Matthew Chapman at Salon reported, Special master rebukes Trump judge that appointed him for order that “made no sense”: When former President Donald Trump went to court against the Justice Department to stall the federal investigation into classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, a district judge he appointed, Aileen Cannon, granted Trump everything … Read more
Late breaking news today, CNN reports DOJ can resume criminal probe of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, appeals court says: A federal appeals court is allowing the Justice Department to continue looking at documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort. Read the Per Curiam opinion of the court. … Read more
Former crackhead (are we certain?) Mike Lindell, the MAGA/QAnon Big Lie election denier and Coup Plotter (after January 6, 2021, he handed notes to Trump which appeared to include a suggestion to invoke the Insurrection Act, and “martial law if necessary”), finally got a visit from the FBI, but only to seize his cell phone. … Read more
Above: Attorney General William Barr, flanked by Ed O’Callaghan (left) and Rod Rosenstein (right). | Bill O’Leary/Washington Post via Getty Images. We already knew that William Barr was the most corrupt Attorney General in the history of the US. But his politicization of the Department of Justice to weaponize it into Donald Trump’s personal law firm for … Read more
A “biblical” mumber of 40 subpoenas have been issued by the DOJ to persons around Donald Trump’s Coup Plot – “tell us what you observed and what you heard.” They are not Trump lawyers, so no dilatory tactic of claiming attorney-client privilege (which is eviscerated by the crime-fraud exception in any event), and most were … Read more