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The United States Can't Afford the Opportunity Cost of Stephen Miller's Bigotry

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emptywheel
Americans can't have nice things -- the nice things they used to have -- because Republicans in Congress gave much of money spent on government employees who give you nice things and instead gave it to Stephen Miller to spend on snatching your neighbor.
An awkward picture of Eagle Ed Martin and Lindsey Halligan posing in his office.

The Rolling Corruption behind the Letitia James Prosecution

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emptywheel
Thus far the attempt to prosecute Letitia James has generated more evidence of Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's crime and corruption than of Attorney General James'.
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Loaner AUSA Gabriel Diaz: Why Do You Think There Are Two Indictments Signed by Lindsey Halligan?

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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan is so desperate to claim there's no a second indictment that she's close to admitting there is not a first Jim Comey indictment either.
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Bill Barr Helped Lindsey Halligan Fuck Up the Comey Prosecution

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emptywheel
A lot of the slovenly handling and misconduct in the Jim Comey investigation started under Bill Barr.
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The 11 Fuck-Ups Pam Bondi's DOJ Made in Indicting Jim Comey

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emptywheel
In an opinion granting access to grand jury materials, William Fitzpatrick lists 11 ways Pam Bondi's DOJ fucked up their efforts to indict Jim Comey.
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Stephen Miller Prioritized This Guy's Shame Over Children Being Raped

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emptywheel
In Stephen Miller's world, it's more important to prevent Border Patrol officers from being shamed for snatching workers at a Home Deport than it is to hunt down those who rape children.
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Might Pam Bondi's Latest Prosecutorial Abuse Give Us Ponies and Puppies?

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emptywheel
Pam Bondi's obeisance to Trump's demand she conduct a frivolous investigation into Democrats to make his own Epstein scandal go away may be a gift to Jim Comey.
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Pam Bondi Replaces Her Embarrassing Reading Comprehension Failure with a 4A Violation

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emptywheel
On November 10, Jim Comey noted that when Pam Bondi read the transcript from the grand jury that indicted him, she may well have been exposed to unlawfully seized material. And then Bondi, who claims to be supervising Lindsey Halligan closely, did it again.
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Lindsey the Insurance Lawyer's Story Gets Stupider

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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan now claims that she got at least two indictments out of one grand jury presentment. And Pam Bondi thinks that's cool.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
The Jeffrey Epstein releases are so damaging to Trump because it prevents him from controlling attention.
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Trailer Park Slum Lord: The Generational Corruption of Bill Pulte

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emptywheel
Bill Pulte continues to be far better at framing Donald Trump's enemies -- and he's not very good at that -- than he is at sustaining the US housing industry.
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Lindsey's Loaner AUSAs Can't Decide What the Clinton Investigation Is

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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan's young Loaner AUSAs continue to struggle to distinguish Trump's wild deliriums about 2016 from actual reality, and it's leading them to make false claims about Jim Comey's alleged false statements.
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Lindsey Halligan's Seven Times 18-Minute Gap

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emptywheel
After two weeks of struggle to come up with a grand jury transcript that two different judges could review, it turns out that for two hours, there isn't one.
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House Dems’ Problem Children Who Ended the Shutdown

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Rayne
Six Democrats crossed over and joined the House GOP to end the government shutdown, forfeiting their only leverage to negotiate recovery of healthcare subsididies. Five of them are running for re-election — primary them.

Judge Jamel Semper Mostly Denies LaMonica McIver's Bid to Dismiss Prosecution

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emptywheel
In a ruling rejecting most of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver's challenges to her prosecution, Judge Jamel Semper gave the government a great deal of deference, even after catching them making false claims about McIver.
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Trump Already Confessed He Knew about "the Girls"

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emptywheel
In July, Trump confessed he knew that Jeffrey Epstein had "stolen" girls from Mar-a-Lago -- but he suggested he dealt with Epstein directly on that. A new email release makes clear he spoke to Ghislaine Maxwell about it.
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Corruption Is All Fun and Games Until It Threatens to Tank the Economy

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emptywheel
With a sustained focus on whether Bill Pulte fired the ethics staff at FHFA because they were investigating his corruption, Pulte may be getting fast-tracked in Trump world, from a useful corrupt flunky to a dangerous liability.
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Three Ways You Can Tell Trump Is Lying about Tariff Rebates

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emptywheel
Trump's promises he'll pay tariff rebates isn't real. Rather, it's part of a two-sided effort to pressure SCOTUS not to make him pay back taxes he unlawfully collected.
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"Witch Hunt!" Jim Comey Channels Media Matters

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emptywheel
In Jim Comey's latest filings, he provided Lindsey Halligan's Loaner AUSAs a lesson about the import of checking what was on Fox and Friends 8 years ago to know where Donald Trump's brain was.
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