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  1. [Better explainer]
    #Defense: sick to my stomach over this govt's attacks
    #Judge: After reading thousands of grand jury transcripts, was "incredibly shocked" by this #DOJ's
    #Prosecutors to judge: We didn't try to mislead you
    Defense: You heavily redacted the #transcript, concealed banned behavior!
    Judge: #Sanctions may be due
    >At the last moment, DOJ's s'posed to show *unredacted* #GrandJury transcripts, & they drop the #conspiracy charge. Hmm...
    #fascist #USA #Broadview6
    news.wttw.com/2026/05/21/broad

  2. [Better explainer]
    #Defense: sick to my stomach over this govt's attacks
    #Judge: After reading thousands of grand jury transcripts, was "incredibly shocked" by this #DOJ's
    #Prosecutors to judge: We didn't try to mislead you
    Defense: You heavily redacted the #transcript, concealed banned behavior!
    Judge: #Sanctions may be due
    >At the last moment, DOJ's s'posed to show *unredacted* #GrandJury transcripts, & they drop the #conspiracy charge. Hmm...
    #fascist #USA #Broadview6
    news.wttw.com/2026/05/21/broad

  3. [Better explainer]
    #Defense: sick to my stomach over this govt's attacks
    #Judge: After reading thousands of grand jury transcripts, was "incredibly shocked" by this #DOJ's
    #Prosecutors to judge: We didn't try to mislead you
    Defense: You heavily redacted the #transcript, concealed banned behavior!
    Judge: #Sanctions may be due
    >At the last moment, DOJ's s'posed to show *unredacted* #GrandJury transcripts, & they drop the #conspiracy charge. Hmm...
    #fascist #USA #Broadview6
    news.wttw.com/2026/05/21/broad

  4. [Better explainer]
    #Defense: sick to my stomach over this govt's attacks
    #Judge: After reading thousands of grand jury transcripts, was "incredibly shocked" by this #DOJ's
    #Prosecutors to judge: We didn't try to mislead you
    Defense: You heavily redacted the #transcript, concealed banned behavior!
    Judge: #Sanctions may be due
    >At the last moment, DOJ's s'posed to show *unredacted* #GrandJury transcripts, & they drop the #conspiracy charge. Hmm...
    #fascist #USA #Broadview6
    news.wttw.com/2026/05/21/broad

  5. Bombshell new theory in Chiara Poggi case revives Italy’s infamous Garlasco murder mystery

    ROME — Nearly two decades after 26-year-old office worker Chiara Poggi was found dead in her home in…
    #Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #AlbertoStasi #AndreaSempio #ChiaraPoggi #Garlasco #GianniRiotta #Italianjusticesystem #justicesystem #northerntown #prosecutors
    europesays.com/italy/13507/

  6. #revenge not #justice not #law not #legal - If #DOJ Can’t Prosecute #Trump #Foes, It Will ‘Shame’ Them, Official Says. #Prosecutors have long followed the dictum of speaking only through #court filings, to investigate #crimes, not people. That’s changing as #Trump demands his administration targets #enemies, with little evidence of #criminality .This is not #government this is #revenge #enemieslist #death to #democracy #destruction of #ruleoflaw #greed #corruption archive.is/SLN1j

  7. Because it's in the #news lately with a couple things, in case anyone doesn't understand...

    The reason why #prosecutors (and on some level #defense #lawyers) are not supposed to have ulterior motivations for or against any of the involved parties is because, while they are supposed to argue the case to the best of their ability, their primary obligation is to the #law and the #judicial process. A prosecutor is not, for example, supposed to find ways to get around the #defendent's right to defend themself, especially not by witholding evidence as the #DA did in the Rust movie set shooting accident case. Yes, there is oversight, and yes, there are consequences including being disbarred, but the first line of defense against misconduct is that lawyers are supposed to avoid getting themselves into cases where they might be tempted to break the law.

    Yes, they break this all the time, but this is how it's supposed to work.

    If you see something about a #prosecutor being biased against a defendent, that's why.

