1. President Biden is clear he won't interfere with the Justice Dept. What do you think that means to him when McConnell hears it? Does he think that means he and sedition caucus should sound the all-clear?

The DOJ is currently run by Monty Wilkinson a former DC prosecutor.
2. From Jan 19: Biden’s Choice for Acting AG Ahead of Merrick Garland Hearings Is Praised by DOJ Veterans as ‘Wonderful and Honorable’ Leader lawandcrime.com/department-of-… via @lawcrimenews
3. I don't think McConnell should be surprised if some of his caucus are charged. Career people run the DOJ that has been under Trump's toxic corrupt cloud for that past four years. Fates of @HawleyMO @tedcruz @SenHydeSmith @ScottforFlorida @CynthiaMLummis @RogerMarshallMD
4. @TTuberville @SenJohnKennedy, will be decided solely on the facts and the law. Did they incite or give aid and comfort to the insurrection? What would you decide? My point in all this is the current @SenateGOP may soon lose some members. Possibly a seat.
5. If McConnell should know what the career people in charge of DOJ can do. Remember who dealt with Mike Flynn and brought it to McGahn? @SallyQYates. Another DOJ career prosecutor. So right now all the @SenateGOP @HouseGOP who were complicit in 6/1 could be charged and
6. nobody could blame Biden for it because @LindseyGrahamSC had dragged his feet confirming Merick Garland. It would be free of any political taint and in a sense, political perfection. They might even find something on Lindsey. He seemed spooked about the 702s. 😎

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22 Jan
1. Bar Exam Question:

The @SenateGOP @HouseGOP have said they are illegally carrying firearms in DC. Officer Olivia needs to question @laurenboebert regarding a report she is illegally carrying a firearm. Officer Olivia stops Boebert on the street and pats her down before
2. questioning her and discovers she is carrying an unpermitted loaded pistol. Boebert's attorney is seeking to exclude the evidence obtained during the search and subsequently found in her apartment and office after a warrant issued based on the seizure. What result and why?
3. Issue for me is whether the reports that they were armed can be used to create the "articulable suspicion" to authorize a "Terry Stop" pat-down. I don't know if the suspicion can be based on facts that are not plainly evident at the time of the stop. I'd have to research it.
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1. If I were part of Trump's Russian conspiracy that Mueller was prevented from fully investigating, the person who Joe Biden put in as Deputy AG would concern me. He was the Asst. AG for the Nat Sec Div April 2014 to Oct. 15, 2016. He likely knows everything.
2. His name is John Carlin. And as acting Deputy AG runs the pointy end of the DOJ spear.
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1. The @TheJusticeDept @FBIWFO must focus on whether the actions of members of @SenateGOP @HouseGOP violated the law. If they incited or gave aid and comfort to insurrection, justice demands that they face prosecution. Target letters should be out if the elements of
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"The last time the senate convened, we had just reclaimed the capitol from violent criminal who tried to stop congress from doing our duty. The mob
2. was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people. And they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like. But we pressed on. We stood together and said an angry mob
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@SenSchumer in the well now.
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