How Trump Rolled Out this Kash Patel Pick Is Part of Spinning False Claims about Rule of Law

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emptywheel
The means by which Trump is attempting to install one of his chief propagandists as FBI Director is as important as the pick itself.
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To You Charming Gardeners

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Rayne
It's not easy to give thanks now, but there may be no better time.
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The Little Noticed Jay Clayton Pick at SDNY

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emptywheel
One day after FBI executed a search on Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, Trump took steps to replace the incumbent SDNY US Attorney with Jay Clayton, just as he tried but failed to do in 2020.
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On Background Checks for Trump Appointees, The Magic Number Is "Four"

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emptywheel
On any given issue requiring Senate involvement, four Republican Senators joining with the Democrats have the ability to block Trump's worst attacks on the United States.
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The Zombie Case against Trump's Indicted Co-Conspirators

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emptywheel
Sustaining the Mar-a-Lago case against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira may slightly limit how Jack Smith describes his investigative discoveries in Mar-a-Lago.
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Boris' Shakedown

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emptywheel
The report into Boris Epshteyn's "consulting" appears to be a failed attempt to suggest corruption would keep key advisors out of the casino.
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"Without Prejudice:" Jack Smith Moves to Dismiss the DC Case

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emptywheel
Jack Smith has moved to dismiss the DC case against Trump -- but he is doing so without prejudice, meaning if Congress chose to impeach Trump on these charges, the case could be refiled.
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Just a Quarter of Republican Senators Voted for Rick Scott

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emptywheel
Senate Republicans will enjoy their time in the majority, and most of the time most Republican Senators will gleefully support what Trump will do. But when given a choice to capitulate immediately by voting for Rick Scott to be Majority Leader or to uphold their own prerogatives by voting for someone more like Mitch McConnell, an overwhelming majority of Republican Senators voted to defend their own privilege.
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Pam Bondi Offers a Platform to Expose the Consequences of Trump's Past Corruption

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emptywheel
Democrats are likely to have more success making Republicans own the harm to Trump supporters that Pam Bondi's inevitable corruption will cause than getting enforceable commitments to avoid politicizing DOJ.
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Last judgment by da Modea, Cathedral Bologna, IT. Shows tortured bodies and giant beast in the center eating the damned and shitting them out

Now What?

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Ed Walker
Starting to shake off the defeat: fix up, assign blame, and work on projects.
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WaPo Enthusiastically Joins Trump's Attack on Rule of Law

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emptywheel
In describing Donald Trump's plans to attack prosecutors who investigated his alleged crimes, WaPo conducts the same abusive act of replacing rule of law with false claims of grievance as Trump himself does.
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"A Farce, or a Tragedy, or Perhaps Both."

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Quinn Norton
Why Trump Won The making of the electorate Trump just won, and thusly the United States we have now, started decades ago in school. The Conservative Takeover of America was not secret, it was worse than secret; it was boring and bureaucratic.…
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Amid Global Threats that Remain (Publicly) Unspeakable, Trump Makes Himself Vulnerable

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emptywheel
What Trump will do to the United States is awful.  But because he hates the US government so much, he'll also make "America First" wildly vulnerable to hostile forces, at a time when they're already poised to undercut America's strength.
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Yes, Trump Plans to Flush NATO, But It's Part of a Larger Whole

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emptywheel
By rolling out one after another wildly inappropriate nominee, Trump has brilliantly done what he always does: used a series of distractions to drown out any coherent discussion of the whole. To combat Trump's assault on America, we need to maintain focus on that whole.
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With Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump's Myth Cannot Fail -- It Can Only Be Failed

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emptywheel
Already, in Trump's first term, crony US Attorneys managed to claim evidence was the opposite of what reality said it was. But in a Matt Gaetz DOJ, a willingness to sustain Trump's myth would be the price of admission. Trump's myth cannot fail, it can only be failed.
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David Weiss Dons His "Let's Go Brandon" Frame

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emptywheel
In motions in limine in advance of the Alexander Smirnov trial, Leo Wise and Derek Hines made a superb case they're treating Alexander Smirnov differently than the gun shop owner who doctored the Hunter Biden gun purchase form after the fact.
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Special Counsel Reports Include Declination Decisions

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emptywheel
Jack Smith's declination decisions, which by regulation he must include in any closing report, may prove to be of great interest.
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Trump's Blacklist: His Fascism, Legal Fuck-ups, and Business Failures

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emptywheel
In addition to using lawsuits to seed his false claim that the election was not fair, Donald Trump bullied the NYT for a group of stories that debunked his con.
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