As a lifelong student of law, I am trained to check everything thrice and still leave myself wiggle room.

I am, therefore, surprised by people’s chutzpah in holding forth about (even specialised) matters about which they have zero knowledge or experience –or qualifications: +

A hearing is underway now in the case of Richard Barnett, one of the Capitol insurrection defs (photographed at Pelosi's desk) — the govt is challenging an Arkansas magistrate judge's release order. Chief Judge Beryl Howell in DC halted his release until she rules on the matter

Prosecutor Mary Dohrmann begins by arguing Barnett flouted laws "in the most brazen and flagrant manner possible" when he breached the Capitol: "He knew exactly what he was doing."

Prosecutor says the note that Barnett left for Pelosi in her office — "Nancy, Bigo was here you bitch" — was "disturbing" and says the photographs of him sitting at Pelosi's desk show that he appears to "relish" the notoriety

Govt says Barnett doesn't have a criminal record, but notes police reports where a caller lodged a complaint that he'd pointed a rifle at a car with a "Black Lives Matter" sticker and, in a separate incident, was carrying around guns in public

Seen lots of #“buidl” comments from the #xrpcommmunity. Now, more than ever, you should support changes like Richard Holland’s Hooks for the #XRPL . Let me explain why.

I’ve worked with Richard for several years trying to build on the XRPL. It’s cheap, fast, secure and has the potential to mint tokens. So, why not use it, right? For example, we worked on a self-KYC identity solution called iXRPL. 2/n

It stamps your XRP account with a token from an identity provider that confirms you have KYC’d yourself and allows you to grant single-use access to the underlying data for exchanges seeking to confirm your identity. 3/n

It protects against fraud (e.g. deal only with stamped accounts) and solves the proposed FinCEN rule of KYC’ing private wallets. Everything is encrypted and decentralised and runs on unique consensus protocol Richard developed called HotPocket. We will showcase it soon. 4/n

But for other uses, we kept running into a problem: tokens on the xrpl are controlled by keys, not code. You can split the keys, but you always end up with someone controlling the secrets and those secrets have to be held somewhere. 5/n

1/11🚔John M. Pierce🚔
- Lawyer Accountability
- Rudy Giuliani, George Papadopoulos, Lin Wood, Tulsi Gabbard, Russian Oligarch, Marc Mukasey, Harmeet Dhillon, Robert J. Costello, Carter Page all have/had direct ties w/ JP
- JP suggested he should rep Trump
#Whistleblower

2/11🚔John M. Pierce🚔
- JP is handling matters for Wendy Rittenhouse's child.
- JP breached child support obligs
- JP could not visit kids b/c failed to comply w/ drug testing
- Did JP do a good job raising his children?
- Ask JP that question, if he lies, we can look it up.

3/11 🚔John M. Pierce🚔
- JP's had problems with cocaine and booze
- JP owed @Citibank $90K as of 11/19
- JP owed ex-wife's mom $27K as of 11/19
- JP owed over $1M in taxes as of 11/19
- JP said in 2016: "I never grew up."
- JP lost his job at @KLGates after a physical assault

4/11🚔John M. Pierce🚔
- JP repledged the same collateral several times in exchange for millions, lawsuits followed
- JP pilfered $2.5M from a payday lender
- JP has a $4M money judgment against him
- JP been subject of default judgment requests
- JP owes money all over town

5/11🚔John M. Pierce🚔
-JP been supported over yrs by
- Virage Capital Management - $65M in capital
- David L. Hecht (Hecht Partners)
- Carolynn K. Beck (Goldstein & McClintock)
- Denver G. Edwards (Bradford Edwards & Varlack)
- Christopher N. LaVigne (Withers Bergman)
- & Others

We are today attending the virtual hearing for #AllisonBailey’s claim against Stonewall & Garden Court Chambers.

Discussions on redactions in papers.

Ben Cooper QC for @BluskyeAllison arguing against redactions.

#AllisonBailey

#AllisonBailey

Ben Cooper trying to establish communications between individuals at Stonewall & individuals at Garden Court Chambers. Arguing names of individuals is relevant and they put in public domain.

#AllisonBailey

Robin Moira White arguing private Facebook group is not public domain.

#AllisonBailey

Ben Cooper QC discussing individuals who had made complaints to Garden Court Chambers. Discussion is can these individuals be publicly named or should they be redacted in papers. These individuals have connections with Stonewall.