Wednesday, October 28, 2026 Today was a bad day for fascists, another embarrassing moment for the Trump Justice Department as a grand jury refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson; the 9th Circuit shut down Trump’s bid to sequester 20,000 ballots in California; Alaska Republicans pushed back against the lawsuit attempting to decertify its election results; Bolsonaro conceded in Brazil and then fled to the United States with the help of Donald Trump; Netanyahu’s bloc won fewer seats than the opposition according to exit polls in the Israeli election; Justin J. Pearson’s congressional opponent admitted to sending unsolicited dick pics to multiple women; Judge Reyes excoriated the Trump administration as she extended her block on tree removal at the East Potomac golf course; Neil Young has sued Trump for unauthorized use of Rockin’ in the Free World; the third indictment of Jim Comey is in trouble as Judge McFadden sets a hearing on Comey’s motion to dismiss for this Friday; plus Allison delivers your Good News.
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Today was a bad day for fascists, another embarrassing moment for the Trump Justice Department as a grand jury refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson; the 9th Circuit shut down Trump’s bid to sequester 20,000 ballots in California; Alaska Republicans pushed back against the lawsuit attempting to decertify its election results; Bolsonaro conceded in Brazil and then fled to the United States with the help of Donald Trump; Netanyahu’s bloc won fewer seats than the opposition according to exit polls in the Israeli election; Justin J. Pearson’s congressional opponent admitted to sending unsolicited dick pics to multiple women; Judge Reyes excoriated the Trump administration as she extended her block on tree removal at the East Potomac golf course; Neil Young has sued Trump for unauthorized use of Rockin’ in the Free World; the third indictment of Jim Comey is in trouble as Judge McFadden sets a hearing on Comey’s motion to dismiss for this Friday; plus Allison delivers your Good News.
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msw media. Hello and welcome to the Daily beans for Wednesday, October 28, 2026. Today was a bad day for fascists. Another embarrass moment for the Trump Justice Department as a grand jury refuses to indict Cassidy Hutchinson. The 9th Circuit shut down Trump's bid to sequester 20,000 ballots in California.
Alaska.
Republicans pushed back against the lawsuit, attempting to decertify its election results. Bolsonaro conceded in Brazil and then fled to the United States with the help of Donald Trump. Netanyahu's block won fewer seats than the opposition party, according to exit polls. In the Israeli election, Justin J. Pearson's congressional opponent admitted to sending unsolicited dick pics to multiple women. Judge Reyes excoriated the Trump administration as she extended her block on tree removal at the East Potomac Golf Course. Neil Young is suing Trump for unauthorized use of Rockin in the Free world. And the third indictment of Jim Comey is in trouble as Judge McFadden sets a hearing on Comey's motion to dismiss. For this Friday, I'm your host, Alison Gill. Hey everybody, happy hump day. It's Wednesday. We're at the middle of the week, which we call the taint of the week here on the Daily Beans. If you're a new listener, welcome. I know we have tons of new listeners right now, especially in the lead up to the midterm elections. Dana, my co host, is out today. She's a bit under the weather, as you heard yesterday on the show, so send your healing vibe. She says she loves you all. I'm sure she'll be back soon. Also today, I'll be speaking with Adam Klassfeld from All Rise News. We're going to discuss Alaska, California, Jim Comey. I've been longing for a news day like this for a while, you guys, so let's jump in with the hot notes. Hot notes. All right. First up, as promised yesterday, we hinted at this yesterday. I have more details on the California 20,000 ballots case from Politico. A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's late breaking effort to force California to separate mail in ballots from 20,000 purported non citizens. In a two to one ruling from a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, they concluded that the Justice Department improperly circumvented a lower court judge who had scheduled a hearing on the matter for Tuesday and moved, quote, too slowly to seek emergency relief. Quote, the United States failed to allow the district court adequate opportunity to consider its application for a temporary restraining order. That's what the majority wrote and went on to say the United States claimed emergency, at least in part, is a self constructed one. This is Judge Mark Bennett, a Trump appointee, by the way, joined Judge Gabriel Sanchez, a Biden appointee, in turning down the Trump administration's emergency appeal. Judge Patrick Boumite, the other Trump appointee, dissented and said he would have granted the request, though the outcome was foreshadowed in a hearing Sunday in which the judges appeared skeptical of their power to take up the Trump administration's case. The dissent by Bhumite created a surprising split and I'm going to break in here into the Politico article and say based on the questioning I heard from Bhumite on Sunday and put out into the world In a Blue Sky50 post thread, Boomite's split didn't surprise me at all. He seemed to be on the government side throughout the questioning. Now Politico continues that Bhumate said