He's a non-distinguished product of a one-party state where he developed delusions of grandeur from appearances as Pelosi's attack dog. He really saw himself as a national leader of the Dems and a candidate for POTUS in 2032 or 2036.

Link in panel below.

Reasons for the aggressive litigation by the Civil Rights Division over state voter rolls seems to be coming into better focus.

New Exec. Order looks to the Post Office to stop mail-in ballots from going to ineligible persons or being returned to vote officials.

Link below.

Recounting in detail how the Mueller SCO treated Gen. Flynn -- a rebuttal to the morons on X shrieking "But he pled guilty" in reaction to the settlement of his civil case.

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I must confess this one got away from me a bit. It covers in sig detail Supreme Court authority on the grand jury's investigative power, and Judge Boasberg's order quashing subpoenas issued to the Fed.

Link in next panel down.

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9th Cir. issues automatic "Admin Stay" in immigration cases that allows the alien to remain in US for months/years longer - contrary to Supreme Court decision in 2009.

Brawl broke out yesterday with newest Trump appointed judge taking on the Chief Judge.

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Judge Van Dyke's exploration of the troubles of the "Circuit of Wackadoo" are worth the price of a free trial.

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It was reported on Tuesday that this decision from the D.C. Court of Appeals cleared the way for the IRS to provide addresses of illegal aliens to ICE.

That is the subject -- but that was not the outcome.

shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/good-but-not… This is a big issue in ICE enforcement as the IRS can give the last known mailing address for illegal aliens filing tax returns. This will be important between now and April 15. It is a way to confirm address info ICE already has or give ICE the most recent address IRS has.

Making removal proceedings unpleasant and disruptive to the lives of illegal aliens via detention seems a virtue not a vice if the goal is encouraging voluntary deports.

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The analysis if the Pretti shooting is more complicated than the Good shooting. I don't think there was a mistake. But even if there was an error, the law in this area tolerates mistakes.

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This one ended up stronger at the end that I expected. This is FAR FROM A SETTLED ISSUE and many in the legal academy may be surprised.

I think DHS has the better of the argument.

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Re the Statute of Limitiations nonsense.

Several months ago I wrote a Substack article on the legal theory that could still bring Obama into the mix as a named defendant in a criminal case.

It lays out how the Statute of Limitations on a Conspiracy can be extended so that acts in the 2016-2020 time period can still be charged.

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Worked on this over the weekend. Supreme Court want no part of this issue -- decides to not decide and leaves it to political branches to take risks.

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New article on Trump Admin. efforts to end Temp. Prot. Status for multiple countries.

Why do Dems fight so hard to prevent this?

Votes.

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This is a historical look back at Jim Comey's career in DOJ and his time as FBI Director. He was likely always a NeverTrumper and chose to remain as FBI Director under Trump to be the fox inside the henhouse.

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open.substack.com/pub/shipwrecke… A point that I did not make in the article, but which I've made before -- it was a fundamental violation of his oath under the Constitution to presume that it was his role as FBI Director to investigate whether Trump had views sympathetic to Russia during and/or after the election.

Summarizing the hearing in Abrego Garcia where Plaintiffs are seeking an order that he be sent to the District of Maryland if released from custody on criminal case in Tennessee, and ICE takes him into ICE custody as a result.

Judge asks if DOJ has any intention to remove him to El Salvador if released into ICE custody in Tenn. DOJ attorney says removal proceedings will begin, but to a third country, not El Salvador.

DOJ attorney says he has no info on the timing of such a removal -- says "not imminent." Judge says later that timing could be important factor in how she schedules the matters currently before the Court. Plaintiffs attorney in MD says he doesn't rep. KAG in Tenn case, but is in contact with his attorneys.

Without coming right out and saying so, Judge tells Plaintiffs attorney they need to stop the effort to have him released from USMS custody in criminal case.

Having him go into ICE custody in Tenn will likely set off a chain of events -- ending in removal to a third country that she might be unable to prevent.

