Sarah Rogers is a terrible troll.

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Why does Todd Blanche want a job that requires him to destroy his reputation to cater to Trump's whims?

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By getting emails about the Broadview 6 case in native format, including the October 9 transcript sent to Andrew Boutros on October 14, Judge April Perry will have a way to test Boutros' claim that he never read it.

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After Judge April Perry reminded DOJ they need to invoke privilege when they first withhold something under a privilege claim, the Chicago US Attorney's Office and someone whose identity has been hidden asked for a mulligan to re-release grand jury transcripts to her.

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Got a story you want to share? We’d all love to hear it.

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By bullying the EU to withdraw funding from the Disinfo2026 conference, Sarah Rogers engaged in the kind of retaliation DOJ had assured Judge Boasberg they would not do.

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The Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers pressured the EU, Lithuania, and Canada into pulling support for a disinformation conference that already had pulled its punches when discussing US disinformation.

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Good judging\ is doing your best for the good of the nation. That's not the Roberts Majority's goal.

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The latest John Solomon attempt to deceive his rubes, a bunch of pen register reports targeting Susie Wiles, reveal a great deal of corruption. The corruption is all that of Trump and his aides. 

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It's not enough for Trump to start paying for his propaganda ads himself. He needs to pay restitution to the taxpayers he robbed to run the ads in the first place.

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By trying to moot the Broadview 6 exonerees request for discovery by dismissing their case, Andrew Boutros may have effectively given April Perry a cooperating witness, Sheri Mecklenburg.

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The lawsuit by Renee Good's family likens the mask Jonathan Ross wore the day he killed Renee Good to hooded Klan terrorism prohibited by the Klan Act.

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Russia's interference in the 2016 election is not the past. On the contrary, the latest news shows how much Russian has simply relentlessly pursued the very same plan it put in place starting a decade ago.

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Democrats are strongly favored to win the midterms, but we need to use Trump's loser stench to ward off any funny business.

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One of the best Ball of Threads we have done explains how the Steele dossier drove polarization in the US.

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Last year, when Andrew Boutros was dropping shitty ICE cases left and right, he made the decision to keep trying until he charged Kat Abughazaleh with a felony.

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Now that protestors Benny Johnson slandered a year are suing, maybe we'll learn exactly who funds Benny and how much.

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Of the 20 Masters of the Universe at Trump's AI summit the other day, 11 are immigrants.

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When announcing the arrest of a guy who sent Katie Miller 40 mean messages, Todd Blanche claimed he would give everyone such protection. But a Klan Act lawsuit filed by Renee Good's family proves that's a lie.

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In dismissing the case against Davey Hearn with prejudice, Judge Todd Edelman pointed to the risk posed by Donald Trump's ongoing threats as the harm that requires dismissal with prejudice.

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Among the many wildly unethical things Trent McCotter and Stan Woodward do to frame Judge Patrick Schiltz with a misconduct complaint is quote something he said in a document filed in court as if it necessarily came from a NYT interview.

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I made a mistake in this post, in which I described how DOJ breached its own privilege when it chose to respond to Sheri Mecklenburg pawning the decision to charge the Broadview 6 with a felony conspiracy charge off on US Attorney Boutros. I assumed that Chicago’s US Attorney’s office responded by debunking Mecklenburg — […]

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Far right propagandists and Chuck Grassley are outraged that journalists' communications -- communications that showed Trump defrauding MAGAt voters -- were among the things Jack Smith obtained from the criminals he was investigating.

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Once you realize Trump's morally binding AI code doesn't even spell "United States" properly, the whole sham looks even more ominous.

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This has been a terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad month for current and former Missouri Attorneys General. Today was Eric Schmitt's turn.

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HSI Agent Ryan Ribner has been lying again.

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When Andrew Boutros vouched for the good faith of his prosecutors back in May, he claimed he had spoken extensively with them. But, according to Sheri Mecklenburg's resignation letter, those discussions did not include her.

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In this dummies version of my post explaining what some lawyers for FBI personnel tried to do in Trump's stolen documents docket, I explain why Aileen Cannon has too many hats.

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DOJ is now colluding with Elon Musk in fraud, all to export far right extremism into the EU.

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Listen in for detailed descriptions of the filing in Aileen Cannon's docket and the Broadview 6 case.

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