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Leo Wise Keeps Digging Through Difficulties Caused by a Dumb Prosecutorial Decision

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Leo Wise keeps digging himself bigger holes, all of which stem from making rash prosecutorial decisions without considering the complexity of the case against Hunter Biden.
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Premier Palace: The Risk of Non-Russian Involvement in Alexander Smirnov's anti-Biden Election Operation

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Leo Wise led the Nevada Magistrate Judge to believe that he's most worried about Alexander Smirnov fleeing to Russia. But the reporting he laid out suggests the big worry is that Smirnov will flee to Israel.
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Navel-Gazing: The Ethics Problem Caused by Merrick Garland's Brad Weinsheimer Solution

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Merrick Garland's reliance on the career Associate Deputy Attorney General rather than a PADAG to oversee Special Counsel investigations seems to have created a kind of navel-gazing that only encourages ethical problems with the investigations.
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Trump's Defense: He Intended to Steal Boxes and Boxes of Classified Documents

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Between his motion to dismiss for absolute immunity and his motion to dismiss under Presidential Records Act, Trump is quite literally claiming that being President gave him authority to steal boxes and boxes of classified documents.
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Ken Vogel Covers Up Rudy Giuliani and His Alleged Russian Spies

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In a story struggling to explain how Alexander Smirnov relates to the side channel Bill Barr set up to launder dirt from Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani mouthpiece Ken Vogel covers up the role of Rudy and the alleged Russian spies from whom he solicited dirt on Hunter Biden.
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Happy Delaware Laptop Day, for Those Who Celebrate

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A Delaware court will consider Hunter Biden's motion for summary judgment against John Paul Mac Isaac today. If he prevails, the decision may roil both criminal cases against Hunter Biden and 40 months of propaganda from Murdoch properties.
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David Weiss Was Planning on Using Alexander Smirnov's Claims against the Bidens Until He Wasn't Anymore

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The Alexander Smirnov prosecution provides more evidence that the reason why David Weiss reneged on a plea deal was to chase this bribery claim.
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Hunter Biden's Motions to Dismiss: The Technical Complaints

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In addition to sweeping motions to dismiss the indictment against him, Hunter Biden also filed a number of technical motions that would have the effect of chipping away at most of the charges against him.
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Alexander Smirnov Admits Russian Spies Passed on Lies about Hunter Biden

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Alexander Smirnov admitted some of the claims he has made about Hunter Biden came from Russian spies.
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Robert Hur Snooped Through Joe Biden's Diaries after White House Warned It Would Be Unprecedented

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Robert Hur used his investigation into Joe Biden as an opportunity to snoop through Joe Biden's diaries ... and he did so even though no prosecutor had done such a thing in the past.
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In Advance of Robert Hur Hit Job, DOJ Updated Public Identification Policy

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Bradley Weinsheimer defended Robert Hur's attacks on doddering old man Joe Biden by pointing to a section of the Justice Manual added just days or hours before Hur finished his report.
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How Merrick Garland Mistook a Trump Hitman for a Career Prosecutor

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By settling Andrew McCabe's lawsuit, DOJ conceded that Robert Hur and others had deprived the former FBI Deputy Director of due process. Then DOJ put Hur in charge of an investigation of Joe Biden.
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But Her Emails: How Trump Trained the GOP to Hate Rule of Law 1

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Even before Russians dropped a match onto the bonfire of partisan divide in 2016, Republicans were absolutely convinced Hillary was either a criminal or they could make her one.
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