#mark bankston

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I'm not really a lawyer or lawyer adjacent so I don't always get what's going on when things happen in court with famous idiots, but I really enjoy reading your breakdowns of them. So please feel free to gush about your IRL Blorbo as much as you want! It's entertaining and (for me) educational. 🍿

Bruh he's just such a good lawyer, though, oh my God.

Also his wife is an environmental law attorney (basically a prosecutor against companies that flout environmental regulations), he has a garden intentionally designed to feel like Skyrim (including dragon skulls and a Viking shield just lying around), and owns two geckos and a "big chungus of a lizard."

But seriously, the dude is so good at what he does. And I don't think he's even 40 yet? But like, holy Jesus, the guy has such a fantastic understanding of the rules of evidence, he's got a fucking mental rolodex of citations to the rules of professional conduct that he can just pull out on the fly, apparently, and he does it all while also, like, subtly trolling?

Like, okay, the bit in the Perry Mason Moment where he asks Jones if he knows what perjury is? And he says it in this tone of voice that makes it seem like he's concerned about Jones possibly perjuring himself and is just trying to make sure Jones is aware of his options before lying on the stand?

I am 100% certain that that's actually a reference to when Dan Bidondi, Jone's "field reporter" who participated in the harassment of the families and is also incredibly racist, harassed one of the town officials by repeatedly yelling "do you know what perjury is?" and that he was "going to jail, criminal."

And the reason I think that is because he did something similar on the first day of trial:

That bit where he's like "will you talk to me?" The one part of the trial that wasn't filmed was jury selection, and apparently Reynal asked every single potential juror "will you talk to me?" before he asked any other questions. (I think it was supposed to build rapport? But apparently it came off as very odd) He's not actually asking Reynal "will you talk to me?" as a legitimate question, he's just making a reference to what had happened the day before, which is why Reynal flips him off.

Also his written motions are always hilarious to read. Even before I knew who he was, one of my coworkers at my old job (who got me in to Knowledge Fight) would show me his filings and they were always so wonderfully sarcastic. Seriously, look at this:

BECAUSE. HE DOES NOT. POSSESS. THE POWERS. OF PROPHECY. I AM CRYING.

anyway yeah i'm totally normal about him shhhhhh

#askbox #personal #sonneillonv #bb is a lawyer #mark bankston #knowledge fight

[kiilonova]

collection of my favorite moments from the brody v musk deposition

here is the link to where i read it all

#ok to rb #musk deposition #mark bankston #its very clear he went into this case with the experience of the jones v sandy hook parents trial in mind

[thefearofcod]

[mark bankston voice] pressed tweet,

#mark bankston #the musk deposition…. unreal #they should make you read that to learn how to write dialogue for insane people #make your speeches to the foxes general #btw this is a mark bankston stan account

[cvsette]

this took me longer than i’d like to admit

#alex jones #mark bankston #turn down for what? perjury #vids

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The January 6th House Committee is preparing to request the trove of Alex Jones’s text messages and emails revealed Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit filed by victims of the Sandy Hook massacre, Rolling Stone has learned.

On Wednesday, Sandy Hook victims’ attorney Mark Bankston told Jones that his attorney had mistakenly sent Bankston three years worth of the conspiracy theorist’s emails and text messages copied from his phone.

Now — a source familiar with the matter and another person briefed on it tell Rolling Stone — the January 6th Committee is preparing to request that data from the plaintiff attorneys in order to aid its investigation of the insurrection. These internal deliberations among the Committee, which is probing former-President Donald Trump’s role in causing the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, began within minutes of the lawyer’s revelation being heard on the trial’s livestream on Wednesday afternoon.

Jones has already featured prominently in the Panel’s investigation for his role in whipping up public support for the insurrection and for his close ties to alleged conspirator Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia. Jones frequently hosted Rhodes as a guest on his InfoWars channel and his militia provided security for the Texas-based conspiracist.

