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The Feebs had to get up at Zero:darkthirty to get there when they did, so technically…
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Jeff might need his own thread soon.

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Garland issued a statement that states cannot ban abortion pills.
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Kendra wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:38 pm https://twitter.com/kpolantz/status/1540400433088188417
New from #cnnstakeout: Ali Alexander testified to a federal grand jury on Friday in DOJ’s Jan 6 investigation.

Alexander spotted entering and exiting the federal courthouse in DC. He was there, behind closed doors, for ~4 hours
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"I observed no criminal activity"
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keith wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:11 am Something that wouldn't have been very apparent to you as "a little kid": remember that Spiro Agnew was Nixon's vice President.

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY wanted to take down Nixon until Agnew was moved on. Because if Agnew became President after a Nixon impeachment, we would have to have done it all over again. Agnew was so deep into corruption he was getting brown bags full of cash in his White House Vice Presidential office.

Maybe this can soothe some of your ill feelings after all these years.
Speaking of which, Rachel Maddow's book "Bagman" about the Agnew scandal is really, really good. The hiatus she took prior to her new weekly schedule (ugh! I miss her being nightly) was to work on a film version of her book, though I don't know if it's a "docudrama" for theaters/streaming or more of an actual documentary to air on MSNBC.
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Kriselda Gray wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 2:05 pm Speaking of which, Rachel Maddow's book "Bagman" about the Agnew scandal is really, really good. The hiatus she took prior to her new weekly schedule (ugh! I miss her being nightly) was to work on a film version of her book, though I don't know if it's a "docudrama" for theaters/streaming or more of an actual documentary to air on MSNBC.
Feature length film, Ben Stiller directing.
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neonzx wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 2:13 pm
Kriselda Gray wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 2:05 pm Speaking of which, Rachel Maddow's book "Bagman" about the Agnew scandal is really, really good. The hiatus she took prior to her new weekly schedule (ugh! I miss her being nightly) was to work on a film version of her book, though I don't know if it's a "docudrama" for theaters/streaming or more of an actual documentary to air on MSNBC.

Feature length film, Ben Stiller directing.

Oh, nice! I'll want to watch that :)
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This was discussed in the 1/6 thread, but I'm just dropping a copy here because :waiting:
Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews wrote: ALERT: Rep Cheney says Trump tried to call a committee witness. Witness didn’t take call. Witness called lawyer Instead. Committee has submitted that info to Dept of Justice
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The witness recognized the phone number? Witnesses must have received a blacklist from the committee. Or the witness is / was bestest friend with #45 to know his private number.
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RTH10260 wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:40 pm The witness recognized the phone number? Witnesses must have received a blacklist from the committee. Or the witness is / was bestest friend with #45 to know his private number.
Or witness received a call, "Please hold for tfg," "Wait, here's my lawyer's number."

Or something more along those lines I would think.
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I suspect witnesses are getting so many threats and bullshit from supporters they aren't answering the phone for anyone but their own mother at this point. Dipshit probably left a voicemail.
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sugar magnolia wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:48 pm I suspect witnesses are getting so many threats and bullshit from supporters they aren't answering the phone for anyone but their own mother at this point. Dipshit probably left a voicemail.
oh please, oh please, oh please... :pray:
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Slim Cognito wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 6:53 pm
sugar magnolia wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 5:48 pm I suspect witnesses are getting so many threats and bullshit from supporters they aren't answering the phone for anyone but their own mother at this point. Dipshit probably left a voicemail.
oh please, oh please, oh please... :pray:
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House members are perpetual candidates. If a handful aided in insurrection and the DOJ lets them slide, DOJ is essentually complicit in their next attempt. Meanwhile they are putting domestic terrorism enhancements on some of the rioters. Not that they don't deserve it, but they didn't do this on their own.
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I was thinking of it in terms of trump announcing, in that, if he's a declared candidate, even if his target election is over two years away, he can't be indicted.
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He's not the president now, and that's a lousy policy anyway. And, if IIRC, that's all it is--policy, not law. Highly unlikely Merrick Garland's Justice Department is going to change that.
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Some crumbs here from WSJ reporter (damn paywalls).
One area of interest to prosecutors was a Jan. 4, 2021 Oval Office meeting where conservative lawyer John Eastman pushed Pence, in Trump’s presence, to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings & ask several state legislatures to re-examine the results

Prosecutors also asked detailed questions about Rudy Giuliani, who forwarded to Pence’s office letters from individual state legislators urging Pence to accept false slates of electors claiming Trump won from states he actually lost.
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