Alan Dershowitz: I’m Not ‘Full-Fledged Member’ of Trump Legal Team

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz clarified Friday afternoon that he is not a “full-fledged member” of President Donald Trump’s legal team for the Senate’s upcoming impeachment trial, stating that he will only present a brief argument against the president’s removal.

“I think it overstates it to say I’m a member of the Trump team. I was asked to present the constitutional argument that I would have presented had Hillary Clinton been elected and had she been impeached,” Dershowitz told The Dan Abrams Show on SiriusXM. “I was asked to present my constitutional argument against impeachment,” he added. “I will be there for one hour, basically, presenting my argument. But I’m not a full-fledged member of the defense team in any realistic sense of that term.” Dershowitz’s remarks come hours after a spokesperson for the impeachment defense team seemingly said the renowned lawyer would be formally joining its roster.

“Professor Dershowitz will present oral arguments at the Senate trial to address the constitutional arguments against impeachment and removal,” the statement read. “While Professor Dershowitz is non-partisan when it comes to the constitution—he opposed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and voted for Hillary Clinton— he believes the issues at stake go to the heart of our enduring Constitution.” In addition to Dershowitz, a CNN report said Kenneth Starr, a former appeals court judge who lead up the investigation into the Whitewater the Monica Lewinsky scandals, and Robert Ray, a former federal prosecutor and independent counsel who took over for Starr in the Whitewater probe, would also be joining the team. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow, President Trump’s personal lawyer, will head up the legal line-up.

The announcement follows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) formally transferring two articles of impeachment to the Senate after a near four-week delay, caving the pressure from Republicans and several Democrats in the upper chamber. Additionally, Pelosi also announced the seven House Democrats who will serve as impeachment managers in the trial. Schiff was appointed lead impeachment manager. Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) confirmed that the trial will likely start next Tuesday. “We’ll be able to go through some preliminary steps here this week, which could well include the Chief Justice coming over and swearing-in members of the Senate and some other kind of housekeeping measures…which would set us up to begin the actual trial next Tuesday,” McConnell said.

Earlier Friday, President Trump again criticized Democrats over their impeachment effort, quipping that they are trying to remove the “son of a bitch” in the White House. “You’ve had a lot of presidents behind the Resolute Desk, some good, some not so good,” the president said as he welcomed the Louisiana State University Tigers to the White House. “You’ve got a good one now, even though now they’re trying to impeach the son of a bitch. Can you believe that?”

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Jack Dorsey Asks Elon Musk, Who Once Committed Securities Fraud On Twitter, How To Fix Twitter

The inmates are officially running the asylum. Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently announced he wants to live in the woods in Africa instead of sitting behind a desk managing the two massive public companies he is at the helm of, has reached out to Elon Musk for advice on how to improve Twitter. Yes, gone are the days of market research and focus groups and in are the days of reaching out to another airheaded Silicon Valley CEO - who happened to have committed arguably the most egregious securities fraud in history on social media - and asking him for advice on how he'd improve the platform.

The two spoke on a video link in front of thousands of Twitter employees Thursday, according to Business Insider. During the conversation, Dorsey asked for "direct feedback on Twitter and asked Musk what he would do if he was running the platform. Oh, I don't know, maybe release a version that won't be available for 6 years and take deposits on it?

Musk's advice was tools to "help differentiate" between real and fake users.

Because maybe coming right out and just asking Jack to ban short sellers would have been a bit much… "Is this a real person, or is this a bot net, or a sort of troll army, or something like that?" Musk said. Musk continued: "Basically, how do you tell if the feedback is real or someone trying to manipulate the system, or probably real, or probably trying to manipulate the system. What do people actually want? What are people actually upset about versus manipulation of the system by various interest groups?" Despite Twitter being smaller than most social networks, it is still growing and Dorsey has committed to "healthier conversation" on the platform. You know, like calling international heroes pedophiles… Musk has 30 million followers on the platform and spends his days on it dealing with individual Tesla service complaints, making stupid Monty Python jokes and finding new various way to ridicule the SEC. In 2016, Dorsey praised Musk's used of Twitter, calling his account "a really good model of how to use it well." Some people on social media disagree.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/jack-dorsey-asks-elon-musk-who-once-committed-securities-fraud-twitter-how-fix-twitter

Mary Kate Twitter

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Mark B. Spiegel Twitter

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Lawsuit: Facebook Used ‘Unbridled Market Power’ in ‘Anticompetitive Scheme’

A group of companies behind now-defunct apps is suing Facebook, alleging that the company took part in an “anticompetitive scheme” that destroyed their business prospects NBC News reports that a group of app developing companies has proposed a class action lawsuit against social media giant Facebook which alleges that the company took part in an “anticompetitive scheme.” The lawsuit is reportedly based on leaked documents from the defunct app developer Six4Three which were obtained by NBC News last year.

The 7,000 pages of documents appeared to show that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other company executives used Facebook’s dominant market position to force potential rivals and competitors out between the years of 2011 and 2015. “This action seeks to halt the most brazen, willful anticompetitive scheme in a generation — a scheme that verges on final, irreparable completion as of the date of this Complaint,” the complaint alleges. “Facebook stands today as a paragon of unbridled market power.” Facebook has denied the allegations and stated that the lawsuit has no legal basis with a spokesperson stating: “We operate in a competitive environment where people and advertisers have many choices. In the current environment, where plaintiffs’ attorneys see financial opportunities, claims like this aren’t unexpected but they are without merit.”

In a statement from Paul Grewal, Facebook’s vice president and deputy general counsel, from April the VP alleged that Six4Three’s documents were “cherry-picked.” Grewal stated: “The set of documents, by design, tells only one side of the story and omits important context. We still stand by the platform changes we made in 2014/2015 to prevent people from sharing their friends’ information with developers like the creators of Pikinis.” The companies suing Facebook include Reveal Chat, a messaging app; Lenddo, a lending service; Cir.cl, an online marketplace; Beehive, an identity verification service; and LikeBright, a matchmaking app.

Yavar Bathaee, an attorney for the defunct apps, said in a statement: “Facebook faced an existential threat from mobile apps. It could have responded by competing on the merits, but it instead chose to use its might to intentionally eliminate its competition. Facebook deliberately leveraged its developer platform, an infrastructure of spyware and surveillance, and its economic power to crush or acquire anyone that competed with them.”

Ashkan Soltani, a former technologist at the FTC, who now works as an independent privacy researcher, commented on the lawsuit stating: “It lays out, very clearly, the critical intersection of privacy and antitrust. The plaintiffs argue, I think reasonably, that Facebook used access to user data as both a predatory and exclusionary tool — relying on data collected from users to identify what apps/markets to move into and simultaneously shutting out competitors by restricting their access to the Facebook API.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/01/17/lawsuit-facebook-used-unbridled-market-power-in-anticompetitive-scheme/#

>>7843101

1984 it is indeed! They have again over estimated the power they think they hold.

>>7843131

I believe so, was trying to find the drop for this..