Shawn Musgrave

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For your Josh Blackman files, @wallace.bsky.social: Even Judge Cannon didn't buy/follow the argument that Jack Smith was an "employee." (Coincidentally, how weird, neither did Justice Thomas!)

The #Project2025 beat keeps getting weirder. theintercept.com/2024/07/10/g...

“Gay Furry Hackers” Feud With Heritage Foundation Exectheintercept.com Former Trump administration official: "Closeted Furries will be presented to the world for the degenerate perverts they are."

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I don’t even know what to do with this.

Or, Leonard Leo's Knights & Scholars theintercept.com/2024/05/29/l...

Leonard Leo Built the Conservative Court. Now He’s Funneling Dark Money Into Law Schools.theintercept.com Right-wing megadonor Leonardo Leo’s plan for a $25 million research center at Cornell fell apart. So he took his money to Texas A&M.

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I haven’t written a lot about Alito’s flags. But here’s the thing: the reason most of us don’t know about these flags, including a lot of right of center people, is that we don’t hang out in very online weirdo right communities or on specific Facebook pages or watch OANN.

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Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center: ❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible ❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link 🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

When Online Content Disappearswww.pewresearch.org A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

Ethics bingo: (1) inappropriate relationship with a subordinate; (2) letting the relationship be used as leverage over whether to fire another subordinate; (3) appointed to judicial ethics commission theintercept.com/2024/05/14/a...

This U.S. Attorney Resigned Amid an Ethics Investigation. Yet He Wound Up Overseeing Judges’ Ethics.theintercept.com After inquiries from The Intercept, Duane Kees stepped down from his panel position overseeing the ethics of Arkansas judges.

In this rare case of discipline against federal prosecutors, the top D.C. court decided to be lenient against the line prosecutors because of their supervisors' "deficient" conduct. One of those supervisors now oversees DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility.

Prosecutors Buried Evidence and Misled the Court. Ten Years Later, They Got a Slap on the Wrist.theintercept.com Supervisory error justified leniency, a court ruled. One supervisor now runs the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

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