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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social

Reup: LaMonica McIver is arguing she was selectively prosecuted. Her comparator? The Jan 6 assault defendants (including Daniel Ball, Tim Boughner, and Jake Lang by name) who were freed on Trump's first day on the job. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/16/l...

aug 17, 2025, 4:35 pm • 339 103

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VAfrmMD @vafrommd.bsky.social

Selectively and maliciously prosecuted.

aug 17, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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Walter Hilmers Jr @hilmers.bsky.social

An excellent and well detailed article, definitely worth the read. Lots of information to process, thanks.

aug 17, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Wag Schorr-Ratzlaff @wsr3.bsky.social

Fascinating. Do you know of any members of Congress have begun wearing their own body cams while trying to perform their mandated oversight? If not I would think it would behoove them to do so so they would not be reliant on LEO video footage.

aug 17, 2025, 4:43 pm • 6 0 • view
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Bill Capehart @billcapehart.bsky.social

The sandwich guy needs to do that too. I mean a firecracker (?) vs a sandwich. Come on.

aug 17, 2025, 4:43 pm • 6 1 • view
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social

His attorney, Sabrina Shroff, is formidable.

aug 17, 2025, 5:52 pm • 4 1 • view
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Bill Capehart @billcapehart.bsky.social

Ah, but would her stance change if he threw a hot dog?

aug 17, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view