  8. Looking at #HammvSmith, the wild #SupremeCourt case in which #Alabama is desperate to give the #DeathPenalty to someone who their own #courts found #IntellectuallyDisabled, despite it violating the #8thAmendment of the #constitution according to many past rulings. Alabama argues that his #IQtest scores range between 72 and 78, above the limit of 70. Defense counters that experts agree that #IQ is a flawed measure, that he has issues that aren't going to show on IQ tests, and that 72 is so low that the margin of error would reach below 70.

    Meanwhile, the courts found multiple times that he was not competent for #execution, and let's be really honest here, everyone, even the #prosecutors, think he is #MentallyDisabled. This feels to me like #DoubleJeopardy and nitpicking: the courts already said he didn't meet the standard of #competence, and the #prosecutor is basically asking the supreme #court to have lower courts ignore facts whenever a state wants to kill people.

    scotusblog.com/2025/12/court-a

  9. #Trump #DOJ and his novice #prosecutor #LindseyHalligan in late night filing, effectively admit fatal “errors” in how Halligan Former #FBI Director #JamesComey “edited” after #GrandJury left for the day by a “coordinator”, that there was no required transcript of her interaction with grand jurors, and that the purported indictment was never seen by the grand jury to vote on it. #justice #courts #government #corruption #ruleoflaw #prosecutors #law #politics #legal #prosecution #revenge #malice

  10. At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

    #Trump #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

  11. At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

    #Trump #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

  12. At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

    #Trump #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

  13. At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

    #Trump #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

  14. At one point, Gregory Bovino, the #BorderPatrol leader who was the face of the admin’s #immigration crackdown in #LosAngeles, #Chicago & #Minneapolis, called federal #prosecutors, pressing them to charge #demonstrators with #crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled #Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

    #Trump #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP

  15. "#officers cuffed her, struggling comically to stuff the oversized #erection into a #SquadCar." "Body camera footage quickly went viral."
    #Prosecutors call her husband, to #testify he had #bail money ready, implying that they planned to break the law. "I always make sure we got bail money." [laughs from the gallery] Then adds: "Whenever there are this many #cops around I have #BailMoney on me.” [more laughs; 16 uniformed #cops stand against the walls]
    A #hard #decision

    courthousenews.com/penis-costu

  16. Thursday, November 13, 2025

    SBU exposes Russian agent from Crimea planning terrorist attacks on Kyiv metro and mall -- Ukraine's Special Forces confirm 'successful fire attack' on Russia's Stavrolen petrochemical plant -- Zelensky to impose sanctions against close associate following large-scale corruption probe -- Ukraine withdraws from positions near another settlement in Zaporizhzhia Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  17. 
Judge #Aileen M. #Cannon’s stunning dismissal this week of the most serious charges faced by Donald Trump put her on shaky legal ground, according to experts,

    who say she is🔸 on track to be reversed on appeal
    🔸 and could even be removed from the case
    — an extraordinary, but not unheard of step.
    
Because of the political calendar, however, any legal repercussions could be short-lived.
    
Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified national security records and obstruction of government efforts to retrieve the material
    🔸may not matter if the former president and current Republican nominee is elected in November.

    If he gets back to the White House, Trump could pressure his Justice Department to close the case.

    He could also promote Cannon to the very appeals court that will soon examine her decision to toss the case.

Cannon’s finding that special counsel #Jack #Smith was improperly appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump
    conflicts with numerous past court decisions and the nation’s long history
    — during both Democratic and Republican administrations
    — of allowing #independent #prosecutors to handle high-profile instances of alleged wrongdoing.


⭐️Smith has filed notice of his plans to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit,
    which reviews decisions from the Florida district where Cannon,
    a relatively inexperienced judge appointed by Trump in 2020, sits.

    ⭐️The court has already rebuked her twice for her handling of other aspects of the classified documents case,
    sending what Yale Law School professor Akhil Amar described as a message that her decisions had been “way out of line.”
    
The question now, Amar said, is
    💥how quickly and dramatically the appeals court acts on the latest ruling, 💥
    which dismissed the entire indictment for Trump and his two co-defendants.
    
“They may not want to stick their head in a #buzz #saw if they can just let the case take its slow, deliberative course,” he said.
    
