John M. Breen

Professor of Law @Loyolalaw

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

Dems won’t circle the wagons on rape? They literally circled the wagons in Va where the Dem AG candidate Jay Jones documented his desire to shoot his opponent in the head and to see his opponent’s children “die in their mother’s arms.” But circling the wagons about rape is definitely out of the question.

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@politicalmath @lyndseyfifield This should be the main headline to emerge from all of this: “The New York Times Is a Deeply Corrupt Organization”

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@brithume Negligence? Or journalistic malfeasance?

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

The main headline that should emerge from the Platner debacle is “The New York Times Is a Deeply Corrupt Institution.” To some readers that will actually be news.

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I actually understand why Democrat leaders didn't take our stories seriously when the Times reported them in June but are taking them seriously now.

It was by design.

The line most shared from the piece was the claim that the Times “could not corroborate” my story despite talking to two of my friends.

I gave them the contact information for five friends.

They called the two who I clarified would not know about the abuse but would be able to affirm our relationship timeline, events, etc.

They simply did not call the other three.

I also gave them the names of all my former roommates who remembered him stalking our row house (which was about 5 houses down from his) and waiting for me to return. I gave them screenshots of messages between these roommates and I discussing it.

I gave them the names of other men I dated who might have remembered him following us around the hill and showing up on my stoop after we walked home from dates to confront us. I gave them emails to my landlord urgently ending my lease and moving to an apartment across town and diary entries talking about it - all time marked.

I told them that during pre-marital counseling I had spoken to my ex-fiance about the abuse because I had to explain to him why I reacted with such terror any time he lost his temper. They said oh NO we don't need to bother HIM (or my priest). Besides, I had written about it in my diary in detail, they reassured.

As the weeks dragged on I stopped trying to give them evidence because the amount I had already given them seemed to overwhelm them and I thought it meant they clearly had more than enough to verify my every claim.

My friends might not have known the details of the abuse, but they affirmed that yes, I had told them that he was abusive—long before he ran for Senate.

Besides, they assured, my part in their reporting would be small. I thought my details would only serve to affirm Jenny and the other anonymous woman.

Jenny and I - having never met or spoken - both shared with these reporters terrifyingly similar details of intimate partner violence, coercive control, and cycles of abuse/love bombing. The third unnamed woman in the story did as well.

But tell me again how they “could not corroborate.”

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@ScottJenningsKY Pretending to be shocked. Like the day after Joe Biden’s last debate. Something of a pattern.

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@Legal_Fil We played like a nervous guy on a first date. Awkward, tentative, no confidence. Third goal was an embarrassment. They were very physical, and clinical when they needed to be. An unceremonious exit.

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@Legal_Fil Ever since he joined ManCity we nicknamed him Frankenstein … He’s a monster in front of goal!

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@davidfrum The American president has always paid tax, the same as any other citizen, pursuant to law. The British monarch did not begin paying tax until the 1990s

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@wil_da_beast630 We helped save it from being occupied by Germans

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

America is exceptional because the people who bitch about it the loudest refuse to leave

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@QueensCrapper He’s applying for a job … and he’s tanking

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@Legal_Fil Good luck to the Pharaohs 🇪🇬 against Argentina 🇦🇷 👍

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@Legal_Fil Where in the ME Legal Phil? My dad immigrated from Ireland but my mom’s grandparents came from Lebanon and we grew up with that side of the family. Appreciate your commentary. Happy 4th! 🇺🇸

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@20meansspeed @jimgeraghty “Why can’t they just stop the clock and resume the time after the injury or other incident that caused the delay?”

“Get out”

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@jimgeraghty “And players will be ejected from the game with a red card”

“When will a red card be administered sir?”

“Nobody knows”

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

.@SenatorDurbin is so dishonest.
So detached.
So relentlessly partisan.

When my family needed our senator, his silence spoke louder than any speech. He was MIA.

I saw firsthand where families like mine rank in your priorities. We don't meet your blind ideology, which is clearly your North Star so victims are at the bottom.

From where I stand, it appears you're willing to fight tirelessly over ballots, not actual voters.

And rarely about the lives of Illinois citizens like Katie.

My experience left me believing that ballot operations and political math matter more than the innocent lives destroyed by the consequences of the policies you defend.

You showed this lifelong Illinoisan exactly where innocent victims rank in your priorities.

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@angeldadjoe I’m sure it was painful to do so, but thank you for your testimony in calling attention to this egregious betrayal of public trust.

[Dan Proft @DanProft]

I suspect Jessica Gorman bared her soul to people she knew likely wouldn't care in the hopes that some watching would.

Let's press the questions she raised far and wide. Sharing her testimony is the least we can do.

[John M. Breen @Breen3M]

@Heminator So, at least in that respect, she didn’t perjure herself during her confirmation hearing

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

Being a leftist in America means you fervently support birthright citizenship, but not necessarily birth.