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A bank owned by Egypt said it couldn't comply with a subpoena seeking information on a suspected payment to Trump during the 2016 election, in part, because China's laws would prevent that.

In courts up and down the East Coast, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller are making the same argument: That Trump and his team must be permitted to make false, incendiary attacks on rule of law as part of an electoral campaign.

Garrett Ziegler's own California field trip were cited to deny his motion to dismiss Hunter Biden's lawsuit against him.

SCOTUS releases its next batch of decisions at 10:00 a.m. this morning. This is an open thread.

In a bench conference at the Hunter Biden trial, prosecutors tried to exclude information from the laptop, once.

When Hunter Biden raised the way Trump had elicited threats against those investigating him, prosecutors simply pretended the threats didn't exist. But the arrest of a rabid Trump supporter last week made visible how vicious such threats are.

SCOTUS dumped its second cluster of decisions for this week at 10:00 a.m. this morning. Bankruptcy, immigration, guns but not presidential immunity in this batch.

When handling cross examination of the gun shop employees called by Hunter Biden, Leo Wise spent as much time shoring up his own plausible deniability as he did asking questions.

The Supreme Court will release several more decisions today as its term ends the end of this month. Here's an open thread to discuss this next batch of decisions.

The timeline of the collapse of the plea deal released in the last year makes it clear that David Weiss reneged on the scope of the immunity offered to Hunter Biden. But Hunter was willing to accept that narrowed scope. What killed the deal was Judge Noreika's intervention in the Diversion (not Plea) Agreement.