Second paragraph, and he unveils how he plans to use his law firm blackmail: to provide officers—who already often have union support and things like qualified immunity—with Skadden lawyers, pro bono. For when they are charged w abusing the citizens they’re charged to protect. - ThreadSky

johnpfaff.bsky.social • 63 days ago

Second paragraph, and he unveils how he plans to use his law firm blackmail: to provide officers—who already often have union support and things like qualified immunity—with Skadden lawyers, pro bono.

For when they are charged w abusing the citizens they’re charged to protect.

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johnpfaff.bsky.social•63 days ago

(iii), (iv), and (vi) are not things he can do. Congress can barely do them, mostly thru incentive grants that states tend to ignore.

(v) only applies when dealing w fed charges (can’t change state law), and needs a law.

And (i) will just be a commission.

Data and training guidance, that’s it.

johnpfaff.bsky.social•63 days ago

Oh, good, now Ohio State can get a second MRAP, and the LA school district will get its grenade launchers back.

Neither of those are jokes.

Military equipment is abt ineffectively cosplaying toughness at best, brutally crushing protests (see Ferguson) at worst.

johnpfaff.bsky.social•63 days ago

I’d have thought (a) wasn’t much until Patel perp-walked a judge this week. Will they come for Krasner next?

And (b) means that they are going to use pattern and practice suits—which generally force consent decrees on misbehaving police depts—against reformers.

johnpfaff.bsky.social•63 days ago

I’m not sure what this one does, exactly, but can’t think that involving HSTFs will make local communities safer.

johnpfaff.bsky.social•63 days ago

So, from top to bottom, nothing that will make communities safer, plenty that will make them less safe, and an absolutely perfect example abt how “tough on crime” types are never interested in safety, but only in impose pain and control on disliked marginalized vulnerable groups.

starrwulfe.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy•62 days ago

@johnpfaff.bsky.social As someone who jhas a St Louis County Police TANK roll up on me when. I was trying to show my press passes covering the Ferguson Uprising, this is how you create a martial law situation.

Feels like they got a reason to agitate the people into another big ass riot to […]

slingkong.bsky.social•63 days ago

And it helps the little piggies feel super tough

jadeabliss.bsky.social•63 days ago

Just in time for the unrest about empty shelves in the grocery store…

petersterne.com•63 days ago

Part (b) talks about military and national security “personnel,” not just hardware. Do you think that’s getting close to violating Posse Comitatus, not just an expansion of the 1033 programs that give military hardware to local PDs?

johnpfaff.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yeah, didn’t see the personnel part. It could be, or maybe it’s just logistics, or maybe vaporware when the army balks.

It’s just so hard in these vague orders to separate out what is real from what is posturing from what is in there just to pander to Trump.

petersterne.com•63 days ago

He can’t even do (vi) as it pertains to federal prisons?

newfederalist.bsky.social•63 days ago

What are the chances this leads to IA or martial law?

litigator53.bsky.social•63 days ago

In California, as in most states, cops sued for acts in the course and scope of their employment are entitled to a defense paid for by their agency already. The idea that cops sued for job related conduct have to pay for their own defense (or for judgments other than punitive damages) is a fiction.

radlegaltakes.bsky.social•63 days ago

This repeated bribery/extortion scheme constitutes a pattern of RICO predicate acts, so I’d think smart plaintiffs’ lawyers would seek RICO injunctive relief in the Second Circuit under § 1964(a) given its rather unique interpretation of this specific provision.

But that would be crazy, right…

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