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2 min read 2022-01-04 23:23:18

DOJ’s Approximate January 6 Conspiracies

Amid the clamor for Merrick Garland to say something about the January 6 investigation, DOJ has announced he will give a speech, tomorrow, to mark

12 min read 2022-01-02 19:12:02

Randolph Moss, serving as Assistant Attorney General for OLC in 2000, famously wrote the following: Our view remains that a sitting President is

12 min read 2022-01-02 19:12:02

Randolph Moss, serving as Assistant Attorney General for OLC in 2000, famously wrote the following: Our view remains that a sitting President is

14 min read 2021-12-30 20:23:54

In the middle of a rather cursory opinion rejecting David Judd’s claim that he has been selectively prosecuted as compared to Portland rioters,

4 min read 2021-12-26 17:47:50

NPR did a good piece last week on Trump’s Big Lie about winning the election. Call it an insurrection or a coup attempt, it was fueled by what’s

5 min read 2021-12-26 17:47:50

Welcome to Byron York’s readers! Since you’re here, you may be interested that Byron didn’t tell you in his error-riddled piece that I was

4 min read 2021-12-23 19:28:52

Before Proud Boy Matthew Greene entered into a cooperation plea deal yesterday — the January 6 investigation event that generated a lot of press

4 min read 2021-12-23 19:28:52

Before Proud Boy Matthew Greene entered into a cooperation plea deal yesterday — the January 6 investigation event that generated a lot of press

7 min read 2021-12-22 20:17:25

There’s a gratuitous passage in the March 20, 2021 complaint charging Vladislav Klyushin, Ivan Yermakov, Igor Sladkov, Mikhail Irzak, and Nikolay

8 min read 2021-12-20 23:59:56

I’d like to congratulate Assistant [Durham] Special Counsel Michael Keilty. In what is close to a first from Durham’s team, he submitted a filing

6 min read 2021-12-19 19:56:13

It has been a week since Judge Analisa Torres appointed Barbara Jones as Special Master to review materials seized from James O’Keefe and two other

19 min read 2021-12-16 19:45:03

In a post laying out what I called my “taxonomy” of the DOJ investigation of the January 6 crime scene, I noted that the next step in holding

5 min read 2021-12-13 22:33:44

Back in June, I noted that Ethan Nordean’s lawyers were staking his defense on getting all the crimes charged against him thrown out — from the

5 min read 2021-12-13 16:40:49

On the list of things those whinging about Merrick Garland seem to have missed is this Daily Beast story reporting that a grand jury is investigating

13 min read 2021-12-11 00:51:55

There’s a remarkable passage in the High Court ruling granting the US appeal to extradite Julian Assange. It basically judged that the key medical