BREAKING: The 11th circuit has ruled that Judge Aileen Cannon's order appointing a special master and blocking the gov from using classified docs seized from Mar-a-Lago in their investigations was incorrect. The order has been vacated with instructions to dismiss the entire case. pic.twitter.com/jPl3QMNasx
— Daniel Barnes (@dnlbrns) December 1, 2022
Category: Blind Justice
More to follow
Top DOJ officials—right up to AG Merrick Garland—celebrate the Oath Keepers verdict, including the seditious conspiracy convictions.
“As this case shows, breaking the law in an attempt to undermine the functioning of American democracy will not be tolerated,” FBI Director Wray pic.twitter.com/T6yo5jQLeA
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) November 30, 2022
Yay
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1594827739374264321
Even Neal Katyal thinks Trump will be indicted
Let’s put it this way: Trump believes he’ll be indicted!
Tainted SCOTUS
Dayen: This would force right-wing judges to come up with what amounts to two different legal systems, one for policies they like and another for policies they don’t, eating away at the increasingly unpopular system of judicial supremacy.https://t.co/jyE2FHFb1y
— The Editorial Board (@johnastoehr) November 21, 2022
Breaking news
Breaking: AG Garland will appoint a Special Counsel
to look into the Mar-A-Lago document scandal and the Jan 6 insurrection.Attorney General Garland to announce special counsel for Mar-a-Lago and parts of January 6 investigationshttps://t.co/GMnxbTtnrO
— James E. Saunders, II (@jimmyjimmyII) November 18, 2022
NEW: Hague prosecutor and former DOJ Public Integrity Section chief Jack Smith named special counsel in Trump probes. https://t.co/dHFYK0NoRH
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 18, 2022
BREAKING: STATEMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH: I intend to conduct the assigned investigations and any prosecutions that may result from them independently and in the best traditions of the DoJ. The pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch. 1/
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 18, 2022
I will exercise independent judgment and will move the investigation forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the law dictates. END/
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 18, 2022
Fascists
Telltale: “taking Roe off the table clears the way for other agenda items.” Really? “Agenda”? “Agenda items”? Since when are courts supposed to have — or care about — “agenda items”? Once again, the quiet part is said out loud. https://t.co/1i2vTeqTWU
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) November 10, 2022
Coming attractions
I suggested that appointment of a Special Counsel was the right move prior to January 6th. I continue to believe that is the best approach for DOJ to take. https://t.co/cCwzw455Bt
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 4, 2022
I promised you I'd tell you why a special counsel is a good idea. Here's my thread from October 2021 explaining why. https://t.co/3GuZ5JaKAl
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) November 4, 2022
Poor oppressed white people of the Ivy League
"A ruling against the universities would be further evidence of the court’s rightward lurch after..Trump..& it could raise fresh questions about whether the court’s approach to precedent threatens the stability of the law & the court’s own legitimacy." https://t.co/8xgOZsSGfM
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 1, 2022
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson confronted the lawyer arguing for outlawing affirmative action with how his proposed college admissions system would privilege a white legacy applicant over a Black descendent of slaves. Listen here –> pic.twitter.com/YYUczNakM8
— Demand Justice (@WeDemandJustice) October 31, 2022
Reminder that 43 percent of white Harvard freshmen in 2019 were athletes, legacies, families of donors or of staff (ALDS). 70% of those white applicants would not have been accepted if they were not ALDS. If the issue is fairness, there is your problem. https://t.co/sb1wPNuBj2
— Aaron Astor (@AstorAaron) October 31, 2022
Fingers crossed
I don’t trust this SCOTUS:
Prominent conservative judge joins battle against Republicans in momentous Supreme Court case https://t.co/wov413Hvgs
— Suburban Guerrilla 💙 (@SusieMadrak) October 20, 2022
With huge thanks to so many who have worked around the clock for months, we have just filed our merits brief in Moore v Harper, the “Independent State Legislature Theory” case that the Supreme Court will hear on December 7. pic.twitter.com/meXmlhhFfp
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) October 19, 2022