The press has started comparing Trump's Iran problem with that of Jimmy Carter.

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In making a case that neither he nor his prosecutors should be sanctioned, Chicago Andrew Boutros rests his entire argument that prosecutors "undisputedly" complied with Judge April Perry's orders. In fact, they failed to do so.

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According to the grand jury transcript for the ICE agent who drove his black Expedition into a group of people peacefully protesting at Broadview last year, the ICE goon also has a time machine he used to fly back and forth in time on the most problematic day of the grand jury presentation.

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Todd Blanche will be confirmed and as a result we'll see more gross politicization as with the case of Davey Hearn.

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The tantrum Donald Trump threw days before he started the Iran War in spite of warnings about a missile shortage is proof he has been warned, throughout, about the missile shortage.

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How much do you have to hate democracy to give power to Trump?

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Georgia Fort and Don Lemon claim that after a Magistrate Judge challenged the government's effort to get their YouTube information back in February, DHS obtained some of the same information using a Custom summons.

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DOGE came in promising to reverse all the bad government accounting that Elon Musk's fever dreams were sure existed. And according to a new GAO report, it engaged in fraudulent levels of bad government accounting.

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Judge Todd Edelman has issued a curious order for more briefing in the Davey Hearn case, with uncertain outcome. One thing seems clear: he intends to give Davey Hearn the last word.

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US Attorney Andrew Boutros goes to some lengths to claim it was reasonable for William Hogan not to have corrected Judge April Perry in her misunderstanding that the redactions in the Broadview 6 transcript were due to technical errors. But the effort raises more questions than answers.

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In the 18 months that Trump's former defense attorney Todd Blanche has run DOJ, he has yet to rely on Trump v. US, the SCOTUS precedent giving the President unbridled authority to dictate individual prosecutions.

Now he has.

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In a bid to get the indictment against him dismissed with prejudice, Davey Hearn reveals that DOJ misrepresented the circumstances of a "before" picture proving he didn't damage the reflecting pool.

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Everything that went wrong with the reflecting pool, including the fabricated charges against Davey Hearn, went wrong for two reasons: Trump's unprecedented corruption and his rush to include the reflecting pool in his authoritarian hijacking of the Nation's celebration of independence. 

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According to the motion to dismiss in the Davey Hearn case, the damage Jeanine Pirro accused Hearn of doing was there not only over an hour before Hearn showed up, but also 41 minutes before the video Trump keeps claiming shows vandals.

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Were any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize? 

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In 2016, Trump said that he'd like to release his tax returns but they were being audited. Thanks to Todd Blanche, that's no longer an issue.

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The Commander in Chief refuses to defend the US "homeland" against the country he invaded. 

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Just days after learning that Donald Trump, his companies, and his spawn have, as recently as 2021, been laundering money, the Senate GOP is rushing to sanction DOJ's illegal decision to pardon those crimes.

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I've been saying for weeks that Trump would have to be fucking stupid to dick around with a criminal case on which Norm Eisen is a defense attorney. And yet, Trump just dicked around on a criminal case, that of Davey Hearn, on which Norm Eisen is a defense attorney.

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A guy who once argued that George W Bush could fire anyone is now trying to dodge that posture in an attempt to dig Trump out of his IRS lawsuit problem.

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In Jeanine Pirro's motion to dismiss the case against Davey Hearn, she included photographic proof that they should never haved charged him.

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Suspected election criminal Elon Musk is dumping money to support Republicans again.

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The SCOTUS majority stripped Congress of its power to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments. That's a crime against democracy.

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I've never seen more passives used in a document than in DOJ's motion to dismiss the case against canoeist Davey Hearn.

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Trump may have been unable to placate John Cornyn's demands for changes to the Terrorist Slush Fund for sound legal reasons. Or, maybe he just likes terrorists and tax crimes more than he likes Todd Blanche.

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The backup to Jim Comey's various motions to dismiss his seashell prosecution are compelling. They are also evidence of a deeply unwell nation.

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Bill Essayli posted the "diversion agreement" he used as an excuse to drop the case against SEIU CA President David Huerta. It ultimately shows that for a year, he has been trying to prosecute Huerta for his legal protest activity.

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Two months after his discovery deadline, Robert Keenan continues to serve silly subpoenas while still fighting to search Don Lemon's phone.

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Jeanine Pirro's star witness in the Davey Hearn case has destroyed her case against the canoeist.

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Along with a list of all the ways people have used 8647 without intending a true threat, Jim Comey offered a history lesson in his motion to dismiss under the First Amendment.

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