In her 93-page decision, Cannon said there is no specific statute authorizing the attorney general to appoint a special counsel.

    She also said the Constitution requires someone with Smith’s authority to be confirmed by the Senate.
    
The judge acknowledged the tradition of special-attorney-like figures in moments of political scandal involving high-level government officials,
    from #Watergate to #Iran-#contra to Russia’s attempts to #interfere in the 2016 election.
    
But Cannon said the practice of appointing such independent prosecutors has been inconsistent and based on a “spotty historical backdrop.”

    Smith, she wrote, is “a private citizen exercising the full power of a United States Attorney, and with very little oversight or supervision.”

    Conservative legal groups have long questioned the constitutionality of special counsel appointments.

    Cannon repeatedly cited Justice #Clarence #Thomas, who raised the issue in a solo opinion this month as part of the Supreme Court’s decision granting Trump broad immunity from prosecution for official acts.

    That Supreme Court case focused on Smith’s separate election interference prosecution of Trump in D.C.

    She also embraced the arguments in a law review article by #Gary #Lawson of Boston University School of Law and #Steven G. #Calabresi, a Northwestern law professor and 🔸a co-founder of the Federalist Society, with which Cannon is affiliated.
    
Other legal experts, however, have joined former Justice Department officials and Smith’s legal team in saying
    her ruling ignores the history of special counsel appointments and flouts Supreme Court precedent.
    
Most notably, the high court in 1974 unanimously required President Richard M. #Nixon to hand over recordings to a special prosecutor as part of the #Watergate investigation.

    In that opinion, the justices endorsed the office, citing several statutes under which the attorney general had
    “delegated the authority to represent the United States in these particular matters to a Special Prosecutor with unique authority and tenure.”
    
While lower-court judges are bound to follow the Supreme Court’s lead,
    🔸Cannon took the unusual step of finding she was not required to abide by that aspect of the high court’s opinion in U.S. v. Nixon,
    🔸saying the case did not directly address the validity of the office of special counsel.

    Michael J. Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor who teaches about constitutional conflicts between presidents and Congress, said
    Cannon cannot just brush aside a unanimous high court ruling.
    
“For a trial judge to ignore it is judicial malpractice,” he said, describing her most recent decision as
    part of a “pattern of bias that leads her to endorse wacky or unfounded arguments,
    and that’s a problem if you’re a judge.”
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  18. Here is a weird post about #FreeWebHosting #culture that bridges 20+years.

    iF I told you 'Hey, you should really look out for those #Tripod & #AngelFire web hosting users due to their #GangStalking #IDS, /s' from 20+yrs ago but just replaced the web hosting providers with #Instagram & #Facebook, what would you of thought about those #FreeWebHosting users today who are complacent with their #FreeWebHosting #culture of #GangStalking being #investigated
    🤔

    🔮 : 🔎 Certain #ClosedWeb vs. #OpenWeb things would stand out due to Public Scrutiny. Why, aren't you using the #PeriodTrackingApp called #FacebookMessenger currently being used for tracking #Abortion related #crimes? Amazing things started to happen when the #ClosedWeb #SocialMedia place got #OpenWeb'D. Init? 👀👀 🔍

    #PrivateFacebookForums made #Public and the list of names involved in #GangStalking is quite effective and prosecutors love using 18 U.S.C. Sec 241 to hand out 5, 10, 15 to Life Sentences for this #GangStalking behavior btw.

    For one example of this #GangStalking behavior coupled with illegal #Surveillence by the #Landlord found by the residents of a whole neighborhood, btw:

    .... What iF your #Landlord was disclosing when their #Tenants were leaving _their_ residence for coordination of #BreakIns using #SocialMedia to harass the #renter? That would be pretty stupid based on how #ediscovery at #Meta works.

    🔎 WOT iF the #Police just looked the other way because this was under $10k of theft? WOT iF #BodyCam footage was correlated with #PoliceReports to uncover this? 💯🔍

    #FacebookMessenger is not #private

    #FunFact : #MarkZuckerburg lied to you about #privacy

    He told you earlier in his career '#DumbFscks shouldn't trust #Meta.'

    #MARCOM lied to you about #Privacy & #Advertising networks you call #SocialMedia. Duh.