the Trump administration's view that a federal criminal law barring voting by non citizens supersedes California's election procedures would likely prevail in the end, and that every day without federal relief from the courts increased the likelihood that non citizens votes would be improperly counted in the midterm elections. Quote the question does the federal government have the power to stop this potential attack on the integrity of our elections? That's what Bhumate wrote. Under both federal law and the Constitution, the answer must be yes. Simply the federal government has sovereign interest in safeguarding federal elections and ensuring that votes of noncitizens do not undermine our electoral results. Okay, listen Bhumite, as argued by California, we have a process to prevent noncitizens from voting. It happens after voting happens. And if we're talking about a couple of hundred people, which is a stretch at best because the list provided by the Justice Department is completely unverified and known to have multiple errors. What makes you think that that is outcome determinative? And even the DOJ conceded in the hearing before the ninth Circuit oh, we don't think this will change the outcome of the election. We just think we have the right to come in and sequester ballots that we think might be non citizens to prevent non citizens from voting. We just don't want these handful of non citizens voting. That is the problem. That is the danger to election security. That is the most bizarre argument and for this judge to go along with it is shameful. In a separate concurrence, Bennett, the other Trump appointee who voted the right way, rebutted Bhumite's position, arguing the Justice Department would fail on the substance of its lawsuit. Bennett said the Trump administration, quote, has offered no workable plan of any kind as to how the remedy it seeks could be accomplished in practice without potential catastrophic consequences to California's ongoing election. The case was back in District Court Tuesday with a hearing before Judge Carter. You can check out Chris Geidner's Law Dork substack or read his Post by Post thread on Blue sky about that hearing. But it's also not going well in the lower district court before Judge Carter. Yeah, just a cursory glance at this. I think what Judge Carter is considering now is how do I fashion this TRO so that when it gets appealed again to the Ninth Circuit, it'll be dismissed. The challenge to the temporary restraining order Temporary restraining order? well, I should say he's going to refuse to issue a temporary restraining order because it's the Trump's DOJ that's asking for a restraining order against California. Right. And he's going to not do that and call it a temporary restraining order in favor of California so that it can't be appealed to the ninth Circuit. But we'll see what happens. You can follow more here probably in the next day or two on the Daily Beans next up from the Post. A federal grand jury in D.C. rejected an attempt by the Justice Department to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for the account she gave lawmakers of President Donald Trump's actions during the January 6th attack on the Capitol. That's according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a grand jury matter. In a brief court appearance Tuesday afternoon, Neville S. Headley Ned Headley, who introduced himself as the acting senior litigation counsel at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, told U.S. magistrate Judge Zia M. Farooqi that the grand jury had not concurred on their proposed indictment. At the time, Headley didn't specify the defendant or the case, but the people familiar said he was referring to Hutchinson. The failure of the Justice Department to secure an indictment marks the latest rebuke of the law enforcement agency's efforts to prosecute one of the president's political enemies. The decision to present a case to federal grand jurors followed years of calls from Trump and his Republican allies for Hutchinson to face legal consequences for providing what they contend was false and damaging testimony about what Trump said and did as his supporters stormed the Capitol that January day. The case was presented to the grand jury by the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, in an unusual move for a false statement investigation. And you know, we have to make clear here, Cassidy Hutchinson wasn't testifying to the January 6th committee that she was in the car with Donald Trump. She was testifying to what someone in the car told her. Okay, so that's just, hey, this is just what he told me. You got a problem, take it up with him now. The Justice Department didn't respond to requests for comment. It's exceedingly rare for grand juries to reject indictments, in part because prosecutors only need to convince a majority of grand jurors that there's probable cause, very low bar that a crime was committed. But the Justice Department's campaign to target Trump's perceived adversaries has repeatedly been rebuffed by grand juries and judges, including in February when another federal grand jury in D.C. refused to indict six Democratic lawmakers over their comments to military service members about not following unlawful orders. We had Sandwich guy. We had that other woman in D.C. like just time after time after time. Now, the Justice Department began investigating Hutchinson, who was an aide to Mark Meadows in the first term, after two of Trump's Republican allies in Congress, Jim Jordan and Barry Loudermilk of Georgia. He's