He’s desperate to stay in the good graces of the lawless wing of the GOP.
So much for the rule of law and respect for the jury system. And this guy went to law school.
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Michael R. Bromwich
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former DOJ IG; Asst US Attorney, SDNY; Assoc. Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra; independent monitor; law enforcement consultant; views are my own
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It's 2023. Literally no one cares about the Rudy Giuliani/Bernie Kerik prescription for anything.
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This would be the @RudyGiuliani/Kerik plan:
Strict enforcement of existing laws with no desk appearance tickets.
Recommend off-duty police officers to replace private security, to affect immediate arrests.
Assign additional canine units to substantial retail areas.
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Take note , , and the rest of the anti-Semitic caucus who deny their anti-Semitism.
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Irrespective of how one feels about George Soros’s politics or policies, it is entirely disingenuous to deny that many ad hominem attacks on him rely on classic antisemitic tropes and rhetoric. In bygone eras, the antisemites invoked the Rothschild family to advance their… Show more
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I wonder what Ronald Reagan would say if a Supreme Court justice was discovered to have secretly received financial gifts from a wealthy backer?
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Ask the cops who were assaulted whether they thought it was a clown show. Tell the jurors who have convicted rioters for seditious conspiracy the same thing.
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Bill Barr is speaking in Cleveland. C-Span is carrying it.
Barr: “The people on the right are not a threat to democracy.The threat is coming from the progressive side.”
Q: Did you feel that way on Jan. 6th?
Barr: “Yes. I thought Jan. 6th was a clown show.There was no threat.”
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Long overdue. Corruption flourishes where there is no oversight.
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Get ready for this: The best investigative reporters in the country are now going to be digging into the corruption of the Supreme Court, and the whole right apparatus behind the right wing judicial takeover, for many months to come. twitter.com/AdamSerwer/sta…
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Joe Lieberman’s reputation went up in smoke in about 2008. He has an insatiable appetite to remain relevant, as do so many once significant figures in his age cohort….Giuliani, Dershowitz, etc.
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.@NoLabelsOrg is secretly funded with plan that guarantees election of Trump. One major donor exposed is Harlan Crow. I can’t tell you why Lieberman is doing this anymore than why RFK, Jr. is anti-vaxxer conspiracy nut. But this will elect Trump.
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He apparently isn’t aware that the vindictive lane in the Republican primary is already taken.
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In addition to saying that he will send state inspectors in to inspect rides, Desantis today threatens to build a state prison next to Disney’s theme parks.
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This is shocking but not surprising. It certainly won’t help the reputation of the Supreme Court. The Court needs a code of ethics, the federal judiciary needs an inspector general, and the courts need to show that they are willing to hold judges accountable for misconduct.
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For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.
The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 
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![Left: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in October 2022. He is seated with his fellow SCOTUS justices {not pictured]. Right: Harlan Crow in October 2015. He is photographed seated in what appears to be a room in his home.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtBoPzhWYAQsxA4?format=jpg&name=medium)
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If she did this in the federal system, she would be prosecuted.
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Weird. Does anyone one recall the foreman of a grand jury, particularly in a consequential case, doing a media tour BEFORE any indictments are made?!?
Like, who IS this woman?? nytimes.com/2023/02/21/us/
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She was a reckless idiot for doing what she did.
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News: CBS News has learned that lawyers close to several GOP witnesses in Fulton Co. investigation are preparing to move to quash any possible indictments by DA based on the public statements by the forewoman of the special grand jury, per two people familiar with the discussions
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Stripped of the legalisms, this is cowardice plain and simple.
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History repeats itself. We conducted an in-depth review of an infamous plainclothes unit in the Baltimore PD, the Gun Trace Task Force. The GTTF was launched with the best of intentions but became a rogue unit. gttfinvestigation.org. Memphis needs a similar deep-dive review
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Today: At one end of Penn. Ave., the honoring of genuine heroes who protected our democracy against insurrectionists on Jan6; at the other, the most extreme election deniers and insurrectionists extorting the more moderate election deniers and insurrectionists to gain more power.
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On January 6th, our democracy was attacked. Two years later, we honor a few heroes – officers and public servants alike – responsible for safeguarding our democracy with absolute courage.
Today, 14 of them receive the Presidential Citizens Medal.
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These are silly headlines. There will be no legal fight. The Jan6 Committee wanted to be on record trying to get his testimony and relevant documents. They don't have time to deal with his delay nonsense. He's scared to testify. Case closed.
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Frivolous applications to the Supreme Court are on the rise...What is he afraid of?
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NEW at SCOTUS: Senator Lindsey Graham files emergency docket application seeking to be released from order to testify in Trump’s Georgia election fraud case
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Prosecutors don't fight "larger battles" through the vehicle of criminal prosecutions. It's a violation of ethics rules to bring doomed cases to fight those "larger battles." was a judge and former Texas AG. He knows that.
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John Durham lost again in court, but the special counsel has already won the larger battle to expose the dirty political machinations behind the FBI’s Russia collusion probe. wsj.com/articles/bring via @WSJ
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The Barr/Durham project to pick apart the Russia investigation has ended in colossal failure. Its only conviction was a case the DOJ-OIG handed it on a silver platter. What a waste.
