emptywheel: How will Justices ACB, Roberts, Kav react to Smith's immunity brief calling their work in FL 2000 "violent?"

[Dennis Donovan]

emptywheel (blue ocean)
Reupping this question about legal tactics for the smart lawyers. What is the imagined response that Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett will have to a brief that describes an event associated with their 2000 Florida legal work "a violent effort"?

emptywheel (blue ocean)
Can we have a discussion abt legal tactics? Jack Smith's immunity brief has 2 audiences, Judge Chutkan, & SCOTUS, esp the right wingers you might peel off (ACB, Roberts, Kav).

So why describe the Brooks Brothers Riot as a "violent effort"?

https://documentcloud.org/documents/25182580-241002-immunity#document/p8/a2592476

11:21 AM · Oct 4, 2024

Good question. For those who don't remember The Brooks Brothers Riot of 2000:

Wikipedia - Brooks Brothers riot



The Brooks Brothers riot was a demonstration led by Republican staffers at a meeting of election canvassers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, on November 22, 2000, during a recount of votes made during the 2000 United States presidential election, with the goal of shutting down the recount. After demonstrations and acts of violence, local officials shut down the recount early.

The name referenced the protesters' corporate attire; described by Paul Gigot in an editorial for The Wall Street Journal as "50-year-old white lawyers with cell phones and Hermès ties", differentiating them from local citizens concerned about vote counting. Many of the demonstrators were Republican staffers. Both Roger Stone and Brad Blakeman take credit for managing the riot from a command post, although their accounts contradict each other. Republican New York Representative John E. Sweeney gave the signal that started the riot, telling an aide to "shut it down".

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[hlthe2b]

1. Not sure what the legal strategy would be, but it seems Smith is subtly saying to the 3: "I see you"...

Add it to the litany of unconscionable decisions and failures to hold themselves accountable/to recuse by this SCOTUS--probably only destined for the history books (those not subject to RW censorship and whitewashing)...

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Yeah, there's really no recourse but at least she's pointing out their involvement. n/t

[NameAlreadyTaken]

3. Will the Civil War be Ralph Lauren or L.L. Bean?

[Gore1FL]

4. November 20 was our first Jan 6. nt

[jimfields33]

5. They weren't even on the court in 2000. I doubt they even

Have a thought to something 24 years ago. In fact, only Thomas was on the court at that time. Maybe he can give his insight. Nobody else should say anything.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

6. There is this information:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/17/politics/bush-v-gore-barrett-kavanaugh-roberts-supreme-court/index.html

Three who assisted Bush

Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

[jimfields33]

7. Yeah ok. That isn't the Supreme Court.

[The Bopper]

8. So

You don’t see a connection, how about this, if you do what we say, you’ll be rewarded sometime in the future. Not even a guess, it’s a fact.