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Brad Heath
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Brad Heath
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DC reporter for @reuters on crime and justice. Ex-@usatoday. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. 202-527-9709, [email protected]
- One of the guys charged during the Capitol siege just told the judge that he's a federal employee.
- A federal judge wants every attorney whose name was on court filings seeking to overturn Michigan's presidential election results in the "Kraken" suit there to show up for a sanctions hearing on July 6.
- Montana's governor says his state did many of the things Texas said make an election illegal but Texas didn't sue them because Trump won, "underscoring, of course, that this is less about election integrity than it is about attempting to overturn the will of the electorate."
- Some criminal investigations are considerably more complicated than others.
- Covering bullshit intelligently is maybe the biggest challenge in journalism right now.
- White House reaction cycle 1 - It never happened 2 - POTUS tweet 3 - It happened; NBD 4 - Nobody cares but you 5 - No more questions on this
- Guys, under the president's unemployment plan, nobody gets the $300 in federal aid unless their state agrees to come up with $100. He's trying to shoehorn this through disaster aid programs and the relevant law requires a 25% state match. No match, no federal aid.
- The president has spent his morning tweeting rebuttals to people on television saying he spends too much time tweeting and watching TV.
- NEW from @Reuters: Federal prosecutors have offered an ominous new assessment of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, saying they had "strong evidence" that "the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials." reuters.com/article/us-usa…
- A federal judge won't delay tomorrow's hearing on President Trump's lawsuit to overturn the election he lost i n Pennsylvania because most of his lawyers quit. His remaining lawyer - who's also a radio host - will have to go it alone and is "expected to be prepared."
- The president's call with Georgia election officials is hard to listen to. We spend billions of dollars to make the president the best-informed person on Earth, but the information he's parroting about the election is total bullshit.
- Barr says there was "no correlation" between his decision to clear Lafayette Square and the president's walk through the park a few minutes later.
- That report about a massive error rate with Dominion voting machines in a rural Michigan county? Total nonsense. Antrim County recounted its ballots - they're on paper - by hand today and found the machines counted accurately. freep.com/story/news/loc…
