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After Yesterday's DOJ Purge, Pam Bondi Cannot Fulfill Promises Made at Her Confirmation Hearing

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emptywheel
When Dick Durbin asked Pam Bondi what she would do if matters pertaining to Qater or GEO -- both lobbying clients of hers -- came before DOJ, she twice said she would consult with the career ethics officials at DOJ. But DOJ just removed that guy, making the promise impossible to keep.
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Every DOJ Beat Journalist Fails to Mention a Dozen Judges Approved of 1512 Charge for January 6

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emptywheel
DOJ just launched an investigation into prosecutors who applied a law to January 6, 18 USC 1512(c)(2), in a way approved by over a dozen judges, at least four of them Trump appointees. 
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Stephen Miller Confesses that Trump Lied about Immigrants

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emptywheel
Stephen Miller is already frantically spinning new lies as it becomes clear Trump lied about how many migrants he could deport.
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Kash Patel Thinks Assault Defendants Should Be Able to Grab for Guns When Probation Officers Arrive

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emptywheel
Among the people aspiring FBI Director Kash Patel has claimed, in promoting the Jan6 Choir, proves that Jan6ers were subjected to a two-tier system of justice is Barton Shively, a guy who wasn't detained for assaulting two cops until he allegedly grabbed a gun when his probation officers showed up.
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Trump's Slop and Ouch First Week

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emptywheel
Underneath Trump's Shock and Awe that is doing grave damage to the Constitution and Trump's marginalized targets, there's a Slop and Ouch that targets everyone this side of his billionaire friends.

On Haggis and Donald Trump

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Peterr
On this feast day of Robert Burns, less than a week into the second Trump administration, things are not well. Even so, we have to DING!
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"Embarrassingly Wrong:" The Ongoing Misinformation Campaign about the Hunter Biden Hard Drive

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emptywheel
The public record shows that the FBI did few of the things it would need to do to rule out Russian involvement in packaging up Hunter Biden's laptop.
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Mike Johnson Let a Terrorist Roam the Capitol Yesterday

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emptywheel
Mike Johnson let seditionist and terrorist Stewart Rhodes -- whose judgment was commuted but not pardoned -- wander around the scene of the crime yesterday, all while complaining that Bishop Budde's call for "mercy" was divisive.
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Herod Goes to the National Cathedral and is Disappointed

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Peterr
Trump's reaction to the National Cathedral prayer service yesterday says a lot more about him than it does about Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
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The Stephen Miller EOs

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emptywheel
At least two of the Executive Orders Trump signed on Monday give Pam Bondi the space to conduct investigations without predicate to help out Stephen Miller's close allies and his goal of generating propaganda delegitimizing rule of law.

Trump Puts Drug Trafficker Who Allegedly Contracted Killings Back on the Street

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emptywheel
After releasing a bunch of men who violently assaulted cops on his first day in office, Trump released Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. on his second.
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The Whole World is Watching, Trump Edition

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Peterr
Among the Trump's new Executive Orders, one it particular is no doubt getting a lot of attention from Intelligence agencies around the world.

Trump Puts Violent Criminals Back on the Streets

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emptywheel
In one of his first acts in his second term, Donald Trump freed hundreds of violent criminals (along with a great number of other people charged or convicted for nonviolent crimes for January 6).

Pardons

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Joe Biden just pardoned Mark Milley and Anthony Fauci, along with the January 6 Committee.
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Found! Dozens of Damning Documents about Trump's Hoarding of Classified Documents!

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emptywheel
If you want to know how Democrats failed to make more of a political case against Trump during the election, you can start with the fact that Dan Goldman knows almost nothing about what was made public in the documents case against Trump.

Expressions Of Individuality In Democracy

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Ed Walker
In this post I add some detail on mechanisms developing individuality, and try to sharpen up the notion of the same.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
Listen on Spotify (transcripts available) Listen on Apple (transcripts available)
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On the Misguided Tactical Conversations about Volume Two of the Jack Smith Report

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emptywheel
Rather than attempting to assert his constitutional responsibility to read Jack Smith's Volume Two in Aileen Cannon's court, where it might respond to Trump's attacks on him there, Jamie Raskin released a letter asking Garland to take some procedurally uncertain route to release it.
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