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The latest release of unsealed Mueller Report passages has generated some confused reporting. What the currently unredacted passages of the Mueller Report say is that Donald Trump Jr probably committed a misdemeanor CFAA violation, but charging it would have been prosecutorial overkill. The Report also says that Mueller referred multiple issues to the DC US Attorneys Office in an attempt to answer then unanswered questions about whether Roger Stone conspired with Russia in 2016.

When DOJ IG Michael Horowitz found that Jim Comey had violated FBI policy by taking his memos documenting Trump's corruption home, Donald Trump wanted him prosecuted for it.

Even assuming Mueller packaged obstruction charges for DOJ to indict, rather than Congress to impeach, the deliberate sabotage Barr did in the interim makes most of those charges impossible. But there's good reason to believe DOJ is investigating the continuation of that very same obstruction.

As Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would have immediately recognized, the story behind Ronna McDaniel's decision to censure Liz Cheney to protect Kathy Berden is with whom Berden was agreeing to serve as a fake elector.

The evidence doesn't support hurting workers to hike interest rates.

The course of the Bannon prosecution shows one really good reason why DOJ is not acting quickly on the Mark Meadows contempt referral: because Bannon is using his prosecution to learn about the larger, more important, ongoing investigation into Bannon, Rudy, and Trump.

The news that DOJ obtained the toll records of the lawyer for Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani is almost certainly not about Bannon. Rather, we may have finally reached the moment in Trump scandals where Trump's lawyers' lawyers need lawyers.

Among the claims Robert Costello made to DOJ at a meeting on November 3, 2021, is that he hadn't discussed Steve Bannon's testimony with any Trump lawyers, but that he had discussed Executive Privilege claims with a lawyer he had been told was representing Donald Trump. And so DOJ pulled his call records to test those claims.

Trump recently dangled pardons for those who helped him try to steal the last election. But the most important person he's trying to silence, Rudy Giuliani, didn't get a pardon when Trump actually had that authority.

While TV lawyers have been wailing that DOJ has been doing nothing, DOJ has been acquiring the communications from at least two of the key participants in the December 18 meeting at which Sidney Powell proposed seizing the voting machines, and the Archives have been acquiring the communications of a third.