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James Comey has been arraigned and has a trial date of January 5. Both his lawyer and the judge appear set on moving rapidly to trial, and the government is rushing to be ready. We discuss the motions it sounds like Comey's legal team will file, which likely will be helped by the message from the president demanding Comey’s prosecution that does really appear to have been intended as a private message for Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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James Comey has been arraigned and has a trial date of January 5. Both his lawyer and the judge appear set on moving rapidly to trial, and the government is rushing to be ready. We discuss the motions it sounds like Comey's legal team will file, which likely will be helped by the message from the president demanding Comey’s prosecution that does really appear to have been intended as a private message for Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Plus: we discuss Sean Combs' sentence and how to lobby for a lenient sentence when your client is very fortunate and prominent, without sounding like you’re saying the rich and famous deserve to get off easy.
Paying subscribers get that and much more (upgrade your subscription at serioustrouble.show):
* A look at an unexpected criminal complaint about the highly destructive Palisades Fire, in which federal prosecutors allege that an Uber driver set a smaller fire that begat the major fire.
* Temporary restraining orders in the case over Trump’s effort to deploy national guard troops to Portland, and what appeals courts are likely to do with them.
* What to make of Supreme Court’s choice to finally take on the Lisa Cook case, and the procedural split it is likely to emphasize among the court’s conservative justices as they ponder what to do with the special, unique, quasi-private institution in a long historical tradition that is the Federal Reserve.
* A lengthy and forceful appeals court ruling upholding birthright citizenship.
* Another vindictive prosecution claim that has legs, this time from Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
* And a Kardashian-Jenner-Ray-J RICO-defamation case. Wow!
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