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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
Racism’s Over and Seashells Can Be Deadly
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Dahlia Lithwick reviews what has been an “exceptionally bad week” for American democracy. Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade explains why the charges against former FBI director James Comey, rooted in the claim that he threatened to kill President Trump – via the medium of seashells on Instagram – are unlikely to stick, no matter how hard Trump’s Acting (and actively auditioning) Attorney General Todd Blanche tries. A deleted insta post from a beach in North Carolina is just not going to meet the Supreme Court’s true-threat standard as laid out in Counterman v Colorado . But actually, landing a conviction is not the point, McQuade says –– Blanche has learned from Trump’s longstanding…