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Sep 29, 2020 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
NOW #Flynn's attorney said she spoke to President Donald Trump about the case "to inform him of the general status of the litigation."
Judge Sullivan asked if that conversation was in the last two weeks. Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell said time has a way of getting away from her but seemed to answer it was in recent weeks.
Powell tried to invoke ***executive privilege*** to circumvent Sullivan's questions, surprising the judge who said she does not work for the government.
Powell said her conversation with Trump included asking the president not to pardon Flynn at that time.

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Nov 17, 2020
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are set to testify virtually at the top of the hour to the Senate Judiciary Committee about online misinformation and the 2020 election. Follow for live updates. @CourthouseNews
Sen Chuck Grassley, 87, who sits on the committee (also serves as Senate president pro tempore) announced just this morning that he tested positive for COVID-19 and will be working remotely from home.
Chairman Lindsey Graham will appear in person today, but has given other senators the option to question the tech CEOs remotely or in person.
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Nov 9, 2020
Judge Emmet Sullivan: “Regardless of how someone votes, we want everyone's vote to be counted.”
Sullivan on a videoconference hearing right now discussing with plaintiffs and DOJ moving the USPS lawsuits to a more typical schedule, with no more daily hearings.
Notable data from this morning's USPS production:

In Pennsylvania, 170 ballots cast on Sunday Nov 1 were not delivered until Saturday Nov 7 -- after the state's Friday deadline to count ballots postmarked by Election Day.
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Nov 6, 2020
NEW: USPS reports in court filing that “all clear” sweeps of facilities located 1,703 ballots in Penn and 540 in NC — 2,243 total between the two swing states with extended ballot receipt deadlines.
Total findings from USPS daily searches for misplaced ballots >>>
Update: DOJ telling Judge Sullivan that discrepancies in the above records were "growing pains," with different personnel filling out different forms for the first time yesterday to provide the info to the court.
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Nov 5, 2020
Hearing coming up at the top of the hour on the USPS lawsuits over possible delayed delivery of mail-in ballots.

Yesterday, Judge Sullivan indicated Postmaster DeJoy was not "off the hook" for failing to follow an Election Day order to sweep facilities for misplaced ballots.
Note that court staff have set up two more public lines after hundreds of people dialed in yesterday:
We also got a dump of data from USPS in the last hour or so on:

Extra and late trips
On-time delivery percentages
Number of inbound/outbound ballots processed

(all stats the agency has been sharing/updating daily over the last week)
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Nov 4, 2020
In a hearing set to begin momentarily, Judge Sullivan plans to question "the apparent lack of compliance" by USPS with his order to sweep postal facilities on Election Day to make sure no ballot was left behind. @CourthouseNews background: courthousenews.com/postal-service…
Sullivan, always very friendly with both parties, is NOT happy.

“I would like you to explain just what the heck happened yesterday.”
Judge Sullivan says that Postmaster General DeJoy may need to appear before him to testify.
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Nov 3, 2020
Judge Sullivan is preparing to issue an order for OIG inspectors to sweep USPS processing facilities today that had low processing scores for ballots delivered yesterday -- including in Florida, Georgia and Pennsylvania -- to make sure no mail-in ballots are left behind.
Text of the proposed order, which will change slightly in the final order including the 3 o'clock deadline pushed to 4:30>>>
NAACP motion for further relief filed moments before this morning's hearing>>>
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