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9 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Notable newly unsealed Jan. 6 case: Govt charged Matthew Purse, who they noted wore gear with "PRESS" markings. The feds say he's not press, but initially a judge wasn't satisfied. Govt came back with a more robust explanation, and got the arrest warrant s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2098…
Here's the full opinion denying the govt's initial effort to charge Purse, citing the lack of explanation re: how exactly the govt decided this guy wasn't actually a member of the media: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2098…
(Deleted a previous tweet with the incorrect link to the document)
Story: An Alleged Capitol Rioter Came Disguised As A Journalist, Prosecutors Say buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…

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6 Jul
A man charged with participating in the Capitol insurrection, Fi Duong, allegedly told an undercover FBI agent that he'd dressed up on Jan. 6 to look like antifa and had been trying to start his own militia-type group, per newly unsealed docs: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2098…
The charges against Duong are specific to Jan. 6, but the accompanying FBI affidavit describes what became apparently months of undercover surveillance that tracked Duong as he allegedly collected materials to make Molotov cocktails/explosives
"[Undercover employee] asked DUONG if he wanted to use glass Kombucha bottles like they were presently drinking from to make Molotov cocktails. DUONG rejected the idea, stating that 'My concern is this bottle is a little bit too thick and is not going to shatter on impact.'"
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1 Jul
NOW: Here is the unsealed indictment against the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg. More to come. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2098…
BREAKING, with more to come: The Trump Organization and longtime executive Allen Weisselberg are charged with carrying out a multiyear, million-dollar tax fraud scheme buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
New: Donald Trump wasn't personally charged in the indictment against his company and a longtime executive. But he's not off the hook just yet.

How to think about Trump's legal exposure going forward now that we have the latest indictment: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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1 Jul
Now: SCOTUS has ruled that two Arizona voting restrictions (tossing out-of-precinct ballots and banning third-party collection of ballots) don't violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which broadly prohibits racial discrimination supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
This was a 6-3 decision, with Justice Alito writing the majority opinion, joined by the rest of the court's conservative wing.

The three liberal justices dissent. Kagan: "Today, the Court undermines Section 2 and the right it provides."
What did the court do?
- Upheld two challenged voting restrictions in Arizona
- Declined to adopt a clear test for how Section 2 applies going forward, but offered "guideposts" that interpret when it can apply more narrowly, making it harder to win other challenges in the future
Read 5 tweets
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30 Jun
Hello from the DC federal courthouse, where Mark Grods is about to plead guilty in the Oath Keeper conspiracy case. Grods is here in person, waiting for Judge Amit Mehta to take the bench.

Previously: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Going over the terms of Grods' plea deal, Judge Mehta says that the estimated sentencing guidelines range at this point that Grods is facing is 51-63 months in prison
Grods will be allowed to go home to Alabama pending sentencing (no date for that yet, while he cooperates). No contact allowed with Oath Keepers or anyone charged in the related Oath Keepers conspiracy case, no firearms/weapons, no passport
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30 Jun
New: Another Jan. 6 defendant affiliated with the Oath Keepers is set to plead guilty — Mark Grods is scheduled to appear in court this afternoon s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2098…
Per newly unsealed docs, Grods' plea agreement with the feds includes cooperation, and they asked to keep his case secret while he testified before the grand jury s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2098…
Grods' case threads together a few key elements of the alleged Oath Keepers conspiracy:
- he brought guns that were stored at a hotel in Virginia buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
- he was part of the golf cart crew buzzfeednews.com/article/jessic…
- he was in the "stack" buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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29 Jun
Now: SCOTUS leaves in place the federal eviction moratorium, which is set to expire at the end of July. Roberts and Kavanaugh join Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor; the other conservatives would have lifted it asap after a lower court judge concluded it was unlawful (appeal pending)
Kavanaugh writes to make clear the CDC's decision to specify this would be the final extension is what swayed him not to intervene now. It seems safe to say the delay in SCOTUS responding to the challengers was at least in part the justices waiting to see what the CDC would do
Now: SCOTUS votes 5-4 to keep the federal eviction moratorium in place for now, with Roberts and Kavanaugh joining the court's liberal wing to reject an effort to immediately end it buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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