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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
Judge Karen Henderson’s Floodgate Concerns
/201 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelJudge Karen Henderson asked both John Sauer (Trump’s lawyer) and James Pearce, arguing for Jack Smith, to address whether Marbury v. Madison combined with the Take Care Clause gets Article III Courts to jurisdiction over presidential actions. From there, she was mostly concerned that such a decision would unleash a floodgate of politicized prosecutions.