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Phil Rees Mar 2, 2024

Janel Comeau Mar 1, 2024

dear diary, it has been 437 days since my husband disappeared under mysterious circumstances. alas, I am unable to inform the police, for I am a mere woman.

Phil Rees Feb 22, 2024

Brandi Buchman Feb 22, 2024

In order to collect on the $1.5 billion in defamation judgments they won against Alex Jones, the families of the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut have voted to liquidate the far-right conspiracy theorist’s assets.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/to-collect-1-5b-from-alex-jones-sandy-hook-families-vote-to-liquidate-assets/

To collect $1.5B owed from Alex Jones, Sandy Hook families, creditors vote to liquidate assets

The families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting massacre voted to liquidate Alex Jones' assets in order to collect on a $1.5 billion defamation award.

Law & Crime

Phil Rees Feb 22, 2024

Court Cantrell prefers not to Feb 21, 2024

Here's a truth for you -- especially if you haven't hit your 40s yet, maybe not even your 30s.

The truth is this:

*Nobody* knows what the fuck they're doing.
If someone seems like they have their shit together, either they are presenting you with a completely false front, or they are in a season of The Total Occasional Fluke of Everything Apparently Going Right and Coming Together.

But what are we really doing? Nobody knows. WE'RE ALL JUST DOING WHAT WE CAN WITH THE TOOLS WE HAVE AT THE TIME.

Phil Rees Feb 17, 2024

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S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸Feb 16, 2024

I've watched this clip a few times but never watched the reactions. When she asked "who else would know this" and Cohen rattled off the names of three insiders, everyone who knows how criminal cases work could see exactly where this was heading. Look at those faces.

Phil Rees Feb 17, 2024

S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸Feb 16, 2024

Remember everybody: The whole NY AG case against Trump began because Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, representing Queens & the Bronx, asked Michael Cohen if he had ever seen the Trump Org overstate assets to one audience and understate them to another.

This is what Congressional questions can do. It is a travesty that most members just rant for 5 minutes and then give witnesses 5 seconds to respond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zmgQDRU6v4

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Questions Michael Cohen On Insurance Fraud At Hearing | NBC News

YouTube

Phil Rees Feb 17, 2024

Heidi Li Feldman Feb 16, 2024

I’m reading Judge Engoron’s opinion. Sharing some of my reactions in real time. So far, the best line of the opinion: “The Trump Organization keeps Weisselberg on a short leash, and it shows.” 1/

Phil Rees Feb 17, 2024

Dan Gillmor Feb 16, 2024

What's most noteworthy about the judgment against Trump today is that he's been a crook for decades. Countless prosecutors, banks, and others who were in positions to hold him accountable -- including journalists in some ways -- totally capitulated to him when it mattered most.

Our democracy is teetering in significant part because of those abject failures.

Law enforcement seems to have learned from what it did wrong. Journalism plainly has not.

Phil Rees Feb 16, 2024