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Before Trump made his frivolous challenge to Jack Smith's Special Counsel appointment on appropriations grounds, Hunter Biden challenged David Weiss' appointment with more merit. That could make the parallel track of these prosecutions -- with Hunter Biden's prosecutions rushing towards conclusion next month and Trump's stalled past the election -- more interesting.

With the 2016 attack, Russia didn't need cooperation from Trump's people (though they got it from at least Manafort and Stone and idiot who proved useful Don Jr). They just needed to make any already improbable conciliation impossible, impossible politically and impossible for a Narcissist like Trump to do. That would practically guarantee that Trump would attack the country to defend himself, his son, his ego.

Wishing all mothers in fact or mothers of invention a restful Sunday — except for Sen. Katie Britt (R-Gilead). Also a note about a comments system change.

Nicole Sandler and I discussed the hush money coverup trial, Aileen Cannon and right wing propaganda, and Steve Bannon's failed appeal.

DOJ rolled out several filings in the Henry Cuellar prosecution that reinforce my impression that this case may not go to trial.

Trump's propaganda machine has drowned out facts and replaced it with grievance. And until something starts cutting through that grievance, mere trials aren't going to fix this.

Stan Woodward has revealed, that like the central box in the Joe Biden investigation, the FBI failed to preserve the order of the documents in some of the boxes found at Mar-a-Lago.

Like Robert Menendez, DOJ is prosecuting Henry Cuellar under a part of the FARA statute that has not been used before.

This is an open thread, kicked off with news of Rep. Henry Cuellar's indictment by DOJ today.

Some ideas about rights in preparation for reading How Rights Went Wrong by Jamal Greene