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My colleague @YLindaQiu at the courthouse in Alexandria says the jury has acquitted Igor Danchenko on all four remaining counts, after the judge already threw out the fifth charge on Friday.
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Ron Johnson showing the grace and generosity of spirit that has become his hallmark.
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Moderators closed tonight's Wisconsin Senate debate by asking each candidate to say something they find admirable about the other.
Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes (D) said Sen. Ron Johnson (R) is a "family man."
Johnson said Barnes is "against America."
The audience booed Johnson.
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The Committee should announce at today’s hearing when it intends to issue its detailed written report.
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Four months ago, the Select Committee convened to start presenting our findings to the American people.
Tomorrow at 1pm ET, the committee will present the key facts we’ve uncovered during our investigation.
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Just a loathsome human being. How many crimes will he commit in the process of trying to avoid paying the judgment?
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Breaking News: Alex Jones must pay nearly $1 billion for spreading and profiting from lies about the Sandy Hook massacre, a Connecticut jury said. nyti.ms/3rWblo1
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Good prosecutors, as opposed to former law professors turned political pundits, make charging decisions based on the quality and quantity of evidence not based on some political notion of evening the score.
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Dershowitz says DOJ has to indict Hunter Biden before they charge Trump, so Merrick Garland can look like he is being fair and impartial.
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I was a federal narcotics prosecutor for four years. This is the courageous and correct decision.
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Important to have a paragon of morality like Gingrich in Walker's corner.
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Former House speaker and former Georgia GOP congressman Newt Gingrich spoke with Herschel Walker this morning. Gingrich told @CBSNews he’s standing w/ Walker.
“This is the most vicious” campaign in 2022, Gingrich said, adding that Walker is “showing remarkably positive spirit.”
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During Judge Dearie’s extremely distinguished career, he may never have encountered a judge as biased and lawless as Cannon. He should resign rather than participate in this farce.
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Question for Maryland lawyers: how does the brother have standing to appeal?
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Breaking: Brother of Hae Min Lee files notice that he is appealing decision to free Adnan Syed thebaltimorebanner.com/community/crim
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The only interesting question is whether the $3 M retainer check cleared.
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Chris Kise, the newest addition to the Trump legal team, has been sidelined from the Mar-a-Lago investigation less than a month after being brought on, I’m told. He’s still on the team and may focus on other investigations, but isn’t leading on docs case. cnn.com/2022/09/27/pol
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There must have been something in the water in Queens in the middle of the last century.
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The corruption in the Barr DOJ went deep.
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A very convincing demolition of every facet of Judge Cannon’s decision. DOJ has now thrown her a life preserver in asking for a partial stay. We’ll see if she’s smart enough to use it.
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100%, and if necessary a hearing to determine what evidence was generated by the privileged documents, which could also be suppressed. Unless we are carving out an exception in the criminal justice system for former presidents who steal government documents.
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If DOJ has already reviewed the MAL documents, isn’t the special master’s work moot? Wouldn’t privilege questions best be handled in pretrial motions after indictment? Remedy would be suppression from evidence at trial.
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In 40 years with the federal criminal justice system, I don’t recall an investigation ever been enjoined, even temporarily? Anyone with a counter example?
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This order is designed to stop the criminal investigation in its tracks. Not clear DOJ can even safely follow up on investigative steps it would have taken before the MAL search. It would have to prove those steps were planned before the search. Judge has created a mess.
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DOJ should appeal immediately.
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NEWS: Judge Cannon has granted Trump’s request for a special master to review attorney client and executive privilege — she also says her order will not stop the intelligence community review of the records. Unclear how that’s going to work. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco
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Nothing--not even the unwritten rule-- should stop DOJ from following up on the scores of investigative leads generated by the Mar-A-Lago search, including interviews of the people seen moving the docs. That's not "overt" unless Trump or his employees choose to make it so.
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As the midterms near, Justice Department officials are weighing whether to temporarily scale back work in criminal investigations involving Donald Trump because of an unwritten rule forbidding overt actions that could improperly influence the vote. nyti.ms/3TIFIew
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Potential next steps:
1. Request voluntary interview with Trump to determine location of additional classified documents, including those from empty folders.
2. Subpoenas by House and Sen. Intel Committees for Trump testimony re same
3. Consider search warrant for Bedminster
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As I told @JRubinBlogger, the empty folders at Mar-a-Lago marked classified makes the threat to national security all the more alarming. It also makes it more difficult to decline criminal prosecution. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/
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The case caption sums it up well: Donald J. Trump v. United States of America.
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Here’s a copy of the transcript from the Mar-a-Lago special master hearing, courtesy of @RonaldRichards.
And a with some of the more interesting moments
documentcloud.org/documents/2227
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Oversight over ongoing criminal investigations simply doesn't happen, unless you want to kill the investigation. This is dishonest and disingenuous grandstanding for an audience of one.
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NEW → Just put AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray on notice for their appearance in public hearings before @JudiciaryGOP concerning the unprecedented raid on President Trump’s home.
They must provide all communications and documents relating to the raid.
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It’s been a long summer for FP in Bedminster. How many classified documents did he take with him?
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Ten years later, I supervised a team that worked in a SCIF at DOJ. All the materials they worked with never left the facility. The lead investigator lived in NY and had to come to DC to work with the documents.
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