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Jared Kushner Sure Seems Excited About “Very Valuable” Beachfront Properties in Gaza

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The Supreme Court Just Gave Texas a Green Light to Harass Every Latino Person in the State In the manner of a drunk teenager with a hand on a light switch, the Supreme Court has spent the past few days turning federal immigration law in Texas on and off, on and off, while making mewling noises abou...

The WAPO's Josh Dawsey Downplays Paul Manafort's Ties To Alleged Russian Spies Mar-A-Lardo wants to hire Manafort to help with "fundraising"!!! First, there is absolutely no dispute that Manafort sent campaign data to Kilimnik to share with his Ukrainian backers and Oleg Deripaska. Manafo...

Mar-a-Lago Judge’s Stark Ruling: Jury Sees Secret Files or Trump Wins

The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark choice: allow jurors to see a huge trove of national secrets or let him go.

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Even if you know from jump street that it is illegal to possess classified information. The ooops I forgot I had those documents becomes the fall back position. Good second grade understanding of the problem. "Class, what would be the reasonable NEXT STEP be for someone "who forgot they h...

All the reasons why SDNY delayed giving Discovery Materials to Trump's legal team in the "Hush Money" case During both the tax and fraud trials of Trump Organization, there were hints that SDNY had — finally — picked up some of the financial allegations NYS dug up and turned them into fed...

Mitch McConnell Urges Courts To Ignore New Rules Meant To Prevent 'Judge-Shopping' Mitch is beyond a doubt the biggest buttwipe in our nation's modern history. The new rules put forward by the conference followed years of controversy over the practice of judge-shopping exploited by conservatives. C...

Even if you know from jump street that it is illegal to possess classified information. The ooops I forgot I had those documents becomes the fall back position. Good second grade understanding of the problem. "Class, what would be the reasonable NEXT STEP be for someone "who forgot they h...

Lengthy and detailed analysis of the Numbnut republican effort to smear Hunter Biden and attack J'Biden in the process...looking at Hunter's motions to dismiss...

DAVID WEISS IS SMOKING ROGER STONE’S WITNESS-TAMPERING GUN

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Legal opinion on "R-SCOTUS" from one of the frequent guest posters at Emptywheel SCOTUS LINES UP BEHIND TRUMP’S DEFENSIVE STRATEGY There is no doubt the Republicans on SCOTUS (hereinafter R-SCOTUS) are lined up behind Trump in his criminal cases. The timeline in the ridiculous immunity cas...

I watched a little of the House Judiciary Hur Hearing, and I have to say this: First, it is really difficult to listen to Jordan speak, not merely because he's such an assh*le, but because his manner of speaking is so strangely torrid that he just blitzes along and loses any meaning he might have. ...

KASH PATEL’S DEEP STATE: HOW TRUMP TRAINED THE GOP TO HATE RULE OF LAW 2 The guy who rose to prominence by turning an investigation into a Russian attack on democracy into a counterattack on the FBI, the guy who spends his time writing children’s books in which he, Kash, protects his liege from ima...

So now that the Supremes have ruled, we can all now stop calling Jan 6th an insurrection & stop accusing trump of inciting or conspiring to lead an insurrection. Too late. He's already BEEN convicted of being an insurrectionist by two Colorado courts, including their Supreme Court. Mitch's SCOT...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C31XcoPRnYp/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== I had to look that up, to make sure it wasn't AI generated. Costas looks weird in this piece. yes, it was part of larger interview in which Costas is highly critical of Biden for running again. And then he rips Trump as much, much wo...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/donald-trump-constitutionally-prohibited-presidency/675048/ Well Luttig and Tribe did strongly endorse this plan by publishing this article in the Atlantic last August. Entitled "The Constitution Prohibits Trump From Ever Being President Again....

ggait wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:14 pm Can anyone explain what Luttig and Tribe were thinking in backing this effort?

Seems like a very unserious vanity project to me.

Backing what effort? I've seen them talking about this, but what "project" are you questioning?

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njbill, I think the term may be "de facto" protection...what they are doing to affirmatively push the trial, and certainly any judgment entered, well past the election. Could the "future court case" come when someone, somehow, sues to stop the certification of the Electoral Colle...

There's more. These five uber-conservative AZZWIPES on the Supreme Court have actually made a pretty solid attempt to NULLIFY Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court’s “Unanimous” Trump Ballot Ruling Is Actually a 5–4 Disaster On Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Colorado S...

It’s Past Time to Quit Hoping the Courts Are Going to Stop Trump The latest decisions out of the Supreme Court, first on when to hear former President Donald Trump’s immunity appeal, then on how to deal with his Colorado ballot disqualification, have made one thing very clear: We need to stop delud...