    Not everyone has a #Meta account

    Not everyone has a #Facebook

    Not everyone has an #Instagram

    Not many people even know what a ' #Metaverse ' even IS let alone visit it outside of #Meta per the huge losses at the #VR #AR #MR division of #RealityLabs there in Menlo Park, CA.

    #Prosecutors are already using this #OneWeirdMARCOM trick, 'saying everyone is on something ' when in fact, No, very few people ACTUALLY use this. Did you miss the #RICO documentary about #MarkZuckerburg in 2010 or something? 🤔

    Now they are just weaponizing certain states laws on #abortion to go after your #Mothers and #Daughters for #abortions in #ListOfStates, btw. Read up on which states those #FreeWebHosting companies that are JUST #Advertising companies with #WebHosting btw, 💯, where YOU ARE THE PRODUCT being SOLD, data wise, since you don't pay them, obvs., except now in places in the EU, where they are looking at #OptingOutOfAdvertising & offering a #PaidWebHosting model, duh, due to #Regulations on certain things #ForcedConsent & otherwise, being completely illegal. #GDPR

    📚📰🗞️📡🛰️📺

  19. #Trump supporters tried to #dox #jurors last week after his #conviction, & they also targeted #prosecutors & the #judge, Justice #Merchan, in the case w/ #threats. During the trial, the mother of a fmr police officer, #MichaelFanone, who was nearly killed on #Jan6, 2021, by *rioters* who believed Trump's lies about the #2020election was "#swatted" after her son called Trump "an authoritarian" w/ "a violence fetish."

    #StochasticTerrorism #Terrorism #PoliticalViolence #MAGA #Republicans #law

  20. Because it's in the #news lately with a couple things, in case anyone doesn't understand...

    The reason why #prosecutors (and on some level #defense #lawyers) are not supposed to have ulterior motivations for or against any of the involved parties is because, while they are supposed to argue the case to the best of their ability, their primary obligation is to the #law and the #judicial process. A prosecutor is not, for example, supposed to find ways to get around the #defendent's right to defend themself, especially not by witholding evidence as the #DA did in the Rust movie set shooting accident case. Yes, there is oversight, and yes, there are consequences including being disbarred, but the first line of defense against misconduct is that lawyers are supposed to avoid getting themselves into cases where they might be tempted to break the law.

    Yes, they break this all the time, but this is how it's supposed to work.

    If you see something about a #prosecutor being biased against a defendent, that's why.

  21. Because it's in the #news lately with a couple things, in case anyone doesn't understand...

    The reason why #prosecutors (and on some level #defense #lawyers) are not supposed to have ulterior motivations for or against any of the involved parties is because, while they are supposed to argue the case to the best of their ability, their primary obligation is to the #law and the #judicial process. A prosecutor is not, for example, supposed to find ways to get around the #defendent's right to defend themself, especially not by witholding evidence as the #DA did in the Rust movie set shooting accident case. Yes, there is oversight, and yes, there are consequences including being disbarred, but the first line of defense against misconduct is that lawyers are supposed to avoid getting themselves into cases where they might be tempted to break the law.

    Yes, they break this all the time, but this is how it's supposed to work.

    If you see something about a #prosecutor being biased against a defendent, that's why.

  22. Because it's in the #news lately with a couple things, in case anyone doesn't understand...

    The reason why #prosecutors (and on some level #defense #lawyers) are not supposed to have ulterior motivations for or against any of the involved parties is because, while they are supposed to argue the case to the best of their ability, their primary obligation is to the #law and the #judicial process. A prosecutor is not, for example, supposed to find ways to get around the #defendent's right to defend themself, especially not by witholding evidence as the #DA did in the Rust movie set shooting accident case. Yes, there is oversight, and yes, there are consequences including being disbarred, but the first line of defense against misconduct is that lawyers are supposed to avoid getting themselves into cases where they might be tempted to break the law.

    Yes, they break this all the time, but this is how it's supposed to work.

    If you see something about a #prosecutor being biased against a defendent, that's why.

