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Hunter Biden Lost His Phone(s) in the Same Days He Bought a Gun

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Within a day before Hunter Biden bought a gun in October 2018, he lost at least one phone. That's going to add some complexities to proving a case against him.
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David Weiss' Indict First, Seek Warrants Later Ethic

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emptywheel
David Weiss appears to have indicted the President's son without first getting a warrant to use some of the key evidence he'll use at trial.
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Scott Brady Admitted He "Was in the Room" for One Partisan Errand; Was There for a Second?

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emptywheel
Scott Brady twice signed his name to indictments describing Russian hackers attacking others like they are accused of attacking Hillary Clinton. Yet he refused to back the work of his own investigators
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Donald Trump Has Chosen to Pay Millions to Trash Rule of Law

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emptywheel
Regarding Trump's behavior in the E Jean Carroll trial: It's not that he can't control himself. It's that he's a very good Reality TV Show actor.
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The Coke-in-Gun Actually Harms David Weiss' Case

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emptywheel
David Weiss titillated a bunch of dick pic sniffers that the FBI found cocaine residue in a pouch in which Hunter had his gun. What those dick pic sniffers don't realize is that may actually help to prove Hunter's argument.
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David Weiss Buries Bill Barr Right Alongside Tony Bobulinski

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emptywheel
Hunter Biden prosecutor Derek Hines dismissed evidence the investigation had been politicized by burying the substance of Bill Barr's involvement.
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For Almost a Year, "Jim Jordan" Has Been Saying Hunter Biden Didn't Need to Testify

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emptywheel
Two of the letters that Jim Jordan keeps forgetting to cite in the legal dispute over Hunter Biden's testimony quoted him, at length, explaining why a subpoena of Hunter Biden would be an abuse of the House's authority.
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The Non-Visible Networks behind the More Visible Networks of Fascism

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emptywheel
Any effort to describe how Trump trained the Republican party to hate rule of law has to account for the extensive and far uglier non-visible networks on which the visible effort builds.
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Breathing Room: They Live On

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Rayne
It's cold and snowy -- perfect weather for queueing up an old cult classic. This is an open thread.
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Coming To Grips With Free Will

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Tomasello shows how agency might have evolved. Is there another form of free will?
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Scott Perry Explains How Trump, Fox, and Russian Propaganda Made Him Hate Rule of Law

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emptywheel
While chasing Hunter Biden's dick pics on Wednesday, Scott Perry laid out the false beliefs that lie behind his attack on the democracy and rule of law.
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Abbe Lowell Invites James Comer to Send a Valid Subpoena, Now That He Has Authority

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emptywheel
If there was never a valid subpoena issued to Hunter Biden -- as Abbe Lowell persuasively argued in a letter today -- then a whole lot of credulous reporting about Hunter Biden was defying anything will need to be retracted.
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Friday with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
Nicole Sandler podcast from January 12, 2024.
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The David Weiss and Leo Wise Inconsistencies Left Out of Hunter Biden Arraignment Coverage

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emptywheel
In June, at least according to Chris Clark, David Weiss' top Assistant said there was no ongoing investigation. In November David Weiss said there was.  In July, Leo Wise said that (aside from the dispute about 2018), the taxes have been paid, with interest. In December, Leo Wise told a grand jury -- along with credulous journalists -- they had not been.
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The Seth DuCharme Confession in the Charles McGonigal Sentencing Memo

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emptywheel
A year after the Durham investigation ended in spectacular failure, Seth DuCharme is still trying to claim that its targets did something they did not.
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James Comer's Second Impeachment Hearing More of a Circus than the First

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emptywheel
James Comer's blind fealty to Donald Trump continues to make him the laughingstock face of the do-nothing dick pic sniffing House GOP.
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Refusing to Take Yes for an Answer: Remember the Pardons in the Desk Drawer

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James Pearce argued that DC Circuit should rule on the merits of Trump's absolute immunity claim so Jack Smith's team can be sure they get the law right. But everyone seemed to understand that pertained, as well, to pardons.
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