Lester Tate

Trial Lawyer | 48th Pres. of the State Bar of GA | Ga Tech Alum | ❤️ Tech football, the Braves, cycling, weights, golf, audio books, hillbilly music & rain.

[Lester Tate @LesterTate]

Was very honored to be inducted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers this morning.

[chuckwilliams @chuckwilliams]

If you disagree with or don’t understand what Scott Pelley is saying here, you don’t understand the role of a journalist.

[Matt Martens @martensmatt1]

This is an embarrassment.

Nobody should ever be a federal district judge if no client has ever trusted that person to first-chair a trial. Nobody.

[Lester Tate @LesterTate]

This is disqualifying. I don't care how smart you are, how nice a person you are, or what your politics are. If you've never tried a jury trial to verdict, you don't need to be a trial judge.

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Sen. SCHIFF: Have you tried a case to verdict?

Trump nominee: I worked on a bench trial and handled seven as a clerk.

Schiff: The judge handles trials. Were you lead counsel?

Nom: No.

Schiff: Your trial experience is as second or third lawyer on one bench trial?

Nom: Yes.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH — @SenatorWarnock: “ICE has more funding than the Marines. And Republicans are saying ‘if you don’t give this overgrown paramilitary force of masked agents more money, we’re going to leave TSA workers unpaid.’” 🤔

[Lester Tate @LesterTate]

DOJ says, "One set of rules for me, another thee!" Hard to see why it would be okay for Government lawyers to lie in court when the rest of the Bar plays by the rules. https://t.co/F50EvR9N9v

[Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg]

This is a banger of an ad.

[Tom Mars @TomMarsLaw]

This says a lot about the NCAA’s lack of respect for the courts. I’ve never seen anything like this.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Hell, working families would actually be better off if Trump had done nothing at all — because his policies are setting back the middle class. Americans are seeing higher costs from tariffs, skyrocketing premiums, and record jobs losses thanks to him.

[Lester Tate @LesterTate]

@TomMarsLaw I remember the Clark case! I represented a witness and made the trip to Little Rock for her testimony.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

So the FBI has time to raid an elections office in Georgia in order to prop up Trump’s conspiracy theories about losing the 2020 election… but not to release the Epstein Files?

[Lester Tate @LesterTate]

Apparently this guy has never heard the words “shall not be infringed”.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns.

Reporter: What about the Second Amendment?

Trump: You can’t walk in with guns.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Local police routinely, put officers involved in deadly shootings on administrative leave until an independent investigation is concluded. That should happen immediately. I can’t recall ever hearing a police chief immediately describing the victim as a “domestic terrorist” or a “would-be assassin.”  

For calm to be restored, an independent investigation is the least that should be done.

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

The tragedy and chaos the country is witnessing in Minneapolis is shocking. The killing yesterday of Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen, by ICE agents should raise serious questions within the administration about the adequacy of immigration-enforcement training and the instructions officers are given on carrying out their mission. Lawfully carrying a firearm does not justify federal agents killing an American—especially, as video footage appears to show, after the victim had been disarmed.

A comprehensive, independent investigation of the shooting must be conducted in order to rebuild trust and Congressional committees need to hold hearings and do their oversight work. ICE agents do not have carte blanche in carrying out their duties.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

They had him on the ground. Six agents pinned him down. They disarmed him. They removed his gun from its holster. And THEN they shot him. Ten times. To repeat. AFTER they pinned him to the ground, and AFTER they disarmed him, they shot him. Ten times.

They murdered him.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

We’re now finding out which Republicans were simply cosplaying as Second Amendment defenders.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

They shot him in the fucking back.

Cowards. Low scum. Charge them with murder, MN.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Left hand on the ground trying not to hit the pavement; right hand still holding a cell phone. ICE person standing with a one handed grip pointing his gun right at the man’s head.

There is nothing about this that we should accept. We all must reject this. This is our government

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Immigration enforcement, my ass.

Bondi's letter below—essentially offering to stop attacking and murdering citizens in Minnesota in exchange for the state's voter rolls—shows what Trump, Miller et al. are really after:

They want to fuck with the nation's elections so that they never have to cede power and never have to answer for their crimes.

Trump needs to go. He needs to be impeached and removed. Now.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

I am doing my best to respond to this without a string of expletives. But let's be very clear: what just happened in Minnesota was cold blooded murder of a civilian by out of control federal agents, aided and abetted by the entire Trump administration and their fascist enablers.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed…unless you approach law enforcement.”