the one who led all the tours of MAGA insurrect the night before the riot and the attack on the Capitol. Those two guys referred her to the Department of Justice this year for potential prosecution over what they say is false testimony. In 2022, Hutchinson gave an explosive account of Trump's behind the scenes actions on January 6th to the House Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. Her testimony during the televised hearing garnered 13 million viewers when it aired June 28, 2022. At the hearing, Hutchinson testified Trump urged his supporters to march to the Capitol knowing they were armed. She testified that another White House aide at the time, Anthony Ornato, told her that Trump had lunged at a Secret Service agent inside the presidential SUV after being told he could not accompany the group as it marched from the Ellipse. When that failed, she said, according to Ornado, Cassidy Hutchinson said Trump reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab the steering wheel. Then, she said, the president, quote, used his free hand to lunge toward Bobby Engel, the head of a security detail who was riding in the armored limousine with him. And I think it was Bobby Engel actually not Ornado, that told Hutchinson all this. But the court appearance announcing there was no true bill came in the middle of a different hearing about another soon to be doomed case brought by Trump's DOJ against two former FBI agents for lying to Congress about Hunter Biden's laptop. It was a bizarre day in court. I'm going to go over this step by step over on Beans Talk today. Next up from Ms. Now election officials in Alaska. Election officials, not Democrats Election officials in Alaska filed a motion Monday night asking a federal judge to immediately dismiss the lawsuit brought by DOJ and Trump seeking to block the results of the state Senate race should Dan Sullivan lose. Incumbent Dan Sullivan and the Alaska elections official said this has no legal basis. They even called it election interference. The lawsuit was filed Friday, just 11 days before the general election. And as Alaskans have already begun voting in what is expected to be a highly competitive race that could determine control of the Senate, lawyers for the Justice Department argued that the presence of another Dan Sullivan could confuse voters who may vote for him instead of the sitting senator. In fact, they argue that Dan J. Sullivan decided to run for senator with the intention of misleading supporters of Senator Sullivan into voting for him for the sole purpose of benefiting Democratic Senate candidate Mary Pell Tola by reducing the number of votes for Sullivan. But state election officials argue that they have taken appropriate precautions to prevent that confusion. They write, although Alaska faces an unusual situation in which two candidates for US Senator share a first and last name, the division has taken significant steps to distinguish them on the ballot so that voters can easily determine which candidate is which. Alaska election officials wrote that in the motion to dismiss the DOJ's case. They went on to say, but the United States lacks authority to intervene in state elections at all, much less in support of a favored candidate. Now, prior to state election officials motion to dismiss the case, Gleason granted a motion by the Peltola campaign, the Democrats and the DSCC Monday night to fast track this case, ordering the DOJ to respond to their motions by, ah, 8pm Eastern Tuesday. That sets the stage for a potential ruling on dismissal of the case Thursday ahead of Election Day. I did not expect because, the Alaska election officials were the ones who initially contested the second Dan Sullivan being on the ballot. That's the case that went up to the Alaska Supreme Court. But now here they are saying, get the fuck out of our elections. And this is what one of the things Adam Klassfeld and I are going to talk about a little bit later in the show. Next up from cnn. Trump approved allowing Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro entry into the United States following his election loss. Trump approved it. Trump administration officials were aware on Monday that Bolsonaro had roughly 24 hours to surrender his passport and made clear to the defeated Brazilian presidential candidate he would be welcome in the U.S. the U.S. is issuing visas. The State Department is issuing visas to Bolsonaro and his family. A Brazilian source close to Bolsonaro said that the politician feared arrest in Brazil. He's currently under investigation by the country's highest court for alleged acts of corruption. We are harboring a criminal. So he's, under investigation. Corruption for money laundering and currency evasion. A person familiar with the situation told CNN Tuesday afternoon that Bolsonaro arrived in the U.S. it remains unclear where he landed, but, but I bet I can guess. Sources earlier confirmed to CNN that Bolsonaro had left Brazil for the United States after losing Sunday's election. Brazil's federal police canceled Bolsonaro's passports after he failed to surrender them. One of the allegations against Bolsonaro is connected to potential illegal online betting platforms. Another to the production of a biopic about his father called Dark Horse, which federal police believe involved funds from Banco Master, a now collapsed bank at the heart of a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. Of course, Bolsonaro denies all wrongdoing. Now, at the time of his departure from Brazil, there were no warrants for his arrest.
