Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) gives opening remarks for today's oversight hearing where AG Merrick Garland is testifying.

He notes the last such hearing was October 2017.

Annual hearings were once the norm, he said.

Watch here: judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/10/20…
Durbin reprises the findings of the Judiciary Committee's report “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the Election."

ICYMI: lawandcrime.com/2020-election/…
Garland's remarks briefly touch upon Jan. 6:

"Finally, keeping our country safe requires protecting its democratic institutions including the one we sit in today from violent attack."
"As this committee is well aware, the department is currently engaged in one of the most sweeping investigations in its history in connection with the January 6 attack on the Capitol."

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27 Oct
The DOJ memo that GOP senators keep claiming are a clampdown on parents complaining at school board meetings is less than 300 words.

None of those words is "parent" or "parents."
Blackburn asks whether Garland thinks that aggrieved parents at school boards are akin to Oklahoma City bomb plotter Terry Nichols.

Absolutely not, a shocked Garland replies.

The memo in question doesn’t say anything like that, he notes.

(It doesn’t mention “parents” at all.)
Blackburn: “Sometimes perception is reality,” creating a false perception of what the memo states.
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A pre-trial hearing sorting out how much secrecy or transparency will greet jury selection in next month's highly anticipated trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is about to begin.

I'll be covering the proceedings for @LawCrimeNews.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Elizabeth Pomerantz for the government.

Maxwell’s attorney Bobbi Sternheim speaks for the defense.

As for the defendant: “This is Ms. Maxwell, and I am on the line.”
Note:

In addition to RCFP and the 17 news organizations opposing sealing of the jury questionnaire and voir dire, so has the SDNY in-house press. (Full disclosure: I co-signed that letter to the judge—organized by Law360's @PeteBrush— opposing the sealing.)
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Follow along here.

Background from opening statements, @lawcrimenews lawandcrime.com/high-profile/t…
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Then Parnas's attorney Joseph Bondy is up for less than that.

Kukushkin's lawyer Gerry Lefcourt will be roughly an hour.
AUSA Scotten lays out the conspiracy count for jurors:

"It's clear as day that there was an agreement here."
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Lev Parnas will NOT be testifying at his trial, his lawyer Joseph Bondy just told a judge.
Andrey Kukushkin also will not be testifying, he says.
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The @January6thCmte's business meeting to vote on a contempt report for Steve Bannon is about to begin.

Follow along with me in this thread.

Background here, @lawcrimenews lawandcrime.com/high-profile/j…
You can watch the proceedings here on YouTube.
Chairman @BennieGThompson:

"Let me start by saying that it gives me no joy that I've been forced to call this meeting."
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The defense case begins in the Lev Parnas trial.

Parnas's attorney Joseph Bondy calls Joseph Ahearn, a director of the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action.

Seen below: Texts between Parnas and Ahearn released by the House Intel Committee during Trump's first impeachment.
Bondy asks whether there would be any questions that would cause Ahearn to invoke the Fifth Amendment.

"Potentially," Ahearn replies.

Read more of the Parnas and Ahearn messages here: judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
Judge Oetken says that's enough to have him sign an immunity order.

The judge then calls out the jury.
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