting the other analysis in the article. For example, the author correctly points out that there are some other Qs that must be answered for felony murder to apply.

This analysis looks different if we are talking about burglary---which the Supreme Court defines not only as entering a building to commit a crime, but also remaining in the building.
That's going to make the "remoteness" inquiry pretty easy, not complicated as the article says.

I'm all for discussing Navaly's personal politics, and disagree with him on much, but saying the free world shouldn't stand up for someone jailed and nearly murdered because he's not Bernie Gandhi Mandela is bullshit. He's risking his life fighting a mafia dictatorship.

Plus, Navaly's politics as we know them (he's never held office), not coincidentally, largely reflect mainstream Russia, which is far from liberal by Western standards. This is probably a more useful topic anyway, tbh, esp re Crimea.

He's ambitious, as was/is Khodorkovsky. He has positions (again, no formal platform) that would make him acceptable to Russians should he ever get an actual chance at power. That makes him less acceptable to Western liberals, but they're always hoping for a Yavlinsky, a Nemtsov.

Navalny and his org fight Putin and corruption. They advocate for free and fair elections, for a democratic Russia that is part of the civilized world. As for his being xenophobic and pro-annexation of Crimea, congratulations, you discovered that he's Russian.

(I've got quite a few far more liberal Russian friends who have a hard time saying Russia should ever give Crimea back. It's a real weak spot, one that Putin was very aware of and exploits effectively with propaganda.)

NEW: After the violent and mostly White pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol last week, Black & brown people had to clean up the mess. Several told @Politicsinsider they were well aware of the racial dynamics. By @elvina_nawaguna & @KaylaEpstein ($)

The Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol left behind shards of broken glass and ripped-apart furniture, blood, empty bottles, and even feces smeared on the walls.

The custodial staff cleaned up in places where people were bludgeoned & in one instance fatally shot, & where dozens of Capitol Police officers were wounded. "It felt bad. It's degrading," said a custodial employee in his 30s, who works for the Architect of the Capitol.

Several Capitol janitorial and labor employees — all of whom were Black or Latino — told Insider they no longer feel safe at their workplace, which is supposed to be one of the most secure in the country.

They recounted the hurt of cleaning up after white nationalists who could have threatened their lives, and they feared what's yet to come in the days leading to and on Inauguration Day.

Too horrifying and important for

The superior regional court in Bamberg approved the extradition of Iranian diplomat based in Vienna who has been named Assadi.
6 people were arrested in Belgium, France &Germany,2 of whom were later released. Assadi was arrested at a gas station in Bavaria.
#EUTime4FirmIranPolicy

Parliamentary questions:
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Subject: The case of Assadollah Assadi
@eu_eeas @JosepBorrellF @GermanyDiplo

Germany is investigating espionage activities in Europe in connection with former Iranian diplomats
#ShutDownIranTerrorEmbassies @DutchMFA @NorwayMFA @ItalyMFA

When Asadi was arrested on July 1, 2018, German police discovered numerous documents, including a black ledger in his car, with coded dots that appear as instructions for making bombs, according to a report by the television station. German television station One.
@SweMFA #Iran

According to the Channel One report, the couple has received hundreds of thousands of euros for working with Iranian intelligence in recent years.
#EUTime4FirmIranPolicy @USAdarFarsi @StateDept
@Ulkoministerio @CzechMFA

Yes, I'm laser focused on how lawyers lead—how we *learn* to lead—as I prep to teach just this to @vanderbiltlaw students, and . . .

As I read @jaesunum's post on @Legal_Ev, all I can think: we are failing to train lawyers to make these important moral (yes, moral) decisions.👇

I genuinely question whether we train law students and lawyers to operate in the way Jae urges us to.

Note, I agree with Jae: "Big business and their legal counsel have the opportunity to steer capitalism to a gentler and fairer recovery, but the clock is ticking.
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The reckoning we face in the post-pandemic reality is not one of cancel culture but widespread calamity and increasing risk to our lives and livelihoods."

Both the opportunity and obligation (yes, I believe it is an obligation) we in law face are enormous.

And,

we lawyers are for the most part completely unprepared.

To wit: we do not train new lawyers for this world. We continue to train them primarily for the 2nd industrial revolution, which ended 100+ years ago.

"The intrinsic tension between BigLaw’s growth imperative
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(read: make more money) and corporate legal’s perpetual grind to do more with less (read: spend less money) is bad for our industry. The resulting distraction, however, is bad for the world. It’s long past time to ask the really important questions.

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A thread on why doxxing is bad.

Basically, the mob often identifies the wrong people and ruins lives.

“The cyclist was wrongly identified by internet sleuths as marketing executive Peter Weinberg.”

“His home address was shared

“After being wrongly identified, Quinn received countless threats online, with users calling him a racist and posting his home address and personal information online, according to the

“The internet cheered. The media made house calls ... only one problem: wrong

Skai Jackson is being slammed after reports surfaced that she put 'an entire family into poverty' after she allegedly shared details about a 13-year-old boy on

All civilizations are based on a thin veil of trust. Law is based on the certainty of trust that underlies the application of justice. Once that veil is pierced, things go to hell very quickly.

Once upon a time, a fast food outlet had an owner who said something that was 1) legal 2) within his rights to say 3) controversial

There were some who felt so offended by this outrage that they decided that the company should be punished, if not entirely extinguished

Politicians across the country then worked to ensure that zoning laws were changed to ensure that this company was specifically targeted. Several large municipalities took action to ensure that this company could not even set up shop.

In the end, this company has ( so far) prevailed. But it didnt end there. But we see a new model of business being applied - Get woke, or go broke.

Parler is being removed from AWS because it is a place where the "unwoke" go to talk to each other. AWS has decided to act as a vigilante to the cause of wokeness and has decided that this business is worthy of being destroyed.