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  • Cat Got the Indictment Singer’s [sic] Tongue?

    It turns out Pam Bondi's DOJ couldn't even competently follow Judge Cameron McGowan Currie's order to show what Lindsey Halligan said to the Jim Comey grand jury.

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  • Tyler Lemons’ Vindictive and Selective Bill of Particulars

    Tyler Lemons' efforts to craft a narrative to explain away all the malice behind the Jim Comey prosecution result in a serial confession that the charges really don't match the evidence.

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  • Dick Cheney, Gone But Not Forgotten

    The precedents Dick Cheney established as Vice President have empowered the madness and authoritarianism of Donald Trump.

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  • The Halloween Special Attorney’s Loaner AUSAs’ Loaner AUSA Forgot to Describe Jim Comey’s Imaginary Crime

    Lindsey Halligan's Loaner AUSAs have submitted their responses to Jim Comey's initial motions, which I've laid out below.

    The Tl;dr of the response to the observation that Lindsey was not lawfully appointed (DOJ submitted the same motion in both Comey and Tish James' case) is that Lindsey was lawfully appointed even…

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  • Tyler Lemons Confesses Kash Patel’s FBI Was Reading Previously Seized Material without a Renewed Warrant

    Tyler Lemons and his fellow Loaner AUSA Gabriel Diaz on the Jim Comey case confirm what Comey objected to in his opposition to a filter protocol: the FBI has been reviewing material seized over five years ago without obtaining a new warrant.

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Weaponized DOJ

Cat Got the Indictment Singer's [sic] Tongue?

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November 4, 2025
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emptywheel
It turns out Pam Bondi's DOJ couldn't even competently follow Judge Cameron McGowan Currie's order to show what Lindsey Halligan said to the Jim Comey grand jury.
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emptywheel

Tyler Lemons' Vindictive and Selective Bill of Particulars

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November 4, 2025
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emptywheel
Tyler Lemons' efforts to craft a narrative to explain away all the malice behind the Jim Comey prosecution result in a serial confession that the charges really don't match the evidence.
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Torture

Dick Cheney, Gone But Not Forgotten

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November 4, 2025
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emptywheel
The precedents Dick Cheney established as Vice President have empowered the madness and authoritarianism of Donald Trump.
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emptywheel

The Halloween Special Attorney's Loaner AUSAs' Loaner AUSA Forgot to Describe Jim Comey's Imaginary Crime

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November 3, 2025
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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan's Loaner AUSAs have submitted their responses to Jim Comey's initial motions, which I've laid out below. The Tl;dr of the response to the observation that Lindsey was not lawfully appointed (DOJ submitted the same motion…
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Weaponized DOJ

Tyler Lemons Confesses Kash Patel's FBI Was Reading Previously Seized Material without a Renewed Warrant

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November 3, 2025
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emptywheel
Tyler Lemons and his fellow Loaner AUSA Gabriel Diaz on the Jim Comey case confirm what Comey objected to in his opposition to a filter protocol: the FBI has been reviewing material seized over five years ago without obtaining a new warrant.
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2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe

Jim Comey and the Crown Jewels of the Fevered Conspiracy against Rights Conspiracy

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November 2, 2025
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emptywheel
The shoddy indictment Lindsey Halligan got charging Jim Comey with lying to Congress makes far more sense when you consider how right wingers might want to use it as a foundation for the sprawling, fevered Conspiracy against Rights conspiracy they want to charge.
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Weaponized DOJ

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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October 31, 2025
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emptywheel
There were signs that the friction of legal challenges and attempts to peel off Republicans slowed Trump down this week.
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emptywheel, Weaponized DOJ

Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's Disappearing Agreement to a Litigation Hold

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October 31, 2025
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emptywheel
What was supposed to be a filing arguing against keeping a log of all contacts that Tish James' prosecutors have with journalists turned into a complaint that prosecutors would be asked to keep their communications at all.
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Weaponized DOJ

Judge Nachmanoff Punts on Privilege

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October 30, 2025
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emptywheel
Judge Michael Nachmanoff has seemingly punted the dispute over whether and if so how the loaner AUSAs prosecuting Jim Comey can have access to privileged discussions he had years ago with Dan Richman. But the punt likely has the effect of giving him much of what he wants.
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2020 Presidential Election

Follow the Money: Chuck Grassley Doxes the Entire Far Right

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October 30, 2025
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emptywheel
In an attempt to do a Twitter Files dump on Jack Smith's January 6 investigation, Chuck Grassley exposed very personal details of the far right political establishment, in the process identifying people whose role in all this was previously unknown.
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2020 Presidential Election, Weaponized DOJ

Jeanine Pirro Covers Up Donald Trump's Doxing Conspiracy

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October 30, 2025
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emptywheel
Among the things Trump's DOJ excised from the sentencing memo of Tayler Taranto yesterday is Trump's own role, by doxing Barack Obama, in getting Taranto to stalk Obama's neighborhood.
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Weaponized DOJ

"The Indictment Signer:" Lindsey Halligan's Time in the Grand Jury

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October 28, 2025
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emptywheel
The Judge who'll preside over Jim Comey and Tish James' challenges to Lindsey Halligan's appointment, Judge Cameron McGowen Currie, just ordered that the government provide her with all the grand jury materials in those two cases. That could be very damning to Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer.
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emptywheel, Mueller Probe, Weaponized DOJ

Donald Trump's [Miles] Starr Chamber

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October 28, 2025
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emptywheel
Jim Comey's response to prosecutors' bid to access his privileged communications reveals that John Eckenrode and Miles Starr may be engaged in the same kind of corrupt investigative tactics used on the Durham investigation.
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Immigration

Bill Essayli Moves to Dismiss Key "Assault" Case before DOJ Has to Explain What It Knew

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October 27, 2025
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emptywheel
DOJ's most prominent effort to criminalize doxing had a setback today when the case against one of the defendants, Ashleigh Brown, collapsed when her attorneys discovered the non-disclosed criminal background of her alleged victim.
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emptywheel, Immigration

Love in the Time of Hegemonic Suicide

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October 27, 2025
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emptywheel
Trump's attempts to extend his power by force -- to replace American hegemony with personalized coercion -- are and will continue to backfire, diluting the power of that coercion.
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Culture, Trump 2.0

A Lapsed Catholic's Sunday Bible Study

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October 26, 2025
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Rayne
White CHRISTIAN nationalist, my foot. It's obvious Trump would have no compunction about shooting an angel in the face on Fifth Avenue given his administration's policies and actions.
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Unitary Executive

Donald Trump and His Speaker-Puppet

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October 26, 2025
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emptywheel
I want to talk about some implications of this Annie Karni story, describing the background to what is plain as day: Donald Trump, who jokes in private that he -- not Mike Johnson -- is the Speaker of the House, runs the nominal Speaker. Karni…
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Weaponized DOJ

Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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October 24, 2025
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emptywheel
The day before Tish James was arraigned, her attorneys complained about the Signal text trolling she did of Anna Bower.
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Left Theory

Examples Of Not-Free People

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October 23, 2025
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Ed Walker
Make Trump supporters own their fear of freedom.
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Weaponized DOJ

A Tale of Three Footnotes for "Purported Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan"

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October 23, 2025
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emptywheel
In a motion asking Judge Jamar Walker to order Lindsey Halligan to stop leaking to the media, Abbe Lowell notes that Judge Walker could hold Halligan in contempt, but Attorney General James is not asking for that. Yet.
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