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By Asking for Tanya Chutkan's Recusal, Trump Invited a Lesson in His Centrality to January 6

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emptywheel
Trump wants his January 6 trial to be messaging and fundraising vehicle. But by asking Tanya Chutkan to recuse, he invited DOJ to lay out just how deeply implicated he is in the entire assault on the Capitol. 
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Not Breaking News and Stop Lying to Your Followers It is: David Weiss Indicts Hunter Biden

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emptywheel
David Weiss indicted Hunter Biden on the weapons charge and a false statements charge.
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Gary Shapley's Notes Show That Gary Shapley Misrepresented David Weiss

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emptywheel
Gary Shapley rewrote his own notes about what David Weiss said at a contested October 7, 2022 meeting, changing a statement originally recorded saying that Weiss "will" bring charges in Los Angeles to one about what he would have to do to obtain authority to do so.
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Gary Shapley's Notes Recorded Something He Claimed Not to Know before House Ways and Means

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emptywheel
In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, Gary Shapley claimed he didn't know what outlet had published a leak on October 6, 2022. It was a funny claim then. It's funnier still given that his handwritten notes recorded that the leak had been to the WaPo.
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Hunter Biden Sues Garrett Ziegler for Hacking His iPhone

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emptywheel
Hunter Biden just sued Garrett Ziegler for hacking the encrypted compartment on the "Hunter Biden" "laptop" that included his backed up phone.
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By the Time Kevin McCarthy Rolled Out an Impeachment Inquiry, the FBI Had Already Debunked a Key Premise

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emptywheel
By the time Kevin McCarthy empowered Jim Jordan and others to start an impeachment investigation yesterday, Jim Jordan knew one of the only claims pertaining to Joe BIden's Administration had been debunked.
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As Kevin McCarthy Embraces James Comer's Wet Dreams of Dick Pics, George Santos Discusses "Paths Forward"

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emptywheel
Prosecutors in EDNY are explicitly discussing a plea agreement with George Santos' former fundraiser and implicitly discussing "resolutions" with Santos as well.
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Todd Blanche Confuses Aileen Cannon's Prior Trump Reversal with Tanya Chutkan's Individualized Guilt

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emptywheel
To assess the seriousness of Trump's demand that Tanya Chutkan recuse herself because of bias, you need only know that Todd Blanche -- who has expressed no concern about Aileen Cannon's much more glaring biases -- signed onto the motion.
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The Federalism that Mark Meadows Wants the 11th Circuit to Reverse

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emptywheel
In refusing to remove Mark Meadows' prosecution from Georgia state courts, Judge Steve Jones ruled that most of the things of which Meadows is accused had no valid federal purpose.
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David Weiss May Have More Bluster than Tactical Leverage

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emptywheel
Speedy Trial filings in the Hunter Biden gun case last week seem to hint at an intense game of chicken between David Weiss and Abbe Lowell. And thus far at least, Weiss seems more afraid of indictment than Lowell is.
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Cleta Mitchell Skates

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emptywheel
While grand jurors expressed lukewarm support for charging three Senators -- David Purdue, Kelli Leoffler, and Lindsey Graham -- they expressed far more support for charging Cleta Mitchell, who nevertheless was not charged.
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Stan Woodward Thinks Aileen Cannon Is an Easy Mark

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emptywheel
Before Stan Woodward stalled any conflict review for his client Walt Nauta for a month, he tried to delay any conflict review for his then-client Yuscil Taveras.
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Prosecutors in Georgia Still Abusing Their Over Broad RICO Law

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bmaz
Georgia now charging protestors with RICO. I warned that what has, and was, being done in Georgia as to RICO was dangerous. And this is just then tip of the iceberg coming because it will spread.
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Proud Boy Henry Tarrio Sentenced to 22 Years for Role in Jan. 6 Seditious Conspiracy

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Brandi Buchman
Former Proud Boy chairman Henry "Enrique" Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role leading a conspiracy to stop the transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Oligarchy Has Arrived. Congress Must Take Notice — and Act!

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bmaz
In this guest post: an innovative tax-the-rich proposal now before lawmakers would reverse the wealth concentration that’s suffocating our democracy
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The Finding Out Part: Proud Boys Face Sentencing

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Brandi Buchman
Sentences were handed down to Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy but the leader of the group still awaits his fate.
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Goodbye Margaritaville

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bmaz
Well, shit fuck damn. Jimmy Buffett has up and died. One of the better performers ever. Saw several times, but the most memorable was at Red Rocks. which was twice, because the first one was killed by a storm. Also once saw Jimmy play a whole…
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Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola sentenced to 10 years in prison, Ethan Nordean gets 18

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Brandi Buchman
Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola, who U.S. District Judge Tim Kelly described Friday as the "tip of the spear" that first let rioters flood into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. As he exited the courtroom,…
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Proud Boy Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years, Zachary Rehl gets 15

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Brandi Buchman
Proud Boy Joseph Biggs is sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role leading a seditious conspiracy to stop the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021.
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