In Charles Birnbaum's lawsuit to do historical review on the treatment of the reflecting pool, he points to Davey Hearn's MTD to argue USG has already lied about it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Профиль VivelyCoverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland. Legendary potty mouth!
Note, the three other cases linked to Davey Hearns (Judge Todd Edelman joined them for discovery purposes) were all dismissed via Nolle Prosequi, basically prosecutors saying they couldn't be bothered to continue. That gives defendants less means to ask for Edelman to look further.
Kyle GriffinMORE CASES DROPPED: Prosecutors are now dropping charges against three more defendants who'd been accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool. Jeanine Pirro abruptly abandoned the four cases after investigators concluded that botched work by a contractor was the primary cause of "widespread damage."
Trump and Pirro BOTH Screwed Up by Rushing to Beat July 4 emptywheel.net/2026/08/04/t...
Trump and Pirro BOTH Screwed Up by Rushing to Beat July 4 - emptywheelEverything that went wrong with the reflecting pool, including the fabricated charges against Davey Hearn, went wrong for two reasons: Trump's unprecedented corruption and his rush to include the refl...emptywheel.netTrump and Pirro BOTH Screwed Up by Rushing to Beat July 4 emptywheel.net/2026/08/04/t...
Trump and Pirro BOTH Screwed Up by Rushing to Beat July 4 - emptywheelEverything that went wrong with the reflecting pool, including the fabricated charges against Davey Hearn, went wrong for two reasons: Trump's unprecedented corruption and his rush to include the refl...emptywheel.netReuters finds that judges have ruled Trump abridged speech in 75 cases. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled itPresident Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censor...www.reuters.comThe Davey Hearn Motion to Dismiss ALSO Debunks Trump's Vandalism Claim emptywheel.net/2026/08/04/t...
The Davey Hearn Motion to Dismiss ALSO Debunks Trump's Vandalism Claim - emptywheelAccording to the motion to dismiss in the Davey Hearn case, the damage Jeanine Pirro accused Hearn of doing was there not only over an hour before Hearn showed up, but also 41 minutes before the video...emptywheel.netTrump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
@jasonleopold.bsky.social gets a sneak preview of @wyden.senate.gov's report on how banks ignored Jeffrey Epstein's suspicious transactions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report SaysDemocrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...www.bloomberg.comAn important lesson given RFK's claims he's doing a "cooking show."
Will SommerTransportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...
CATO argues Bill Pulte could not legally serve after Jay Clayton was confirmed, so everything Pulte did in the last week (like firing a bunch of people) can be challenged. www.cato.org/blog/william...
William Pulte Served Illegally as Acting Director of National Intelligence for Nearly a WeekWilliam Pulte purported to act as the director of national intelligence for nearly a week after Jay Clayton was confirmed as his successor. That violates the plain text of the Vacancies Act.www.cato.orgThe entire point of demanding Pirro frame people for vandalism was to distract from the disastrous outcome of Trump's own corruption. And now Trump's pique with Pirro for not sustaining the frame job is distracting from the disastrous outcome of Trump's corruption. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized? emptywheel.net/2026/08/03/d...
Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized? - emptywheelWere any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize?emptywheel.netI wrote this two days after Davey Hearn was arrested and damnit, I should start betting on Kalshi. emptywheel.net/2026/06/21/t...
Last year I took a pic about 15km from Trump's Irish golf course, showing the energy plant that no longer burns coal thanks in part to the wind turbines put up w/in view of Doonbeg.
emptywheelWent to Scattery Island today instead of [waves hands]. This is Church of the Dead. You can see the plant that no longer burns coal, and the turbines that made that possible. 15km to Doonbeg which is one reason Trump hates wind power.
From the weekend. Trump's repeated whining abt Davey Hearn's case, and especially Doug Burgum's tweet claiming prosecutors lied, could give Hearn more ways he can fight back. emptywheel.net/2026/08/02/d...
Doug Burgum Accuses Jeanine Pirro of Lying - emptywheelI've been saying for weeks that Trump would have to be fucking stupid to dick around with a criminal case on which Norm Eisen is a defense attorney. And yet, Trump just dicked around on a criminal cas...emptywheel.netI'm trying to think of a good protest we can plan in Ireland when Trump shows up next month to contemplate our windmills, all w/in sight of Doonbeg.
The BulwarkTrump: "When I see what's happening to Europe it's very sad to me. They have a problem with immigration. They have a problem with energy. You have windmills all over the place. Windmills, you lose your shirt."