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17 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: Wow.
US Justice Department under AG William Barr is dropping charges against Salvador Cienfuegos, ex-defense minister of Mexico so that he can be charged in Mexico.

justice.gov/opa/pr/joint-s…
Federal judge in Brooklyn orders the unsealing of sealed papers presumably related to DOJ's decision to drop charges against Cienfuegos.
NEW: Brooklyn prosecutors say that "sensitive
and important foreign policy considerations outweigh the government’s interest in pursuing the
prosecution" of Salvador Cienfuegos.
Brooklyn prosecutors admit that Mexican authorities weren't aware of their prosecution of Cienfuegos and that after discussion they agreed to give them the lead.

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19 Nov
In 15 minutes or so, a hearing will begin in federal court in Atlanta in a lawsuit seeking to halt certification of the vote in Georgia. Here’s a quick primer on the case.
The suit, filed by the lawyer L Lin Wood, alleges that the vote in GA was “suspect and tainted with impropriety” largely by how elections officials handled absentee/mail-in ballots.
Wood says the problems stem from an agreement reached in March b/t the GA secretary of state & the state’s Dem party which essentially strengthened the procedure for verifying mail-ins. He claims that agreement violated state law.
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Alan Feuer Profile picture
19 Nov
NEW: Trump campaign voluntarily dismisses its federal suit in Michigan seeking to invalidate the Wayne County vote results.

This follows a voluntarily dismissal of a similar suit in Michigan yesterday. Image
The Trump campaign and its proxies have now lost or withdrawn from all of their major legal efforts in Michigan.

The Michigan Supreme Court is still considering an appeal by the campaign of a loss in a state suit that closely mirrored the federal suit that was dumped today.
Weird thing about the federal dismissal:
In the notice the lawyer notes--in what seems like a political not legal point--that the Wayne County Board of Canvassers declined to certify the vote. But the board DID certify the vote.
After, 2 GOP members tried to rescind their votes. Image
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Alan Feuer Profile picture
18 Nov
I'm inside the courtroom now awaiting the hearing for Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda and will be updating this thread live throughout the proceeding.

Here's our story from yesterday when news broke that US prosecutors were abruptly dropping the charges.

nytimes.com/2020/11/17/wor…
Today's hearing is unusual in that a federal judge, Carol Amon, has ordered the acting US attorney in Brooklyn to appear in court personally.

That prosecutor, Seth DuCharme, worked closely in Washington DC with AG William Barr before he took over the Brooklyn office.
It's impossible to know what Judge Amon will ask DuCharme but one imagines it'll be a version of the question, "What happened?"

Yesterday DuCharme sent the judge a letter, at 1st under seal, saying case was dropped b/c of "sensitive & important foreign policy considerations." Image
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Alan Feuer Profile picture
17 Nov
New:
It's official.
Rudy has been approved to appear in the Pennsylvania election case.
If all goes according to schedule, we're moments from beginning the hearing in Donald J. Trump for President v. Boockvar (the PA secretary of state).
A quick cast of characters:
The judge is Matthew Brann, who was appointed by President Obama in 2012. Before taking the bench Judge Brann was a lawyer in private practice and, interestingly, a Republican party official in Pennsylvania.
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Alan Feuer Profile picture
17 Nov
New: Here's a quick look at what to expect at this afternoon's federal election case hearing in Pennsylvania--and at the legal snafus the case has already been through.
nytimes.com/live/2020/11/1…
The Trump's campaign chief argument here is that PA elections officials violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
The reason? In some Dem counties, officials alerted voters that their mail-in ballots needed fixing while that didn't happen in some GOP counties.
Lawyers for the Dems have countered:
It's not the fault of Dem counties that allowed voters to fix (or "cure") their ballots if GOP counties didn't do that.
They argue that the Trump campaign should have sued those counties but did not.
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Alan Feuer Profile picture
17 Nov
Lawyers for the Trump campaign's Pennsylvania lawsuit have withdrawn from the case on the eve of the first hearing in the case.
This move follows the withdrawal on Friday of the lawyers who initially filed the suit. Image
With no lawyers left to argue its case, the Trump case has asked the judge to postpone tomorrow's hearing... Image
Ouch.
The federal judge overseeing the PA case, Matthew Brann, has just denied the Trump campaign's request to delay tomorrow's hearing.
It will go on as scheduled. Image
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