Kenneth Chesebro on Friday pleaded guilty in the Georgia election interference case, the day after Sidney Powell did the same.
The lawyers charged in the sprawling racketeering case were set to be the first to face trial. Now, three of Donald Trump’s 18 co-defendants have pleaded guilty, following Scott Hall‘s plea last month.
Much like Powell, the plea deal requires full testimony but no jail time.
Mitch McConnell looks like a medieval artist's depiction of the Black Death. Here's why that's a problem for Joe Biden.
— Not up for trouble, please stop asking (@agraybee) September 7, 2023
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he has no plans to retire early and has reminded his colleagues of his unparalleled fundraising prowess amid recent questions about his freeze-ups. https://t.co/dTaac0nlfj
Eric Meyer, publisher of the Marion County Record, answers questions in his newspaper office Friday after police seized computers, servers, cellphones and other items. He says he doesn’t know how they will get the newspaper out on Tuesday, but, “We will publish something.” (Sam Bailey/Kansas Reflector)
Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper, and the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.”
The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.
The raid followed news stories about a restaurant owner who kicked reporters out of a meeting last week with U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner, and revelations about the restaurant owner’s lack of a driver’s license and conviction for drunken driving.
Meyer said he had never heard of police raiding a newspaper office during his 20 years at the Milwaukee Journal or 26 years teaching journalism at the University of Illinois.
“It’s going to have a chilling effect on us even tackling issues,” Meyer said, as well as “a chilling effect on people giving us information.”
The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists. The law requires law enforcement to subpoena materials instead. Viar didn’t respond to a request to comment for this story or explain why she would authorize a potentially illegal raid. Read more here
It is not hyperbole to say that this attack on the people’s right to know appears to have killed the Marion County Record’s Joan Meyer. From Melinda Henneberger: https://t.co/EqU8bElgLo
Bill Barr on CBS: "You have to remember — a conspiracy crime is completed at the time it's agreed to and the first steps are taken. That's when the crime is complete." pic.twitter.com/IVQ5T3x2Yh
And galavanted around the globe with his supposedly independent special counsel, finding nothing, and stomping all over his dick meeting with criminals and spies who’d, in prior years, taken runs at corrupting the Trump campaign and Trump allies. https://t.co/KBL7fNTo3g
Former Attorney General Bill Barr said he is willing to testify against former President Trump at his Jan. 6 trial. https://t.co/jQmFbzHORr
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 6, 2023
Look at that stern expression! You know it’s over when the GOP’s lifetime consigliere switches from ‘Perhaps some unfortunate assumptions may have been made’ to ‘Throw that miscreant under the jail… ‘
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump faced new charges Thursday in a case accusing him of illegally possessing classified documents, with prosecutors alleging that he asked a staffer to delete camera footage at his Florida estate in an effort to obstruct a federal investigation into the records.
The indictment includes new counts of obstruction and willful retention of national defense information, adding fresh detail to an indictment issued last month against Trump and a close aide. The additional charges came as a surprise at a time of escalating anticipation of a possible additional indictment in Washington over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
I continue to regret my failure to purchase popcorn futures at the appropriate time.
Over to the jackaltariat! (Open, if schadenfreude doused thread.)
