DOJ never actually told NYT what suspected leak they were chasing with a barrage of subpoenas. It may actually be a story NYT had not yet published when DOJ started serving subpoenas.

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Thanks to an extension Sean Buckley got on Judge Arun Subramanian's order to provide the backup to subpoenas DOJ obtained targeting NYT, we may not learn if DOJ engaged in further corruption until after Jay Clayton and Todd Blanche get confirmed by the Senate.

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Last year, Trump's DOJ got guilty pleas from a Russian and his Uzbek buddy based on illegally registering false identities to vote in Florida. And yet the case against the Russian is getting weird in the way cases in Trump's DOJ do.

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There were two cases of Trump threatening journalism this week -- the NYT subpoenas, but also the Cities Church case.

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I’ve written several posts (one, two, three) about the accumulating evidence that Harmeet Dhillon’s people fabricated every single claim against journalist Georgia Fort included in the Cities Church indictment. That evidence came out in Fort’s motion to get the grand jury transcripts (as reflected on the timeline below). Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko held a hearing […]

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Todd Blanche keeps making demands that lead his former colleagues at SDNY to step on their own dicks.

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A second Cities Church defendant, Thomas Tier, has complained about the use of Customs summonses to get communication records and other evidence in violation of the law.

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At a time when the Saudis are cutting back spending, partly in response to the Iran War Trump started and failed to defend Saudi Arabia from, Trump agreed to give them nukes.

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The more you unpack John Solomon's pathetic effort to defend his election stunt from last Thursday, the more the intentionally obscured timeline is of interest.

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During the period when Harmeet Dhillon's case against Georgia Fort has been falling apart, HSI Agents have been using customs summonses to spy on her phone records.

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The Roberts majority is building an authoritarian government. They all have to go before the Court can be reformed.

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If Trump is not careful, the NYT is going to carve out new protections for the press from the sloppy way SDNY subpoenaed journalists who reported on Trump's faulty Flying Bribery Palace.

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Sean Buckley, the prosecutor purporting to investigate the sources for two NYT articles disclosing security weaknesses in Trump's Flying Bribery Palace, asked for a 2-week Mulligan to do the investigative steps he didn't do first. In the process, he likely forfeited any claim this investigation is proper.

The post SDNY Asks for Two Weeks to Unfuck the Leak Investigation It Fucked Up in Rush to Please Trump appeared first on emptywheel.

The urgent threat that hostile entities will access voting rolls and prevent legal voters from voting is precisely what Trump's own DHS has done with Social Security data DOGE took.

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From FIFA seeking ever-more money, to Trump making himself the story, to the ups and downs of games themselves, the World Cup ends tomorrow. What's your experience been?

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Trump was angry about election interference last night. But then why did the State Dept make US election interference in Europe our official policy?

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Kathleen Williams' ruling that Trump is not adverse to the government may soon impact the BBC's efforts to defend against a frivolous lawsuit by Trump.

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While Todd Blanche scoffs at the 1,200 former DOJ officials who oppose his confirmation, less than 1% of former DOJ officials will speak up to support his nomination.

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A Wisconsin panel of election officials just referred Elon Musk for possible criminal prosecution for attempting to bribe Cheeseheads in advance of the 2025 Supreme Court election. And yet Trump never talks about this suspected election fraud!

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Judge Kathleen Williams has laid out the problems with the Unitary Executive: Donald Trump can never be adverse to DOJ in any proceeding.

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In advance of Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing this week, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has demanded DOJ provide files for his investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes in New Mexico.

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Jeanine Pirro is fighting to oversee the force feeding by torture of Ramanullah Lakwanal so she can keep him alive for a death penalty trial for the murder of Sarah Beckstrom.

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This is an orange bawbag free zone. What are you doing to survive? What are you doing in the pursuit of happiness?

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Lindsey Graham has died.

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Trump has confirmed his Flying Bribery Palace is inadequate to the task of keeping him safe in at least three ways, the most important being the subpoenas DOJ sent to four NYT reporters.

The post Trump Confirms: Accepting a Flying Bribery Palace Made Him Less Safe appeared first on emptywheel.

Graham Platner's withdrawal is a great opportunity to remind how many rapists the Republicans have protected.

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At a time when Trump's flunkies claim posting picture of law enforcement officials constitute doxing, Harmeet Dhillon just identified all hundred of the people she just hired in Civil Rights.

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It's hard for the filthy rich to use their wealth to disorient our reason and manipulate our emotions.

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The false claims made to indict Georgia Fort matters far beyond Minnesota, because Harmeet Dhillon and her team seem to be preparing to frame others for election gain.

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The people that stuck by a guy who bragged about grabbing people by the pussy want to lecture others about their tolerance for misconduct.

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