New: DOJ and ODNI have offered a closed-door briefing to congressional leaders about the Trump docs found at Mar-a-Lago, per sources — which could provide an insight into the sensitivity of the papers and the possibility of indictments.
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Justice Department reporter at the New York Times. Send tips to katie.benner@nytimes.com.
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A bit of news here. I’m thrilled to be joining as a Supreme Court reporter. I’m so grateful for my colleagues and friends and , and I’m looking forward to getting started.
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We’re excited to announce that senior editor Lorne Manly will lead our new Cultural Criticism effort in partnership with
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House Republicans voted to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs committee. Omar said the move was “continued targeting” of her as a woman of color.
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I have some NEWS!
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.@anumitakaur joins The Post’s General Assignment Desk to cover breaking news and write of-the-moment features. washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/02/01/
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I’m so excited the join the spectacular team as we embark on this fascinating journey to 2024 🎉
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Thrilled to welcome the talented and tenacious @MaeveReston to @washingtonpost as a national political reporter! washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/02/02/
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Breaking: The FBI is searching Biden’s beach house, sources tell NBC News, per and Mike Kosnar
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What I’ll inaccurately call “Day 11” of the Proud Boys trial starts soon. Day 10 never got off the ground, being cancelled at last minute. I’ll be live-tweeting here and on Lawfare: bit.ly/3QKlKii
Day 10, such as it was, started here: twitter.com/rparloff/statu
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Day 10 of the Proud Boys trial starts at 9am with govt’s redirect of PB Matt Greene. I’ll be live-tweeting here and on Lawfare: bit.ly/3QKlKii . Day 9 started here: twitter.com/rparloff/statu
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We’re thrilled to announce and are taking on new roles on the National desk, covering the South and Mid-Atlantic respectively.
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.: I’m sure the White House is frustrated with Merrick Garland, but it is not very meaningful in this situation b/c as mad as they get they can’t fire him now. Hear her, & in this week’s episode bit.ly/JusticeTF
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Happy Anniversary to my first rejection! I was ambitious, hopeful, & *delusional* enough to submit a story at age 17, but this note motivated me. Now you can buy my debut, A NOVEL OBSESSION, to find out if I successfully constructed a plot 😉bit.ly/ANovelObsession
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For months, & I have been scrutinizing the Durham investigation into the Russia investigation. It just went online.
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Line of the day from the Proud Boys' J6 sedition trial>>
Defense lawyer: When did your current devotion to God start?
Proud Boy cooperating witness: When I was sitting in a van with the FBI on my way to jail.
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NEW: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis says “decisions are imminent” in her Trump investigation and that there could be “multiple” defendants based on evidence before the special grand jury in Georgia
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The Saturday night shooting in Monterey Park, where at least 65 percent of the population is Asian, took place near a Lunar New Year festival that was scheduled to end around 9 p.m.
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Reminder: There is nothing about a DOJ investigation that legally prevents someone under investigation from speaking publicly. Which is why Trump’s claim that he cd not speak about his taxes bc they were “under audit” was malarkey.
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1 thing Biden’s legal team made clear in today’s statement: they don’t know if Biden had boxes of docs or just a few. They stopped looking when they saw classified markings.
They still haven’t said why it took 48 days to find docs at Biden’s house after the Penn Biden discovery
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The WH keeps digging a hole deeper: they have failed to answer so many questions, which is very strange if this is all an innocent mistake.
-Total number of government docs found and precisely where; and what levels of classification?
-Why wasn't this all revealed in Nov/Dec?
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The PR person for Biden’s personal lawyers says they “do not know the precise # of pages in the discovered material, nor have they reviewed the content of the documents.” They can’t tell the public how many pages of docs, classified or unclassified, Biden had from the Obama era
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“Biden’s aides found additional pages of classified information at his Delaware home this week… bringing the tally to six pages uncovered this week.”
The WH wording always leaves me wondering whether pages of UNCLASSIFIED docs have been found, too nytimes.com/2023/01/14/us/
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The WH keeps digging a hole deeper: they have failed to answer so many questions, which is very strange if this is all an innocent mistake.
-Total number of government docs found and precisely where; and what levels of classification?
-Why wasn't this all revealed in Nov/Dec?
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“Biden’s aides found additional pages of classified information at his Delaware home this week… bringing the tally to six pages uncovered this week.”
The WH wording always leaves me wondering whether pages of UNCLASSIFIED docs have been found, too
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Founding farmers is the cheesecake factory of D.C. There, I said it.
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Some details on how Garland chose Smith:
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Inside Smith's special counsel investigation, which faces unique political headwinds. With prosecutors mulling a Trump charging decision by this summer, investigators are calling witnesses back to talk
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Breaking: Biden aides have discovered at least one additional batch of classified documents in a location separate from the Washington, D.C., office he used after leaving the Obama administration, according to a person familiar with the matter. With and
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In testimony to the J6 committee, Hope Hicks told Trump she worried that he would harm his legacy in trying to overturn the election. Trump responded: "The only thing that matters is winning."
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“FTX Group’s collapse appears to stem from the absolute concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of grossly inexperienced & unsophisticated individuals who failed to implement virtually any of the systems or controls that are necessary” financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/
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There is so much love in this room for . I hope the staff at know how lucky they are. We sure were.
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Just in: Chief US judge for the District of Columbia Beryl Howell did not hold Trump office in contempt of court today over subpoena noncompliance and told the Trump legal team and DOJ to resolve the dispute themselves, per people familiar — story coming.
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Trump’s attorneys have left the federal courthouse after about 80 minutes in a hearing before Judge Howell. It’s entirely possible that Donald Trump is currently in contempt of court but no one knows because it’s all under seal.
Media effort to unseal the hearing was ignored.
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Yep it’s an ALL-NEW , in which a stellar set of DC insiders-- & —joins me to assess the Oath Keepers trial; decode the J6C end game; predict who nails Trump; & probe Lame Duck session & coming R rule. Link at bit.ly/HouseTF
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Quick analysis of the Oath Keepers verdict:
Convicting Stewart Rhodes of sedition, but failing to get guilty sedition verdicts for three other defendants was a landmark, but not total, victory for the Justice Dept in one of its biggest J6 cases. (more)
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And here's another good one from
and on the huge gap between R and D turnout rates >>
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A good counterpoint here from
'The sixth borough': How Westchester became a Democratic firewall in New York
Even Westchester, though, swung 16 points to the right from 2020.
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“Elections move dramatically when they become about a singular topic," Isaac Goldberg told me. “The election in New York was about crime.”
A look at how New York City's populous suburbs swung right, w/help from
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Petition to include Steve Kornacki's analysis in every National Dog Show going forward
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