A Georgia state judge on Tuesday will hear arguments on whether to release a report drafted by a grand jury into President Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election result in that state.
Continue reading “Judge Mulls Release Of Grand Jury Report Into Trump’s Georgia Election Subversion Bid”Some Notes on the New York FBI Agent Indictment
Needless to say there’s quite a lot in these indictments of former FBI counterintelligence agent Charles McGonigal et al. There are a number of points I want to note. But let me start with this one.
A fair amount of this information has been public for a long time. I was surprised to see the September 2022 Insider article on the investigation that Josh Kovensky linked in his write up. But I also found this Twitter thread from independent journalist Wendy Siegelman from December 13, 2021. She flags and discusses a November 29th, 2021 FARA filing which actually details a number of the basic relationships if not the specific crimes set forth in today’s New York indictments. Indeed, if you read the FARA filing you can easily identify a number of people in the indictment. People like “Agent-1,” for instance, who appears to be Yevgeny Fokin. I was surprised to see so much of this revealed in a FARA filing more than a year ago.
Where Things Stand: Will That Be It?
A jury convicted four more members of the far-right Oath Keepers group of seditious conspiracy today, bringing to a close one the highest-profile prosecutions to be brought thus far in response to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6. It also leaves us with the question: will that be it when it comes to accountability for the attack?
In closing arguments on Monday, some of the Oath Keepers’ lawyers were not subtle in outlining where they believe the real blame for the attack should lie.
“Responsibility really rests at our politicians’ feet,” Scott Weinberg, the attorney for Oath Keeper David Moerschel said on Monday, per the Washington Post. “The president and Stewart Rhodes were claiming that the world is coming to an end even before the election.”
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Will That Be It?”Interesting Detail
DOJ Accuses FBI Official Of Concealing Massive Cash Payments From Foreign Gov’t
The same FBI official accused of illegally working for a Russian oligarch also faces charges of concealing a $225,000 payment while he was working for the bureau, court papers say.
Continue reading “DOJ Accuses FBI Official Of Concealing Massive Cash Payments From Foreign Gov’t”Former Snr FBI Official Arrested
New Arizona AG To Flip Predecessor’s Sham Election Fraud Unit Into Voting Rights Task Force
Arizona attorney general Kris Mayes plans to overhaul a unit created by her predecessor to investigate unsubstantiated claims of election fraud into a task force focused on reinforcing voting rights instead.
Continue reading “New Arizona AG To Flip Predecessor’s Sham Election Fraud Unit Into Voting Rights Task Force”McCarthy And His Allies Vow: We’ll Never Let You Go MTG
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) and some other Republican lawmakers have begun openly embracing everyone’s favorite MAGA-aligned conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), as the QAnon congresswomen has spent the last few weeks seemingly changing her tactical approach to politics. Greene has been trying very hard to lean into what looks like a new public image where she is no longer the famously far-right member of Congress but instead the number one ally to Speaker McCarthy and other moderate Republicans.
Continue reading “McCarthy And His Allies Vow: We’ll Never Let You Go MTG”Newly Announced Gallego Says Sinema’s Party Switch ‘Changed The Dynamic’ As He Decided To Run
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) officially announced Monday morning that he will challenge Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) in 2024.
Continue reading “Newly Announced Gallego Says Sinema’s Party Switch ‘Changed The Dynamic’ As He Decided To Run”Sinema Has Her Challenger; But Will She Even Run?
Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona announced his campaign for Senate this morning in a campaign video on Twitter. The possibility of his run has been in the cards for months and was made all but official in press reports last week. It’s not a surprise. But it’s a major development. In a way, perhaps, it was inevitable. The question for most of the last year was whether Gallego would give up his safe House seat to challenge Kyrsten Sinema who spent the last two years wrecking her standing with Arizona Democrats. That’s always an extremely high-risk gambit.
But now that’s all moot. Sinema is not running in the Democratic primary. She’s switched to being an independent. (Indeed, that was the whole point of doing so: to avoid this primary.) If she runs in 2024 she’ll run as an independent. For now Gallego is the only candidate in the race and my impression is that he’s a strong favorite to win the nomination. So the question really becomes about Sinema and the eventual Republican nominee. A lot will depend on what kind of candidate Republicans nominate. Will they nominate someone like popular outgoing Gov. Doug Ducey, who suggests he won’t run but hasn’t ruled it out, or one of the many feral Republicans in the Kari Lake and Blake Masters mold?