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DC Circuit Rules that a President's Speech as Candidate Is Not Official

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emptywheel
The DC Circuit just held that when a President campaigns for re-election, he acts as an office seeker, not an office holder entitled to absolute immunity.
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Hunter Biden Gets a Step Closer to Vindicating Twitter's Takedown Decision

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emptywheel
On the same day that, in sworn testimony before Congress, Michael Shellenberger claimed "there's no evidence" that the hard drive Rudy Giuliani shared with the NY Post was manipulated, Vish Burra asserted (laughing) that he would hack Hunter Biden again.
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Boris Epshteyn's Absence and Presence in Trump's Alleged Crime Spree

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emptywheel
Boris Epshteyn, who was the focus for months of reporting about his role in Trump's twin federal indictments, has all but disappeared. Indeed, ABC's scoop about Little makes clear that his reportedly significant role in the stolen documents case never even made the indictment. 
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Finally: War Criminal Dead at 100

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Rayne
This is an open thread. Leave your comments about Henry Kissinger and war crimes here rather than pollute other threads.
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Donald Trump Insists He's Too Special To Use Same Database 1,200 Other January 6 Defendants Have Used

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emptywheel
In Trump's discovery demand, he argues he should be treated better than his mobsters who have also been prosecuted for their actions on January 6.
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Abbe Lowell Calls James Comer's Bluff

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emptywheel
Abbe Lowell has raised the stakes on Jamie Comer's demand that Hunter Biden testify privately, rather than publicly.
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Donald Trump Confesses He Can't Distinguish His Own Influence Ops from that of a Russian Spy

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emptywheel
In a bid to get a lot of irrelevant intelligence reports, Donald Trump insinuates the specific lies he told to undermine US democracy are indistinguishable from Russia's efforts to undermine US democracy.
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Goal-Directed Agency and Intentional Agency

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Ed Walker
Index to posts in this series Lizards Lizards are a representative of the first category of agency according to Michael Tomasello in his book The Evolution Of Agency. As with the other categories, Tomasello focuses on the way lizards forage…
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Hunter Biden: Which Came First, the Chick Selling Sex or the Extortion of Campaign Dirt?

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emptywheel
You cannot claim to be doing journalism on the Republican effort to impeach Joe Biden based on allegations about his son unless you understand the ties between Rudy Giuliani's efforts to dig up dirt, including from Russian agents, and the Hunter Biden investigation.
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The MAGA Tourist Geofence and the Violent Confederate Flag-Toting Geofence

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emptywheel
Trump claims that only one percent of his people from January 6 could be deemed insurrectionists. That's not what the Google geofence says.
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How Trump Distracted from Results of His Incitement by Recruiting Journalists to Spread More of It

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emptywheel
You always have a choice how to disseminate Trump's incitement. And yesterday, a number of journalists and critics chose to do so in the form Trump chose -- a campaign ad! -- rather than in an equally stark form that would be less likely to contribute to the incitement.
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Breathing Room: Thanksgiving Day Emergency Cooking Aid

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Rayne
In case of last minute Turkey Day kitchen emergencies, an open thread.
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In an Attempt to Claim Vindictive Prosecution, Trump Confesses Biden Hasn't Interfered Like He Has

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emptywheel
In a bid to claim Joe Biden is treating him unfairly, Trump revealed he's using his own prosecution to interfere, again, in Hunter BIden's prosecution.
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The Former President's Spaghetti-Wall Assault on the Truth

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emptywheel
Trump's replies submitted in his various efforts to dismiss the charges against him amount to a demand that Trump be treated not just as above the law that the hundreds of his mobsters have already been held accountable to, but also above the truth.
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Breathing Room: What’s on Your Holiday Menu?

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Rayne
This is an open thread -- talk about your Thanksgiving holiday preparations here.
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Perfect Phone Calls: Redefining Vindictive Prosecution in the Trump Era

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emptywheel
Last week, Abbe Lowell requested subpoenas in the Hunter Biden case -- subpoenas that would obtain known records ranging from mean Trump tweets, to Bill Barr's efforts to funnel a bribery allegation obtained downstream from Rudy's efforts to Trump up a bribery allegation, to the Perfect Phone call. It's an impossible subpoena request. But it's also a request that goes to the core of defending against the kind retribution Trump demands.
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DC Circuit Likely To Narrow Judge Chutkan Gag

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emptywheel
In the hearing on Judge Tanya Chutkan's gag in the January 6 case, Trump attorney John Lauro got awfully close to arguing that his client must be permitted to run for President by threatening all his adversaries.
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David Weiss' FBI FARA Headfake to Create a Hunter Biden Tax Mulligan

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emptywheel
A potential FARA investigation into Hunter Biden was the reason why he refused to plead guilty in July, giving David Weiss and Leo Wise a chance to ratchet up charges against the President's son. But CNN reports that any such investigation is now done.
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In Memoriam: Rosalynn Carter

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Rayne
Eleanor Rosalynn Carter, wife of former president Jimmy Carter, passed away today at age 96.
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What Matt Viser Won't Tell You about Hunter Biden, His Dad, and Burisma

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emptywheel
Phil Rucker's WaPo continues to ignore details about the corruption of the investigation into Hunter Biden, corruption that implicates WaPo's obsession with Hunter Biden's dick pics directly.
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