Giving Marjorie Taylor Greene a run for her money in the deplorable-historical-comparison department:
The ever-understated St. Louis attorney Al Watkins likens "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley's detention to the Russian gulags and the "Khmer Ruge" (sic)
To be fair, Watkins spelled Khmer Rouge right in the legal brief itself.
—But that's hardly the point.
After invoking Solzhenitsyn for good measure, Watkins writes:
"The former President blanketly referred to those who appeared at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 as “special.” Chansley is indeed special. The Government knows Chansley is special."
Context:
The Khmer Rouge butchered up to two million people during the Cambodian genocide.
Afforded every due process, Chansley has been served up court-ordered organic meals in jail before trial—based on purported religious dietary restrictions shamanism experts call dubious.
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The debut episode featured never-before-heard audio tapes of Lin Wood and his former law partners, exclusively obtained from their acrimonious litigation.
During the same debut, ex-Oklahoma City bombing prosecutor Aitan Goelman spoke about pursuing that case with Merrick Garland, in an interview from well before the now-AG’s confirmation hearings renewed attention to that history.
A federal judge just unsealed more information from the government memo asking a special master to sort out privilege issues in warrants on Rudy Giuliani and Victoria Toensing.
"On April 28, 2021, the Government seized 18 electronic devices belonging to Giuliani and certain employees of Giuliani Partners pursuant to those warrants."
One device for Toensing.
See, before and after.
Unredacted—
"...which, in that case, like here, had previously reviewed records from email accounts obtained pursuant to covert search warrants"
"Asking a Judge to Unseal Files, Rudy Giuliani's Lawyers Demand Explanation for 'Extremely Damaging' Claim That He Might Destroy Evidence" lawandcrime.com/high-profile/a… via @lawcrimenews
Proud Boys member Christopher Worrell's hearing has begun.
Charged with using pepper spray on police on Jan. 6, Worrell renewed his bid for release claiming he's "deteriorating" from lymphoma. Feds say it's based on word of urologist, not oncologist.
As the linked article notes, the D.C. Circuit previously denied Worrell's bid for pretrial release in a ruling appearing to draw a sharp distinction between accused Capitol rioters accused of violence (like Worrell) and those who aren't (like "zip-tie guy" Eric Munchel).
Worrell renewed his motion for health reasons, speaking about the risk of COVID-19 and the return of his lymphoma.
The government says he's scheduled to see an oncologist on May 19.
His lawyer just claimed his client's being "tortured" in custody.