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Epstein’s emails are a big problem for Todd Blanche and the Trump Bondi Department of Justice
Amicus, Nov 22, 2025 3:00 AM
The DOJ’s Prosecutorial Malpractice Keeps Spilling Out in Court
New developments in the Epstein and Comey sagas have revealed a lot about how justice can still break through the lawlessness of this moment.
https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=SLT9072587963&light=true
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Episode Notes
Dahlia Lithwick is joined by former federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah, who brings her extensive experience trying and supervising federal criminal cases to a discussion of what the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse can teach us about justice.
She suggests that the Trump administration’s eleventh-hour switchback tactic of calling for investigations of only Democrats speaks volumes about how the Justice Department is functioning these days, proving that vindictive prosecutions are the only game in town, bonus if they also have the effect of power-washing the president’s shadow from the scandal.
Next, they turn to the extraordinary scenes in a Virginia courtroom this week, as the DOJ’s case against former FBI director and Trump foe James Comey seemed ready to fall apart at the seams. As this administration’s practice of political interference in legal proceedings is supercharged by dear leader’s “Dear Pam” posts to “his” AG Pam Bondi, this conversation highlights why judicial integrity and the ever-expanding ranks of judges refusing to accept lies, are among the last best hopes for equal justice under the law in America.
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Continue/Read Original Article Here: Epstein’s emails are a big problem for Todd Blanche and the Trump Bondi Department of Justice
Tags: Amicus, Courts, Dahlia Withwick, Department of Justice, DOJ, Donald Trump, Epstein Emails, Epstein Files, Federal Case, James Comey, Jeffrey Epstein, Mimi Rocah, November 22 2025, Pam Bondi, Prosecutorial Malpractice, Slate, Slate Plus, Survivors, Trump, Victims#amicus #courts #dahliaWithwick #departmentOfJustice #doj #donaldTrump #epsteinEmails #epsteinFiles #federalCase #jamesComey #jeffreyEpstein #mimiRocah #november222025 #pamBondi #prosecutorialMalpractice #slate #slatePlus #survivors #trump #victims
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SUMMARY + RESORCES – Internet Society Amicus Brief in Cox v. Sony – US Supreme Court – September 2025
FILING (ISOC) | SUMMARY + RESOURCES (Patreon)
ARCHIVE | PERMALINK
In the case of Cox v. Sony, in 2019, a Virginia jury awarded roughly $1 billion in statutory damages to a group of record labels, led by Sony, ruling that Cox had 'secondary liability' for copyright infringement by its users. In 2024, the Fou
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"The Court cannot draw a logical connection [... between X and Y] any more than an internal memo showing that a car dealership has not and will not require a blood sacrifice to buy a car would affect its negotiations with customers."
That's a hell of a thing to see in a legal brief.
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Thank you to Amicus for helping me with this visual guide showing that I like being the big spoon, even if it might not be optimal. At least in theory. Does anyone want to test this irl? :blobhaj:
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Long out of print soundtrack, but the real ones know this Halloween banger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkPqiVODzj0
#MonsterClub #Amicus #VincentPrice #JohnCarradine #HalloweenMusic
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#Families Split by #AntiTrans #Laws File #Amicus In #Supreme #Court #Case.
This was one of the many #amicusbriefs filed on Tuesday in the #LWvsSkrmetti #case challenging #Tennessee #Trans #Healthcare #ban.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Tennessee #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/families-split-apart-families-fleeing
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♥ #CultTV and #Movies— Especially #Eurocult and British genre cinema. Eclectic viewer. #Giallo #EuroHorror #ArtHouse #NouvelleVague #CzechNewWave #BritishFilm #Hammer #Amicus #ClassicHorror #WorldCinema
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Been listening to @Dahlialith's excellent #Amicus podcast and am also delighted to hear Ms Lithwick do commercials for a robot cat box scooper.
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Today on my walk I listened to @Dahlialith 's #Amicus #podcast titled "How Originalism Ate the Law -- Part 2: The Trap. I didn't notice the title at first and now I have to listen to Part 1: The Trick. In any case, if you have the opportunity you really should listen (in order). Really good discussion. https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus
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This is very smart. Get educated.. [Slate, Amicus] How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick
Part one of a series examining the theory of constitutional interpretation that has eaten the law and gobbled up a bunch of your rights with it.America is pinned under the dead hand of Originalism
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Retired #military leaders filed an #amicus brief Mon writing that #Trump’s #AbsoluteImmunity theory “has the potential to severely undermine the Commander-in-Chief’s #legal & #moral authority to lead the military forces, as it would signal that they but not he must obey the #RuleOfLaw.”
#law #SCOTUS #Jan6 #TrumpCoupAttempt #democracy #NationalSecurity #UnitedStates
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/307029/20240408130715170_No.%2023-939bsacRetiredFour-StarAdmiralsAndGenerals.pdf -
This week’s episode of @Dahlialith ’s #AMICUS ft guest @juliettekayyem is EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD & NECESSARY.
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#RAGA had an arm called the "Rule of Law Defense Fund,"
deployed
to do #robocalls, to
👉urge people to go to the Jan. 6 events that Trump said would be wild, to go there on the day that Congress was supposed to be certifying the election, as he was mounting this intimidation campaign against [Vice President Mike] Pence, unleashing his followers to assail him.And this is in the context of weeks of efforts by Trump and his lawyers and advisers --- trying to help him execute a coup.
You had the #state #attorneys #general actively involved in some of this litigation to try ⭐️to stop other states from certifying the election. ⭐️
The group itself through this "Rule of Law Defense Fund" was actively involved in ♦️peddling the big lucrative lie about the election ♦️to push people to go to the mall on Jan. 6.
