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Aileen Cannon Confesses She's Unable to Distinguish between Golf Balls and Nuclear Weapons

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emptywheel
Depending on how you count, Aileen Cannon issued three or four decisions yesterday. The most telling is an order letting Trump have a mulligan on whether his false attacks on the FBI pose a danger to society. As Jack Smith's team described…
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Final Day* of Term Edition

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Rayne
This is it: SCOTUS will deliver the last* undecided cases of the term this morning. This is an open thread.
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The Day After

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Rayne
In which I tell you to get a fucking clue and check in with reality.
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2024 Presidential Election: First Presidential Debate

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Rayne
The first presidential debate of the 2024 election season will air at 9:00 p.m. ET this evening. Discuss your perspective of the candidates' performance and their messages to us in this open thread.
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The Madness of Macron

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Quinn Norton
Quinn Norton lays out all the reasons Macron's decision to call snap elections is so stupid.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Thursday Edition [UPDATE-1]

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Rayne
The last of SCOTUS's undecided cases drop this morning or they drop tomorrow — will today's include Trump v. United States? This is an open thread.
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Sammy Alito Makes a Great Case Trump Censored Fox News' Accurate 2020 Election Reporting

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emptywheel
In his Murthy v. Missouri dissent, Sam Alito said that if the President demands that a media outlet censor true content to publish favored content, that is impermissible censorship. He made a great case that Donald Trump unlawfully dictated Fox News' coverage during the 2020 transition.
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Open Thread: SCOTUS Decisions, Wednesday Edition [UPDATE-2]

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Rayne
13 cases remain undecided; the next batch of decisions will be delivered by SCOTUS this morning. This is an open thread.
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The Damaging Precedent of the Julian Assange Espionage Guilty Plea

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emptywheel
DOJ could have drafted the plea agreement with Julian Assange to do far less damage going forward, but for reasons that are not yet clear, they did not.
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The Nuclear Weapons Document Trump Stashed under Bubble Wrap and a Christmas Pillow

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emptywheel
Among the things disclosed by a new Jack Smith filing is that Trump stored a document about nuclear weapons under some bubble wrap and Christmas pillow.
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"Nobody ever slept on that side of the bed usually so he would have it all full of boxes"

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emptywheel
According to one of Trump's White House aides, he kept a cluster of boxes on the side of his bed, where (usually) no one slept, and had intimate knowledge of what was in the boxes.
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Julian Assange to Plead to One Count of Espionage Act on Way Back to Australia

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emptywheel
Julian Assange will plead guilty to one felony count of violating the Espionage Act.
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"Double Jeopardy Protection ... Is [Hunter Biden's] Right"

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emptywheel
Abbe Lowell has rolled out a bunch of tactical reasons why Hunter Biden's conviction (at least on the key possession charge) should be overturned.
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Gaza: Unending Cannon Fire and Steel Helmets

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Rayne
An examination of the Israel-Hamas war ahead of Netanyahu's address to Congress — yet another fuck-you from Bibi.
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Derek Hines Ensures that Two Likely Appeals Will Implicate His False Claims about Hunter Biden's New Haven Crack Pipe

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emptywheel
Hunter Biden's as-applied challenge to the gun charges against him will be far more interesting than his facial challenge to them. And that makes Derek Hines' continued false claims about the timeline a bit of a problem.
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Ashraf Shaaban Listed as Global Legal Head of National Bank of Egypt

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emptywheel
The American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt ties a lawyer named in the court filings investigating a suspected payment to Trump to the National Bank of Egypt.
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An Egyptian Bank Claimed Details of a Suspected $10 Million Payment to Trump Might be in China

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emptywheel
A bank owned by Egypt said it couldn't comply with a subpoena seeking information on a suspected payment to Trump during the 2016 election, in part, because China's laws would prevent that.
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Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller Demand the Right to Foster Right Wing Violence for the Election

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emptywheel
In courts up and down the East Coast, Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller are making the same argument: That Trump and his team must be permitted to make false, incendiary attacks on rule of law as part of an electoral campaign.
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