If you are paying attention to Legal Twitter - specifically the people I've been retweeting in the past few days - as they unpack the Trump Campaign's Legal Clown Car Elite Strike Force activities, there is one thing I hope you are taking away from all of this. /1

For non-lawyers, the idea of a legal argument spins around the visceral issue of a case - the idea of arguing justice, what SHOULD happen, the result you want. But a huge part of lawyering involves a degree of specificity in how you go about that. The details can get /2

Extremely nitpicky - but the devil is in the details, as they say. You cannot just say "this is a fraud case" in public and then go plead that in court if you do not have any evidence of actual fraud. That's a big glaring problem most people can comprehend in all this /3

But now we are dealing with a botched up case of what the Trump legal team actually did try to argue in court, or failed to present, efforts to correct that, which also failed, and the limitations on what that leaves them to argue in any sort of appeal. /4

And that, naturally, affects what kind of remedy - or result - they can ask for (and in this case, not likely get) and why. This is why it is a great idea to follow some of the experts and, even if you cannot exactly pinpoint why some of the technicalities are issues, /5

At least understand that those technicalities are the rules of the game. Someone not good at that (cough . . . cough . . . Rudy . . . cough) is not going to bullshit their way past a judge on sheer bravado. So even if you never plan to study or practice law, there's a lovely /6

and FREE education on it happening regularly on Twitter. It's like football - everyone knows the basic idea is to move the ball down the field and across the goalposts. But the penalties and technicalities and rules - if you do not know them, you can spend a lot of time /7

Being very angry and stupidly surprised at a 5 yard penalty everyone else saw happen.

Hoping this thread makes sense. Anyway, enjoy the legal fireworks :D

P.S. I'll forget someone, sorry if it was you, but I always forget someone. It's me, not you. Anyway: FF @marceelias @bradheath @KlasfeldReports @Popehat @RMFifthCircuit @BradMossEsq @rickhasen @nycsouthpaw @gabrielmalor