The Special AUSA who has been tending to the MN-15 prosecution appears unfamiliar with the discovery she claims is sufficient to try the case.

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The Mohamed Jama case in Minnesota -- one of almost 40 that have fallen apart -- provides evidence that Customs and Border Patrol agents conspired to do precisely what the MN-15 are accused of: illegally following a car and assaulting the guy in it.

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Natalie Harp is the gatekeeper with no boss.

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The metadata of Trump's blow-off of a January 6 subpoena shows Natalie Harp was the author of the document.

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By law, Trump is supposed to reveal all the ways Russia helped him win the 2024 election. Thus far, he is refusing to do so.

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Weeks before DOJ relied on fabricated assault charges to predicate an investigation into Minnesota's protest community, DHS had already started focus on Isaac Sant's role in protests against Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017.

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What if Trump's mismanagement of the Federal government creates a massive crisis before we get to Election Day?

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The fight over whether the indictment against Davey Hearn is dismissed with or without prejudice is also a fight about how much more damaging information can be squeezed out of the government because they were stupid enough to charge this case.

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DOJ says it is giving Judge Todd Edelman grand jury transcripts to prove they didn't sandbag Davey Hearn. Except their offer seems to double down on sandbagging.

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The investigative files on Eric Swalwell released to much frothing this week were actually declassified by the White House on March 23, just in time to affect Swalwell's run for governor.

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The audience relying on broadcast TV news media may have not a clue who Natalie is. Relying on the front pages of the US' major newspapers isn't much better.

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The thing about being a gatekeeper to the most powerful man in the world is no one would know what information you were channeling to whom.

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EDNC US Attorney Ellis Boyle claims that Jim Comey's fictional character who engaged in stochastic terrorism is more dangerous than Jack Posobiec, who elicited real-life stochastic terrorism in Pizzagate.

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This is an open thread but let's put an emphasis on Trump's cognitive decline and his failing health.

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In his filing showing a grand conspiracy theory DOJ is attempting to concoct, Isaac Sant also showed how the trumped up assault defendants Pam Bondi paraded as trophies served as the excuse to predicate the investigation that led to the Minnesota 15 indictment.

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John Solomon's propaganda continues to fail the most basic rules of journalism: Who, What, and When.

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By protecting Matthew Skiba and William Hogan from accountability in the Broadview 6 case, Andrew Boutros may be attempting to protect the other politicized witch hunts they've been conducting.

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Taxpayers are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Free Beacon propagandist to distract you from how counterproductive Trump's "Fraud Task Force" is.

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There was a bunch of news about Todd Blanche's destruction of DOJ this week.

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What if William Hogan redacted the Broadview 6 transcripts to cover up how well-connected right wing extremists ordered the prosecution and Andrew Boutros complied?

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A court filing in the Antifa 15 case from Minnesota confirms what I suspected from the start: the prosecution is an attempt to implicate the entire left because of a few low level alleged clashes with ICE goons.

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The specific dynamics of Trump's catering cart caper--where his most trusted aides joined him in escaping via a catering cart and some people with big egos were left on Old Air Force One as bait, along with the journalists, helps explain why Trump went so nutso in search of the source of the story.

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DOJ has offered the extremists behind Unite the Right a gift for the event's anniversary in the indictment of former SPLC staffer Heidi Beirich. As they're doing that, they're refusing to share evidence of how useful SPLC was for the FBI to investigate the event.

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In advance of Kash Patel's trip to Russia, he has made it clear he's going to target the people who found Russia's attempt to influence the 2020 election.

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Lawyers who have joined Harmeet Dhillon's project of enforcing the FACE Act against immigration protestors and not to protect abortion clinics want to suppress an argument Georgia Fort made pointing out that Harmeet refuses to protect Latino church-goers.

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There are better ways to combat Trump's targeting of Davey Hearn than waiting six months hoping that Jamie Raskin gets subpoena power that Trump has proven his ability to defy. They start with understanding what the prosecution has already made public.

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The man whose vanity led him to accept a bribe in the form of an insecure plane took to sneaking onto a third plane via a food truck. And in the process, he may have exposed another inadequacy of the Flying Bribery Palace.

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Todd Blanche refuses to turn over 13 instances in which the FBI has relied on information (or, in at least one case, the same informant) from the SPLC.

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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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