@LiberalLibrarian No doubt Comer will be screaming about it on Fox soon, promising witnesses who, if they ever appear, don't actually say anything resembling his claims. IOW, the usual.

@LiberalLibrarian He claimed it was because his lawyers wanted to present his new "absolute proof" in "legal filings."

@LiberalLibrarian Meanwhile, where is right wing twitter? Screaming that they've discovered a "secret identity" Biden used to run Hunter's businesses. And it's trending, because blue checks are promoting it. (I keep marking it as harmful or spammy, and it keeps coming back. Thanks, Elon.)

I haven't looked at this latest CT in any detail, but they seem to be saying they "discovered" this "secret" on Hunter's laptop. Because, y'know, nobody ever looked at those files before.

@hallmarc @KodoAndSangha @AskTheDevil Certainly, the legal analysts think it's a long shot.

@hallmarc @KodoAndSangha @AskTheDevil The judge it's going to (who will decide whether it moves) was discussed yesterday, but I'd have to look again to find the name.

People were talking as if he'd also handle the case itself if it were moved (which is considered unlikely to begin with), but I haven't seen that definitely confirmed.

@LiberalLibrarian Have you considered giving it back to Morton?

@LiberalLibrarian I can't check either, because he blocked me for making an unfavorable reference to him in a tweet where he wasn't tagged... which must mean he searches for all occurrences of his name.

@LiberalLibrarian Whether he's actually endorsing the maniac or not, he's surely denouncing the indictments.

@LiberalLibrarian His sentence seems to still be under appeal. Though as far as I can see it's for house arrest anyway.

The length of the general's "long illness" was determined, one presumes, by the height of the window.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/europe/russian-general-gennady-zhidko-death-intl/index.html

@LiberalLibrarian Well, not necessarily. She could just be delusional.

@LiberalLibrarian I mean, what "very senior Democratic advisors" would even talk to her?

@LiberalLibrarian Griffin turned hard against TFG (with a definite whiff of self-preservation) after the coup... but she's still a clueless R in many respects.

@hallmarc @KodoAndSangha @AskTheDevil It isn't likely to succeed, and even if it did, the judge it appears it would go to is not seen as one Rs would want.

The federal executive has no role in supervising elections, which are regulated by Congress and conducted by the states. Hence the deep unlikeliness that "our coup was part of our duties" getting the case into federal court.

@hallmarc No, that's not going to happen.

But plenty on the right want it to, and think it can.

After Dobbs, a prominent wingnut (I don't remember who) triumphantly jeered online that liberal women had better get their coat hangers ready.

@gemswinc Well, it's apparently *real*... but little from that circuit is "serious" in law.

@hallmarc The 5th Circuit's concept of law is "what gets us to what we want?" and that's it.

Holy sh*t, the 5th Circuit is out of control.

From Chris Hayes: "One of the holdings is that the anti-abortion ob-gyns who brought the suit have standing because their patients use of the drug causes 'aesthetic injury' to them by robbing of them of the joy of looking at images of their patient's fetuses."

From Steve Vladeck: "Trying to teach the Fifth Circuit’s Article III standing doctrine as if it reflects consistent application of neutral doctrinal principles is … increasingly impossible."

@LiberalLibrarian Neither are catastrophic wildfires in Hawaii that move so fast the warning system is overwhelmed.

@LiberalLibrarian Why, no, come to think of it. I can't.