Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions [UPDATE-2]

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Rayne
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.
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Denial and Forgetting at the Hunter Biden Trial

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emptywheel
Journalists have utterly disappeared one key aspect of Hunter Biden's conviction: It would never have happened without the partisan interventions of John Paul Mac Isaac, Rudy Giuliani, and Bill Barr.
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What Happened to Hunter Biden's Plea Agreement

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emptywheel
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.
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The Scolding that Hunter Biden Should Have Pled Guilty Ignores the Complexity of What Happened

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emptywheel
The problem with most pieces scolding Hunter Biden for not pleading out before his gun trial is that Leo Wise and Derek Hines have made clear their intent to humiliate Hunter Biden no matter what he does.
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"Case Changing:" The 7-Eleven Messages

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emptywheel
On the morning of closing arguments, prosecutors in the Hunter Biden case surprised Abbe Lowell with October 10 texts they claimed proved Naomi Biden was wrong about her impression of her father over a week later.
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Hunter Biden Found Guilty on All Charges

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emptywheel
The jury found Hunter Biden guilty off all three charges against him.
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What Jurors Noticed about Hallie Biden's Testimony

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emptywheel
Jurors noticed that, while Hallie Biden was testifying, she was exchanging words of support with her husband, who was in the courtroom.
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Leo Wise Makes Excuses for the Reams of Evidence from Periods Hunter Didn't Own a Gun

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emptywheel
Before Leo Wise started presenting his evidence he made excuses for presenting so much from times when Hunter Biden did not own a gun.
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Hallie Biden Was First Compelled to Testify against Hunter Biden in 2022

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emptywheel
Judge Maryellen Noreika first approved an order compelling Hallie Biden to testify against her brother-in-law in 2022.
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The AT&T Associations Underlying the Shoddy Laptop Validation

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emptywheel
Hunter Biden's prosecutors may have knowledge of more problems with the laptop attributed to him than they've let on. As I've described and quoted here, all the validation they've provided for the laptop is that the serial number for the…
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Roe v. Wade

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Ed Walker
SCOTUS opinions are intended in part to persuade as well as to explain. Is Blackmun's opinion in Roe persuasive?
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Definition of an Addict: Why Hunter's Paraphernalia around Kids Matters

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emptywheel
We have no idea what jurors will decide in the Hunter Biden trial in days ahead. What we do know is what definition they'll use to decide whether he was an addict. 
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Prosecutors Plan to Use Their Failure to Exploit the Ablow Laptop against Hunter Biden

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emptywheel
David Weiss' prosecutors will use the fact that the DEA didn't check the Hunter Biden laptop found at Keith Ablow's office for evidence of drug crimes to excuse the fact that they have no direct evidence of drug use for the period when Hunter Biden owned a gun.
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Demons: The Greek Tragedy of America's Hunter Biden Addiction

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emptywheel
Naomi Biden's testimony in the Hunter Biden trial on Friday may well help prove the possession case against her dad, while conflicting stories from the gun shop guys might harm the counts pertaining to his statements on the gun form. More than anything else, though, Friday's testimony demonstrated what a pointless stupid waste of time the nation's focus on prosecuting Hunter Biden has been.
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Reading, Rather than Bringing, Receipts

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emptywheel
One of the Delaware cops who testified about finding the serial number of the gun that Hunter Biden bought described that the police report may have been filed over weeks or even a month.
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How to Think about the Hunter Biden "Laptop"

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emptywheel
50% of the digital data submitted at Hunter Biden's trial before today was only available on the laptop, and other details virtually no one knows about the Hunter Biden laptop, including that girlfriend Zoe Kestan can offer more insight into the digital integrity of Hunter Biden's data than Erika Jensen.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions

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Rayne
The Supreme Court's term ends this month, which means the court will dump a bunch of decisions in a short time frame. Here's an open thread to discuss decisions released today.
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Judge Noreika Risks Narrowing Hunter Biden's Right to Confront His Accuser Even Further

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emptywheel
Derek Hines wants to imprison Hunter Biden without giving him an opportunity to show that the guy who claims he witnessed two of the charged crimes against Hunter Biden didn't fulfill his own part of the paperwork.
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Hunter Biden Prosecutor Derek Hines and the February 2019 Super 8 Crack Pipe

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emptywheel
Four times now, Derek Hines has falsely claimed that a crack pipe Hunter Biden used in February 2019 in New Haven was instead something he used in October 2018 in Wilmington. Why can't Derek Hines keep his crack pipes straight?
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