Conservative leaders, civil rights and law enforcement organizations, and Sen. Chris Coons held a press conference in support of Vanita Gupta, Biden’s nominee for associate attorney general:
Marc Levin, the former director of Right on Crime, said Vanita Gupta "is exactly the kind of public servant that would thrive as associate attorney general.

National Sheriffs’ Association President David Mahoney said Gupta is "no stranger to law enforcement issues.”
And if you’ve read @aterkel on Sen. Coons’ role in dooming the Debo Adegbile nomination, you’ll obviously be interested in the role he’s playing here (along with the FOP, which has praised Gupta). huffpost.com/entry/fraterna…
More on the law enforcement support for Vanita Gupta’s nomination here: huffpost.com/entry/vanita-g…
.@ArtAcevedo said he was frustrated that a conference call supporting @vanitaguptaCR was even necessary, saying she’s “eminently qualified” and has “the honesty, integrity, the intellect, the experience and the relationships to do a very effective job for the American people.”
“We shouldn’t be having to have this conference call, this conference call to respond to a hit and character assassination of a woman that is eminently qualified... Vanita is a person that has a track record that you cannot attack,” @ArtAcevedo said.

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3 Mar
Judge ruled today that Robert Sanford, who threw a fire extinguisher at police during the Capitol insurrection, can be released pretrial with a GPS monitor.
Here’s something I’d missed: an attorney for Robert Sanford — the man who was captured on video striking three police officers with a fire extinguisher — said in a filing over the weekend that Sanford had traveled to D.C. on a Turning Point USA bus.
Having looked at the Facebook pages of a lot of charged insurrectionists, can say with some authority that many charged insurrectionists were big fans of content produced by employees of Turning Point USA.
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NEW: Meet Danny “DJ” Rodriguez, the MAGA hatted Trump fanatic who brawled with cops, smashed out a Capitol window, and appeared to tase D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Mike Fanone in the neck during the insurrection. Story with @JessReportshuffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
The FBI received tips about Danny Rodriguez last month, he was publicly identified online, and he's connected to current Capitol defendants.

But it wasn't until hours after HuffPost's inquiry to the bureau that a key witness heard from an FBI agent.

huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
The team at @1600PennPooch — who correctly identified “Bullhorn Lady” last month — put together a video showing Rodriguez’s assault on Officer Fanone. Watch it here: huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
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Yet another Capitol insurrection tipster calling the feds on their worst Facebook friend. Previously: huffpost.com/entry/facebook…
"Witness 1 previously attended school with LORI VINSON and was friends with her on Facebook, but had not spoken with her in several years.” courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
"She further claimed she knew there was something going on related to the certification of the electoral votes on January 6, 2021, but did not know that Congress was 'in session' at that time…” 🤔
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QAnon Shaman’s attorney, the eccentric St. Louis attorney Albert Watkins, has filed a 74-page motion for pretrial release. It starts off with a Mark Twain quote.
Trump’s pardon of Lil’ Wayne was a real inflection point for QAnon Shaman, his attorney claims.
“the Defendant wishes to confirm as a matter of record herein that his current 'self-analyzing' is a work in progress, one which has given rise to his conclusion that he [has] zero interest in dealing with and addressing all matters political…"
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23 Feb
“It was not Antifa."

NEW: At about the same time Sen. Ron Johnson floated a conspiracy theory on the Capitol attack, the feds unsealed a case against a Trump fan who brawled with police and then tried to shoot down Antifa rumors on a pro-Trump forum.

huffpost.com/entry/jose-pad…
“There’s a lot of memes and posts flying around saying that the people who were fighting last night were all Antifa provacateurs... I just want to say that as a first hand observer of every point of last night, that it was not Antifa. They were Patriots.” huffpost.com/entry/jose-pad…
“Honestly, the guy breaking the windows weren’t Antifa. They were Patriots trying to find a new way in so we could flank the cops who were holding the doorway.” huffpost.com/entry/jose-pad…
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NEW: Law enforcement leaders are pushing back on a wildly misleading attack ad targeting Vanita Gupta, Joe Biden’s nominee for the no. 3 position at the Justice Department. huffpost.com/entry/vanita-g…
Vanita Gupta would arguably be the most progressive top DOJ official in history. You’d have to go back to Thurgood Marshall to find a civil rights leader that high up the DOJ org chart.

She’s also got a ton of conservative and law enforcement allies. huffpost.com/entry/vanita-g…
Even by political attack ad standards, the Judicial Crisis Network attack ad is pretty shameless.

It claims, over a photo Dylann Roof, that Gupta wants to “reduce” sentences for white supremacists.

Gupta oversaw Roof’s prosecution.

huffpost.com/entry/vanita-g… Image
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