AG Todd Blanche has filed a judicial misconduct complaint in the 8th Circuit against several district court judges—including former chief judge Patrick Schiltz—for their recent NYT interviews related to ongoing immigration enforcement efforts.

Good.

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My piece on this here:

https://www.declassified.live/p/courthouse-coup-minnesota-style

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I have covered this extensively but worth repeating given today’s document dump.

As this document shows—as late as the end of May 2023, Smith was continuing to conduct the classified documents investigation in Washington rather than the proper jurisdiction of southern Florida, where the alleged crimes were committed.

And we know why. Smith would NEVER have gotten away with this in southern Florida. Not a chance, for example, a federal judge would have pierced attorney-client privilege by citing the crime fraud exception in the documents case—as the equally corrupt Chief Judge Beryl Howell did in early 2023.

Smith switched venues at the last minute to bring the first documents on June 8, 2023. He reportedly read grand jury transcripts to a FLA grand jury to secure the indictment.

Dirty, dirty.

Judge Cannon repeatedly pressed Smith’s prosecutors as to why the investigation was conducted in DC rather than FLA. They claimed it was easier because all the witnesses lived in DC.

She even suggested at one point that Trump’s team had a solid abuse of grand jury case against Smith.

This to me has always stood out as the biggest example of Smith’s unchecked and destructive power.

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Cannon sort of blew up at Smith’s team in August 2023 related to the special counsel’s attempt to disqualify Stanley Woodward, who represented Walt Nauta at the time.

She accused Smith of wasting her time then gave Nauta an opportunity to address the grand jury proceedings in DC—WHICH WERE STILL ONGOING even after Smith handed down 2 indictments in the docs case.

Smith shut down the DC GJ after this. And Boasberg continually refused to release all the GJ transcripts to Cannon; she dismissed the case in July 2024.

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Last week, Sen Charles Grassley asked Jack Smith if he had received “consultation or counsel” from former CIA Director John Brennan.

After a pause, Smith replied, “I’ve never met John Brennan.”

But he knew at the time his team had met with Brennan in late 2023 under the guise of Brennan serving as an “expert witness” in the documents case.

Really wish the names of the prosecutors were not redacted but I’m guessing they are Jay Bratt and David Harbach—and either JP Cooney or James Pearce.

Thank God Judge Cannon shut down this farce.

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So once again, Mr. Rule of Law (and No Kings protester!) hedged his answer. Just like when he was asked last year about collecting the content of phone records of sitting members of Congress.

The question—while not entirely properly constructed—nonetheless related to whether his office had communicated with Brennan.

And I am not convinced the notes of the meeting are truthful. Even as arrogant and corrupt and sloppy as his team was, surely they knew Cannon would NEVER permit Brennan to act as a government witness in the case.

So what were they conspiring to do? Hopefully, the prosecutors in the “grand conspiracy” investigation will find out when Brennan is questioned later this month.

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NYT reports today that the Obama DOJ first started investigating Ilhan Omar (alias) marriage to her brother ten years ago. “Federal agents in Minnesota opened an investigation, according to several people familiar with the matter. They found evidence suggesting that Mr. Elmi and Ms. Omar were siblings, according to the six former and current officials familiar with the case. But, because prosecutors did not pursue the matter, the agents had limited investigative tools, the officials said.”

After rumors of the sham marriage—it was well known in Minneapolis’ Somali community back then—threatened to derail her run for state representative, the Obama appointed U.S. Attorney for Minnesota stepped in to save her with this extraordinary letter to her attorney.

She was elected to Congress in 2018.

Andrew Luger was later rewarded with the same appointment from Joe Biden. He then worked closely with—guess who?—Lisa Monaco.

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Some interesting tidbits in latest NBC News poll (yes, no need to reply that no one should believe the polls). 1k registered voters:

GOP positive/negative view: 38/50
Dem positive/negative view: 29/52
Mike Johnson: 24/34
AOC: 31/42
Hakeem Jeffries: 18/35
Chuck Schumer: 13/53 (!)

Preference for Dem Congress over GOP: 52/45

Dissatisfaction with economy: 73%
Dissatisfied with own financial situation: 51% (49% satisfied)

Republicans have a +2 advantage in handling the economy; +11 advantage in handling immigration; and +5 advantage in dealing with government corruption.

Democrats only have a +1 lead in handling inflation.

Dems have a +5 lead in dealing with Iraq War.

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