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Trash Talk: Much Trash, Very Sport, So Talk

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Rayne
The resident golf widow once again drafted a Trash Talk post. This is an open thread.
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Aileen Cannon's Calvinball Special Master

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emptywheel
The day after the 11th Circuit decision finding she had abused her authority even intervening in the Trump stolen documents case, Aileen Cannon effectively took over the Special Master process without clarifying the deadlines she was working under.
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Stop Magnifying the Former President's Incitement

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emptywheel
The former President is attempting to reassert power over the Senate Minority Leader with the sole remaining sources of power he has: spectacle and fear.
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FBI Seems to Be Collecting Offers to Spy for Russia

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emptywheel
Jareh Dalke, who was arrested on accusations of attempted spying Wednesday, seems to have obtained an NSA job with the intent of stealing files he could use to fix his debt woes.
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"Somewhat Convoluted:" Debunking the Judge Cannon Claims

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emptywheel
Judge Aileen Cannon continues to make stuff up and the press continues to leave that out of their reporting on her power grabs.
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Aileen Cannon Stomps on the Scales of Trumpy Injustice

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emptywheel
Judge Cannon has once again made it clear she is Donald Trump's most enthusiastic defense attorney.
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Oleg Deripaska Indicted for His Anchor Baby and Flowers for a TV Host

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emptywheel
Oleg Deripaska was indicted, in part, for sanctions violations involved with his efforts to set his girlfriend up in the US while she gave birth to one of their two children.
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The Claimed 200,000 Pages Trump Stole Include Press Clippings

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emptywheel
Trump is pointing to what must be a lot of press clippings to demand a delay in the Special Master review.
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The Gaslighter's Psychiatrist: My Response to Dan Drezner

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emptywheel
Dan Drezner's defense of Maggie Haberman makes a great case that endless stories of Trump's tantrums are one of the reasons we never held Trump politically accountable for his failures.
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Under Seal, Trump Accuses Hand-Picked Special Master of Not Following Orders

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emptywheel
Trump filed objections to Raymond Dearie's Special Master plan to that attempt to dodge the obligations on him as a plaintiff to provide proof of his claims.
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Trump's Shaky Privilege to Hide His Pence Pressure

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emptywheel
Since January, both investigations into January 6 have focused on the pressure Trump and the mob put on Mike Pence. And we know from public privilege invocations, that's what Trump is fighting to keep away from a grand jury with invocations of Executive Privilege.
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When Steven Engel and Ed O'Callaghan Said It Was Legal for Russia to Hack Hillary

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emptywheel
The Barr memo drafted by Steven Engel and Ed O'Callaghan is so sloppy it even suggests it was legal for Russia to hack Hillary.
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Trash Talk: Not Exactly Favre-nügen

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Rayne
Notes from a golf widow on the third week of the NFL season. This is an open thread.
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John Durham Wants to Lecture EDVA Jurors about Being Played by Foreign Spies

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emptywheel
John Durham says that "it is appropriate and necessary for the FBI to consider whether information it receives via foreign nationals may be a product of Russian intelligence efforts or disinformation." Yet he himself never made that same consideration.
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Three Questions at the Start of an Intelligence Review

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Peterr
The intelligence review of of the Mar-a-Lago documents begins with three questions: Why did Trump take documents in the first place? Why these documents? Why not those?
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Just Following Orders: Raymond Dearie's Strict Compliance with Aileen Cannon's Orders

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emptywheel
By strictly following Aileen Cannon's order, Special Master Raymond Dearie may well make Trump's attempt to dodge the law more difficult.
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Cause the Harm, and Then Say Nothing: Trump Has Had Aileen Cannon's Proof of His Injury for a Week and Said Nothing

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emptywheel
Trump has had the documents that Aileen Cannon used to claim he was harmed by the government seizure for a week, with no protective order prohibiting him from speaking about them. And he has been silent.
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Granting Stay, 11th Circuit Scolds Aileen Cannon for Ignoring Executive Assertions on National Security

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emptywheel
In rebuking Aileen Cannon for her injunction on DOJ's investigation into the classified files Trump stole, the 11th Circuit reminded her that courts grant the [current] Executive great deference on matters pertaining to classification and national security.
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DOJ Raises Prospect that Trump Continues to Obstruct Investigation, Including of Empty Folders

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emptywheel
With each new filing, the government gets closer to suggesting they need to execute additional search warrants to find the contents of the empty folders found at Trump's beach resort.
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