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Judge Karen Henderson asked both John Sauer (Trump's lawyer) and James Pearce, arguing for Jack Smith, to address whether Marbury v. Madison combined with the Take Care Clause gets Article III Courts to jurisdiction over presidential actions. From there, she was mostly concerned that such a decision would unleash a floodgate of politicized prosecutions.

The call Trump placed to Tommy Tuberville immediately after Mike Pence was evacuated from the Senate floor does not appear in the indictment, probably because the only witnesses have immunity under Speech and Debate from testifying to it.

The first time Trump reached out to Russia to undercut Barack Obama's foreign policy in 2016 was an attempt to protect Bibi Netanyahu from repercussions for illegal settlements.

An explanation for my Ball of Thread series.

As expected, Dan Scavino told prosecutors that he was not in the room when a Tweet sent from Trump's phone almost got his Vice President killed.

Last summer, Jack Smith chose to indict just Trump, by himself. At any point, he could choose to do something else.

As of right now, thin majorities support democracy over Trump's fascism. Those numbers need to be defended and, hopefully, expanded.

A comparison of three warrants used in the influence peddling investigation of Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani leaves unanswered how much SDNY learned about the funding of the effort to fire Marie Yovanovitch in exchange for dirt on Hunter Biden.

An open thread post which includes a cocktail recipe and a hortatory kick in the ass to start this new year.

John Sauer added something to Donald Trump's immunity claims: That he should be entitled to the same immunities members of Congress are. That led Michael Dreeben to invoke Karen Henderson's past concurrence establishing that, "it is well settled that a Member is subject to criminal prosecution and process."