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15 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Steve Bannon surrendered to the FBI this morning (see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…) and is due in court later today.

In the meantime, a plea hearing is about to start for Jan. 6 def William Blauser: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2078…
Blauser was indicted with Pauline Bauer, but has not joined her "sovereign citizen" self-representation effort. Unlike Bauer, who faces a felony obstruction count, Blauser was only charged with misdemeanors: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2079…
Blauser is pleading guilty to the parading, picketing, or demonstrating misdemeanor. Blauser briefly started to parse why he understands he was "parading" but disputes he was "demonstrating," judge explains it's an "or" charge so the facts just have to establish one element
Judge Trevor McFadden accepts Blauser's guilty plea with no issue, sets sentencing for Feb. 3

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15 Nov
Hello from the DC federal courthouse (IRL!) where Steve Bannon is expected to make his first post-indictment court appearance on contempt of Congress charges at around 1:45pm. Spotted: significant media presence + one giant inflatable Trump rat
Bannon will be making his first court appearance before Magistrate Judge Robin Meriweather — dial-in info attached for live audio. I'm in the media room, where we have a video feed. Bannon's lawyers are in there now at counsel table
The DC courthouse is enforcing social distancing, so the media room and the courtroom are sparsely populated compared to pre-pandemic high-profile hearings. Much less of a media circus vibe compared to years past (121 people on the public line as of now, by comparison)
Read 16 tweets
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12 Nov
Hello again from Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's virtual courtroom, where sentencing is about to begin for Capitol rioter Boyd Camper, who pleaded guilty to the parading misdemeanor. Govt wants 2 mos incarceration, he wants probation.

"We’re going to take this damn place."
As Camper's sentencing gets underway, worth noting there was another sentencing this a.m. in a parading guilty plea case, for Sean Cordon — Judge Trevor McFadden ordered 2 mos probation + $4K fine, govt had asked for 3 yrs probation + home detention (no fine request)
AUSA Jacob Strain is up first, says by now the court is familiar with the "violence and mayhem" of the Capitol riot, what happened that day was "despicable and horrifying and un-American"
Read 25 tweets
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12 Nov
Hello from Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's virtual courtroom, where a plea hearing is set for 9:30am in the case of Lonnie Coffman, charged with bringing a cache of firearms + homemade napalm Molotov cocktails to DC on Jan. 6 s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2049…
Here's the dial-in info for Kollar-Kotelly's line if you'd like to listen:
Toll Free Number: 866-390-1828
Access Code: 9159943
Coffman has been in jail since his arrest in Jan. On the public line in advance of the plea hearing, his lawyer asks how he's doing, he replies "Not too well" and starts describing an incident at the jail, but it's muffled. Lawyer moves them to a private breakout room to discuss
Read 39 tweets
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11 Nov
Just in: Trump has now asked the DC Circuit for a temporary "administrative" injunction to stop the Archives from turning over his White House records to the Jan. 6 committee (set to happen tomorrow) while he pursues a full appeal s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2110…
According to this filing, the Jan. 6 committee and the National Archives aren't taking a position on Trump's request for a temporary administrative injunction. The parties are jointly asking the circuit to set a more expedited briefing schedule on the main appeal
Clarification: The expedited schedule they've jointly proposed is for Trump to more formally argue for an injunction pending his appeal of the order denying a prelim. injunction by the district court judge — same core issue, different procedural posture
Read 9 tweets
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10 Nov
Last night, a federal judge rejected Trump's effort to stop the Jan. 6 select committee from getting his White House records from the National Archives. Where do things stand now? (Yes, a thread)
buzzfeednews.com/article/kadiag…
At 3:39am, Trump in the district court renewed his emergency motion for a temporary injunction to try to stop the Nat'l Archives from turning over the docs to the Jan. 6 committee on Friday, which is currently set to happen barring some other court order s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2110…
Trump also immediately appealed to the DC Circuit after Judge Tanya Chutkan handed down her decision last night. That docket is live, and a briefing schedule has been set. There's no request yet from Trump for action by that court before Friday
Read 4 tweets
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1 Nov
Hello from my house, where I’ll be covering arguments remotely before SCOTUS at 10am in the fight over whether DOJ and abortion providers can bring constitutional challenges to Texas’s 6-week abortion ban, SB 8.

Previously: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
SB 8 — which deputizes private citizens to enforce the ban and provides $$ incentives to do it — has been in effect since Sept. 1, with the exception of a two-day period last month (see: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…).

Previously on how that came about: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Recall that the question of whether SB 8 is constitutional is not before the justices today (although it could come up) — they're mulling a threshold issue that's held up the DOJ/abortion provider cases in the 5th Circuit, which is whether these plaintiffs can sue at all
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