Taint

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emptywheel
Judge Michael Nachmanoff's order denying the loaner prosecutors in the Jim Comey case a quick filter review discloses that the main FBI investigators may have already sneaked a peak into Comey's privileged communications.
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Lindsey Halligan's Grand Jury Violation, with Love to Aileen Cannon

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emptywheel
According to the legal opinion Aileen Cannon adopted to give Trump Defense Attorney Lindsey Halligan her first big legal win, Lindsey Halligan cannot legally appear before a grand jury.
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60 Pages of Animus: Jim Comey's Motions to Dismiss His Prosecution

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emptywheel
Jim Comey's motions to dismiss his indictment reveal almost nothing about the discovery he has received so far.
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Lindsey Halligan Lectures Someone ELSE about Conflicts

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emptywheel
The loaner prosecutors doing Lindsey Halligan's dirty work are insinuating that Patrick Fitzgerald -- and not Halligan herself -- has a conflict on this case.
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Shit-Posting All the Way to SCOTUS

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emptywheel
If the Supreme Court allows Trump to invade Democratic states based on transparent fabrications, we're in real trouble. But Trump spent the weekend proving how unreliable he is.
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Stephen Miller's Trains Don't Run on Time

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emptywheel
Stephen Miller is incredibly powerful and so fascistic that Trump even hesitates to describe his ambition. But he is also downright slovenly. Increasingly,
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No Kings Thread

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emptywheel
About 400 people and at least six frogs turned out to the American Embassy in Ireland to call for No Kings today.
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Eagle Ed Martin and George Santos Just Proved Tish James' Vindictive Prosecution Claim

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emptywheel
At the very same time Eagle Ed was stalking Tish James up and down the Eastern Seaboard, desperately trying to find some crime to charge her with. he was also busy finding a way to free George Santos, a much bigger, confessed fraudster from prison.
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Jim Comey Prepares to Prevail at SCOTUS

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emptywheel
Jim Comey has added the kind of lawyers to his defense team that signals he expects to have to break new appellate ground on politicized prosecutions.
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
There were a bunch of newsworthy detentions this week -- and not all that news was bad!
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The Bolton Indictment

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emptywheel
The indictment against John Bolton charges him with sending, and then retaining, eight documents containing classified information.
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Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal

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emptywheel
After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.
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Tick Tock, Tick Tock: Lindsey Halligan's Filter Follies

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emptywheel
Lindsey Halligan's loaner prosecutors decided they'd ask for a filter protocol to access already seized material the day after Judge Nachmanoff ordered they provide all discovery to Jim Comey that same day. That may work out poorly for them.
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How City of Chicago Beat Back Stephen Miller's Shoddy Propaganda ... So Far

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emptywheel
How the efforts of everyday Chicagoans managed to defeat Stephen Miller's propaganda ... so far.
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France's Political Crisis: Sebastian Lecornu Goes All In

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Quinn Norton
Yesterday, French Prime Minister Sebastian Lecornu gave the speech of his life. Tomorrow, he'll find out if it worked. Update: It worked. Sebastian Lecornu survived the No Confidence vote. Next come the hard part: governing France.  Something…
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The Fascist Dragnet To Avenge Charlie Kirk's Honor

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emptywheel
It's bad enough that the State Department using free speech about Charlie Kirk to exclude purported visa holders. It's still worse that two of six claimed accounts don't do what State accuses. But the dragnet they must have used to get this far is pure fascism.
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Mayor Ras Baraka Reaffirms Malicious Prosecution Claim

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emptywheel
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is not backing down from his claim he was falsely arrested by Ricky Patel.
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"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan's First Filing

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emptywheel
Lindsey the Insurance lawyer and her two loaner AUSAs didn't do so well on their first filing.
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We're in La Plus Stupide Ligne de Temps

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Quinn Norton
Every Manny for Himself (Apologies for the delay, Macron ran out my work day, went into my Saturday, but damn it, this is still France) After a mean girl spat, in which the leader of the ever-more-trending-hard-right Le Republicans, Retailleau,…
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Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey

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emptywheel
Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to prosecute Jim Comey, and how those efforts failed until the moment he unlawfully installed his own defense attorney as US Attorney at EDVA. 
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