Wow. Travis McMichael guilty of malice murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
Travis McMichael also guilty of felony murder (counts 2-5) and aggravated assault (counts 6-7), false imprisonment (8).
Gregory McMichael found not guilty of malice murder, but guilty of felony murder.
Greg McMichael guilty on 8 of 9 counts.
William Bryan found not guilty of malice murder, not guilty of 1 count felony murder, guilty on all other felony counts. Guilty of aggravated assault and false imprisonment, plus attempt to commit a felony.
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Judge to Justin Clark in Trump/NARA hearing: "isn't the person who is best able and in a position to determine the executive privilege the executive?"
Clark: "I don't agree with that."
This isn't going well for him so far.
"The separation of powers issue...I find hard to discern here because in a rare instance, the executive branch and the legislative branch are in agreement," the judge says.
"I don't see why the separation of powers argument that you are talking about exists," she adds.
NEW: The @HouseGOP has math and history on their side heading into the 2022 midterm elections, but @TheDemocrats think they have an ace in the hole in Donald Trump.
“As long as he is out there, he is doing the Democrats’ job for them in terms of keeping them engaged, keeping them…outraged and determined to defeat Trumpism,” @dccc adviser @KurtBardella said. independent.co.uk/voices/midterm…
NEW: As Donald Trump tries to shield his former aides from the insurrection probe, experts are warning that a timid response will allow the former president to do yet more damage to American democracy. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
“The underlying legal questions that we face – about testimony in the McGahn litigation and about documents in the Mazers litigation – have now been addressed at length...so the soil has been tilled, that allows things to move faster,” @NormEisen said.independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
At today's @SenateCommerce hearing with @FrancesHaugen, @MarshaBlackburn all but calls @Facebook officials liars: "Having seen the data that you've presented ... I feel pretty confident that it's Facebook, who has done the misrepresenting to this committee."
Whistleblower @FrancesHaugen: "I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy."
.@FrancesHaugen: "Facebook consistently resolve these conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been more division, more harm, more lies more threats and more combat. In some cases, this does this dangerous online talk has led to actual violence".
NEW: Republicans wanted @SecBlinken’s appearances before the House and Senate foreign relations committees to be fodder for a Benghazi-like scandal. Instead, they ended up shouting about op-eds and asking nonsense questions about White House livestreams. independent.co.uk/voices/blinken…
Former Deputy SecState for Legislative Affairs @JoelMartinRubin said the GOP’s performance shows how Republicans “have recycled talking-points that they tell each other and are caught in their own inner feedback loop on their own disinformation platforms.” independent.co.uk/voices/blinken…
This @perrybaconjr column on the sins of Politico is spot on at some points, but I would respectfully suggest that he has overlooked a significant problem that no one with any juice at any outlet seems to want to change. 1/
Here’s the problem: Being right often gets you nowhere, being wrong gets you promoted.
As one of the reporters he writes about as having been “without such access” to lying Trump administration officials over the course of 2020, I would argue that the publications that… 2/
…ignored the signs that led to 1/6 haven’t made any effort to make any changes in how they hire and promote that take into account the extent to which most major publications failed to recognize the danger we were in.
All they’ve done is continue to enable the giant game… 3/