Post AbSvLms0OPEHK2UArI by Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online
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 (DIR) Post #AbSvKsOINgBq9g9em8 by Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online
       2023-11-04T13:30:48Z
       
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       Someone asked me what I think is going on with Trump's lawyers attacking the clerk.Yesterday I said this: "It's hard to tell what is going on with that. My best guess is that Trump's lawyers are fatigued, know they are losing, and are getting weird and paranoid."Judge Engoron, who sees it all up close, said there is misogyny.I just saw a picture of the clerk and I have revised my opinion. The judge may be right . . .1/
       
 (DIR) Post #AbSvLeG8PKBOcGhoie by Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online
       2023-11-04T13:33:36Z
       
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       Women in Trump World are supposed to look like plastic mannequins. It's okay for them to be smart and professional as long as they bat their eyelashes an in subtle ways defer to men.Ivanka is the picture of this. She is allowed some independence as long as she remembers that Daddy is the boss, and as long as she looks the way a woman is supposed to look.What they are reading as "eye rolls" and "scowls" may simply be expressions tolerated in men but not women.2/
       
 (DIR) Post #AbSvLiPqx8KjVZHdQG by Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online
       2023-11-04T13:38:39Z
       
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       I am trying to find a few 2018 pieces written by @virginiaheffernan all about Ivanka and the women in Trump world.They were brilliant. I'll try to find them. The clerk is smart. Serious. No-nonsense. She is paying close attention. She doesn't defer to the men. Her attitude is probably "I am as smart as the judge." She watches the courtroom with sharp eyes and takes it all in.They assume, therefore, that she hates them.That is my latest theory.3/
       
 (DIR) Post #AbSvLms0OPEHK2UArI by Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online
       2023-11-04T13:40:50Z
       
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       Someone asked: "I've read suspicions that they are trying to provoke the judge and get some grounds for a later mistrial. What's your thought on that?"That won't work. I spent 12 years writing appeals for people who lost their trials, so I can speak with confidence when I say provoking a judge doesn't get you a mistrial.Provoking a judge makes you look bad in front of appellate judges, most of whom were trial judges and are generally in sympathy with the judge.4/
       
 (DIR) Post #AbSvLoPMfrVY5n6KUi by Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online
       2023-11-04T13:43:48Z
       
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       Sometimes the most direct and obvious answer is the correct one. Trying to provoke a judge is one of the stupidest things a litigator can do.After seeing what the cleck looks like on the bench, the simplest explanation is that the judge's sense was probably correct.I only saw a few pictures of how she looks on the bench, but from the pictures, I'll say this: If she were a man, they'd take her seriously.Trump world can use women (and like to have women around them!). That's different.5/