In a bid to debunk Sheri Mecklenburg's claims about charging deliberations in the Broadview 6 case, the Chicago US Attorney's Office just waived the privilege that was a core part of their defense.

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Third time for the Missouri GOP's gerrymandering scheme is . . . the same as the first two times, except this time SCOTUS said why.

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The performatively Antifa guy who serves as the narrative hook for the Minnesota-15 case is appealing his pretrial detention to SCOTUS.

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In a filing trying to get Aileen Cannon to write down what her new Cannonball rules are, attorneys for FBI agents involved in the stolen document case point out that Cannon is presiding over an investigation she (and the Elevnth Circuit) already ruled should not exist.

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When Sheri Mecklenburg told Andrew Boutros she wanted to intervene in the Broadview 6 proceedings, which will make it far harder for him to scapegoat her, he threatened to fire her.

So she quit. And raised a bunch more questions about what happened.

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Reporting on a potential diesel export ban makes it quite clear: Trump is not, now, looking for any solution to the catastrophe he created by invading Iran. He's merely looking for a way to get through the election, after which he'll deal with the snowballing "December problems" he is creating now.

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John Curtis, the junior Senator from Utah, sent a letter to Chuck Grassley yesterday asking him to hold a hearing on familial influence peddling. I therefore respectfully request that the Senate Judiciary Committee launch an investigation into the use of presidential family relationships for private financial benefit, preferential treatment, or access by domestic and foreign […]

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The MO gerrymandering fight goes on and the GOP sounds a lot like Vizzini in their argument with the MO Supremes, so it's back to SCOTUS . . .

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It turns out Maggie Haberman is not the only storyteller who tells Trump what he wants to hear; so does Gary Player's caddy!

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Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney is Nervous. He was angry-nervous when he addressed Davos at the beginning of this year. He was polite-and-firm nervous when he was telling the idiot hegemon of America that he couldn’t, and would never, own Canada. He brought a different nervous to his address to the European Parliament last […]

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This is an open thread. If you've voted, do share. If you're helping others, let us know how.

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In honor of Don Jr's new Russian benefactor, LOLGOP and I are re-releasing our Ball of Threads series.

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Think of the mechanics of the media ban: Several news outlets were, truthfully, making the case that Trump is a loser. Unusually, Natalie Harp showed Trump that proof he's a loser. And as a result the press will be partly blinded during a potentially momentous week.

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The Broadview 6 exonerees provided more details about the grand jury proceedings for October 16, 2025, when Sheri Mecklenburg threw out grand jurors who would not indict. But that description only raised more questions.

The post Confirmed: Broadview 6 Transcript Does Not Match the Recording appeared first on emptywheel.

At the same time Don Jr was hitting it off with his benefactor Umar Kremlev. DOD was awarding a company partially owned by him a big natsec critical contract.

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Trump is losing Latino voters badly.

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María Salazar keeps trying to find a way to remain loyal to Donald Trump while distancing herself from Trump's bigotry. Those efforts probably won't help her, and they'll split Trump's base well beyond Miami.

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The Roberts Majority ignores all restraints in its drive to remake our democracy.

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Harmeet Dhillon's attacks on Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko led directly to the predictable far right mob which led to the predictable death threats.

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Almost seven months in, we're beginning to get official acknowledgment of how badly Whiskey Pete Hegseth has lost the Iran War.

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Colin McDonald has ratcheted up his highly paid tweeting and in the process made it clear how fraudulent the entire Fraud Task Force is, a mere smokescreen for Donald Trump's far bigger fraud.

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The headache Tom Massie caused Trump and Mike Johnson by filing Articles of Impeachment against Whiskey Pete Hegseth won't go away anytime soon.

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In the Broadview 6 Reply brief arguing that prosecutors should be sanctioned, the exonerees note that even Diane MacArthur -- someone who everyone in Chicago trusts -- refuses to give them a straight answer about communications between Chicago and Main DOJ.

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Even as DOJ tries to claim the seashells investigation into Jim Comey had a virgin birth, it is obscuring that Comey self-snitched on himself to the Secret Service.

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By refusing to give Joe DiGenova a SCIF to store the most sensitive documents, Trump's defense Attorney General Todd Blanche confessed his client stole highly classified documents.

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Even before Democrats will turn to oversight if they win back the House, they're likely to have to deal with the catastrophe created by Trump's Iran War debacle.

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I only saw brief clips of the Trumpapalooza, but one of the few I saw brought me up short. And it should bring you up short too.

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Joe DiGenova has resigned under apparent pressure to indict Jim Comey and John Brennan faster.

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In his latest Russian propaganda, John Solomon faceplanted in his effort to cover up Trump's related Egyptian corruption.

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This week's schedule shows that Trump is prioritizing both Charlie Kirk and golf over the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

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