by emptywheel | Feb 10, 2022 | 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, emptywheel, January 6 Insurrection, Mueller Probe
Among those whinging that Merrick Garland hasn’t imprisoned Donald Trump yet, there is an apparent belief that the Mueller Report left obstruction charges all wrapped up in a bow, as if the next Administration could come in, break open the Report, and roll out...
by emptywheel | Dec 15, 2020 | 2016 Presidential Election, 2020 Presidential Election, Department of Justice, emptywheel
Even before Billy Barr’s obsequious resignation, he and his handlers had been working the press to boost his tainted reputation. Consider not one (dated December 10) but two (dated December 14) WSJ stories boasting about how Barr kept the Hunter Biden...
by emptywheel | Dec 9, 2020 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
I’ve been unpacking the Judge Emmet Sullivan opinion dismissing Mike Flynn’s guilty verdicts. This post lays out how Sullivan asserts authority to refuse the government’s motion to dismiss Flynn’s prosecution, but does not do so, because the...
by emptywheel | Dec 3, 2020 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
Bill Barr could come to regret his neat effort to place a ticking time bomb inside the Joe Biden DOJ, because John Durham has evidence in hand that Bill Barr’s DOJ tampered with documents. I’ve been thinking … There’s something that...
by emptywheel | Oct 27, 2020 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
Congratulations to the lawyers who worked all weekend to meet Judge Emmet Sullivan’s deadline to certify all the documents (with just eight explicit caveats and then another slew built in) submitted in the Mike Flynn motion to dismiss proceeding. I doubted you...
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