Aileen Cannon Locks Up the Jack Smith Report For at Least 30 More Days
Aileen Cannon has locked up the Jack Smith report indefinitely.
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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
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Trump Puts Violent Criminals Back on the Streets
/71 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelIn one of his first acts in his second term, Donald Trump freed hundreds of violent criminals (along with a great number of other people charged or convicted for nonviolent crimes for January 6).
Pardons
/137 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelJoe Biden just pardoned Mark Milley and Anthony Fauci, along with the January 6 Committee.
Found! Dozens of Damning Documents about Trump’s Hoarding of Classified Documents!
/27 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelIf you want to know how Democrats failed to make more of a political case against Trump during the election, you can start with the fact that Dan Goldman knows almost nothing about what was made public in the documents case against Trump.
Fridays with Nicole Sandler
/17 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelListen on Spotify (transcripts available) Listen on Apple (transcripts available)
On the Misguided Tactical Conversations about Volume Two of the Jack Smith Report
/23 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelRather than attempting to assert his constitutional responsibility to read Jack Smith’s Volume Two in Aileen Cannon’s court, where it might respond to Trump’s attacks on him there, Jamie Raskin released a letter asking Garland to take some procedurally uncertain route to release it.
The Inadequate Declination Discussions in Both Special Counsel Reports
/25 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel/by emptywheelThe worst part of Jack Smith’s Special Counsel Report is how he described Donald Trump intimidating witnesses, but didn’t describe why he chose to respond with a gag rather than an indictment.
What Jack Smith Didn’t Say about the January 6 Investigation
/19 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel/by emptywheelAs part of Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein’s summary of the Jack Smith report, they argued that “Smith [came] to Garland’s defense” regarding his conduct of the January 6 investigation before Smith was appointed, pointing to Smith’s review of certain legal fights, to include the Executive Privilege fight. Smith comes to Garland’s defense A common […]
How Right Wingers Rushed to DEI Hire Pete Hegseth
/80 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election/by emptywheelTrump convinced Republicans to do something they claim they oppose: hiring someone who lacks qualifications for the job based on his identity.
The January 6 Report Is Substantially the Immunity Brief Reporters Ignored in October
/41 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelMuch of the language describing Trump’s alleged crimes already appeared, in the immunity brief reporters largely ignored in October.