Dear listeners,
The president really wants James Comey on trial, and Todd Blanche really wants to be the official Attorney General, and so Comey has been indicted again — this time, purportedly for threatening the president with seashells. As with the last indictment, Comey will seek dismissal on the grounds of selective and vindictive prosecution. He may also be able to challenge the facial validity of the indictment — usually, there’s not much opportunity do to this in a criminal case, but Ken says the government got too specific in the indictment for its own good, giving a judge the opportunity to assess before trial whether the seashell statement at issue could plausibly amount to a threat. Indeed, even Jonathan Turley can’t bring himself to argue that this indictment makes sense.
Speaking of threats to the president, Cole Tomas Allen was tackled and arrested when he tried to charge the ballroom at the Washington Hilton with a shotgun. The criminal complaint is vague on whether Allen got a shot off or not, but it doesn’t really matter either way — bringing the gun to the ballroom is enough to count as an attempt at assassination, and Allen’s unnervingly-normie writings will undermine any attempt at an insanity defense.
Plus, we look at Maurene Comey’s lawsuit over her firing for being James Comey’s daughter.
That’s this week’s free show. Paying subscribers also get:
Jeanine Pirro’s screw-up that has resulted in Trump getting less influence at the Federal Reserve than he’d probably have if she’d just played it cool.
A wrench in Trump’s plan to have the IRS pay him a big settlement.
Roy Moore and Diddy have something additional in common — they both are failures at defamation litigation.
The SPLC, fighting back.
An apology to Elon Musk from the busybodies at the California Coastal Commission, and
An apology from Sullivan & Cromwell for AI hallucinations in a filing.
We hope you enjoy the episode,
Josh
