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Aileen Cannon Confesses She's Unable to Distinguish between Golf Balls and Nuclear Weapons
Depending on how you count, Aileen Cannon issued three or four decisions yesterday.
The most telling is an order letting Trump have a mulligan on whether his false attacks on the FBI pose a danger to society.
As Jack Smith's team described…
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Final Day* of Term Edition
This is it: SCOTUS will deliver the last* undecided cases of the term this morning. This is an open thread.
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The Day After
In which I tell you to get a fucking clue and check in with reality.
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2024 Presidential Election: First Presidential Debate
The first presidential debate of the 2024 election season will air at 9:00 p.m. ET this evening. Discuss your perspective of the candidates' performance and their messages to us in this open thread.
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The Madness of Macron
Quinn Norton lays out all the reasons Macron's decision to call snap elections is so stupid.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Thursday Edition [UPDATE-1]
The last of SCOTUS's undecided cases drop this morning or they drop tomorrow — will today's include Trump v. United States? This is an open thread.
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How Courts Came to Control Our Rights
We're trapped in the amber of the prejudices of what we hoped was the past.
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Sammy Alito Makes a Great Case Trump Censored Fox News' Accurate 2020 Election Reporting
In his Murthy v. Missouri dissent, Sam Alito said that if the President demands that a media outlet censor true content to publish favored content, that is impermissible censorship. He made a great case that Donald Trump unlawfully dictated Fox News' coverage during the 2020 transition.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Wednesday Edition [UPDATE-2]
13 cases remain undecided; the next batch of decisions will be delivered by SCOTUS this morning. This is an open thread.
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The Damaging Precedent of the Julian Assange Espionage Guilty Plea
DOJ could have drafted the plea agreement with Julian Assange to do far less damage going forward, but for reasons that are not yet clear, they did not.
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The Nuclear Weapons Document Trump Stashed under Bubble Wrap and a Christmas Pillow
Among the things disclosed by a new Jack Smith filing is that Trump stored a document about nuclear weapons under some bubble wrap and Christmas pillow.
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"Nobody ever slept on that side of the bed usually so he would have it all full of boxes"
According to one of Trump's White House aides, he kept a cluster of boxes on the side of his bed, where (usually) no one slept, and had intimate knowledge of what was in the boxes.
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Julian Assange to Plead to One Count of Espionage Act on Way Back to Australia
Julian Assange will plead guilty to one felony count of violating the Espionage Act.
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"Double Jeopardy Protection ... Is [Hunter Biden's] Right"
Abbe Lowell has rolled out a bunch of tactical reasons why Hunter Biden's conviction (at least on the key possession charge) should be overturned.
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Gaza: Unending Cannon Fire and Steel Helmets
An examination of the Israel-Hamas war ahead of Netanyahu's address to Congress — yet another fuck-you from Bibi.
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Derek Hines Ensures that Two Likely Appeals Will Implicate His False Claims about Hunter Biden's New Haven Crack Pipe
Hunter Biden's as-applied challenge to the gun charges against him will be far more interesting than his facial challenge to them. And that makes Derek Hines' continued false claims about the timeline a bit of a problem.
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Ashraf Shaaban Listed as Global Legal Head of National Bank of Egypt
The American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt ties a lawyer named in the court filings investigating a suspected payment to Trump to the National Bank of Egypt.
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An Egyptian Bank Claimed Details of a Suspected $10 Million Payment to Trump Might be in China
A bank owned by Egypt said it couldn't comply with a subpoena seeking information on a suspected payment to Trump during the 2016 election, in part, because China's laws would prevent that.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler
We spoke a lot about SCOTUS and Aileen Cannon's interference.
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Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller Demand the Right to Foster Right Wing Violence for the Election
In courts up and down the East Coast, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller are making the same argument: That Trump and his team must be permitted to make false, incendiary attacks on rule of law as part of an electoral campaign.