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Proud Boy Closure or John Roberts' Get Out of Jail Free Card?

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emptywheel
Some developments in the Proud Boys cases make me wonder whether John Roberts' revision of 18 USC 1512(c)(2) made it difficult if not impossible to hold accountable key players that tie the January 6 crime scene and the Willard together.
Donald J. Trump wearing an apron while dispensing french fries at a McDonald's fast food restaurant in Pennsylvania as part of a campaign stunt on Sunday, October 20, 2024. Photo by Doug Mills/AP.
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What Wannabe Cosplayer-in-Chief Doesn’t Grab

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Rayne
Vote for somebody who isn’t going to cosplay at working while being a fascist slacker in reality.
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On the Legacy of Bill Barr's Luzerne County Intervention

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emptywheel
In any year, DOJ would not be providing much comment on investigations into election-related crime like Elon Musk's suspected illegal payments or the arson targeting dropboxes in Washington and Oregon. But that's all the more true because of a scathing Inspector General Report from July laying out Bill Barr and a Trump US Attorney's efforts to publicize an instance of ballot tampering.

At Least Four Trump Supporters Arrested for Cheating

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emptywheel
Thus far, at least four Trump supporters have been arrested for cheating. And the Supreme Court seems poised to help Trump cheat.
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Secret Documents! The Ten Month Privilege Fight Whingers Claim Didn't Happen

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emptywheel
Documents liberated by Politico confirm the privilege fights over testimony of Trump aides in the January 6 investigation lasted from June 15, 2022 through April 27, 2023.

Jeff Bezos' Manifesto of Impotence

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emptywheel
Reality is in fact on the ballot this year, the race remains neck and neck, and you, Jeff Bezos, decided to go down without a fight.
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Jack Smith's Delicate Treatment of BadgerPundit Kenneth Chesebro

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emptywheel
Jack Smith appears to have interviewed Kenneth Chesebro. But that doesn't mean his testimony is all that reliable.
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The Media Started Capitulating to Trump with Russia Russia Russia

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emptywheel
The media's capitulation to Donald Trump is not new. They started down this path when they allowed Trump to claim that the very productive Russian investigation was just a big hoax, and on that manufactured grievance build a fascist movement.
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If Putin Is Running Musk, Trump Should Be Terrified

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emptywheel
Elon Musk's reported ties to Vladimir Putin and other top Russians are more of a concern because of Musk's willingness to use Xitter to stoke violence and JD Vance's centrality in Musk's role on Trump's campaign.
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Woodward Book: Joe Biden's "Dementia" Tracked His Stress about Hunter Biden

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emptywheel
Even though Bob Woodward's book describes it explicitly, Dick Pick Sniffers like Alex Thompson seem to have missed the import of the observation, attributed to Tony Blinken, that guilt about Hunter's plight turned Joe Biden into an emotional wreck.
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The Disappearing Cheshire Cat I Found in the Rabbit Hole Where Lee Chatfield Was Hiding

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emptywheel
After I set off searching for Lee Chatfield's interview with Jack Smith, I also discovered 30-some pages of a Ronna McDaniel interview and a very specific ask that Michigan Republicans throw out my vote for Joe Biden.
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Ball of Thread: Zombie Mueller

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emptywheel
Bill Barr's efforts to kill the parts of the Mueller investigation that continued after he misrepresented the Report ended up laying the foundation for January 6.

When an Older White Catholic Man Admits, "This Toxicity that Exists Is Really Embarrassing"

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emptywheel
I don't know whether Kamala Harris' campaigning on a Constitution over party pitch with Liz Cheney will work. I don't know if it'll be enough to win this election. What I do know is that neither Harris nor Cheney are mistaking the enormity of the task, of trying to break the authoritarianism of a party that has overwhelmed voters with a blanket of disinformation and dehumanization.
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So Help Me God: Lawyers, Encryption, and Insurrection

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emptywheel
Volume III of the Appendix to Jack Smith's immunity brief starts with what are likely texts obtained from Mike Roman and Boris Epshteyn's phones, both of which were seized in September 2022. There are reasons to suspect that Smith faced a delay in accessing texts from both those phones.
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Kamala Harris against Despair

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emptywheel
When Maria Shriver asked Kamala Harris how she deals with the stress of this election, Harris responded by giving a powerful speech against despair.
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How to Read the Immunity Appendix

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emptywheel
Most of the evidence in the appendix to Jack Smith's immunity filing remains sealed. But by understanding how the four volumes work, we can understand most of what appears in it.
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Trump's GOP Is Running on a Platform of Freeing Seditionists and Cop Assailants

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emptywheel
The Republican Party's candidate for President is running on a platform of freeing cop assailants and seditionists. 

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
We spoke a lot about the Univision town halls and the Bret Baier interview.
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