Don Zeko
@donzeko.bsky.social
Public defender in the South, politics obsessive, nerd stuff enthusiast. Also a dad, although I'm trying to respect the privacy of my increasingly feral children.
Curious to hear other's thoughts about it but this seems like the most judicially conservative way to dismiss the case.
BREAKING
A federal judge just DISMISSED James Comey’s case without prejudice because of Lindsey Halligan’s unlawful appointment.
More soon on All Rise News.
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Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
A federal judge just DISMISSED James Comey’s case without prejudice because of Lindsey Halligan’s unlawful appointment.
More soon on All Rise News.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Curious to hear other's thoughts about it but this seems like the most judicially conservative way to dismiss the case.
At this point I'm not sure the median congressman can even imagine wielding power.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
At this point I'm not sure the median congressman can even imagine wielding power.
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Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
In my line of work you can't choose your clients but you always have to come up with something to say, so part of the job is sometimes making arguments that you know aren't gonna convince anybody. 1/2
Yesteady a colleague I hadn’t spoken to in a while, once a Reagan Republican, called me asking to explain why the Comey indictment had gone the way it did. He’s an ex-AUSA too. Why would they do it this way and not the right way, he was asking. There must be a strategic explanation.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In my line of work you can't choose your clients but you always have to come up with something to say, so part of the job is sometimes making arguments that you know aren't gonna convince anybody. 1/2
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Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
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I think we’ve all missed some obvious clues
From New England, has unholy appetites, doesn’t appear fully human?
RFK Jr is a Deep One hybrid
From New England, has unholy appetites, doesn’t appear fully human?
RFK Jr is a Deep One hybrid
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I think we’ve all missed some obvious clues
From New England, has unholy appetites, doesn’t appear fully human?
RFK Jr is a Deep One hybrid
From New England, has unholy appetites, doesn’t appear fully human?
RFK Jr is a Deep One hybrid
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Look, it’s unlike me to say something like this — and, frankly, a bit embarrassing — but I want to hear less about these people’s terrible decisions, loose morals, and weird sex stuff and more about this.
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Look, it’s unlike me to say something like this — and, frankly, a bit embarrassing — but I want to hear less about these people’s terrible decisions, loose morals, and weird sex stuff and more about this.
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you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*
I am slowly coming around to the belief that all medical misinformation exists because people can't handle mortality.
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I am slowly coming around to the belief that all medical misinformation exists because people can't handle mortality.
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Please we need to have a more sophisticated analysis than "capital wants this" in 2025 for the love of god.
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Please we need to have a more sophisticated analysis than "capital wants this" in 2025 for the love of god.
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
I am going to be the most insufferable old person when I tell the youths that Hillbilly Elegy is a real movie that exists.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I am going to be the most insufferable old person when I tell the youths that Hillbilly Elegy is a real movie that exists.
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Tillis after getting off the phone with GOP donors after the Myers Park Country Club raid:
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tillis after getting off the phone with GOP donors after the Myers Park Country Club raid:
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“do we protect, include, and tolerate people from all backgrounds” is the beating heart and solemn promise of liberalism and I’m convinced people who trivialize it have not reflected on a world without it
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“do we protect, include, and tolerate people from all backgrounds” is the beating heart and solemn promise of liberalism and I’m convinced people who trivialize it have not reflected on a world without it
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The official position of the United States government is that swastikas aren't hate symbols and displaying a Pride flag is a fireable offense.
This is not ambiguous signaling.
This is not ambiguous signaling.
State-sponsored discrimination encourages private discrimination.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The official position of the United States government is that swastikas aren't hate symbols and displaying a Pride flag is a fireable offense.
This is not ambiguous signaling.
This is not ambiguous signaling.
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
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The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years.
canceledpeople.org
canceledpeople.org
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matty arrived here because of negative polarization but i do not think it is a coincidence that every one of corporate think tank guys suddenly started churning out “here’s why the democrats shouldnt support renewables” right as the utility scale solar and offshore wind $/mw dipped below gas
yes. a LLM with the capability to search the web would have searched the web before making any of these claims
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
matty arrived here because of negative polarization but i do not think it is a coincidence that every one of corporate think tank guys suddenly started churning out “here’s why the democrats shouldnt support renewables” right as the utility scale solar and offshore wind $/mw dipped below gas
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Telling a very provable lie in a submission to the court in a criminal prosecution of someone *else* for lying!
Comey should include this in his vindictive prosecution memo as a similar case where the government declined prosecution
Comey should include this in his vindictive prosecution memo as a similar case where the government declined prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Telling a very provable lie in a submission to the court in a criminal prosecution of someone *else* for lying!
Comey should include this in his vindictive prosecution memo as a similar case where the government declined prosecution
Comey should include this in his vindictive prosecution memo as a similar case where the government declined prosecution
There are a lot of things in criminal law that you can theoretically do as a defendant but that essentially never work in practice because they require outlandish facts. Lindsey Halligan is trying to make every one of those things happen in a single case.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There are a lot of things in criminal law that you can theoretically do as a defendant but that essentially never work in practice because they require outlandish facts. Lindsey Halligan is trying to make every one of those things happen in a single case.
This always looked like a wildly corrupt prosecution but it is so much worse than it originally appeared
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This always looked like a wildly corrupt prosecution but it is so much worse than it originally appeared
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Its popular on this site to blame everything for Trumps return on Merrick Garland, but if it werent for the singular interetence by John Roberts on Trumps behalf, Trump would have been tried and almost certainly convicted over Jan 6th in late summer/early fall before the election.
Chief Justice John Roberts rigged our democracy, helped Trump retake power, and is now discarding legal and constitutional constraints on Trump's actions.
But Roberts needs Trump, too. This symbiotic relationship means there is no hope for course correction.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
But Roberts needs Trump, too. This symbiotic relationship means there is no hope for course correction.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Its popular on this site to blame everything for Trumps return on Merrick Garland, but if it werent for the singular interetence by John Roberts on Trumps behalf, Trump would have been tried and almost certainly convicted over Jan 6th in late summer/early fall before the election.
Ok guys, let's figure this out. Who did the person who made this sign vote for in '24?
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Ok guys, let's figure this out. Who did the person who made this sign vote for in '24?
I still find it so weird that the Epstein stuff is blowing up maga-land. I thought they had long since decided that they didn't mind Trump being a rapist
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I still find it so weird that the Epstein stuff is blowing up maga-land. I thought they had long since decided that they didn't mind Trump being a rapist
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The government claims two weeks of surveillance footage from Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and won’t be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’
"Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The government claims two weeks of surveillance footage from Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and won’t be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...
www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...