Update to Biden Administration To Issue Bulletin About Threats To Election Infrastructure. CBS News reports, Government warns of “heightened threat” to 2022 elections, fueled by rise in domestic violent extremism: Less than two weeks before the 2022 elections, the U.S. government is warning of a “heightened threat” to the midterm contests, fueled by a rise … Read more
NBC News reports, Supreme Court rejects Trump’s request in dispute over Mar-a-Lago documents: The Supreme Court handed former President Donald Trump a loss Thursday in his dispute with the Justice Department over documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence, rejecting his request that a special master be allowed to review classified papers. The justices denied Trump’s … Read more
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
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
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