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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 10d

The #shutdown is about health care affordability but it’s also about the incompetence of #trump & GOP. The only way they can run the government is off a cliff.

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 19d

From courts to Congress to campus debates, America is abandoning process. Without it, violence becomes the language of politics.
Full piece:

A Failure to Communicate

Fractionally Legal Vol. 45 looks at how we're killing the process

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 19d

America doesn’t level the playing field anymore. We burn it down.
Why violence feels inevitable:

A Failure to Communicate

Fractionally Legal Vol. 45 looks at how we're killing the process

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 20d

January 6. Texas walkouts. Court-packing schemes. Left or right, outcome has replaced process. And violence rushes into the vacuum.
Full essay:

A Failure to Communicate

Fractionally Legal Vol. 45 looks at how we're killing the process

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 20d

Courts exist so we don’t settle disputes with fists or guns. What happens when politics stops offering the same outlet?
Read:

A Failure to Communicate

Fractionally Legal Vol. 45 looks at how we're killing the process

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 21d

Charlie Kirk didn’t deserve to die. But his murder tells us something chilling about what happens when America abandons debate.
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A Failure to Communicate

Fractionally Legal Vol. 45 looks at how we're killing the process

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 21d

Politics used to mean debate. Now it means silencing. What happens when we stop arguing and start shutting each other down?
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A Failure to Communicate

Fractionally Legal Vol. 45 looks at how we're killing the process

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 24d

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: politics & arguments about who is right & wrong should not cause more death. If you actually care for the Palestinian people then you will urge Hamas to free the hostages & stop fighting.

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 28d

The English learned—through war and blood—that unchecked executive power destroys nations. Are we listening?
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The Divine Wrongs of Kings

Volume 44: A History Lesson in the Present from Fractionally Legal

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · 29d

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. The rhyme here is clear: executive power gone too far.
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The Divine Wrongs of Kings

Volume 44: A History Lesson in the Present from Fractionally Legal

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Sep 10

Monarchs and wannabe monarchs always think they can’t be stopped—until they are.
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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Sep 10

Divine right. Illiberalism. Executive overreach. Call it what you want—the result is the same: less freedom, more fear.
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Volume 44: A History Lesson in the Present from Fractionally Legal

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Sep 9

Parliament proved no leader is above the law by cutting off Charles I’s head. The lesson is still relevant.
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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kings said their power came from God. Today’s strongmen say it comes from “the people.” Different words, same danger.
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Volume 44: A History Lesson in the Present from Fractionally Legal

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Sep 5

Charles I tried to arrest Parliament for opposing him. Sound familiar? History rhymes, and not in a good way.
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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Sep 5

👑 The divine right of kings was a disaster in the 1600s—and it’s no better when presidents act like monarchs today.
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Volume 44: A History Lesson in the Present from Fractionally Legal

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 25

The grand jury: old, secret, imperfect.
But still one of the best ideas in American law.
My latest:

Ye Grand Olde Grand Jury

In Factionally Legal Vol. 34 We Look at the Secret Sauce of the American Criminal Justice System

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 25

Imagine being arrested and never told why.
That was Old England.
The grand jury ended it.
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Ye Grand Olde Grand Jury

In Factionally Legal Vol. 34 We Look at the Secret Sauce of the American Criminal Justice System

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 24

No judge. No cameras. No headlines.
Just citizens deciding if there’s probable cause.
That’s the grand jury.
Full story:

Ye Grand Olde Grand Jury

In Factionally Legal Vol. 34 We Look at the Secret Sauce of the American Criminal Justice System

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 24

23 citizens in a room can stop a president’s worst impulses.
That’s why the grand jury matters.
Read:

Ye Grand Olde Grand Jury

In Factionally Legal Vol. 34 We Look at the Secret Sauce of the American Criminal Justice System

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 23

The grand jury isn’t perfect.
But it’s better than arrest first, explain never.
Full piece:

Ye Grand Olde Grand Jury

In Factionally Legal Vol. 34 We Look at the Secret Sauce of the American Criminal Justice System

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 23

In Old England, the king could jail you “just because.”
The Founders built the grand jury so no American ruler could.
More here 👉

Ye Grand Olde Grand Jury

In Factionally Legal Vol. 34 We Look at the Secret Sauce of the American Criminal Justice System

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 22

In Old England, the king could jail you “just because.”
The Founders built the grand jury so no American ruler could.
More here 👉

Ye Grand Olde Grand Jury

In Factionally Legal Vol. 34 We Look at the Secret Sauce of the American Criminal Justice System

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 22

Why does a group of 23 ordinary citizens still matter more than Congress or the courts?
⚖️ The grand jury.
Read:

Ye Grand Olde Grand Jury

In Factionally Legal Vol. 34 We Look at the Secret Sauce of the American Criminal Justice System

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LawyerJesse @lawyerjesse.bsky.social · Aug 22

Why? Because while the far left is dunking on moderates the far right is communicating with working people and winning. Cuomo is a loser but the vociferousness of the lefts reaction to him showed that the far left just does not get it.