Trump’s Attack on Black Votes Was There the Whole Time, We Just Didn’t Call It a Crime
Trump deployed threats of violence to make it harder to count the votes of Black and Latino voters but no one treated it as a crime.
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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
The Three Reported Charges against Trump: 371, 1512, and (maybe) 242
/109 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelWe have expected two of the reported charges from Trump’s target letter: conspiracy and obstruction.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Charges Michigan’s Fake Trump Electors
/127 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelDana Nessel just charged Trump’s fake MI electors.
Jack Smith Gives Trump Until Thursday to Explain Himself to the January 6 Grand Jury
/202 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelTrump has revealed Jack Smith sent him a January 6 related target letter.
WaPo Is Suppressing Information that Might Debunk Devlin Barrett’s Latest Spin
/56 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelThe two reports WaPo had done last year, assessing the “Hunter Biden” drive forensically, are two of the only available reports that might explain anomalies disclosed by IRS agents in testimony to Congress. But unlike the Washington Examiner, WaPo won’t release those reports.
“I can get any source on the planet.” The Pre-History of Gal Luft’s Pre-“Whistleblower” Indictment
/14 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelDOJ first publicly revealed two prongs of the charges against Gal Luft in October 2018. Then they charged Luft on the day statutes of limitation on the FARA charges would have expired.
Hunter Biden’s Uber Connection and the K Street Collision
/119 Comments/in 2024 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Hunter Biden/by emptywheelHunter Biden’s Uber account was arranged from December 2018 through February 2019 in a way that may have made it possible for “Hunter Biden” to be in two places at once, even in DC, having a car accident, while his assistant believed he was in Massachusetts.
Maggie and Mike Back Together Again, This Time on, or with, January 6 Corrupt Purpose
/95 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, January 6 Insurrection/by emptywheelContrary to what Maggie Haberman and Mike Schmidt say about the corrupt purpose prong of the obstruction statute, judges have repeatedly found that doesn’t much matter whether an obstruction defendant knew that Trump had lost.
Poof! How Jack Smith Made 800,000 Pages into 4,500
/55 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelAmid the argument that DOJ has already packaged up almost all of the unclassified evidence needed to defend the stolen document case, DOJ has hinted there might be another grand jury.
Jay Bratt to Chris Kise: You Already Made that Frivolous Presidential Records Act Argument
/23 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, 2024 Presidential Election, Leak Investigations/by emptywheelIn a filing rebutting Trump’s claim to need an indefinite delay of his trial, Jay Bratt reminded Chris Kise that he already made the frivolous Presidential Records Act argument he claims he needs more time to make.