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Professor Peter Arenella

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Professor Peter Arenella

@arenella1

criminal defense atty, UCLA LAW Professor, proud Democrat, parent of a mentally disabled adut son and LGBTQ daughter, ally 🏳️‍🌈

Mexico but Boston guy

Joined June 2014

Professor Peter Arenella
@arenella1
Jun 8, 2025
Sadly, most Americans have no clue about what is happening in LA. My wife's son was shopping at a Home Depot Sunday when ICE agents engaged in a massive sweep of the store where they detained many customers with brown skins. I have urged Mia's three adult children to carry their
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Professor Peter Arenella
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Aug 31, 2025
I have a question for any PHD American historians. Has there ever been a political period in our past where all of the President's cabinet members not only lied constantly but where their lies were patently absurd. Such as Kristi Noem's statement "I do know that LA
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Professor Peter Arenella
@arenella1
Dec 4, 2024
I just got off the phone with a life-long Brit friend who works for their intelligence service. The Brits and the Israelis both believe Trump is doing Putin's bidding as his absurd cabinet appointments are all hostile to the agencies they might be heading. My friend concluded our
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Professor Peter Arenella
@arenella1
Jul 25, 2025
Last night's phone call from a life long British friend who is in the upper hierarchy of their intelligent service. Paraphrase his opening line: "Peter, I can't understand why your national media failed to report what most NATO countries and Israel have known for over a decade:
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Professor Peter Arenella
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Jun 8, 2025
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drivers licenses and passports with them at all times. The fear and hysteria in LA has become so widespread that black and brown Latinos who always shop at public swap meets to purchase bargain items have become "ghost" spaces because of the fear of ICE detention.
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Professor Peter Arenella
@arenella1
May 4, 2023
A life long friend from Scotland had planned to take his wife and 3 grand children on a 3 week US vacation: NYC for the adults and LA with a stop at Disney Land [Anaheim] for the kids. He just texted me that his wife insisted on canceling the trip: her reason in quotes
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Professor Peter Arenella
@arenella1
Oct 12, 2022
Can you imagine working 16-18 hrs every day including mot of your weekends while you partner and kids complain about never seeing you. Becoming a ghost to your family for an extended period of time because you believe your work is a necessary component of the effort to save our
Professor Peter Arenella
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Jun 8, 2025
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The LA Latino/Hispanic community is terrified about the risk of getting deported by mistake because ICE agents are content to focus solely on skin color for their initial detention decisions. Trump has already suggested that he might declare martial law if public protests
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Professor Peter Arenella
@arenella1
Apr 10, 2025
I am glad that I grew up in a working class family. My Dad was an atty that none of the rich Boston law firms would hire because he was Italian. For the first decade of his practice, he represented Italian immigrants who frequently could not pay him with $$. If his client
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Professor Peter Arenella
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May 4, 2023
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"Your country seems to have a terrible mass shooting daily and all over the country.I do not understand why your Congress has done nothing about it, not even banning machine guns that are only appropriately possessed and used by the military under war like conditions. Why risk
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Professor Peter Arenella
@arenella1
Jun 25, 2024
VERY IMPORTANT LEAK TO ABC-Trump expressed concern that if he returned the national security documents he was unlawfully possessing that he would be prosecuted: 1]such an admission by any criminal defendant is admissible against him 2] its incriminating value is very significant
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Professor Peter Arenella
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Jun 8, 2025
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risk violence. His Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has warned that Trump might call in active US Marines to quell any public disturbances. Such fascist terror tactics should enrage all Americans who care about their civil liberties and trigger large protests across the
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Professor Peter Arenella
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May 4, 2023
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our lives with such insanity" Meanwhile, a generation of young children practice safety protocols in case they are the target of some mentally ill young man with a grudge. The fact that Congress cannot act to protect potential future victims is a bleak indictment of a "democracy"
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Professor Peter Arenella
@arenella1
Jun 8, 2025
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nation. My generation did so to protest the Vietnam war. However, Trump has discouraged such lawful and constitutionally protected conduct by instilling fear in the targeted communities. Prof Peter Arenella UCLA Law, Emeritus
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