DOJ Invites Aileen Cannon to Avoid Another Reversible Error
Judge Cannon has already been reversed by the 11th Circuit in humiliating fashion in the stolen documents case once.
DOJ is trying to help her avoid a second reversal.
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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
Trump Complains that He Filed So Many Voluminous Frivolous Lawsuits
/78 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election/by emptywheelOver half of the discovery Trump has received either came from him originally or consists of overproduction of email from the Secret Service.
I, Too, Got Hoodwinked by Donald Trump’s Demands to Be Tried Like a Seditionist
/60 Comments/in emptywheel/by emptywheelDonald Trump is arguing that his trial take as long as it might if Jack Smith chose to try him for the whole kit and kaboodle, in which he might be guilty, but of which he is not yet charged.
Mark Meadows’ Middling Path: There Are Several Paths to Prosecute Donald Trump
/93 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelThus far, Mark Meadows seems to have negotiated the various legal risks by only having to give as much testimony as required, delaying the time a grand jury locked him into a particular story. But unless he succeeds in getting the Georgia charges removed to federal court and dismissed, that approach may get far harder soon.
“Ebb and Flow:” How David Weiss Volunteered for a Subpoena, or Worse
/113 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelI have no idea whether Hunter Biden’s lawyers intended to bait David Weiss or someone close to him to anonymously rebut documentary evidence that he was influenced politics, inviting more scrutiny from ongoing leak investigations. But that appears to be what happened.
On Visibility and [dis]Covering Kenneth Chesebro
/61 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelThe two indictments implicating Kenneth Chesebro have brought new visibility to him, and his actions. The discovery of Chesebro monitoring Jones’ activities during the attack have made aspects of the coordination behind this attack visible to TV lawyers for the first time. But amid all that newfound visibility, it’s worth remembering that some people who carried out the attack knew to — and did — monitor all this in real time.
Beryl Howell Scoffs That We Think We Know Anything about the Trump Investigations
/94 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelBack in February, Beryl Howell scoffed that the public could really understand what was going on in the investigation from reporting on which witnesses appeared before the grand jury. And until we learn what the 39 unidentified warrants provided to Trump in discovery are — in addition to the Xitter warrant about which there was a big fight — she’s right. We don’t know.
“They Spoke Often:” It Took the Fash-Friendly FBI Over Two Months to Document the Lies Their Informant, Joe Biggs, Told them
/81 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelAs a 302 included in Joe Biggs’ sentencing package makes clear, the reason the FBI didn’t warn against January 6 is because the terrorists who planned it were the FBI’s people.
The Challenge of Treating the Proud Boy Leaders as Terrorists
/55 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelThe omnibus sentencing memo for the Proud Boys is a testament to the asymmetry with which the US treats white person terrorism as compared to Islamic terrorism.
Trump’s “Hunter Biden” “Laptop” Consiglieres Want to Be Paid
/119 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe question of why Trump is paying for other defendants’ legal fees but not (yet) Rudy’s may have as much to do with the “Hunter Biden” “laptop” as it does January 6.