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Jim Jordan, Killer Clown

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Rayne
Jim Jordan, killer clown -- an existential threat to members of Congress who have to put up with him while they represent the rest of us.
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Sidney Powell's Great Time Machine of Electoral Gaslighting

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emptywheel
The frothy right appears to be claiming -- so as to blame Biden for the FBI's questions about the Logan Act -- that Jim Comey and Barack Obama had the same exchange on two consecutive days.
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The Superseding Assange Indictment Tidies Up CFAA Charges

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emptywheel
By expanding the CFAA charges in the Julian Assange indictment, DOJ has made his extradition on those charges, at least, far stronger -- and also sets up a framework into which DOJ can add other co-conspirators going forward.
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HJC Democrats Do Little to Limit Jim Jordan's Assault on Public Health and Rule of Law

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emptywheel
Somehow, wrestling coach Jim Jordan managed to best most Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee in today's hearing on politicization of DOJ.
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Three Things: Numbers, Hearings and Racist Code

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Rayne
There's always more than three things to address but here's three we should look at more closely -- Yesterday's COVID-19 oversight hearing, the data debacle in Tulsa, and racist facial recognition.
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Citing Presumption of Regularity, DC Circuit Rules against Emmet Sullivan to Prevent Embarrassing Billy Barr

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emptywheel
Neomi Rao just ruled that District Courts must be totally gutted to prevent Billy Barr from embarrassment.
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The World's Biggest Donald Trump Fan Believes Donald Trump Is Lying about COVID

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emptywheel
Donald Trump seems to believe that COVID-19 no longer poses a deadly risk to Americans. His rat-fucker, Roger Stone, begs to differ.
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Even the First Roger Stone Sentencing Memo Was Politicized

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emptywheel
It has long been clear that the second sentencing memo for Roger Stone was politicized, by ignoring all the enhancements that people who weren't the President's rat-fucker would routinely have applied. But in his opening statement for testimony before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow, Aaron Zelinsky reveals that even the first memo was politicized by taking out some part of Stone's conduct.
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MMT On Inflation

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Ed Walker
MMT recognizes the danger of inflation and explains how we can cope.
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Trump's Muslim Ban Ignored the Most Dangerous

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emptywheel
Lieutenant Mohammed Alshamrani, who shot up a naval base in Florida, was not vetted in either Trump's Muslim ban vetting or the Pentagon Insider Threat vetting.
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On Rod Rosenstein's Professed Unfamiliarity with the Mueller Report

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emptywheel
Rod Rosenstein appeared unfamiliar with key parts of the Mueller Report when he testified earlier this month. That makes me wonder whether he's even aware of later, more serious steps in the Roger Stone investigation.
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The Tussle in Tulsa: A Retrospective

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Rayne
Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma yesterday didn't live up to my worries about violence or Trump campaign's expectations for turnout.
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Rudy Giuliani's Actions Remain Under Investigation

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emptywheel
Bill Barr tried to fire Geoffrey Berman last night. That makes the ongoing investigations into Rudy Giuliani more interesting.
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Friday Night Half-Assed Massacre: The Attempted Firing of SDNY's Berman

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Rayne
A post to capture Attorney General Bill Barr's bizarre Friday evening attempt to firing Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York
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John Bolton Versus Navy Versus Egan

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emptywheel
By invoking evidence that Donald Trump is behind the hold-up of prepublication review of his book, John Bolton may make Navy v. Egan a central dispute in litigation going forward.
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A Tale of Two National Security Advisors

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emptywheel
The comparison of the claims Mike Ellis is making about Trump's third National Security Advisor with the treatment given his first -- the guy who actively sold out his country rather than did so by inaction -- only serves to emphasize how Trump interprets "national security" to mean "loyalty to Trump."
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Mike Flynn Prosecutor Jocelyn Ballantine Tries to Square DOJ's Crooked Circle

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emptywheel
In yet another filing, DOJ argues against DOJ in the Mike Flynn case.
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Despite Rapid Growth In Civil Rights Tourism, Montgomery Remains Firmly In The Grip Of Racist White Men

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Jim White
Despite a population that is 61% black, Montgomery Alabama has five white men on its nine person City Council. That council failed last night, mostly along racial lines, to enact an ordinance that would require masks to be worn in public, despite hospitals now being nearly overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, most of whom are black.
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Debunking The Deficit Myth

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Ed Walker
Federal expenditures are not constrained by the ability of the government to tax and borrow.
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