Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
When John Eastman moved, on Trump’s behalf, to intervene in Texas v. Pennsylvania, Eastman described that Trump spoke “as a candidate for re-election,” he spoke in “his personal capacity.” That motion plays a key role in the Blassingame decision, and may have important implications as Trump appeals Judge Tanya Chutkan’s ruling on absolute immunity.