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Dan Drezner's defense of Maggie Haberman makes a great case that endless stories of Trump's tantrums are one of the reasons we never held Trump politically accountable for his failures.

Since January, both investigations into January 6 have focused on the pressure Trump and the mob put on Mike Pence. And we know from public privilege invocations, that's what Trump is fighting to keep away from a grand jury with invocations of Executive Privilege.

Notes from a golf widow on the third week of the NFL season. This is an open thread.

The intelligence review of of the Mar-a-Lago documents begins with three questions: Why did Trump take documents in the first place? Why these documents? Why not those?

Trump has had the documents that Aileen Cannon used to claim he was harmed by the government seizure for a week, with no protective order prohibiting him from speaking about them. And he has been silent.

With each new filing, the government gets closer to suggesting they need to execute additional search warrants to find the contents of the empty folders found at Trump's beach resort.

Seven years into the Trump phenomenon, commentators are still treating Trump and his advocates as if they care about the law or the truth. They don't. They care about sustaining a narrative of grievance that might allow him to resume power.

By ordering Raymon Dearie to prioritize documents marked as classified in his Special Master review, Judge Aileen Cannon hastened the moment where we'll have a series of contentious fights about the Separation of Powers.

Even after Evan Corcoran's legal advice about Executive Privilege led Steve Bannon to be found guilty for contempt, he continued to try to push others, including Eric Herschmann, to follow the same advice.