I'm currently writing a long substack story about Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts and the Supreme Court order yesterday afternoon staying the earlier Preliminary Injunction put in place by Judge Murphy.
Judge Murphy, in April, ordered a halt of removals to Third Countries -- a country other than the deportee's home country -- unless the DHS gave the deportee an opportunity to apply for protection under the Convention Against Torture to that specific Third Country. The Govt appealed and asked for a Stay from the First Circuit Court of Appeals. The motion for Stay was denied, and the appeal is still pending. DOJ then sought an appeal from the Supreme Court -- which had remained pending until yesterday.

Judge Murphy held in May that DHS had violated the Injunction in a couple of different respects -- details not important here.

In all the figurative handwringing and fist pounding you have read here about the Order yesterday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia not be detained in custody pending trial, did any of you know the Magistrate Judge wrote this at the very beginning of her Opinion: The merchants of outrage porn largely do not understand the subject-matter they are so outraged about.

But their ability to spin-up outrage in the X community by giving voice here to their own outrage generates the X-$ they rake in each month.

They are about "heat" and not "light."

The Magistrate Judge knew her decision was basically a "freebie" -- Abrego-Garcia was not getting released from custody and back into the community regardless of what she decided.

Those criticizing Judge Carl Nichols and the USAID case -- NOT THE TREASURY CASE -- reflect the fact that they likely haven't read the complaint or motion for a TRO, or his order, and -- for some -- sitting a courtroom without knowing what you are watching makes you an unreliable narrator. The complaint was filed on Feb. 6 -- Thur -- seemingly at just past 11:30 pm based on some info in the TRO notice. The complaint is 30 pages long. The TRO was filed the next morning and is 24 pages long. It was filed early enough that Judge Nichols set an in-person status hearing for 3:00 pm. on 3/7.

A classic example of a media talking head who does not know know the facts because he has not seen all the video.

You know where this video is? On the same computer I using right now.

This sequence of events lasts about 4 minutes.

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https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1882144316145226065

This is the Central Door on the West Upper Terrance, one level up from the Inaugural stage.

This door is opened for the first time at 2:33:43 by protesters who are exiting the Capitol. They had been sent down this hallway by Capitol Police inside -- at the other end of this hallway.

Not the time stamp at the top, and that the doors are closed

A few months ago, just after the Fischer decision came out, I was contacted by Lisa Eisenhart and Taylor Munchel, mother and wife of J6 defendant Eric Munchel -- the "Zip-Tie Guy" -- about coming in to assist with their defense.

Lisa and Eric were together at the Capitol, both were arrested and detained initially, and both later proceeded by way of a "stipulated bench trial" and were convicted on all counts.

🧵 Lisa was charged with only 2 felonies -- both involved Sec. 1512, and after Fischer both were dismissed while her appeal was pending. The Govt agreed to vacate her sentence and have the case come back to the district court for resentencing.

That is happening later today. Lisa was originally sentenced to 30 months back in 2023, but she was granted bail pending appeal because the Supreme Court just agreed to hear the Fischer case so the validity of her convictions was in doubt.

So @julie_kelly2 wants to continue to attack me while having me blocked -- I don't have her blocked -- but X now allows me to see her attacks and screen shot them -- so, here is a comment from yesterday that I will now use to show you why she is such an unreliable source on these kinds of issues below: This report from the Washington Examiner is based on a letter released by Jim Jordan yesterday to the DOJ head of the "Office of Professional Responsibility" -- OPR. OPR is the internal office in DOJ that conducts investigations of attorney misconduct.

The letter concerns information provided to the Judiciay Committee with regard to its oversight responsibilities with regard to DOJ, including Jack Smith's Special Counsel Office.

Julie claims that the information about Smith's Office being the subject of an OPR investigation is not anything new as I suggest -- and that she is pointing out an error made by me in my post where I made a "GUESS" about what Jordan's letter is referring to.

What this shows is 1) how little Julie understands the subjects she covers, and 2) how bad a report4er she really is. Let's look at some passages from Jordan's letter which Julie might not have actually read even though there was a link to it in the WashExam story. Here is the link:

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As San Francisco DA Kamala Harris Chose To Not Seek The Death Penalty Against A Cop Killer , by @shipwreckedcrew

SFPD Officer Issac Espinoza
End of Watch April 10, 2004.
Married father of a 3 year old daughter.
29 years old.

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