"Who By High Ordeal, Who By Common Trial"
"Who By High Ordeal, Who By Common Trial"
Trump New York Trial Diary, Entry #13
Good Morning:
Apologies for yesterday’s dog shirt’s not sending out, a tech fail I did not notice amidst a day of tech fails.
Let’s begin with a sunflower update. I writing you as the newest client of the Washington area American Civil Liberties Union, which has agreed to represent me before the D.C. city government in pursuing the two objectives I described in this dog shirt of a few days ago:
First, I want to get my sunflowers into the ground.
. . .
Second, I want an explanation. Somehow, the MPD stopped a sunflower planting protest from planting sunflowers Saturday evening, citing what seems to be garbage law and in a fashion remarkably convenient to the genocidal motherfuckers across the street. I want to satisfy myself that this was a mistake on the DC police’s part and not a manipulation of the police on the part of the Russian embassy.
My immediate priority is the first objective. I hope to have some news on it in the next few days, so we can go ahead and put the sunflowers where they belong—in the ground immediately within view of the Russian embassy’s front gates.
I am very grateful to the good folks at the ACLU for taking this on. As readers know, I am in court all day and working intensively on Trump trials-related matters. My capacity to interface with DC city officials for the next few weeks is extremely limited. I am also, and I know this surprises some people, not actually a lawyer. And it is always better to be represented in interactions with government and law enforcement by proper counsel who know what they are doing. I have never had to retain counsel before in my interactions with the United States Secret Service, even when somebody told them I was planning a firebombing of the Russian embassy and four large Secret Service SUVs filled with the Secret Service agents showed up to my house to interview me. (Response of
, who was staying at Chez Wittez at the time and was present for the interview: “You have a very interesting life.”)But I’m sufficiently bewildered by the behavior of the police in this instance and sufficiently unsure what the appropriate remedy is that I don’t feel confident in my ability to handle it myself—particularly from two hundred thirty miles away while in a courtroom trying to keep up with the trial of a former and current president.
I will update readers as soon as I have news and can schedule Phase II of the planting.
Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is this guy:
Trump Trial Diary, May 7, 2024
Who by high ordeal, who by common trial,
Who in your merry merry month of May,
Who by very slow decay
This song by Leonard Cohen has been on my mind as I watch the trial:
The song is a riff on an ancient Jewish prayer called the Unetaneh Tokef, which is part of the High Holiday liturgy, so it’s a bit out of season right now:
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