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@nbcnews Senior Justice reporter. Author. SIGNAL: ryanjreilly.62 https://t.co/X2su2p1PVE
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Joined July 2007
We’re all playing a game I like to call Bad Faith or Brain Worms™. It never ends and everybody loses.
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Some morning shaming from your ol pal Dave
@espiers @ddayen @MaxRivlinNadler @hellgatenyc @sunraysunray @jacobin @hamiltonnolan @anamariecox @MarisaKabas @KELLYWEILL @AurinSquire @emptywheel @EricMGarcia @AndrewJParsons @HeerJeet @jawnita @AdamLMahoney @Jon_Allsop Thanks to Elon Musk's changes to X, no one shares links to stories anymore. Instead, they're more likely to post pictures of headlines or exciting paragraphs from articles — creating "a far stupider discourse," @daveweigel argues. https://t.co/AMBZyf0o3I
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This seems aimed at federal prosecutions, that appear remote and likely barred by statute of limitations by 2029. I'm aware of no indication president has authority to pardon state-law crimes, but some Trump allies have suggested he does. See
NEW: Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of allies in his bid to subvert the 2020 election including: -Rudy Giuliani -John Eastman -Mark Meadows -Sidney Powell -Ken Chesebro -Christina Bobb -Kelli Ward -Jenna Ellis https://t.co/FkWYCXLYHH
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Another jury finds another Trump DOJ case sub-par.
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Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
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JUST IN: Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy,' charged with chucking a sub at law enforcement during President Trump's takeover of the nation's capital.
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Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
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DEFENSE: “This case, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is about a sandwich." PROSECUTION: "We’re not just talking about a sandwich. This isn’t about a sandwich." https://t.co/s6Y9RyRHCf
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Defense attorney Sabrina Shroff told the jury that "a footlong from Subway could not and certainly did not inflict bodily harm."
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“The actions yesterday — in which FBI Special Agents were terminated and then reinstated shortly after, and then only to be fired again today - highlight the chaos that occurs when long-standing policies and processes are ignored."
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The firings focus on personnel connected to former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of Trump and an earlier FBI investigation known as "Arctic Frost."
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New: FBI fires, unfires, refires agents linked to Jack Smith probe
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Agent Lairmore is done with his testimony. Prosecution asked further about the condiments and he said there was mustard on his uniform and an onion hanging on his radio antenna. Don’t think defense was going for a pun when she called him a “seasoned officer,” but you never know…
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Antonio Lamotta, pardoned j6er and the guy that brought guns to the vote counting center in Philly in 202O is on stage at the Winsome event in Virginia Beach. Center with the winsome sign.
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Sad that reporters can even do a piece like this, but it’s such an important part of understanding today’s climate in Congress >>
Congress' longest serving members told me about a time before political violence was their new normal. “There was never a sense that you had to look over your shoulder,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro said. Read my latest: https://t.co/TjG220xFmD
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ok so THAT’s what the chair was for https://t.co/5Sx6juNQbl
Who, beyond the well-known and much-profiled Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani, and Jon Ossoff, are the young people most likely to rebuild the Democratic Party? The bright lights of the next generation don’t fit into easy classifications. They include a seminarian, a
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DC's "sandwich guy" is going on trial today. @ryanjreilly is inside the courtroom for the meat of the proceedings --> https://t.co/HlLIJdk3n6
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Sean Dunn went viral over the summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.
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“U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office failed to persuade a grand jury to indict Dunn on felony charges — a sub-optimal result for prosecutors.” https://t.co/tcbLYyzCE7
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Sean Dunn went viral over the summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.
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There’s a chance they may have to restart jury selection in the sandwich guy case after the judge shielded the whole process from the public.
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Jack Smith played by the book--exactly the opposite from what right-wing critics (like @washingtonpost editorial board) are pretending. In fact, that's why he lost. He filed in FL, legally correct venue, despite chance of it landing before biased judge. https://t.co/AvaQSJSQre
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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
DOJ submits new, air-brushed sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, scrubbing references to his role in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege and Trump's social media post that led him to go to Obama's neighborhood with weapons. Here's the first scrubbing 1/2
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"The indictment, which was filed Oct. 23, alleges that Abughazaleh 'physically hindered and impeded' an agent who was 'forced to drive at an extremely slow rate of speed to avoid injuring any of the conspirators.'" @ryanjreilly & me https://t.co/EXTKpTVNEL via @nbcnews
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Abughazaleh called the charges "yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up."
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A federal judge rules that the acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of California has been “unlawfully serving” in the role, in part because the Senate hasn’t confirmed the Trump appointee.
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Judge J. Michael Seabright found that Trump appointee Bilal Essayli unlawfully assumed the post after resigning in July as interim U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
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Officer Daniel Hodges, who defended the Capitol on January 6: Every single member of the majority on this subcommittee has either contributed to one of the most infamous examples of conservative political violence of our age, or the protection of its perpetrators.
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After describing myself being attacked in great detail, Senator Welch asked the witnesses if they supported Trumps pardons for insurrectionists. All Republican witnesses raised their hands. This was a hearing ostensibly on how political violence is bad.
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