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.
John Lauro worked hard to insist that everything involving Pence be excluded without closer review. But unless he invents a procedural reason to forestall DOJ’s memo on September 26, DOJ will get one (or two, with the reply) chance to lay out how Trump tried to use his incumbency, and Mike Pence’s role as President of the Senate, to steal an election against from Joe Biden and the woman who currently is the President of the Senate.
Here is Jack Smith prosecutor Thomas Windom’s description of the brief he envisions submitting, arguing the Trump superseding indictment includes only private acts. Judge Tanya Chutkan has set a September 26 deadline for that.
A discussion of Trump’s many legal issues.
Even as Trump and JD Vance minimize the import of the latest school shooting, they continue to demand that Trump’s own shooting, by someone little different than a school shooter, have meaning they refuse to accord the murder of children in their classrooms.
Hunter Biden just pled guilty to all charges against him.
Judge Chutkan has issued her scheduling order for the next developments in Trump’s January 6 trial. Rather than scheduling Trump’s frivolous attempt to challenge Jack Smith’s Special Counsel appointment first, Chutkan will instead deal with immunity first, with all briefing due a week before the election. September 19, 2024: Defendant’s Reply briefs in support of […]
A description of the Russian propaganda plans, largely designed to help Trump, included in a takedown affidavit.
Don Jr wailed when he learned DOJ was announcing more legal actions against Russian foreign influence operations. Did he know that the indictment against two RT personnel for using Tenet Media as a front would reveal Don Jr’s far right buddies demand $5 million to say nothing things about his Daddy?
Kamala Harris has not gotten the polling bumps where pundits are trained to look for them. But even as they watch for those signs closely, they’re not contemplating how other nearly unprecedented movement might shape the race.
Steve Bannon was actually the first known Trump pardon recipient to return to crime after the pardon. But he kicked off a growing trend.