Johnny James

Fmr. @scattygenoffice. I follow friends, lawyers, scientists, artists, SC & DC. @SCHonorsCollege '10, @UofSCLaw '13. Opinions are all my own.

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

@SCDocketUpdates Yep

[Dion @2024dion]

There are more bookstores, restaurants, wine bars, and plant shops than ever before in the US, and our libraries on average have longer opening hours. We don't have a shortage of consumption-oriented third places.

What we are missing is third places that demand something of you: churches, social clubs, union halls, etc. Places you have to show up to regularly, where you're expected to contribute, where you build the bonds that create real community. All the things that Putnam describes as social-capital-creating in Bowling Alone.

But no one wants to talk about those.

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

The @postandcourier giving a real color tone challenge here tonight.

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

@uturntorn @GfedGoCrazy

[The DC MD VA Live @TheDMVLive]

Possible Tornado Rolls Through Northern Virginia 🌪️

[Darius Rucker @dariusrucker]

I want to play there so bad.

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

Greatest NBA Finals I've watched in decades. Comeback after comeback after comeback. Still buzzing. How 'bout them Knicks

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

@MPowersNorrell

['26 NBA CHAMP NYKDane 🇯🇲🗽 @nykdane]

Bro on Instagram said "When I die, bury me in a Knicks jersey because I just might come back" 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Criminalsimpsons @Criminalsimpson]

OPEN WIDE FOR SOME SOCCER!!!!⚽️

[Ellie Hall @ellievhall]

Same energy:

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

I worked for the man for a decade, so let me just say: @AGAlanWilson is the man to be S.C.'s next Governor. He and I diverge some outside criminal justice, but he runs a tight ship with good spirit and is dedicated to doing what he believes is right for South Carolina.

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

@JoeBReporter The raise was imposed on him by necessity. Before the pay bump, @AGAlanWilson made less than many people who worked for him at SCAGO. Even after the pay bump, he doesn't appear until Page 32 of the S.C. State salary query--tied with @EvidenceProf at @UofSCLaw.

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

I made those replies hours ago, but I assure you, pseudonymous Pascoe booster, that I am very comfy now. That said, midnight work and I are old friends.

It's an odd line to argue that the AG who fought to save the SGJ as an institution and the whole investigation, then turned it over to Pascoe, is at fault for Pascoe's many errors. It's an uninspiring inversion of the line "to God be all the glory; only the mistakes were my own." "To Pascoe be all the glory; only the mistakes were Alan's."

I've made my own share of errors from time to time, so I am a bit sympathetic to Mr. Pascoe in that regard. But he had the shot to bring real justice against corruption and he missed. That's a tough thing to overcome when running as an anti-corruption candidate!

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

@fitsnews @CreightonWaters @davidpascoesc @TheWillFolks I am unaware of any other instance were SCSupCt so firmly took a prosecutor to task for letting a defendant and implicated associates slip the proverbial noose. And I still don't know where Pascoe's $352,000 in "Corporate Integrity Agreement" money went.

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

@fitsnews @CreightonWaters @davidpascoesc @TheWillFolks SCAGO fought to make that case possible and recused when appropriate. Mr. Pascoe then "by his own description, . . . allowed the most corrupt politician in Columbia . . . and the most corrupt entity in politics . . . to go essentially scott free." 430 S.C. 115 (Few, Concurring)

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

@Mailman9 @ASFleischman Looks like counsel moved for bond at least in May 2023, May 2025, Oct. 2025 (all denied). Jack argued a change in circumstances in the May '25 motion (vic DNA on gun).

[Johnny James @JohnnySixSC]

"[W]e have no choice" is such an odd phrase to read in an appellate opinion. An opinion is itself a series of choices: how to read the law, read a lower court order, weigh credibility, resolve splits. Rarely does one have "no choice." A court is never left with "no choice."