There was sort of shock and horror that a group of state attorneys general would be involved in trying to aid the precursor events to the violent insurrection at the Capitol.
And big companies 👍said they weren’t going to fund RAGA. 👍
And so 🔸for a moment there,🔸 there was a bright light shining on RAGA and on the events around the capital and these AGs.
💥But then months later, some of those companies came back to fund RAGA.
The #accountability light was ON and then OFF for the companies that were funding RAGA in 2020.
In addition to #Leonard #Leo’s network, #Koch Industries, #Comcast, #Walmart, #Home Depot, #Amazon, #TikTok, 1-800-CONTACTS, #Chevron, the #NRA, #Monsanto, #Facebook, Fox, #Uber, #Coca-#Cola, #Exxon, and #Google were some of the main funders of it.
Of course it didn’t last.
Leonard Leo continues to be the biggest subsidizer of RAGA through the money that is coming through his network,
but it’s also the case that they’re facing 🔹no consequences,
basically allowing them to just get away with it. 🔹There’s been💥 no consequence for them, and the Rule of Law Defense Fund still exists. 💥
RAGA still exists, and many of these attorneys general have been actively involved in other efforts that make it
🔥harder for Americans to vote, and they may well be involved this fall in
🔥a repeat of 2020 in terms of their efforts to protect Trump at any cost.#RAGA #Leonard #Leo #Heidi #Przybyla #amicus #briefs #Murthy #Missouri #abortion #EMTALA
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Republican attorneys general decided to create their own attorney general association to pursue their own agenda and actually raise money from industries that they were supposed to regulate in order to fund this operation, which was designed to fuel their campaigns.
The history is deeply embedded in antipathy to public regulation, government regulation of industries that have literally killed thousands, if not millions, of Americans in the form of the tobacco industry, for example.
#RAGA #Leonard #Leo #Heidi #Przybyla #amicus #briefs #Murthy #Missouri #abortion #EMTALA
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One of the greatest destabilizers of democracy that almost nobody knows about is a little tax-exempt group called #RAGA,
which stands for the "Republican Attorneys General Association".
It represents more than half the states’ chief legal officers, and its members are on the front lines of pretty much every single important legal movement in the country.
Its moves and funding are directed, of course, by everyone’s favorite little Monopoly Man Money Guy, #Leonard #Leo.
Yet the group receives almost no sustained public attention or accountability.
Recently, #Heidi #Przybyla at Politico reported on how RAGA tried to run a D.C. official who had dared investigate Leo out of office.
🔥 Once you actually train your focus on RAGA, they tend to pop up everywhere, over and over again. 🔥
👉The group was behind #amicus #briefs in the outrageous social media case #Murthy v. #Missouri.
👉They are driving the efforts to get around federal emergency treatment laws for #abortion in the forthcoming #EMTALA cases.
👉They’re pushing for Texas-style S.B. 4 legislation in several states.
And that doesn’t even get you to the whole raft of RAGA interventions when it came to trying to🔸 overturn the results of the 2020 election.🔸 -
In relation to Trump's #immunity claims - 18 groups have submitted #amicus #briefs (meaning "friend of the court") totaling nearly 600 pages.
Nearly all of them are from far-right organizations and legal activists requesting that the nation's highest court accept Trump's "unhinged" argument that presidents are unbound by the rule of law while they're in office. -
Today, in #Trump’s #MarALago #ClassifiedDocuments case, 2 lawyers from #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s team entered notices of appearance. One argued the gag order at the DC Circuit; the other argued the immunity appeal at that court.
+ Judge #AileenCannon says two #amicus briefs filed by Trump-aligned lawyers "may be of considerable help" to her on Trump's motions to dismiss (biased much??)
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More from the #amicus brief’s statement of interest:
“Amici’s interest in this appeal arises from the gravity of the case before the Court & the necessity of grounding any decision in a proper historical understanding of Section Three of the #FourteenthAmendment. As eminent American historians w/ expertise in the relevant era, actors, & events, amici are well qualified to assist the Court by establishing the original intent, meaning, & public understanding of the Disqualification Clause.”
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The authors of the #AmicusBrief are (I edited their credentials as they’re extensive)
Jill Lepore, Professor of History, Harvard University
David Blight, Professor of History & African American Studies at Yale University
Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University
John Fabian Witt, Professor of Law at Yale Law School#SCOTUS #amicus #law #legal #History #2024election #Trump #Insurrection #Jan6 #14thAmendment
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#Historians filed an #amicus brief to #SCOTUS Monday in Trump v. Anderson, the forthcoming case on #Trump’s disqualification from the presidential primary ballot in #Colorado under §3 of the #14thAmendment.
Link to the brief via the Supreme Court’s official website:
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The brightest spot in 2023 regarding #SCOTUS, according to #Amicus podcast is not anything the justices did. It is that the #PRESS stopped treating the court as "a temple of mystics" but rather "as part of an ongoing campaign that is infused through and through with politics, that emerged out of a well funded movement that is tied up in a historic corruption scandal."
Thank you #Slate Dahlia Lithwick @Dahlialith #MarkJosephStern
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#introduction because everyone else is doing it:
Complete nerd, grew up on #SciFi lit like #Wells #Verne #Clarke #Asimov and #Aldiss while watching #Hammer and #Amicus Horror late night in the 80s (Cushing/Lee are the pinnacle)
Spent my life watching #StarTrek #StarWars and #DoctorWho. Spent my teens watching #XFiles #Babylon5 and #80sHorror
Food obsessive (#Scranodon) and #AFOL (#AdultFanOfLego). I run a website with all my #MOC's at:
https://scifibrickyards.weebly.com/
(He/Him/Bald/British/Beautiful)
