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21 May, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Texas man who owns a coffee roasting company agrees to speak with the FBI about his involvement in the Capitol riots and ... sends the agents home with two bags of coffee assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2078…
Meanwhile, during the interview Vic Williams told FBI agents he didn't go into the Capitol, but in the next section of the affidavit, the FBI says they ID'd him entering the building
Vic Williams, the recently charged Jan. 6 defendant who sent FBI agents home with bags of coffee (see thread), promoted his coffee bean roasting company on Instagram with MAGA-themed memes
He posted on his coffee roasting co. website about being banned from FB for posting videos about Jan. 6. On May 10 (the same day charges were filed against him in DC fed court) he pubbed another MAGA-themed coffee post that appears to feature a selfie

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21 May
Hello from remote court, where a status hearing is scheduled to get underway soon in the case of Jan. 6 defendant Jacob Chansley. Will his lawyer's recent media appearance (see below) come up? Stay tuned.
Sigh, it appears the public line wasn't connected for the first few minutes, it just kicked on mid-hearing. Chansley's lawyer is discussing a potential mental health evaluation for Chansley and his need for urgent medical care
Prosecutor says they don't oppose a competency evaluation, but if the defense raises an argument about his competency to stand trial the govt will likely object to that, and would definitely oppose any renewed effort by Chansley to get out of pretrial detention
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20 May
Alleged Capitol rioters are arguing to judges that they shouldn't be tried in DC because of "cancel culture" buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/cap…
Defendants charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection are arguing to move their cases out of DC because of "cancel culture." On what they're telling judges, how prosecutors are pushing back, and why it's rare for these types of motions to succeed buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Prosecutors are arguing that if Roger Stone and the Nixon-era officials charged in the Watergate scandal could be tried in DC, so can the Jan. 6 defendants buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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17 May
Anti-abortion activists had a plan to get to the Supreme Court. It worked.

On today's news that SCOTUS will take up Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, from me and @o_ema: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Judges repeatedly blocked abortion bans like the one passed in Mississippi, noting SCOTUS precedent made clear they were unconstitutional. Anti-abortion activists expected this — the goal was to tee up new cases for SCOTUS to revisit the issue entirely buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Judge James Ho, a prominent conservative confirmed under Trump, was on the 5th Circuit panel that blocked Mississippi's abortion ban. He noted the state's lawyers didn't even ask for argument — a sign they knew they were going to lose on the way to SCOTUS buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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6 May
Blaming Trump for inciting the riots on Jan. 6 isn't helping his supporters get out of jail once they've been arrested.

Latest deep dive into the state of the Jan. 6 prosecutions: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
As much as Trump's impeachment trial focused on his responsibility for the Jan. 6 insurrection, the incitement defense isn't landing with judges trying to figure out which people charged in the riots are still a danger and should stay in jail pending trial buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Even in cases where judges agreed to release a defendant over the government's objections, they're making clear that it wasn't because they were persuaded by the "Trump made me do it" argument buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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6 May
Hello from my computer, where I'll be covering a 10am status hearing in the case of alleged Capitol rioter Brandon Fellows. Last night, DOJ asked the judge to put him in jail, saying he'd blown off his release conditions and failed to report a new arrest assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2069… ImageImage
Update: This was supposed to start 35 minutes ago and I'm still hearing hold music on the public line, so it's either very delayed or there won't be remote access :( It's in the courtroom instead of telephonic, so perhaps there was a hiccup with connecting. Stay tuned.
Aha the public line *just* connected, sounds like they're mid-hearing, the judge is explaining to Fellows what home detention means, not clear what's happened before this
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5 May
A federal judge in DC has vacated the CDC's nationwide eviction moratorium (currently set to expire June 30), finding the Public Health Service Act didn't give the agency the power to do something like this on its own assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2069…
As the judge notes, before the CDC extended the moratorium again through June 30, several courts had ruled against the CDC's authority to do this and some courts had rebuffed challenges
DOJ has filed a notice of appeal of this morning's ruling vacating the CDC's nationwide eviction moratorium (see thread for more)
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