The Committee initially subpoenaed Jones in November 2021 and asked for him to turn over documents and participate in a deposition. Jones, according to a letter sent by the Committee, was initially told by the White House on January 3, 2021 that he was “to lead a march to the Capitol, where President Trump would meet” with protesters.

It’s unclear what, specifically, the Committee will be looking for in Jones communications but attorneys for the Sandy Hook plaintiffs have accused the InfoWars host of intentionally withholding relevant communications about the Sandy Hook shooting and lying about having conducted a search for them. A Committee spokesman declined to comment.

The documents were turned over after Jones’ attorney “did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protected in any way and as of two days ago it fell free and clear into my possession,” Bankston told Jones in court Wednesday. “That is how I know you lied to me.”

#us politics #news #sandy hook defamation lawsuit #alex jones #infowars #memes #shitpost #2022 #house select committee #capitol riot investigation #rolling stone #rolling stone magazine #Mark Bankston #Stewart Rhodes #oath keepers #trump administration #alt right

[mysharona1987]

Alex Jones getting flustered: “Wait, so you got my text messages. No, no you didn’t. Oh, nice try.”

Lawyer *loudly and evilly chuckles*: “Yes, Mr Jones. Indeed, we did.”

Like when you can tell even the lawyer is loving bringing that little shit down.

And also getting to sound like a cool supervillain.

This makes law school worth it.

#Alex jones #mark bankston #perry mason #democrats #republicans #politics #donald trump #news #James bond #Goldfinger #Guns #tw guns

[fibrefox]

Time flies when your brain is melting.

#knowledge fight #knowledge fight podcast #mark bankston #dan friesen #jordan holmes #641: Formulaic Objections Part 4

[the-insidious-dr-grey-matter]

Am I the only one who thinks Robert Kirkman is doing an excellent job on the Alex Jones trial?

#robert kirkman #mark bankston #invincible #alex jones #alex jones trial

[demonbrothers]

#(੭ĭ◡ĭ)੭♥ #Mark Bankston #Bill Ogden #Kyle Farrar #Wes Ball #Heartthrobs at Law #Sandy Hook Defamation Trial

[saffrontherogue]

Mark Bankston’s office this week, probably

#alex jones #alex jones trial #mark bankston

[tomorrowusa]

I ignore bizarre headlines from tabloid-style sources which show up in search results or “recommended” links. That is clickbait.

But when something batshit crazy appears at a respectable news source,  I feel obliged to investigate.

Roger Stone, of course, is a lifelong authoritarian groupie and professional troll. Alex Jones is a reality-challenged far right huckster who has made a career out of peddling conspiracy theories. The latter just lost a court case related to his totally fabricated story about the Sandy Hook massacre.

Lawyers for the notorious American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accidentally gave his legal adversaries a nude photo of his wife that he had texted to the conservative political operative Roger Stone, an attorney involved in the matter has acknowledged.

The seemingly farcical – but entirely true – development was the latest bit of fallout since one of the attorneys for a family suing Jones for defamation revealed last week that Jones’s own lawyer had inadvertently handed over numerous text messages belonging to the far-right provocateur and then failed to take steps to keep them out of court.

The lawyer, Mark Bankston, the recipient of the accidental leak, appeared on Monday on the Young Turks progressive news commentary show to confirm that one of the texts in question contained a naked photo of Jones’s wife sent to Stone, once an adviser to former president Donald Trump.

That makes me wonder what Trump was keeping in his safe. But anyway...

Bankston, too, had previously said there were “intimate messages” from Jones among the texts that the Infowars host’s lawyer inadvertently provided. But it wasn’t until after Jones’s ranting that Bankston elaborated on what exactly those intimate messages entailed.

Neither Jones, his attorney nor Stone could immediately be reached for comment Tuesday.

