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26 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
“John H. Durham today announced his resignation from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, effective at midnight on February 28.” justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/us-…
Unless I’m missing it, the press release just doesn’t speak to the special counsel that Barr appointed Durham to or the status of that investigation.
special counsel role*
He’s staying on as special counsel.

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19 Feb
Something I expect we’ll be seeing at the surface of the news more and more is what I think of as the more ordinary scandal material of the pandemic—a bad policy choice got covered up, an opportunity was squandered, officials were corrupted, people got rich off human misery, etc.
And I think it’s important to remember why that remained to some degree submerged for so long.
For more than a year, US national leadership, state Republican officials, and their media adjuncts were in the grips of surreal delusional thinking about the pandemic. They said it wasn’t real, wasn’t deadly, was imminently disappearing, was a communist plot, was the flu.
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13 Feb
But it’s not a fact. It’s a canard.
The Democrats could have appointed a committee to take testimony under Rule 11 and run through whomever managers wanted to call plus Jason Miller’s 301 witnesses or whatever over the next eight months without using a day of floor time for it.
Failing that, they could have used the time while depositions were being taken to advance their agenda on they floor. They could have passed rules limiting the trial to half of any given day and the conducted regular business in the other half. They control the Senate.
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13 Feb
I can’t sleep because of how bad this argument is.
1) The senate has standing rules to allow it to do legislative work while taking testimony; the tension between them is largely a canard.

2) It’s vitally important to preserve testimony and very hard to call these witnesses in other forums.
3) It will be easier for Republicans to defend acquittal votes politically without hearing sworn testimony or seeing damning subpoenaed documents. They’ll have a ready excuse if it comes out later.

4) The moment the acquittal takes place the whole political dynamic will shift.
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11 Feb
“Investigators have determined that initial reports suggesting Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher aren't true, CNN previously reported.” cnn.com/2021/02/10/pol…
Those initial reports were, of course, also attributed to multiple anonymous law enforcement officials. nytimes.com/2021/01/07/adm…
It’s something a Capitol Police briefing on the events of Jan 6th would do a lot to clarify, because a reporter could ask a briefer on the record what the cause of death was, or whether there was a medical examiner’s report, how they decided to release the body for burial, etc
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9 Feb
Sounds like the organizing resolution is going to pass overwhelmingly. I think I’ve only heard two no votes so far (Cruz and Hawley, big surprise).
Ron Johnson is also a no.
More no votes: Lee, Marshall, Paul, Rubio, Scott (FL), Scott (SC), Tuberville

Up to 10, I think.
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8 Feb
Gonna try this thread again; my first one was a mess.

The district court issued two orders today swatting away Ghislaine Maxwell's efforts to keep portions of her deposition testimony under seal:

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The first order says that the court took into account Maxwell's and others' reliance on the protective order in the case when it ordered those materials unsealed.
The first order notes that the court of appeals distinguished btw testimony about 'consensual sexual activity with adults" (kept sealed) and about "purportedly non-sexual massages" (ordered disclosed); the judge says she's following that rubric for the depo.
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