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Kaitlan Collins Ignores Bill Barr's Role in the Effort that Framed Joe Biden

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emptywheel
Under Bill Barr's close watch, Joe Biden was framed. Not only didn't Kaitlan Collins ask him about his role in that process, but she let Barr lie to her face about being pressured on Hunter Biden.
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Brett Kavanaugh Thinks that Jack Smith Is as Crazy as Ken Starr Was

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emptywheel
Brett Kavanaugh tried to spin his concerns about Donald Trump being investigated, at all, yesterday as a concern about Special Counsels. Ironically, Hunter Biden may give Kavanaugh opportunity to back his stated concern with Special Counsels before Donald Trump does.
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King John Would Like a Word with Justice Alito

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Peterr
There's originalism, and then there's original originalism. Justice Alito, let me introduce you to John, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou.
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Sam Alito Says that Donald Trump Is a Maligned Ham Sandwich

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emptywheel
Sam Alito appears to believe everything Trump has claimed about the unfairness of his prosecutions.
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The Phone Contacts between the "Total Moron" and the PAC Head

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emptywheel
Jack Smith focused close attention on contacts between Person 5 -- who may be Boris Ephsteyn -- and Person 49 -- who may be Susie Wiles.
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Mark Meadows' Proffer

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emptywheel
Mark Meadows December 2022 proffer is pretty boring. But it shows the baseline story that Meadows was willing to tell, before iterative interviews led that testimony to evolve to follow the evidence.
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Trump's Attorney-Client Leak Privilege

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emptywheel
Trump made a whole bunch of claims of prosecutorial abuse last summer in a bid to get grand jury transcripts before he was charged.
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Trump's Nuclear Documents Were Mixed with Post-Presidential Press Clippings

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emptywheel
The Archives' initial description of the 15 boxes Trump returned in January 2022 explain why NARA referred them for more investigation: Trump had buried a nuclear document among press clippings, some post-dating his presidency.
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Trump's White House Didn't Archive Twitter DMs

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emptywheel
Documents from Trump's motion to compel in Florida remind of newly significant details of his White House's failure to preserve tweets covered by the Presidential Records Act.
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David Weiss Treats IRS Agents Who Accused Him of Misconduct as "Whistleblowers"

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emptywheel
In a bid to dismiss Hunter Biden's Ninth Circuit appeal of Judge Scarsi's denial of his motions to dismiss, David Weiss called the IRS agent media campaign "whistleblower disclosures."
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Trial Attention: Don't Let a Pecker Distract from More Important Stories

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emptywheel
Beware of getting entirely distracted by Trump's trial from the many events that will have far more impact on US and world
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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Rayne
Nicole and Marcy discuss the status of Trump's hush money trial and Judge Merchan's response so far to gag order violations.
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Maryellen Noreika Never Answered Mark Scarsi's Question

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emptywheel
The nature of Judge Maryellen Noreika's intervention in the Hunter Biden diversion agreement -- as elucidated by her opinion rejecting Hunter's claim of immunity -- raises real questions about whether Congress' intervention influenced her.
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WaPo Gives Bill Barr Platform to Attack Joe Biden without Mentioning Barr's Role in Framing Biden

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emptywheel
If you're going to make a big deal about Bill Barr supporting Trump in this year's election, at least mention that the side channel Barr set up for Russian disinformation on Hunter Biden in 2020 ended up framing Joe Biden.
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The Varieties Of Activist Judges

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Ed Walker
The Roberts Court is a mob of judicial activists
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Elon Musk's Xitter Stalls a Criminal Investigation, Again

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emptywheel
Elon Musk's Xitter is trying to stall DOJ investigations again.
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Media Organizations Omit Mention of Trump's Allegedly Criminal Exploitation of 2020 Debates

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emptywheel
Twelve media outlets claim that the only way they can display Trump's dystopian vision for America is by being complicit in it, by giving him a platform to stoke violence and frame his opponent.
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Judge Maryellen Noreika's Unconstitutional Concerns about Unconstitutional Concerns

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emptywheel
In an opinion intervening in a diversion agreement between Hunter Biden and David Weiss, Judge Maryellen Noreika ruled that intervening in such decisions would be unconstitutional.
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Alexander Smirnov Goes Missing -- from Judge Noreika's Opinions

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emptywheel
Even though Judge Noreika observed that Leo Wise appeared to revoke the deal it offered Hunter Biden when he insisted on the terms of immunity he had been promised, Noreika ignored Alexander Smirnov's role in that process.
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