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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. The post Among the First Things Attorney Matthew Skiba Did Was Target Democrats appeared first on emptywheel .
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. The post Andrew Ferguson and Joe Simonson Squeal about Their $277 Fraud Charges appeared first on emptywheel .
There was a bunch of news about Todd Blanche's destruction of DOJ this week. The post Fridays with Nicole Sandler appeared first on emptywheel .
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? The post Sheri Mecklenburg s Tech Troubles: It s on the E drive. It s on the stick. appeared first on emptywheel .
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. The post Trump s Government Responded to Murdering Alex Pretti by Spying on the Entire Anti-ICE Community in Minnesota appeared first on emptywheel .
The fact that Trump took his comfort blonde and left a lot of big-ego people on Old Air Force One as bait helps to explain Trump's paranoia about this story. The post The Sources from the Catering Cart appeared first on emptywheel .
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. The post Is Todd Blanche Criminalizing Bad Break-Ups to Help Neo-Nazis? appeared first on emptywheel .
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. The post Ahead of Kash Patel s Field Trip to Russia, He Promises Not to Investigate Russian Attempts to Frame Democrats appeared first on emptywheel .
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. The post Harmeet Dhillon s Flunkies Move to Strike an Argument about the First Amendment appeared first on emptywheel .
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. The post How to Drain Trump s Corruption Pool appeared first on emptywheel .