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4 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
A missed opportunity to show off the painting of Nicholas Katzenbach, who has the greatest attorney general portrait in history.
Art. justice.gov/ag/bio/katzenb…
It’s a conversation piece about the AG who faced down George Wallace, helped draft the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, and battled with Hoover over blackmailing MLK. Seems like an easy call to put him in the AG’s conference room.
Elliot Richardson is back in the AG’s conference room.
Four years ago, Elliot Richardson’s portrait was hidden in an obscured spot in the DOJ library. (Richardson resigned on principle when Nixon directed him to fire the Watergate special prosecutor.)

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4 May
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Matthew's parents both advised his brother (on the right) that "braggers get caught." His mom said to "pull a Hillary and use a hammer." Image
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3 May
Judge Amy B. Jackson, at hearing for Capitol defendant Karl Dresch, pointed out that his supporters were infantilizing a 41-year-old man, calling him a “young man” and a “very bright kid."

“Senator Josh Hawley is 41, and he’s not even the youngest senator there,” she says.
Judge Amy B. Jackson also pointed out that Washington Capitols Captain Alex Ovechkin is 35; Tom Brady was NFL MVP at 40; Bill Clinton was elected before he was 40; and that Martin Luther King was younger than 40 when he was killed.
The supporter who called Karl Dresch a “very bright kid” (and left out Dresch's criminal conduct in his 30s) is **checks notes** the sheriff of Houghton County, Michigan.
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30 Apr
NEW: Kentucky federal magistrate judge has ordered Stephen Chase Randolph detained pretrial and sent to D.C.

(Video shows him breaking down the barriers and knocking over a Capitol Police officer, rendering her unconscious.)

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Randolph’s conduct, the judge wrote “shocks the conscious.” After Randolph knocked over the Capitol Police officer and caused her to hit her head on a metal stair handrail, he went on to assault more officers and left her an “unconscious heap on the ground.”
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30 Apr
At a hearing for Capitol defendant Michael Foy (charged with attacking cops with a hockey stick) Judge Tanya Chutkan expressed concern about what she’s heard about the conditions of confinement in D.C. jail.
Judge Chutkan said she understands the government is "prosecuting a mass crime” but she’s particularly concerned about Foy’s pretrial detention because he’s the only Capitol defendant she has who doesn’t have a prior record but is being held pretrial.
In a filing late last night, Foy’s team said trial "is nowhere in sight” and Foy is being held "effectively in harsh solitary confinement” conditions that have been described as a "grave human rights abuse.” courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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29 Apr
NEW: The feds have arrested Utah’s Landon Kenneth Copeland for assaulting cops at the Capitol. #seditionhunters #RedPoloRising
“Copeland admitted to fighting with police officers,” on February 11, per affidavit. #RedPoloRising courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Really making some federal prosecutor’s pretrial detention memo pretty easy here. Beginning to suspect some of these Capitol defendants haven’t read the Muncel decision! (h/t @SandySkipper1)
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29 Apr
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press urges Attorney General Merrick Garland to “make the treatment of the press an essential part” of any policing practices probes. rcfp.org/wp-content/upl…
DOJ’s consent decree with Ferguson put some media protections in place, requiring at minimum supervisor approval before officers made "any arrest of any member of the media, whether formally credentialed or not, including citizen-journalists and live-streamers.”
Arresting journalists now costs Ferguson points on their annual review. justice.gov/opa/file/83343…
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