Examples Of Not-Free People

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Ed Walker
Make Trump supporters own their fear of freedom.

A Tale of Three Footnotes for "Purported Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan"

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emptywheel
In a motion asking Judge Jamar Walker to order Lindsey Halligan to stop leaking to the media, Abbe Lowell notes that Judge Walker could hold Halligan in contempt, but Attorney General James is not asking for that. Yet.
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Trump's GOP Death Panel in Progress

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Rayne
Trump-GOP's refusal to negotiate on health care subsidies is a Dickensian death panel: "If they would rather die, ...they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
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Kash's "lockbox in a vault...in a cyber place where no one can see or search these files"

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emptywheel
Kash Patel has ratcheted up his efforts to turn his past shoddy propaganda into prosecutions.

John Yoo's Old Trash and the South Shore Apartment Invasion

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emptywheel
Imagine if Stephen Miller started applying atrocious John Yoo opinions from 2001 to his fabricated war with Tren de Aragua? It would look pretty similar to what we saw in the raid of a South Shore building in Chicago.
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Donald Trump Owns Christopher Moynihan's Alleged Death Threat against Hakeem Jeffries

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emptywheel
One of the January 6 rioters Trump pardoned was arrested Sunday for making terroristic threats against Hakeem Jeffries.

Taint

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emptywheel
Judge Michael Nachmanoff's order denying the loaner prosecutors in the Jim Comey case a quick filter review discloses that the main FBI investigators may have already sneaked a peak into Comey's privileged communications.

Lindsey Halligan's Grand Jury Violation, with Love to Aileen Cannon

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emptywheel
According to the legal opinion Aileen Cannon adopted to give Trump Defense Attorney Lindsey Halligan her first big legal win, Lindsey Halligan cannot legally appear before a grand jury.

60 Pages of Animus: Jim Comey's Motions to Dismiss His Prosecution

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emptywheel
Jim Comey's motions to dismiss his indictment reveal almost nothing about the discovery he has received so far.

Lindsey Halligan Lectures Someone ELSE about Conflicts

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emptywheel
The loaner prosecutors doing Lindsey Halligan's dirty work are insinuating that Patrick Fitzgerald -- and not Halligan herself -- has a conflict on this case.

Shit-Posting All the Way to SCOTUS

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emptywheel
If the Supreme Court allows Trump to invade Democratic states based on transparent fabrications, we're in real trouble. But Trump spent the weekend proving how unreliable he is.

Stephen Miller's Trains Don't Run on Time

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emptywheel
Stephen Miller is incredibly powerful and so fascistic that Trump even hesitates to describe his ambition. But he is also downright slovenly. Increasingly,

No Kings Thread

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emptywheel
About 400 people and at least six frogs turned out to the American Embassy in Ireland to call for No Kings today.

Eagle Ed Martin and George Santos Just Proved Tish James' Vindictive Prosecution Claim

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emptywheel
At the very same time Eagle Ed was stalking Tish James up and down the Eastern Seaboard, desperately trying to find some crime to charge her with. he was also busy finding a way to free George Santos, a much bigger, confessed fraudster from prison.

Jim Comey Prepares to Prevail at SCOTUS

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emptywheel
Jim Comey has added the kind of lawyers to his defense team that signals he expects to have to break new appellate ground on politicized prosecutions.

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
There were a bunch of newsworthy detentions this week -- and not all that news was bad!

The Bolton Indictment

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emptywheel
The indictment against John Bolton charges him with sending, and then retaining, eight documents containing classified information.

Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal

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emptywheel
After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.

Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Lindsey Halligan's Filter Follies

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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan's loaner prosecutors decided they'd ask for a filter protocol to access already seized material the day after Judge Nachmanoff ordered they provide all discovery to Jim Comey that same day. That may work out poorly for them.
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