But according to legal analysts, the act
of defying the court's orders to surrender his passport is enough reason for a warrant to be issued. Bolsonaro initially refused to concede Tallulah, saying his team would ask for the results to be annulled. But then Bolsonaro's party reversed course just two days later, saying, we recognize the election results. That's party head Valdemar Costa Nado. That's what he told CNN Brazil, quote. But we believe the issues raised need to be properly clarified.
Huh?
we're aiding and abetting a criminal, giving them visas. That figures. Next up, it's October surprise time. This one comes in the race between Justin J. Pearson, who we've had here on the Daily Beans, and Brent Taylor in Tennessee's new Republican gerrymandered district, District 9. This is from the Nashville Scene. State Senator Brent Taylor, a Republican from Memphis, has sent unsolicited nude photos as recently as 2021. He dismisses his past sexual advances as youthful indiscretions, despite even being 53 years old that marred his 30 year marriage. Multiple sources say they had received or seen nude photos from Taylor, who's running for Congress in Tennessee's 9th congressional district. Taylor acknowledged that he had sent the nude photos in the past, but dismissed them as mistakes that have since been forgiven by his wife. Quote, As I near 60 years old, the expiration date has come and gone on my youthful indiscretions, okay? So the premise underpinning that answer is that it's totally fine to send unsolicited dick pics as long as you're not nearing 60 years of age. He goes on to say, whatever story you think you've got, my wife is well aware of and we've worked through it a long time ago. My God and my wife have forgiven me and I would consider everyone else doing the same now. One individual who requested anonymity citing fear of retaliation, says they received an unsolicited nude photo from Taylor as recently as 2021, before he was elected to the state Senate. A second eyewitness source independently confirmed the nude photo sent by Taylor. Again. At the time, Taylor was 53. QUOTE All I can tell you is in the past, I've been guilty of being a rounder back in the day, okay? Taylor repeatedly used the term rounder, by the way, to describe his past behavior. When pressed about that description, likely meaning a barfly prone to morally dubious behavior, Taylor encouraged the scene to Google it. A history of sexual impropriety, specifically unsolicited nude photos, conflicts with Taylor's campaign reputation as the Christian family man and dedicated husband. State Republicans redrew west Tennessee's congressional seats in May to favor their own party. Taylor's political base in Shelby county helped him beat Williamson county state Rep. Todd Warner in August's Republican primary. Democratic state Rep. Justin J. Pearson has pulled closer to Taylor in recent months, though polling and forecasts still favor Taylor to win this race. But maybe we can. Maybe we can change that. Next up from NBC A federal judge in Washington issued a longer term injunction Monday blocking the Trump administration from removing or damaging any additional trees on the grounds of East Potomac Golf Links. The order says the administration must provide written notice 10 business days before it makes any irreparable modification to any forms or features of East Potomac park while the case proceeds. In her order, U.S. district Judge Ana Reyes cited some of Donald Trump's true social posts, which contradicted testimony from government employees. Quote, this started out as a case about golf that good walk spoiled, but it has become much more. It now forces the court to reconcile assertions by President Trump with the sworn testimony of multiple government employees and the argument of senior Department of Justice attorneys. Now the order displayed screenshots of truth social posts, including one from October 18th in which Trump said the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, along with an architect, had, quote, developed a plan to build a world class championship golf course at East Potomac starting Nov. 15, even though the Justice Department lawyers had earlier said there was no renovation plan at all. Now, in a follow up post on October 19 the next day, Trump said work on the course would begin not on November 15th, but, quote, immediately. That post also said workers did not need approval for construction and called Reyes a crazed lunatic. Quote rarely, if ever has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting president. And yet here we are. We'll keep an eye on that one and from the Rolling Stone Rock legend Neil Young has slapped a Trump fundraising committee with a $10 million lawsuit over the use of his song Again Rockin in the Free World at an Ohio rally this month. According to the five page filing obtained by Rolling Stone, Trump was, quote, personally aware that a license would be required to play the song at an event, and he also knew that Neil Young, quote, has not and would not grant the required license. The unauthorized use happened