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16 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Because Joe Biden hasn’t fired the FBI director over the investigation and boasted to a adversary foreign minister that he relieved pressure on himself by doing so?
Because there’s no reason to think the Justice Department under Barr and Trump will go easy on Hunter Biden?
Because Joe Biden’s government and campaign are not littered with people with untoward relationships with hostile foreign powers who lie about it when questioned?
And because appointment of special counsels should never be revenge for prior appointments of special counsels?

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14 Dec
Trump's winning!

(For those who are total morons, this is a joke)
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Trump’s lead grows in absolute terms but shrinks in relative terms. How can that be, @JSEllenberg? How can you get further ahead and have a smaller percentage? Fraud!!! Image
And Biden has taken the lead!
A huge dump just came in from Georgia and elsewhere. I mean, Trump had it won! People, and they just found these votes...in Georgia! Image
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13 Dec
Whom are you most excited to see out of government:
Let’s add a second bracket entry, the winner of which will compete against the winner in tweet #1:
Heat #3:
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10 Dec
Ok, it being 1:30 and @Klonick and my not having a guest yet for @inlieuoffunshow, I declare it a #GuestsGoneWild day. In my next tweet, I will tag some key members of the audience. They will respond with some prior guests they would like the bring back.
The first bagged guest will name some other guest he or she wants to talk to. And we'll see what happens. Here we go....
@BigBluBlogger @alicenoteve @chrisargyris @eve_gaumond @paulinebrock @antti_ruokonen @DavBatz @jycefisher
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9 Dec
As this idea seems to be taking off, let me say a few words about Merrick Garland as a potential AG, a subject about which I have a lot of thoughts.
First, I floated this idea some time back, before the election, because Garland struck me as precisely the type of person Biden should want running the Justice Department. He has unusually deep experience the the department.
He is also, critically, as close as we have in this day and age to a figure who is actually above politics. Despite what Mitch McConnell did wth his nomination, he the subject of pretty universal admiration among his colleagues on the D.C. Circuit.
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8 Dec
A quick read through Judge Sullivan's opinion dismissing the Flynn case:
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Judge Sullivan rules that Flynn's false statements were material:
Judge Sullivan rejects the government's argument that he has no authority to review an unopposed Rule 48(a) motion:
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5 Dec
What did you dream last night?
There was actually a little more to the dream than this. At one point, a prominent lawyer walks into the court, recognizes me, and begins congratulating me about @lawfareblog. This stresses me out further because while it is good for my case before the judge, I have no idea...
...who this person is and I'm clearly supposed to know him.
Also, the judge mysteriously changes gender and race. As a judge, he is African American and male. As a dental hygienist, she is white and female and I am trying to make my case to her before sitting in the chair.
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