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After 37 Days, Raymond Dearie Ends the Harm Judge Aileen Cannon Deliberately Inflicted on Donald Trump

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emptywheel
Judge Cannon intentionally inflicted something she judged was a harm on Donald Trump for at least 37 days. But thanks to Raymond Dearie, DOJ will finally be able to end that harm.
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The Additional Complexities of the Proud Boy Sedition Case

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emptywheel
The Proud Boys sedition trial will be more fraught with complexity than the Oath Keeper one.
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Big Criminal Justice News -- and Not So Big Criminal Justice Not News

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emptywheel
Joe BIden just pardoned everyone convicted of simple possession of marijuana.
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FBI Allegedly Found Child Sexual Abuse Material When It Searched Josh Schulte's Discovery Laptop

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emptywheel
The government alleges that when they searched Josh Schulte's laptop for contraband starting in July, they found a significant amount of Child Sexual Abuse Material on his discovery laptop, probably copied from the disc that contains the CSAM allegedly found on his home computer. Schulte will be stuck with a typewriter to finish his post-trial motions.
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House January 6 Committee: Public Hearings - Pending

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Rayne
This post is dedicated to content and comments related to the House J6 Committee's public hearings — the next hearing expected to be final public one of this investigation.
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Judge Aileen Cannon Treated a Public Letter about Trump's Health as More Sensitive than America's National Security

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emptywheel
The two privilege logs completed by the filter teams who searched Trump's beach resort were accidentally loaded to the docket. They reveal that Aileen Cannon risked US national security based off a claim that a medial record Trump released during the campaign in 2016 was a personal document the deprivation of which harmed Donald Trump.
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Anthony Trenga Smothers the Frothers' Hopes for a Pee Tape Trial ... But Not the Damage Done by Credulous Press

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emptywheel
Judge Anthony Trenga has refused to let John Durham turn the Igor Danchenko trial into a pee tape circus. Will the journalists who played Durham's clowns last year retract?
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How Trump's SCOTUS Appeal Shows Why He's Got a Weaker Legal Argument than a [Former] Gitmo Detainee

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emptywheel
In his efforts to dismiss DOJ's invocation of a DC Circuit precedent pertaining to a former Gitmo detainee, Trump lays out several reasons why he's worse situated than al Odah.
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FBI Approved Igor Danchenko as a Source before It Stopped Doing Back-Door FISA Searches to Vet Informants

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emptywheel
Until 2018, the FBI did back door searches, including on FISA material, before they made someone a Confidential Human Source. That likely included Igor Danchenko.
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Aileen Cannon Deliberately Harmed Trump To Create an Excuse to Help Him

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emptywheel
For two weeks in September, Judge Cannon was personally responsible for inflicting the ongoing harm to Donald Trump that she then used to justify intervening to help him.
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What Happened with the Potentially Privileged Documents Seized from Mar-a-Lago

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emptywheel
Among the things included in potentially privileged materials seized from Trump's beach resort are a phone message from Rudy and an email from the Air Force Academy baseball coach.
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NARA Asked for 24 Boxes ... Trump Gave Them 15

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emptywheel
NARA emailed Trump's lawyers and told them he knew that there were 24 boxes that Trump's own White House Counsel had determined belonged to NARA. And after an extended fight, Trump returned just 15. 
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DOJ Inspector General Report on the Tensions Created by Parallel Construction

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emptywheel
DOJ Inspector General did a report laying out the tension between FBI's National Security and Cyber Law Branch and DOJ's National Security Division. It might better be described as the tensions arising from DOJ's practice of parallel construction.
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Trash Talk: Much Trash, Very Sport, So Talk

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Rayne
The resident golf widow once again drafted a Trash Talk post. This is an open thread.
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Aileen Cannon's Calvinball Special Master

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emptywheel
The day after the 11th Circuit decision finding she had abused her authority even intervening in the Trump stolen documents case, Aileen Cannon effectively took over the Special Master process without clarifying the deadlines she was working under.
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Stop Magnifying the Former President's Incitement

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emptywheel
The former President is attempting to reassert power over the Senate Minority Leader with the sole remaining sources of power he has: spectacle and fear.
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FBI Seems to Be Collecting Offers to Spy for Russia

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emptywheel
Jareh Dalke, who was arrested on accusations of attempted spying Wednesday, seems to have obtained an NSA job with the intent of stealing files he could use to fix his debt woes.
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"Somewhat Convoluted:" Debunking the Judge Cannon Claims

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emptywheel
Judge Aileen Cannon continues to make stuff up and the press continues to leave that out of their reporting on her power grabs.
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Aileen Cannon Stomps on the Scales of Trumpy Injustice

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emptywheel
Judge Cannon has once again made it clear she is Donald Trump's most enthusiastic defense attorney.
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