Last week, Donald Trump’s incompetent lawyers filed their response brief to the DOJ’s master class brief on a special master in the Espionage Act case before Trump appointed judge Aileen Cannon. Trump’s brief was a PR document for right-wing media, not a legal brief. It failed to address the facts and misrepresented the law. On Tuesday, … Read more
Supplied with NATO weapons and Western intelligence, Ukraine has launched a counter-offensive against its Russian occupiers, and it is going extremely well, so far. Foreign Policy reports, ‘They Are Pushing Everywhere’: Kyiv Goes on the Offensive: After weeks of stalled fighting in and around the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian troops began pushing Russian forces back … Read more
The FBI does not believe it has recovered all of the classifed documents that Donald Trump stole and took with him after his failed coup d’état. Mediaite reports that there is good reason for the FBI’s belief that Trump is lying about the documents he stole and where they might be found. WATCH: Trump Boards … Read more
Quinta Jurecic, Natalie K. Orpett and Benjamin Wittes write at Lawfare blog, Everything Wrong With Judge Cannon’s Ruling (excerpt): Judge Cannon’s opinion actually defies defense. It is an epic mess, one that manages to do violence to a remarkable number of distinct areas of law in an admirable economy of only 24 pages. The opinion is … Read more
Remember that Donald Trump and his corrupt lawyers went forum shopping for a Trump appointed judge – who was not the magistrate judge who issued the search warrant for his home in exile at Mar-a-Lago, the proper venue and jurisdiction for any challenge to the search warrant – whom they were confident would deliver a … Read more