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NEW: The 10th Circuit has dismissed ethics complaints filed against now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh — as a SCOTUS justice, he's no longer covered by the judiciary's disciplinary system, the judges concluded uscourts.gov/courts/ca10/10…
STORY: All of the ethics complaints against now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh have been dismissed — a panel of judges concluded the judiciary's disciplinary system no longer applies to Kavanaugh now that he's a SCOTUS justice buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
SCOTUS doesn't have its own formal disciplinary process, so there's no mechanism within the federal judiciary to vet ethics complaints against Kavanaugh buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil… Congress could still investigate if they wanted to, see this previous piece: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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Some fireworks in court this morning as a judge criticized the lawyer representing Concord Management & Consulting in the special counsel Russian troll farm case for his language and harsh words about Mueller's office in filings — "unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective"
The judge told attorney Eric Dubelier that his strategy was "ineffective" and that his approach to filings — including pop culture quotes (see: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676…) and accusing Mueller's office basically of lawlessness — was "undermining your credibility in this courthouse"
"Knock it off," Judge Dabney Friedrich told Dubelier. This then led to a heated exchange where Dubelier said he needed to consult his client since the judge had accused of unprofessional conduct, and now there might be bias from the judge. There's no bias, the judge replied.
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New: This morning the DC Circuit vacated an injunction that had blocked the Trump admin's ban on transgender military service — this doesn't change the status quo, since injunctions issued by other courts still stand, but it's still noteworthy assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5674…
This is the first win for the administration in litigation over the transgender military service policy — judges in DC, WA, and CA issued injunctions. The cases went up on appeal, but DOJ then petitioned SCOTUS before the circuits ruled, which was unusual: buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisg…
SCOTUS hasn't weighed in yet, and now in the meantime the DC Circuit has issued a ruling. It's a per curiam judgment, and not "published," which means it's not precedent for the circuit and no one judge on the panel is the named author, it's just on behalf of the court
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Remember how Jerome Corsi filed a civil lawsuit against Robert Mueller, claiming various violations of his rights? A judge today denied Corsi's bid to have the case assigned to the same judge who ruled against the NSA bulk surveillance program a few years ago, Judge Richard Leon
Corsi is represented by Larry Klayman, who argued the NSA case before Leon. Normally cases are randomly assigned, unless they're related to another case. Klayman today argued the cases were related, since Corsi claims he's been illegally surveiled by the special counsel's office
But "related" has specific meanings under the court rules. For cases that have been dismissed at the district court level, as Klayman's NSA cases were (he's on appeal), Corsi's case would need to involve the same parties and subject to be "related"
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Sessions' replacement is a @GOP hack who peddles idiotic, Mark Meadows/Sara Carter-level conspiracy theories as a smokescreen to defend Trump.

So, that's cool.
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@GOP Whitaker was also a "board member" of a multi-million dollar scam called "World Patent Marketing" that was shut down by the @FTC in 2018.

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@GOP @FTC In addition to being on their advisory board, Whitaker authored a "white paper" for the scam, helping them bilk would-be inventors out of millions of dollars.
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NEW: Chairman @ChuckGrassley releases 414-page report on the allegations made against Justice Kavanaugh during the confirmation ptocess.

Conclusion: no evidence to support the allegations.
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"This was a serious and thorough investigation that left no stone unturned in our pursuit of the facts,” Grassley said. “In the end, there was no credible evidence to support the allegations against the nominee.”

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Committee investigators spoke with 45 individuals and took 25 written statements relating to the various allegations made in the course of the #SCOTUS confirmation process.
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BREAKING: We are issuing a rare call for a halt to a vote on President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the #SCOTUS unless and until any information relevant to Kavanaugh’s possible involvement in human rights violations. bit.ly/SCOTUSaiusa
We take no position on the appointment of particular individuals to government positions, unless they are reasonably suspected of crimes under international law & could use their appointment in question to either prevent accountability for these crimes or to continue perpetration
In addition to concerns about Kavanaugh’s involvement in torture and other ill-treatment by the U.S. government, we are deeply concerned about Brett Kavanaugh’s record on a range of other human rights issues, including sexual and reproductive rights.
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Starting today's Kavanaugh thread with the now-deleted tweets from last night from the Senate Judiciary Committee's Republican chief counsel for nominations — and his explanation this morning for those tweets (and for his having deleted them).
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And why the #Kavanaugh nomination should come to a screeching halt.

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1) First the obvious. Dr. Christine Ford has 3rd party documentation dating from 2012. It doesn’t name Kavanaugh, but it names the circumstances. She’s got the receipts, baby!
2) Second, she has already taken a polygraph test. Has #Kavanaugh taken a polygraph test? No. And considering the number of times he has already been found to lie under oath, he probably should have!
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