Nixon had a gap in the tape recordings because of an alleged Rosemary Woods error; what is Halligan s excuse for a gap in the Comey grand jury recording? Very suspicious.

There is definitely a gap but we don’t know the extent because the private grand jury deliberations (without govt present) is NOT ever transcribed. But the prosecutors presentation is supposed to be and appears NOT to have been.

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

EPSTEIN: even today, after the release of the key Epstein-Maxwell emails in which Epstein says Trump knew about the "girls" but hasn't "barked" (presumably, talked), the NYT reports that the WH is intensely pressuring the House NOT to vote to release more? How much worse is what we have not seen?

Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)

THE EPSTEIN LATEST: a question for DOJ DAG Todd Blanche: did he know about the Epstein-Maxwell exchanges before his Maxwell interview? (The FBI had gone through the files after all.) And if not, why not? And is she going to enjoy the spoils of a prison "camp" and other benefits, after all this?

EPSTEIN BREAKING NEWS: importantly, emails written in 2011, before Trump was president, and between close confidants, with no known reason to lie to each other about Trump. It explains why Trump has done everything NOT to release the material. If it were not damning, you would want its release.

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Our Honoring Veteran's Day episode. With guest Tess Bridgeman on the repeated US executive strikes on boats and the legal questions about them. Stay engaged. substack.com/@tweetangel/...

David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for fiction with Flesh, his portrait of a man from adolescence on a Hungarian social housing estate to the world of London’s super-rich, which the judges described as 'a singular achievement' on.ft.com/3JEEalF

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits. The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.

NEW: “To read it is to spend 48 pages understanding the depth of corruption in the Justice Department in the second Trump administration.” @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I break down DOJ’s response to James Comey’s vindictive prosecution motion. ⬇️ www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

JUST IN: Judge Immergut renews her block on President Trump’s National Guard deployment to Portland, saying her three-day trial showed there was no credible evidence justify Trump/Hegseth’s incursion on Oregon’s sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Again: what cruelty animates this action; even if it were legal, why would you do something this inhumane?

Just left the latest hearing in Jim Comey's criminal case. It did not go well for DOJ The magistrate judge scolded them for an "indict first, investigate second" posture and ordered them to turn over reams of material — including all grand jury info — to Comey's team Details TK

Today marks the first time an attorney general has tried to use 28 USC 508, 509, and 515 to appoint someone to prosecute a defendant who once used those very statutes to appoint the man who is now his defense counsel.

Raises the question: Were the grand jurors informed of the date when Richman resigned from the FBI?

Just finished Injustice, the new book by multiple Pulitzer Prize winning journalists @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Aaron Davis. So well done! And so much new information, depicting both the best and worst of the Department of Justice under Trump 1 and Biden administrations. Worth reading for sure.

Mary and I take on, in our new NYT op ed, the grave mistake in the reasoning of the Supreme Court which unleashed retribution prosecutions. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...

#BREAKING: In the Illinois National Guard case, #SCOTUS is asking for additional briefing on one of the key substantive questions (and one flagged by my Georgetown colleague @martylederman.bsky.social in an amicus brief): Among other things, this means no ruling until *at least* the week of 11/17.

More evidence of two tiers of justice. This most recent action is reminiscent of when Trump in the 2016 campaign asked those who believe in the 2d amendment to help him with Hillary.

Neguse: "Does anyone here not believe that with one phone call from Speaker Johnson -- one phone call to the president or the secretary of ag -- that those funds would be released tomorrow? And that families wouldn't go starving by the weekend?"

My conversation with Jen Psaki on Jack Smith congressional testimony www.msnbc.com/the-briefing...

Let people see Jack Smith for who he is and not the characters depicted by Trump and others.

Take a listen to my conversation with the wonderful Alex Wagner on her brand new podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

NEW: A Jan. 6 rioter who breached the Senate floor — and was subsequently pardoned by Trump — was arrested Sunday for threatening to assassinate Leader Hakeem Jeffries. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Now updated: The 'Presumption of Regularity' study. 1. Noncompliance with judicial orders: 20 cases 2. Courts’ distrust of DOJ information: 43+ cases 3. Courts’ findings of “arbitrary and capricious” conduct: 58 cases www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. Mark my words.

In brief, this is simple: The military has no authority to detain the survivors of its latest strike for the same reasons it had no authority to target them in the first place: No armed attack = No viable self defense claim = No targeting or detention authority www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Jack Smith Speaks open.substack.com/pub/weissman...

Court overseeing the Comey case rejects government application for a broad protective order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Loss #1

A conversation with Jack Smith: youtu.be/DR79GW6SvxE?...

This new Pentagon press policy is not good for our press or our military. And I’m saying that as a former soldier who knows the importance of a free press. www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

Andrew Weissmann: Hello and welcome back to "Main Justice." It is Tuesday morning, October 7th. I am Andrew Weissmann. I am here with my co-host, Mary McCord. Mary, that ends the positive part and the even-keeled part of this episode. How are you? Leaving aside everything that's happening in ...

Andrew Weissmann on The News Agents www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9I3... @weissmann.substack.com

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Notable points in Judge Perry's remarks in Illinois v Trump National Guard case.⤵️ Judge: 1. Federalized deployment of National Guard not quelling civil unrest. Instead, it is "likely to lead to civil unrest." 2. State and local community policing not well geared for out of state Guards.