  23. Because it's in the lately with a couple things, in case anyone doesn't understand...

    The reason why (and on some level ) are not supposed to have ulterior motivations for or against any of the involved parties is because, while they are supposed to argue the case to the best of their ability, their primary obligation is to the and the process. A prosecutor is not, for example, supposed to find ways to get around the 's right to defend themself, especially not by witholding evidence as the did in the Rust movie set shooting accident case. Yes, there is oversight, and yes, there are consequences including being disbarred, but the first line of defense against misconduct is that lawyers are supposed to avoid getting themselves into cases where they might be tempted to break the law.

    Yes, they break this all the time, but this is how it's supposed to work.

    If you see something about a being biased against a defendent, that's why.

  24. They are awaiting the result of 2 internal inquiries by #DHS investigators with the #FBI….

    In the interim, #PamBondi & #ToddBlanche have tried to refocus public attention on the aggressive tactics of demonstrators. They have also pushed #prosecutors & the FBI to turn up the heat on critics of the #immigration crackdown: #politicians, #protesters, even #relatives of the #victims.

    #Trump #law #MafiaState #tyranny #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ICE #CBP #StateSponsoredTerrorism

  25. From #LizOyer @[email protected]

    To understand how badly #Trump is damaging our #justice system, you must understand what he is doing with US #Attorneys—the top federal #prosecutors across the country. I explain, including the recent firing of #EricSiebert in #Virginia (over his refusal to prosecute Trump’s enemies) and his replacement with #LindseyHalligan— an insurance lawyer with no prosecuting experience.

    instagram.com/reel/DO8faNsjYIB

    #USA #US #politics

  26. Families of Indonesian Lion Air #crash #victims say proposed #Boeing deal not ‘true #justice
    " #US #prosecutors filed #court documents on Friday outlining a tentative #agreement that would shield the #American #aircraft manufacturer from #criminal prosecution over allegations it #misled #regulators about #flaws in the Boeing #737Max, the model involved in two crashes that #killed 346 people.. raises serious questions abt the #integrity of the criminal #justicesystem"
    1/2
    scmp.com/week-asia/economics/a

  27. House Republicans are exhausting all their options and making a last-ditch effort to dismantle Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s probe into hush money allegedly paid by former President Donald Trump to a porn star with whom he allegedly had an affair.

    House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim #Jordan (R-OH) announced Wednesday night that he had sent letters to two #former #prosecutors–both of whom resigned from the DA’s office last year after a clash over the direction of the investigation–“demanding” documents and testimony relating to Bragg’s probe into alleged hush money payments the former president organized for adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

    Jordan sent the letters to Carey #Dunne, former Manhattan Special Assistant District Attorney, and Mark #Pomerantz, former New York County Special Assistant District Attorney, as reports from the courthouse continue to indicate a Trump indictment is likely.

    The pair had been leading the criminal investigation into Trump under then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.

    When #Vance left and #Bragg took office in February of last year, Bragg asked them to stay—but both resigned in protest because Bragg had “indicated to them that he had doubts about moving forward with a case against Mr. Trump,” The New York Times reported at the time.

    The investigation was ultimately suspended. Pomerantz then took the extraordinary step of releasing a book last month about the investigation, People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account.

    In the new letter, Jordan describes the possible indictment of a former president as an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.”

    “Your criticisms of Bragg’s investigation were widely reported,” Jordan wrote, and “it now appears that your efforts to shame Bragg have worked as he is reportedly resurrecting a so-called ‘zombie’ case.”

    The letter requests the pair testify during a “transcribed #interview about these matters as soon as possible,” along with #submitting other #documents and communications.

    It is unclear whether the former prosecutors will agree to testify—though it would appear unlikely.

    Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News Wednesday night, Jordan said he wanted to know “what changed.”

    “The only thing that changes... is that President Trump announces he’s running for president,” Jordan said

  28. …As #DOJ officials pushed back against suggestions that a #CivilRights investigation was in order in the days after Ms. Good’s death, clashes between #Minnesota residents & #immigration agents escalated. Some #prosecutors were met with resistance when they urged supervisors to open investigations into reports of #assaults & #abuses by #federal agents. The DOJ also blocked the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from taking part in investigating Good’s killing, adding to prosecutors’ frustrations.