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1 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: An assistant US attorney sexually harassed women across the federal government, according to a newly obtained inspector general report — the report details physical and verbal harassment of an intern, FBI analyst, another AUSA, and a postal inspector buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The DOJ inspector general's office announced the conclusion of this investigation in November, but shared little information. The full (albeit heavily redacted) 11-page report includes lots of new details about the misconduct substantiated by investigators buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The inspector general's office redacted the AUSA's name, citing privacy exemptions to FOIA. It's the latest in a string of reports about substantiated harassment and misconduct complaints at DOJ where the subject's name is kept under seal buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Women who were the targets of harassment told investigators that they were so uncomfortable with the AUSA's behavior that they made arrangements for other people to attend meetings with him or physically moved their work site buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…

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2 Jun
Hello from Judge Randolph Moss' virtual courtroom, where Paul Hodgkins is set to become the 2nd Capitol insurrection defendant to plead guilty.

His original charging docs: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2048… Image
Hodgkins will be pleading guilty to the most serious count he was indicted on, obstruction of an official proceeding (indictment: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2050…) and the remaining misdemeanors for illegally entering the Capitol will be dismissed Image
Dialed in too late to hear this, apparently we have some special guests on the line as well
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28 May
Two opinions in two days from Judge Amy Berman Jackson denying motions to release Jan. 6 defendants. Today's was about Karl Dresch — not charged with violence, but crim history + guns + lack of remorse + flight risk persuaded judge to keep him behind bars assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2079…
Jackson writes Trump isn't helping his supporters stay out of jail by continuing to "propagate the lie that inspired the attack" — and she calls out unnamed media outlets and party leaders "intent on censuring those who dare to challenge the former President’s version of events"
Today's order in Dresch's case echoes her unsealed opinion from yesterday denying pretrial release to Cleveland Meredith, which similarly focused on his conduct but also touched on Trump et al. see:
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27 May
Status hearing in the case of Jan. 6 defs Jenny Cudd and Eliel Rosa offers insight into how plea talks are unfolding in these cases: Prosecutor says govt made informal plea offer as to the felony obstruction count, Cudd asked for deferred prosecution agreement and govt said no
A deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) would basically mean that charges against Cudd would be dropped assuming she fulfills certain conditions. The AUSA told the court that was not an option in this case.
Prosecutor then says that the parties are discussing whether a misdemeanor-only plea offer is on the table, and that the govt is still considering that.

In the meantime, the judge sets a tentative trial date for Feb. 7, 2022
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26 May
The Oath Keepers moved to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Rep. Bennie Thompson and other House Dems re: Jan. 6 (see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…)

Here's the doc (conclusion screenshotted below summarizes their args, but also calls them the "Oak Keepers"): assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2079…
The Oath Keepers are arguing:
- No House member individually had a constitutional duty to perform on Jan. 6 when the joint session of Congress convened to certify the election (only the House as an *institution*) so the insurrection couldn't be a violation of plaintiffs' duties
- That the allegations in the suit are too speculative/vague in terms of laying out facts that show the Oath Keepers as a group conspired with Trump and the other defendants to disrupt Congress that day and participate in the insurrection
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25 May
Late night action: The Biden administration will argue to keep most of a Trump-era Justice Department memo secret buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
DOJ filed notice late last night that it would partially defend the Trump admin's decision to keep a March 2019 memo secret that Bill Barr cited in clearing Trump of obstruction.

A judge had slammed DOJ's handling of all this as "disingenuous." buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The case was briefed in the fall. This is first time DOJ under AG Garland weighed in, and lawyers said the judge had misunderstood the purpose of the memo and blamed "imprecision" in the govt's earlier briefs. The word "regret" appears five times.
buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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25 May
Now: DOJ notifies the court that it will appeal a judge's order to release a March 2019 memo re: not prosecuting Trump for obstruction in the Russia probe. More to come shortly.
UPDATE: In an accompanying motion asking for a stay, DOJ explains that they're actually partially appealing — they're okay with releasing part of the OLC memo, but not all of it assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2078…
Here's the latest version of the OLC memo that DOJ has made public, now with the first page and a half unredacted — the rest is still blacked out and DOJ intends to appeal and argue to keep it sealed: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2078…
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