Also good morning! I am here at arraignment court waiting for Allen Weisselberg and any other Trump Organization people to show up after a grand jury indicted the business this morning. (It’s my first post-vax court trip! Wish me luck!) Here is the scene outside of the NY Supreme Court arraignment room. It is filled w sweat and journalists.

New: Chief Judge Howell just overturned a magistrate judge’s decision to keep Couy Griffin, the Cowboys For Trump guy, in jail pending trial. She said his actions are “troubling” and “unpatriotic,” but he didn’t enter the Capitol itself and doesn’t pose a flight risk, she said. His lawyers tried to argue that even having a detainment hearing b/c of public statements Griffin made (including saying that "there’s gonna be blood running out" of the Capitol) was a violation of the 1st amendment. The judge denied that argument, but ruled to free him.

In the hearing for Riley June Williams, the 22 y/o accused of stealing (or helping to steal) Nancy Pelosi's laptop and sell it to a contact in Russia, her lawyer says that she is charged w aiding and abetting the theft and that a search found she doesn't have the computer.... The gov lawyer is being tight-lipped because she is concerned that giving too many details about the investigation could jeopardize it, but she says that Riley Williams deleted her accounts *before* she turned herself in, and instructed others to delete evidence.

I am listening in on the arraignment of dozens of people who were arrested at the pro-Trump riots and protests at the Capitol yesterday. Will tweet what I find out. The first person arraigned in connection with yesterday's riots is Michael Amos from FL. Charges: Unlawful entry to the capitol building & violation of curfew. The Judge says he disobeyed Capitol Police & Metropolitan Police Dept. He is released pending trial, but banned from DC.

Just out of a hearing in the NY Parnas & Fruman case. The gist was that the team for Fruman (who is not complying w the congressional subpoena for impeachment) is pissed that Parnas handed over A LOT of info to Congress without screening for Fruman’s attorney-client privilege. The issues at hand were pretty technical, but there was a lot of tension between Fruman & Parnas’ lawyers. Also, Parnas’ lawyer randomly brought up that’s thinks AG Barr should recuse himself from the US V. Parnas case. No one else in the court wanted to touch that w a 10 ft pole

The gov has seized *a lot* of Parnas' devices. The list they gave: 6 devices at the time of arrest, including a Samsung device, iPad, 2 iPhones, cell phone. Then 8 more from his house: 3 more iPhones, Samsung galaxy phone, iMac, and iPad (no phone in court, may have missed 1) [correction from previous typoed tweet]: Parnas plans to cooperate with Congress in their investigation. The Gov. in this context is the executive branch of government, DOJ. Gov lawyer told the court that they would happily provide the requested info to Congress. ...

Just leaving a hearing for Fruman, one of Guliani’s Ukraine guys. His lawyer was requesting modifications to his bail agreement, which has him on house arrest w a GPS tracker and a $1 million bond. His lawyer tried argue that Fruman was not a flight risk. It did not go well... Fruman lawyer: The allegations that, when Fruman was arrested on the beltway at Dulles airport w a one-way ticket to Vienna, he was “fleeing the country, are completely false. There is zero evidence.”
Judge: False he had a one-way ticket?
Lawyer: “No that is absolutely true.”
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NEWS: Leana Wen is out as Planned Parenthood President, reportedly pushed out by the board due to "the group felt it needed a more aggressive political leader to fight the efforts to roll back access to abortions." This is what we reported repeatedly: buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoco…

https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1151222286692900864

NYT broke the story: nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/…