Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Friday Edition [UPDATE-1]

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Rayne
SCOTUS has 18 cases yet to be decided; the next batch of decisions are being delivered this morning. This is an open thread.
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Garrett Ziegler Done in by His Chateau Marmont Field Trip

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emptywheel
Garrett Ziegler's own California field trip were cited to deny his motion to dismiss Hunter Biden's lawsuit against him.
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The Schulte CIPA Transcripts: Locking up Vault 8

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emptywheel
Among the most interesting details revealed by the CIPA transcripts from the Josh Schulte case is that -- at least in 2022 -- the government still considered the tie to the Vault 8 source code theft and release classified information.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions [UPDATE-1]

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Rayne
SCOTUS releases its next batch of decisions at 10:00 a.m. this morning. This is an open thread.
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The Document Found with Roger Stone's Clemency Did Pertain to Emmanuel Macron

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emptywheel
In yet another bid to get Trump's stolen documents case thrown out, Trump's attorneys appear to have confirmed that a document in some way associated with clemency for Roger Stone pertained to Emmanuel Macron.
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Hunter Biden's Prosecutors Complained about the Laptop, Once, Too

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emptywheel
In a bench conference at the Hunter Biden trial, prosecutors tried to exclude information from the laptop, once.
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Our Choice of Fathers

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Rayne
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers in our community. This is an open thread.
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The Threats that Hunter Biden's Prosecutors Pretended Didn't Exist Continue Unabated

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emptywheel
When Hunter Biden raised the way Trump had elicited threats against those investigating him, prosecutors simply pretended the threats didn't exist. But the arrest of a rabid Trump supporter last week made visible how vicious such threats are.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Friday Edition

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Rayne
SCOTUS dumped its second cluster of decisions for this week at 10:00 a.m. this morning. Bankruptcy, immigration, guns but not presidential immunity in this batch.
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The Pee Tape: The Media's Obsession with Jill Biden May Undermine the Jury

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emptywheel
At least some of the jurors who kept an open mind on Hunter Biden's guilt were staying at the same hotel as the media who were not.
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Leo Wise's Performed Ignorance

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emptywheel
When handling cross examination of the gun shop employees called by Hunter Biden, Leo Wise spent as much time shoring up his own plausible deniability as he did asking questions.
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Alito Versus Law And Science

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Ed Walker
Alito is a partisan crank married to a partisan crank
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions [UPDATE-2]

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Rayne
The Supreme Court will release several more decisions today as its term ends the end of this month. Here's an open thread to discuss this next batch of decisions.
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Denial and Forgetting at the Hunter Biden Trial

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emptywheel
Journalists have utterly disappeared one key aspect of Hunter Biden's conviction: It would never have happened without the partisan interventions of John Paul Mac Isaac, Rudy Giuliani, and Bill Barr.
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What Happened to Hunter Biden's Plea Agreement

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emptywheel
The timeline of the collapse of the plea deal released in the last year makes it clear that David Weiss reneged on the scope of the immunity offered to Hunter Biden. But Hunter was willing to accept that narrowed scope. What killed the deal was Judge Noreika's intervention in the Diversion (not Plea) Agreement.
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The Scolding that Hunter Biden Should Have Pled Guilty Ignores the Complexity of What Happened

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emptywheel
The problem with most pieces scolding Hunter Biden for not pleading out before his gun trial is that Leo Wise and Derek Hines have made clear their intent to humiliate Hunter Biden no matter what he does.
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"Case Changing:" The 7-Eleven Messages

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emptywheel
On the morning of closing arguments, prosecutors in the Hunter Biden case surprised Abbe Lowell with October 10 texts they claimed proved Naomi Biden was wrong about her impression of her father over a week later.
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Hunter Biden Found Guilty on All Charges

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emptywheel
The jury found Hunter Biden guilty off all three charges against him.
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What Jurors Noticed about Hallie Biden's Testimony

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emptywheel
Jurors noticed that, while Hallie Biden was testifying, she was exchanging words of support with her husband, who was in the courtroom.
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