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Jun 8

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1. I've been pondering the #venue angst that I see being amplified by Trump's attorney, who claims to not represent him, #TimParlatore, who was selling it on @Lawrence. Weird coincidence that within 23 days from now #SCOTUS should hand down a case on whether criminal venue error

2. prevents retrial after defective venue ruling vacates a conviction. SCOTUS hasn't done a criminal venue case in a long time and they're doing one right now, passing drafts around & thinking about it while Parlatore does his MSNBC schtick. But I've concluded it's a red herring.

3. The US Code has flaws for the lazy. You might look at the name of a specific statute and think it actually describes the entire statute. The obstruction chapter has a few sleepers. I went back to refresh my memory regarding some of the key facts.

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Jun 7

1. Report that Steve Bannon received a grand jury subpoena has me puzzled. I understand that it's DOJ policy to not subpoena a target. So why would Bannon, who was reported to have been heavily involved in the seditious conspiracy, avoid target status? cnn.com/2021/09/23/pol…

2. It prompted me to look at his pardon issued on January 19, 2021, Trump's last full day as POTUS. The underlying crimes were money laundering. The rest of the listed crimes charged in SDNY have to do with attempt and conspiracy plus the forfeiture counts.

3. There is another more general grant of pardon for anything chargeable in that case under Chapter 95 of Title 18. Guess what that is?

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Jun 7

1. Justice Thomas delays disclosures after reports of travel, property sale. washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

2. If the Conservative justices who have been supplementing income, with so-called gifts from people with business before the court, have to disclose and thus expose the grift, they may decide they want the loot more than the black Mumu and quit.

3. And if they continue to take money from what appears to smell like bribes they should be subject to state laws that can be enacted to punish them if they don't recuse from cases involving the state or its citizens because, as Roberts points out, the Congress has not acted.

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Jun 7

1. If Meadows testified in a grand jury hearing testimony about BOTH Jan 6 and MAL documents investigations, I think it's likely Jack Smith is going to charge both cases in a single indictment. Otherwise why use the same grand jury? Also, everyone is talking about immunity

2. for Meadows as if it means he got a deal. That would be transactional immunity that makes him immune from prosecution. I expect Smith is playing hardball with him and granted limited use immunity that prohibits the use of his testimony against him. Because Meadows turned over

4. a ton of documents early in the investigation, and the phones of co-conspirators have been seized and imaged I expect they have enough to convict Meadows without his testimony. On Chris Christie, I always look at a person's background to try to understand what they know.

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Jun 6

1. Laws attacking people for their immutable characteristics are violations of Equal Protection. Being gay or trans is not a choice no more than being of a particular ethnic group or being disabled. What I perceive the far-right's attack on LGBTQ rights to mean is eventually

2. the laws will all be subject to strict scrutiny and be struck down. Any attempt to avoid it by claiming that they are addressing conduct and not a suspect class is likely to be overcome by the hatred and vitriol of the radical right that proves that the reason for enactment

@CivilRights

3. is intentional invidious discrimination. I think the strategy is focusing a fire hose of hate that makes going to court and overturning the laws more challenging and allows the hate-based laws to avoid judicial scrutiny. @CivilRights Div may be overwhelmed by the scope of the

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Jun 6

IMO nature of PGA-LIV merger that involves a foreign state, likely makes resulting entity & possibly US resident players subject to FARA registration if a foreign entity has the power over advertising and content of permissible speech. This is a foolish idea. DOJ should block it.

And I know that there is ongoing litigation related to 911 victims but the fact is that Al-Qaeda targeted the Saudi royals. Some Saudis likely provided support as a way to appease Bin Laden. To equate Saudi royals with Al-Qaeda IMO evidences a fundamental lack of understanding.

And for the issues surrounding the murder of the US national Khashoggi in Istanbul, noteworthy, the official US position is that MBS is "responsible" for the killing. The term can mean a lot of things in the context of what could have transpired.

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