Capitol Police IG testimony This week started with a little-noticed House Administration Committee hearing with Capitol Police Inspector General Michael Bolton, who has been examining the agency’s failures on Jan. 6. Bolton reported to Congress that the Capitol Police only had 13 counter-surveillance officers at the time of the insurrection, many of whom were investigating the […]
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A new Justice Department The Justice Department under AG Merrick Garland is taking an aggressive approach to monitoring civil rights abuses committed by police departments across the country, announcing numerous investigations into high profile police killings and those responsible. Pattern or practice A pattern or practice investigation, as described by the DOJ, is a “process…to reform serious patterns […]
Supreme Court The Supreme Court ruled in favor of an undocumented immigrant challenging his removal from the U.S. In the 6-3 decision, Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Amy Coney Barrett decided the DOJ must provide immigrants it seeks to deport with a single document containing all information about an individual’s removal hearing. Justices […]
Rudy Giuliani FBI agents executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani’s New York apartment and office on Wednesday, seizing phones and computers in an investigation into possible violation of foreign lobbying laws. Timeline refresher The probe is focused on Giuliani’s dealings with Ukrainian lawmakers and Russian-linked individuals during his effort to dig up dirt on […]
Arizona Republicans are recounting Maricopa County ballots cast in the November 2020 presidential election… six months later. Over 2 million ballots were cast in Maricopa County, which Biden carried by more than 45,000 votes. Biden won the state by 10,457 votes. After a hand recount in November and a certification of the results in December, […]
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Democratic priorities A bill that grants statehood to Washington, DC, passed the House Oversight Committee last week, setting up a vote before the full House on April 22. It is expected to pass the House but faces a less certain future in the Senate with the 60-vote threshold to break a filibuster. If it were to become a […]
This is an attempt to summarize the case and the allegations in a short, understandable fashion. It is a surprisingly complicated story – Greenberg has a lot of outlandish and potentially criminal behavior; it’s impossible to include it all without writing a novel. Housekeeping: HOW TO SUPPORT: I know we are all facing unprecedented financial hardships […]
