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Trump's Attack on Black Votes Was There the Whole Time, We Just Didn't Call It a Crime

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emptywheel
Trump deployed threats of violence to make it harder to count the votes of Black and Latino voters but no one treated it as a crime.
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The Three Reported Charges against Trump: 371, 1512, and (maybe) 242

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emptywheel
We have expected two of the reported charges from Trump's target letter: conspiracy and obstruction.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Charges Michigan's Fake Trump Electors

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emptywheel
Dana Nessel just charged Trump's fake MI electors.
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Jack Smith Gives Trump Until Thursday to Explain Himself to the January 6 Grand Jury

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emptywheel
Trump has revealed Jack Smith sent him a January 6 related target letter.
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WaPo Is Suppressing Information that Might Debunk Devlin Barrett's Latest Spin

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emptywheel
The two reports WaPo had done last year, assessing the "Hunter Biden" drive forensically, are two of the only available reports that might explain anomalies disclosed by IRS agents in testimony to Congress. But unlike the Washington Examiner, WaPo won't release those reports.
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"I can get any source on the planet." The Pre-History of Gal Luft's Pre-"Whistleblower" Indictment

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emptywheel
DOJ first publicly revealed two prongs of the charges against Gal Luft in October 2018. Then they charged Luft on the day statutes of limitation on the FARA charges would have expired.
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The Slaughterhouse Cases

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The unnecessary cramping of the 14th Amendment.
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Hunter Biden's Uber Connection and the K Street Collision

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emptywheel
Hunter Biden's Uber account was arranged from December 2018 through February 2019 in a way that may have made it possible for "Hunter Biden" to be in two places at once, even in DC, having a car accident, while his assistant believed he was in Massachusetts.
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Thomas, Alito and Christmas Cookies

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You have heard about the private jet and yacht trips given to Clarence Thomas, the jet trips given to Samuel Alito, etc. The stories of this type of absolute impropriety are seemingly endless. Senior Massachusetts District Judge Michael…
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Maggie and Mike Back Together Again, This Time on, or with, January 6 Corrupt Purpose

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emptywheel
Contrary to what Maggie Haberman and Mike Schmidt say about the corrupt purpose prong of the obstruction statute, judges have repeatedly found that doesn't much matter whether an obstruction defendant knew that Trump had lost.
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Poof! How Jack Smith Made 800,000 Pages into 4,500

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emptywheel
Amid the argument that DOJ has already packaged up almost all of the unclassified evidence needed to defend the stolen document case, DOJ has hinted there might be another grand jury.
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Jay Bratt to Chris Kise: You Already Made that Frivolous Presidential Records Act Argument

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emptywheel
In a filing rebutting Trump's claim to need an indefinite delay of his trial, Jay Bratt reminded Chris Kise that he already made the frivolous Presidential Records Act argument he claims he needs more time to make.
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Keith Ablow's Unallocated Space in Hunter Biden's Memory

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emptywheel
In the third part of Gus Dimitrelos' report* on the laptop attributed to Hunter Biden, he examines what he could find in the unallocated space of the laptop -- the place where deleted files go on computers until they eventually get written over.…
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Hunter Biden's Matryoshka Cell Phone: How the IRS and Frothers Got Hunter's Encrypted iPhone Content

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emptywheel
The frothers generally claim that "Hunter Biden's" "laptop" is authentic because it is registered to an account, [email protected], registered to him. But the more interesting question is how that account got access to a different iCloud account, registered to the email [email protected].
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Andrew DeFilippis Had a Role in the Prosecution of Gal Luft's Co-Conspirator-1

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emptywheel
Andrew DeFilippis was the source of the worst abuses on the John Durham investigation. And he managed the classified aspects of the prosecution of Gal Luft's co-conspirator-1, Patrick Ho.
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James Comer's Imaginary Whistleblower Friend, Gal Luft, Was Charged Last November for Lying in that March 2019 Meeting

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emptywheel
James Comer's imaginary whistleblower friend was charged -- last November -- for lying at the meeting where he claims to have shared dirt on Hunter Biden.
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Nine Months of Surveillance Video: Trump's Newfound Worries His Discovery Will Leak

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emptywheel
Trump says the discovery in his stolen documents case -- which includes 9 months of surveillance footage -- is too sensitive to entrust to vendors whose job is ensuring such discovery doesn't leak.
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When "Lock Her Up!" becomes "Wait Till Later!"

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emptywheel
Trump says he's too busy running for President to stand trial to determine whether he made false promises to protect classified information the last time he ran, only to use access he obtained as President to steal the nation's secrets.
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Stanley Woodward Tests Judge Aileen Cannon's Patience

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emptywheel
With his first filing in the Walt Nauta case, Stanley Woodward has decided to test -- tactically -- Judge Aileen Cannon's patience.
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The Blind Squirrel's Nut: Chuck Grassley Unwittingly Debunks Bill Barr

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emptywheel
Chuck Grassley has unwittingly revealed that the briefing of an FD-1023 that Pittsburgh FBI agents gave David Weiss' office days after Rudy Giuliani revealed his tie to the "Hunter Biden" "laptop"--which Bill Barr spun as an investigation into the bribery allegation in it--instead came as the office was reviewing the damage to the tax investigation of Rudy's political hit job.
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