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1. Devin Nunes' lawsuit is the perfect encapsulation of how fucked up things are in the USA right now.

Nunes is literally suing a fictional cow.

His lawyer also represents a guy who believes NASA is operating a child slave camp on Mars.

And yet...

popular.info/p/suing-fictio…
2. ...Nunes lawsuit is getting treated VERY seriously.

It's was promoted three times in less than 24-hours by THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

A "reporter" from the Daily Caller asked Trump about it in the Rose Garden

popular.info/p/suing-fictio…
3. Coverage in mainstream pubs is more skeptical, noting the case is unlikely to succeed.

But the coverage does not flatly state that the case is A COMPLETE JOKE

The core claim, that conservatives are being censored on social media IS TOTALLY MADE UP

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4. The entire process is designed to exploit conventions in journalism. A Rose Garden press conference merits coverage. This convention didn't anticipate the president calling on right-wing operatives asking Qs about an unfathomably absurd lawsuit popular.info/p/suing-fictio…
5. The unhinged right is not a new phenomena. I've been following it for years. Alex Jones has been around. But I never thought it would be openly embraced by the White House

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Barr needs to explain IMMEDIATELY why he did not simply release the summaries that Mueller already prepared for the public
The idea that Mueller accidentally included a bunch of material in the summaries that couldn't legally be released to the public is not at all credible.
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1. Democrats have finally requested Trump's tax returns. There will be a lot of chatter about this in the days to come.

Here are some FACTS
2. The request is made to the Treasury Secretary. There is NOTHING in the law that gives the Trump administration the authority to reject the request.

The law says that Treasury Secretary "shall furnish" the returns to the committee

law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26…
3. This has been largely forgotten but Trump repeatedly promised to release his returns during the campaign.
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Here we go again

Barr did not meet the House Democrats deadline of today to deliver the Mueller report

But Democrats DO NOT PLAN TO SUBPOENA the report right away

Instead they will give Barr "at least a few days to hustle the report to Capitol Hill."

washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Democrats are displaying the same reluctance to use their legal authority to obtain Trump's taxes.

I don't understand it.

They were put in power to hold the Trump administration accountable. But somehow they think it's politically savvy to not exercise their power
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