Aaron Brecher

Movie nerd, lawyer, founder/contributor @Target_Letter. He/him/his. All opinions mine, no legal advice, &c.

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

Oh my goodness this … would not endear you to many district judges

[Raffi Melkonian @RMFifthCircuit]

Gotta say, I do not think most federal appellate judges agree with Judge Thapar that you should petition for mandamus if a district court takes more than 6 months to rule on a motion

https://t.co/vLD7Ati67R

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

Love a chart in a brief. Adore it no less in an opinion. This one is particularly useful for the litigants, especially for client-facing summaries.

[James Levine @JamesHSLevine]

Judge Bibas’s common sense opinion style (and plain English legal writing) make him one of my favorite judges to read. I wish more judges would include charts showing which claims are dismissed and which survive in complex cases.

https://t.co/7OapVDDuQc

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@muaddibstyle In a world where we didn’t need to tie a bow around everything, you could imagine a war crimes prosecution followed by some sort of benevolent Hannibal Lecter-esque scenario providing assistance from prison etc.

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

A monumentally talented filmmaker

[Variety @Variety]

Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning 'Star Wars' Editor, Dies at 80 https://t.co/xCSAMODhGK

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@derpo377 Agree with this whole thread, but for some reason this change bothers me so much more than it should. Perhaps it’s just the dynamic you identify: everything getting clunkier and more expository. The original “Bring my shuttle” in that tone in that moment is a character beat!

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@TheRochaSays I recognize, to be sure, that there are more legal considerations than mere defamation liability, including clearances for the music and any cooperation from the family/estate. Just a fun fact about defamation law.

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@TheRochaSays That seems plausible—I confess my surprise this was such a hit. On the legal minefield point, though, the effort may backfire. There is no liability for defaming a dead person like MJ (except in RI for three months after death), but the doc is alive and may have his own remedies.

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@CBHessick @AndrewCFollett Should have added, the “never” claim in the original post also neglects that Obama had an article of his published in HLR in his final weeks as POTUS https://t.co/nVitP1RKIA

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@CBHessick @AndrewCFollett The claim is also wrong in that Obama in fact *did* publish in HLR as a staff editor (before he became President). It was a case comment rather than a note, but it’s there. https://t.co/ThB8376xAo

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@MattZeitlin Favorite Star Wars scene period …

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@Lons I don’t even understand what she’s trying* to convey on its own terms? Is it the anti-immigrant fervor? The willingness to riot against Black people to avoid the Union draft? Or is just flag = patriotism? Just a truly bizarre post from someone with a long history of inane ones.

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@ASFleischman @adamsteinbaugh Given the paranoia in this administration, I wonder whether they’re just hoping to survive 12b6 to discover and punish suspected leakers? I don’t know whether there’s a federal common-law reporter’s privilege that could stop that but I don’t know why else he’d sue?

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@muaddibstyle I’m stoked for Denis’s vision in large part because the book was my least favorite when I read it as a kid so I typically skipped it on my re-reads. Looking back at it through the political thriller lens he suggests has been fantastic

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

@muaddibstyle I’d love that. And perhaps a chance to re-team him with a collaborator and get Dev Patel into one of these. I’d imagined him as Duncan when the first film was announced, then as a potential Fenring. Though I admit I don’t even know how I’d get him into GE—maybe Moneo?

[Aaron Brecher @AaronBrecher]

Quite right. In the legal academy—and persisting long after emphasizing “original meaning” of constitutional text eclipsed explicit appeals to intention or understanding—collecting partial, context-free quotations from the Framers passed for originalist scholarship for decades.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Easy to quote-mine the founders for concerns like this, much more difficult is to find them saying anything like: "therefore, we should ban immigration."
- Indeed, Sedgwick concluded only by recommending "some kind of probation" or waiting period to naturalize.
- Madison's quote did not recommend excluding anyone. He merely said that our government would not give "any encouragement to emigrants."
- Jefferson's quote likewise concludes: "If [immigrants] come of themselves, they are intitled to all the rights of citizenship: but I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements."

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Easy to quote-mine the founders for concerns like this, much more difficult is to find them saying anything like: "therefore, we should ban immigration."
- Indeed, Sedgwick concluded only by recommending "some kind of probation" or waiting period to naturalize.
- Madison's quote did not recommend excluding anyone. He merely said that our government would not give "any encouragement to emigrants."
- Jefferson's quote likewise concludes: "If [immigrants] come of themselves, they are intitled to all the rights of citizenship: but I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements."

[Scarlett’s Movie Musings @ScarletCinema]

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time!”

[Eve Brensike Primus @PrimusEve]

This could be good or could be bad depending on how the office develops. I don't know Ashley Robertson (she may be an excellent attorney), but it would've been nice if the director were someone w/more of a defender background. Prosecutors & defenders see things differently. /1

[Jimmy Hoover @JimmyHooverDC]

SCOOP: Judiciary OKs new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS.

Its full-time director will serve as counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

I love this chart of how some of the Founders actually got along with Washington as president (they didn't). A reminder that these great figures were not cardboard cutouts, but jostling, sharp-tongued pols.

From Alexis Coe's fun Washington bio, "You Never Forget Your First."