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When SDNY obtained a warrant for Lev Parnas' Instagram account in December 2019, they chose not to obtain a photo showing Ivana Trump at an event for Parnas' fraudulent Fraud Guarantee business, months before Parnas first started buying access to Donald Trump.

While meditating on things stolen and stollen, the wait is ending and over. This is an open thread.

Garrett Ziegler focuses most of his response to Hunter Biden's hacking lawsuit arguing that using a password to access the encrypted iPhone backup included on the hard drive he got from a Rudy Giuliani associate is not hacking. He doesn't address whether he hacked any of Hunter's cloud content.

SCOTUS refused to take Jack Smith's request to review Trump's frivolous absolute immunity claim right away. That bodes very poorly.

Rudy declared bankruptcy so he can avoid paying Ruby Freeman while he appeals.

In the Ruby Freeman case, Rudy avoided searching his messaging accounts by claiming that his phones were synced to his iCloud. But when SDNY searched Rudy's iCloud for known texts and other messaging in 2019, much of it wasn't there.

Colorado's decision that Trump is not eligible to be President will accelerate the Supreme Court's review of his January 6 conduct.

The 11th Circuit just rejected Mark Meadows' effort to remove his Georgia prosecution to federal court. Along the way, conservative judge William Pryor adopted the logic that DC judges have also used in considering Trump's role in attempting to steal the 2020 election.

We're in the deep end of Advent season. What fruited cakes have you run across this past week? Have you baked? This is an open thread.

In her statement after an enormous jury verdict yesterday, Shaye Moss described the stakes: "We hope no one ever has to fight so hard just to get your name back." Yet the heroism of that fight: of two Black women, Ruby Freeman and Moss, refusing to be bullied, wasn't the focus of the coverage.