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At Least 25 Lawyers Are Subjects or Witnesses in the Various Trump Investigations

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emptywheel
25 of the known witnesses or subjects in the various Trump investigations are lawyers. We've only seen glimpses of how much more complicated that has made this investigation.

"Besmirched"

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bmaz
What is "besmirching"?
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Jeremy Liggett: A Little Bitty Fly that Jim Jordan Wants to Propagandize

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emptywheel
Expect the case of Jeremy Liggett to feature prominently in the new propaganda committee that Kevin McCarthy had to give to the insurrectionists to get elected.
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Donald Trump's Contemptuous Leaking

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emptywheel
Trump's team continued to bullshit the press last month about the search that private investigators did for Trump's stolen documents.
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SDNY Calls DOJ's Definition of the Espionage Act an "Academic Interest"

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emptywheel
SDNY says that it's merely academic to a journalist whether the government might prosecute her under the Espionage Act for sharing already published information.
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Shrug: Beau Harrison's Renewed Memory about Trump's Lunge

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emptywheel
When the January 6 Committee asked Tony Ornato whether he had spoken to his officemate, Beau Harrison, about Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, he said they talked about real estate. That's not how Harrison explained it.

On Speakers

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bmaz
Actual functioning speakers are discussed herein, no insurrectionists' approbation necessary
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How the January 6 Committee Investigation Maps onto DOJ's Known Investigation

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emptywheel
DOJ will be able to use the evolving claims that key witnesses made to the January 6 Committee to free up testimony in the various investigations Jack Smith is overseeing.
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Proving Trump's Corrupt Purpose: The Forgotten Unpermitted March

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emptywheel
Last year, Judge Amit Mehta suggested that Trump's call for his supporters to make an unpermitted march contributed to proof of his corrupt purpose.
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Ali Alexander Asked for 5-Minute Updates on Trump's Actions on January 6

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emptywheel
As Alex Jones and Ali Alexander led a mob from Trump's speech to the Capitol on January 6, Alexander was getting real time updates on whether Trump would follow.

Techniques Of Power

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Power relations lie in the ability of one person to affect the actions of others.
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Supporting Those Who Make Good Trouble

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Peterr
There are lots of folks who work to fight injustice, making the kind of "Good Trouble" that John Lewis embraced, who need our support. Here are a few, and you can add your own in the comments.
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Judge Jesse Furman Gives DOJ 3 Pages to Reply to emptywheel's Bid to Liberate Sealed Transcripts on the Espionage Act

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emptywheel
Judge Jesse Furman must have found something novel or interesting in my National Security Counselors-supported intervention to liberate CIPA transcripts in the Josh Schulte case, because he just gave the government three pages to reply.
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Greg Abbott, King Herod, and December 28th

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Peterr
With Greg Abbott's latest bus caravan for asylum seekers, you have to wonder if Abbott knows about a certain refugee family in the Bible.
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The Money Trail Stuck in an Appendix of the January 6 Report

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emptywheel
The financial trail behind January 6 seems like an easier way to document that Trump's campaign knew he was lying about voter fraud.
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"Dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter:” Elvis Chan, Hacks, the Klan, and the Twitter Files

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emptywheel
After complaining that Twitter declined to be part of a revenge porn attack targeting Hunter Biden, Matt Taibbi is now complaining that DOJ enforced a law protecting the right to vote.