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Aaron Zelinsky, lead prosecutor in Roger Stone's case, "has resigned effective immediately" as Special Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia.

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This does not necessarily mean he's left DOJ entirely as @qjurecic points out
@qjurecic Wow, another Stone prosecutor, Jonathan Kravis, resigns as an AUSA. No ambiguity here.

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@qjurecic Adam Jed becomes the third Stone prosecutor to withdraw, days before sentencing.
@qjurecic And John Crabb, the acting chief of the DC US Attorney's Office criminal division, enters his appearance in the case.
@qjurecic Michael Marando, who argued "truth still matters" in urging the jury to convict Stone, has now withdrawn too. That means the whole Stone prosecution team is gone. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

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@qjurecic New Stone sentencing memo: Sorry, we, uh forgot that this guy's friends with the president and that we shouldn't be so hard on him

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There have been contests in the modern system where, when voting ended, one Dem candidate had a tenuous or disputed delegate majority (1972, 1984).

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McGovern ended up leading Humphrey by 1,000 delegates, Mondale led Hart by 700.
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But he ended up prevailing in the end. His lead was just too big. (This is from Day 1 of the 1972 convention)
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I’m at the courthouse for Roger Stone’s sentencing hearing, which is scheduled to start at 10 AM, before Judge Amy Berman Jackson. Should be an interesting one…
A few things I'm watching for:
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"I note that the initial memorandum has not been withdrawn."
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There has been talk of both Roger Stone and former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher trying to broker a pardon for Assange.

This description seems to match reported effort by Rohrabacher: wsj.com/articles/gop-c…

Per WSJ, Rohrabacher said back in 2017 that his proposal to John Kelly was: If Assange handed over physical evidence exonerating Russia in the hacks, he'd get a pardon "or something like that."

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After Trump attacked his own prosecutors on Twitter for daring to hold Roger Stone accountable for his crimes, the DOJ is now scaling back its sentencing recommendation.
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