By Matthew Russell Lee, Author Amazon Patreon Song
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, Jan 14 -- The Prince Andrew story was heating up, with the Queen after getting letters from service members stripping him of his military titles and maybe his immunity. Kurt wrote a song about Prince Andrew, the Little Saint Jeff / Nygard Cay Blues - when Judge Nathan put Maxwell back partially in the news.
Most media wrote only the second of her two orders, picking June 28 for Maxwell's sentencing. Would Nathan be on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals by then? That seemed to be the goal. But it was the order issued minutes before that caught Kurt's eye, and his ire.
He was in the SDNY Mag Court, where earlier in the week he'd caught the case of a literary agent charged with cyber stalking, now sending him threats to sue him or more. Kurt told his circle in the Mag court about it, and they asked if they might not get sued too. Then he learned: Judge Nathan was still withholding Scotty David's motion. He ran back to the Press Room.
Judge Nathan seemed to be gaming or extending the concept of judicial document. To Kurt, it meant that any submission considered by a judge became presumptively public, so that people could understand how the court made its decisions.
But Judge Nathan, just as she withheld from the docket Kurt's letters asking for a call-in line and to unseal on the basis that if she didn't grant them, they weren't judicial document, now did the same with Scotty.
On further reflection, Judge Nathan again wrote, Scotty may not have standing to intervene. But wasn't that a judicial decision, and the filing that triggered it a judicial document? Kurt wrote to Scotty's lawyer, who had written first to him, to see if he would release his own motion. No answer.
So Kurt submitted another letter to Judge Nathan, asking that it and Scotty's motion be deemed judicial documents and docketed. Then he went back to the Mag Court, and to the literary agent's threats. #MaximumMaxwell.
The larger question was how the "Scotty David" interviews came about. And now, The Carlyle Group. From #MaximumMaxwell to #MirroringMaxwell.
Inner City Press covered the trial, and all the comes before and after it; #CourtCaseCast and song I, Song 2, Song 3, fifth song, Nov 27 song and now, the Dec 29 verdict song here now Jan 8 Scotty David chatty juror song here
The underlying case is US v. Maxwell, 20-cr-330 (Nathan).
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