"The Gang Indicts Jim Comey"

Again, our biggest saving grace is that these people are deeply, deeply stupid and incompetent and that is probably the biggest factor that has prevented them from truly consolidating real authoritarian power. They're still an existential threat to democracy, but they are so, so beatable.

Post-Trump we need: • An Office of Special Investigations of Abuses of Federal Authority to prosecute administration henchmen. • A Truth & Reconciliation Commission to get the facts out & give a break to low-level civil servants coerced into crimes. • New anti-abuse laws & civil service protections.

I’m not an attorney so of course the legal analysis of this case is news to me because I don’t understand the process. What’s wild is that there are folks prosecuting cases for the DOJ that also do not understand the process. Like….wut.

For those who may not know, grand jury proceedings are intended to be secret, and it is very rare for them to be turned over to the defendant. The evidence of government misconduct must have been overwhelming to the reviewing magistrate.

I can't believe I routinely wrestle with imposter syndrome while these clowns are this bad at their jobs. Any notion of Right Wing Meritocracy and equanimity is immediately disproven by every single clown in this administration, especially the lawyers.

It was always clear this was a sham.

In 2029, we should have a new president and, it can be hoped, the return of a lawful U.S. Department of Justice. And any real federal crimes that Bondi, Halligan, et al. have committed this year will be well within the statute of limitations on prosecution.

This opinion demands to be read in full. Among the problems with the grand jury proceedings: * The key evidence presented to the grand jury came from a search that may have violated the Fourth Amendment. * Lindsey Halligan apparently misstated the law to the grand jury, twice.

Personally, I think the most likely thing is that she's just lying about this to avoid embarrassment, but it's so on the nose for Halligan to think she's fibbing about a pointless detail and not realize she's practically confessing the invalidity of the indictment

So Halligan has a conundrum. If she is "mistaken" about these times in her sworn declaration, she's not telling the truth about the GJ transcripts and proceedings. If she IS telling the truth, "the Court is in uncharted legal territory in that the indictment returned in open court was not . . ."

Seems likely to me this is a case of Halligan telling the foreperson "oh this is totally normal, sign this one which reflects the charges the grand jury approved." They wouldn't know that's a fraud on the court. Halligan would or should know.

So, Halligan signed a declaration which appears to be false. If that's the case, she absolutely committed perjury.

Actually, I think it might be worse. bsky.app/profile/dave...

With just one race left to call (ballots are still being cured), of 222 races up on 11/4, @runforsomething.net had 142 winners, 10 candidates moving to run offs, and 42 (!!!) red to blue flips.

Still think there’s more evidence for “abolish Harvard” than there is for saving the patient, so to speak

Occurs to me that whether you think Marjorie Taylor Greene should be welcomed into The Tent or not depends on whether you think the fight is against a fascist movement or against one particular very bad man.

I will match up to $500. Post your screenshots people.

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

At 3 pm, I will be doing a Substack Live interview with Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com about Magistrate Judge Fitzpatrick's Opinion & Order requiring disclosure of the full grand jury record in US v. Comey to the defense, on the basis of eleven (11) separate types of prosecutorial misconduct.

I just cannot imagine how the US can host the World Cup without a massive international crisis

I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there

In United States v. Comey , the Magistrate-Judge noted eleven (11) separate incidents of prosecutorial misconduct in support of the order requiring disclosure of the full grand jury transcript to Comey. In any prior administration, this would have led to immediate termination of case & proscutor.

A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.

At some point, incompetence and deliberate indifference to the law reaches a point where it is indistinguishable from deliberate misconduct. This is why you don’t hand a complex matter to someone who has never presented to a grand jury before.

If you find out that the United States Department of Justice has subpoenaed information about you from Bluesky, please don’t post through it here on Bluesky. That makes Ken angry.

At the very least Halligan has no business practicing law. What a fucking embarrassment the DOJ has become.

Not enough lawyers are disbarred.

A LOT of the idiocy Trump regime lawyers are engaging in comes from them making the decision that it is better for them to get smacked up by an angry judge in court--a judge they can then smear as a 'partisan Dem' or 'communist' or whatever--than it is for them to say 'no' even once to Dear Leader.

I was genuinely wondering how long it would take them to resort to outright fabricating legal documents in easily verifiable ways. After all, competent people with better things to do don't work in this admin.

@kenwhite.bsky.social do you generally recommend that a client fabricate grand jury records (at least in part) in order to rush out an indictment before the statute of limitations hits in order to please Dear Leader? Asking for El Jefe's most loyal real estate lawyer.

Starmer's Labour: Now endorsed by neo-Nazis

Well done, Labour. Well done.

Well at least someone is happy with the policies of this bunch in charge.

Robinson would cheer on the mob lynching Labour while screaming "Thanks, couldn't a done it without you fookin' gits!" as they haul Starmer up onto the scaffolding.

Wow. This is where we are at. Shift to the right is complete. Door open for Fartage et el to sweep in. We thought the country was fucked under the Tories, apparently we ain’t seen nothing yet.

It’s disgusting. Several of my children’s school friends would have been deported under this regime. Most had families who worked hard, paid taxes, got their children to uni etc and they in turn contribute richly to our local community. Erm… this is in the PMs constituency btw .

To every decent person left in Labour: the second best time to be knocking on the Green Party door is now.

An excellent example of why I will not vote Labour. It is no longer a liberal party.

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

“How many refugees have been granted asylum in the UK?” Most people overestimate the number - by a lot. With far-right figures spreading misinformation, it’s hard for the public to know the truth. Watch the video to see just how wide the gap is between perception and reality.

What the Home Sec announced today is not the politics of compromise but of being compromised. Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.

She is correct

Looking forward to when Bluesky stops being like 35% Elizabeth Spiers content.

continue to think that these people are simply not going to be able to prosecute their political enemies

The desperation is palpable, but the desperation is also terrifying. It feels like they might really do anything at this point.