There’s a chance Jones’s texts could be featured at the investigation by the House January 6th committee – though probably not nude photos unless they depict Donald Trump or the Proud Boys. 😛

The congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol moved quickly to ask Bankston to turn over those texts, interested in seeing what kind of contacts Trump’s team may have had with one of the ex-president’s most prominent supporters. Earlier in the committee’s investigation, Jones underwent a deposition, but he invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination throughout the proceeding.

Bankston has said most of those texts were from the middle of 2020, several months before the Capitol attack in early 2021.

#roger stone #alex jones #infowars #sandy hook #trial #nude photos #texts #mark bankston #house january 6th committee

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Hello local lawyer BemusedlyBespectacled. How does one get a job as a lawyer specializing in suing high-profile assholes, the way Mark Bankston seems to? What field of lawyering is he?

He is a personal injury attorney! Apparently his firm's thing originally was doing product defect cases – stuff where you have, like, a car that has a defect, and as a result you're in a car crash and are horribly injured, so you sue the car manufacturer.

With personal injury attorneys, typically you only take a chunk of whatever money you win (he's described it as "I eat what I kill"). So like, if you win a million dollars for the client, you get some percentage of that million to make up for the months and/or years of work you did essentially for free.

I think with the Sandy Hook parents, he took their case pro bono, but is still recouping some lost money because of how much sanctionable shit Jones' lawyers pulled. (And that is money that goes directly to him/his firm, because he wasted time and money on, like, trial prep for a trial that was delayed by several months, or hiring a court reporter for a depo that was essentially hours of bullshit, solely because of Jones' shenanigans)

With this new case with Musk, I think he's just gotten a reputation now as a guy who is very, very good at taking down powerful media figures who defame people by making up or spreading conspiracy theories about them. No idea how he's getting paid for that one (I don't know if it's pro bono or if it's with the usual agreement), but I think it doesn't matter, given that he's almost immedaitely had to ask for sanctions from Musk's side because the guy defending that disaster of a deposition DIDN'T HAVE A TEXAS LAW LICENSE, WASN'T ADMITTED PRO HOC VICE, AND WASN'T THERE WITH A "SPONSORING" TEXAS ATTORNEY, WHICH IS WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO EVEN IF YOU'RE ADMITTED PRO HOC VICE.

#askbox #personal #my-smial #bb is a lawyer #mark bankston #knowledge fight

[trump666traitor]

Like so many, this proverb has been traced to John Heywood's 1546 book of proverbs, the second collection he edited on the subject.  Many variations exist including 'a last laugh is the best laugh', he who laughs last, laughs longest, he who weeps least, weeps best, and so on.

#he who laughs last laughs best #alex jones #Reynal #john heywood #sandy hook #mark bankston #phonebone

[altschmerzes]

i need everyone to know that the attorney who conducted the elon musk deposition is one of my personal professional heroes and he also sounds a liiiiiittle bit like kermit the frog. if you want to listen to several dozen hours of his and his co-counsel’s fantastic work on the sandy hook defamation trials that cost alex jones a couple bil, the podcast knowledge fight has them very well covered by extremely informed and entertaining hosts in the episodes titled “formulaic objections”.

#gav gab #I JUST KEEP SEEING EVERYONE TALK ABOUT THIS AND IM LOSING MY MIND LIKE #THATS MARK BANKSTON THATS MY GUY…… #HES EVEN BETTER IN AUDIO LMAO

[shu-of-the-wind]

i love how three separate people have sent me the mark bankston deposition of elon musk. i love that this is my brand

#spiro can get fucked i can't believe he's not even pro hac admitted in texas #holy fuck bruh #elon musk #goddamn this is some funny shit #also go listen to knowledge fight cause mark bankston does a guest appearance on that i think #shut up alix no one cares

[myloish]

also the hbo doc reminding the world of how mark bankston made a fool of alex jones on the stand one day before mark deposes elon for boosting a social media conspiracy that ruined a guy's life... god i love that for him.

#“i eat what i kill”- mark bankston 2021 #parasocial i need to log off etc etc but this guy rules