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In the first of a series on what the public record shows about the Steele dossier's influence on the Mueller investigation, I'll show that it definitely had a role in the investigation of Carter Page, but for different reasons than commonly understood.

Yelling at House Speaker Pelosi is useless when it's is on you to exercise representative democracy. This is an open thread.

Are freedom and inequality in conflict? How can we have a democracy if they are?

Roger Stone's prosecutors are calling for a reconsideration of his release based off recent Instagram posts he made attacking the Russian investigation. I think this is a far closer call than his earlier shitposting.

This post has an updated list of the known Flynn interview dates.

According to Hope Hicks, Trump was worried in real time that Paul Manafort might have divided loyalties while he was working for him. So why does Trump want to pardon him for crimes involving those divided loyalties now?

Tonight only at 9:00 p.m. Law Works will stream a live play based on the Mueller Report. This is an open thread.

Hope Hicks didn't answer questions last week because White House lawyers told her not to. But given her responses about the campaign, it's pretty clear she'd try hard to protect Trump even if White House lawyers didn't tell her not to answer.

When Manafort made a show of accepting a plea deal, he agreed to cooperate against someone with a 7-character last name. But then he changed the story he was telling. That makes his repeated descriptions to Sean Hannity that Mueller planned to indict Kushner next very interesting.

Some crazy bullshit happened last evening, very nearly resulting in an attack on Iran. Trump called it off while U.S. planes were en route. This madness must stop — make calls now.