Sara Kropf
@sarakropf.bsky.social
I defend people. Lawyer/DC resident/Nats + Ravens fan/blogger on white collar criminal defense stuff. My kids think I’m weird. #StatehoodNow kmlawfirm.com
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New from me in @theatlantic.com : Trump is learning that although it's easy to convict someone in a social media rant, when you get into the courtroom things are a bit more complicated.
The criminal justice system is standing up to Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The criminal justice system is standing up to Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The One Place Trump’s Power Remains Constrained
In the criminal-justice system, when the president’s bluster collides with facts and evidence, he keeps losing.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
New from me in @theatlantic.com : Trump is learning that although it's easy to convict someone in a social media rant, when you get into the courtroom things are a bit more complicated.
The criminal justice system is standing up to Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The criminal justice system is standing up to Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
When I was 12, my older brother decided to make caramel by melting sugar in the microwave. I decided to “test” it.
Lesson learned: hot sugar is very hot and sticks to your finger.
Lesson learned: hot sugar is very hot and sticks to your finger.
A person's (legit excruciating, not mocking their pain!) post about getting a huge welt and lacerations from an egg hucked at highway speed has me wondering about the most embarrassing food to be injured by. My mom once burned her forehead badly with a flaming marshmallow, might be up there
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When I was 12, my older brother decided to make caramel by melting sugar in the microwave. I decided to “test” it.
Lesson learned: hot sugar is very hot and sticks to your finger.
Lesson learned: hot sugar is very hot and sticks to your finger.
Love this town!
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Love this town!
Congress can immunize witnesses. Then there’s no 5th A right and the person can be compelled to testify. (They still can’t commit perjury during the testimony.)
“Plead the Fifth” regarding what??
Maxwell has exhausted her appellate process. SCOTUS has rejected her.
Regardless, she lied with Todd Blanche so her credibility is dogshit unless you get someone like former AUSA Maurene Comey in there to question her.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Maxwell has exhausted her appellate process. SCOTUS has rejected her.
Regardless, she lied with Todd Blanche so her credibility is dogshit unless you get someone like former AUSA Maurene Comey in there to question her.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Ghislaine Maxwell will plead Fifth in House Epstein probe, Comer says
The late sex offender's convicted co-conspirator has been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Congress can immunize witnesses. Then there’s no 5th A right and the person can be compelled to testify. (They still can’t commit perjury during the testimony.)
Spitballing here but there’s a proceeding to deal with this type of behavior by a party in court. It’s called contempt.
This was the third time that Judge Xinis had ordered DOJ to produce someone who could actually testify to support its claims, and it was the third time DOJ failed to produce someone who could actually testify to support its claims.
ABC News: "After not being able to answer several questions from Abrego Garcia's attorneys, [ICE's John] Cantu said he received 'verbiage' for his declaration from a State Department attorney."
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Spitballing here but there’s a proceeding to deal with this type of behavior by a party in court. It’s called contempt.
In DC, we have been hearing many of these stories one by one. To see them all in one place, to see that the trickle of corruption is a flood, to see DOJ perverted this way …is chilling.
Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In DC, we have been hearing many of these stories one by one. To see them all in one place, to see that the trickle of corruption is a flood, to see DOJ perverted this way …is chilling.
Rule 6(e) is pretty clear on this point. MUST BE RECORDED. And govt would have to show an “unintentional failure” to maintain the validity of the indictment.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Rule 6(e) is pretty clear on this point. MUST BE RECORDED. And govt would have to show an “unintentional failure” to maintain the validity of the indictment.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
It’s nice to joy scroll instead of doom scroll for a change.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
It’s nice to joy scroll instead of doom scroll for a change.
I’ve been handling criminal matters for 25 years or so and I’m …. at a loss.
In USA v Comey, "for the avoidance of doubt," AG Pam Bondi purports to retroactively appoint Halligan under a different statute and to "ratify" her grand jury presentation & signature on the indictment—a month after the statute of limitation ran out.
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I’ve been handling criminal matters for 25 years or so and I’m …. at a loss.
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You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
All are considered acceptable so go off.
Mad Max on the mound for Game 7. Gonna be wild. He’s probably still mad that he can’t bat.
2019 feels like a lifetime ago, but Max Scherzer starting game 7 of the World Series still gives me all the feels. As a fellow old guy I hope he has at least one more special performance in the tank. The matchup with Shohei is absolute cinema.
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Mad Max on the mound for Game 7. Gonna be wild. He’s probably still mad that he can’t bat.
Timeline cleanse. Ruby, almost 6 months. Yes, she’s winking at you.
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Timeline cleanse. Ruby, almost 6 months. Yes, she’s winking at you.
An excellent (and historically fascinating) thread. We don’t have to give in to divisiveness. We are better together.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
An excellent (and historically fascinating) thread. We don’t have to give in to divisiveness. We are better together.
I recall a tan suit being an issue.
i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
October 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I recall a tan suit being an issue.
I love this.
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
October 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I love this.
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after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 PM
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
Thank you spam texter, thank you.
October 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Thank you spam texter, thank you.
My kids rode metro alone starting from about age 10 — in 2015.
Rep. Lisa McClain, on CNN, praising President Trump for deploying the National Guard to Washington:
"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."
[Her daughter is 22]
"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."
[Her daughter is 22]
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My kids rode metro alone starting from about age 10 — in 2015.
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I would like to request the the members of the National Guard still inexplicably deployed to DC kindly remember to walk to the left and stand to the right on the escalator
October 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I would like to request the the members of the National Guard still inexplicably deployed to DC kindly remember to walk to the left and stand to the right on the escalator
Insane things happening in the DC US Attorney's Office.
For those unfamiliar, the office handles both federal cases and nearly all of DC local criminal cases -- like a DA.
USAO got local jury to indict on fed charge and then tried to return local indictment in fed court.
Judge: Um, no.
/1
For those unfamiliar, the office handles both federal cases and nearly all of DC local criminal cases -- like a DA.
USAO got local jury to indict on fed charge and then tried to return local indictment in fed court.
Judge: Um, no.
/1
October 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Insane things happening in the DC US Attorney's Office.
For those unfamiliar, the office handles both federal cases and nearly all of DC local criminal cases -- like a DA.
USAO got local jury to indict on fed charge and then tried to return local indictment in fed court.
Judge: Um, no.
/1
For those unfamiliar, the office handles both federal cases and nearly all of DC local criminal cases -- like a DA.
USAO got local jury to indict on fed charge and then tried to return local indictment in fed court.
Judge: Um, no.
/1
Speedy trial, here we come. 70 days from indictment so trial could be as soon as Dec 4. Motions practice could slow that down but there’s a strong strategy to make USAO try the case quickly if no career folks are on it and only Hallagan.
As of this afternoon, not a single career DOJ attorney has entered an appearance in the case against former FBI Director James Comey. Only the newly-appointed U.S. attorney is listed. That's extremely unusual.
September 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Speedy trial, here we come. 70 days from indictment so trial could be as soon as Dec 4. Motions practice could slow that down but there’s a strong strategy to make USAO try the case quickly if no career folks are on it and only Hallagan.
For no particular reason … my musings on the vindictive prosecution defense. kmlawfirm.com/2025/03/11/s...
Selective/Vindictive Prosecution Defenses to “Political” Criminal Charges: Looks Are Deceiving | Kropf Moseley Schmitt
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September 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
For no particular reason … my musings on the vindictive prosecution defense. kmlawfirm.com/2025/03/11/s...