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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.
Entries by emptywheel
Chief Justice John Roberts Just Invited President Biden to Pardon Nicholas Roske
/146 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelImagine how outrageous it would be for Joe Biden to pardon Nicholas Roske, the man who armed himself and showed up at Justice Kavanaugh’s home threatening to kill him. Yet that is precisely what the Republican Justices did in response to an exactly equivalent threat facing Congress, Biden voters, and democracy.