despite a prior lawsuit and 2020 settlement in which Trump allegedly agreed never to use Young's music without permission again. Trump is not named as an individual defendant in the Monday complaint. Quote rockin in the Free World is a blistering anthem that contrasts the hollow promises of American political rhetoric with the harsh realities faced by poor, homeless and forgotten. That's what Young and his lawyers Robert Besser and Scott Simmons wrote in the new complaint. They went on to say their lyrics paint a vivid street level portrait of a mother discarding her baby, addicts lost in despair, garbage piling in the shadows of prosperity. While the repeated chorus delivers a savage irony celebrating freedom that clearly isn't shared by all. They added that the 1989 song, which was named Rolling Stone's best vintage rock song of 2026, quote, is the opposite of everything that Donald J. Trump stands for. Young's legal sparring with Trump dates back to 2015, when Trump used the track during his now infamous Trump Tower announcement that he was running for president. Young immediately condemned the move. Quote Donald Trump was not authorized to use Rocket and the Free World in his presidential candidacy announcement. That's what a Neil Young spokesperson said in a statement. Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, is a supporter of Bernie Sanders for President of the United States of America. When Trump played the song again in 2018, Young objected again. Quote I asked him then in a widely shared public letter to cease and desist. That's what Young put on his website back in 2018.
Quote however he chose not to listen
to my request, just as he chooses not to listen to the many American voices who ask him to stop his constant lies, to stop his petty, nasty name calling and bullying, and to stop pushing his dangerous, vilifying and hateful rhetoric. Now, of course, Young is far from the only artist to challenge Trump over the use of music at his political events. The White Stripes, Rihanna, Axl Rose, Pharrell Williams, Linkin park, and the estates of Tom Petty and Sinead o' Connor have all publicly objected to his use of their songs. Now, I just want to say this is a lawsuit against the Trump fundraising committee. So I don't believe that if there's a settlement, it would be paid with taxpayer dollars, but by money raised by this fundraising committee. We'll see. We'll keep you posted. All right, everybody, we're going to be right back with Adam Klassfeld from All Rise News, followed by the good news. Stick around. We'll be right back after these messages.
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today we're gonna talk about tons of things going on in the docket. I know Jose Vance had put a substack out. She's like, normally we get a case like this every month or two, but we had, like, four in the past week, maybe five. And that's important, especially in the lead up to the midterm elections. And we wanna talk about why today. So I figured we'd kick with this bizarre thing that most of us, like, in the independent news legal world were texting about.
Like, have you seen this?
What is this? The Comey docket for the third criminal charges was unsealed at the behest of Jim Comey, who was not indicted, but charged on criminal information, and not by a U.S. attorney like Jeanine Pirro, but by McCotter. Is that the kid's name?
That is correct.
The deputy attorney General. Deputy attorney general. in a filing that was unsealed, a docket was unsealed. And we were like, I'm looking for the docket. I've got it on pacer. Oh, it's up on Court Listener. Okay. And we're, like, scrambling to read through
all this stuff to put together the
timeline of what happened. So let's walk through that with Adam Klassfeld here again from All Rise News. Please subscribe, to All Rise News if you get a chance. I'm smarter because I read it. but it started on October 5, 2026, exactly 10 years after a New York Times article was published. October 15, 2016. An article, that Comey was investigated for twice. Once by Durham, who was a big nothing burger, to borrow a phrase
from the other side.
And once by Bill Barr, again in 2019.
Both refused to bring charges.
and now. And I shouldn't say Bill Barr, but a U.S. attorney under Bill Barr. And now we've got the number two charging on information ten years after the fact. And the case is in serious trouble because the statute of limitations clearly says there has to be an indictment within 10 years for this particular crime. And as Comey points out in one of these filings on the newly unsealed docket, there was no indictment. And then you and I tried to scramble to see if he waived his right to a grand jury indictment, because that sounded impossible to both of us. And I think some news outlets were reporting that it was waived.
Waived, but it wasn't, as was
outlined in one of, his motions to dismiss or his motion to Comey's motion to dismiss this. This information charge. So talk a little bit about that timeline. Briefly set us up here about what?
This.
It's a relatively small docket at the moment.
Right. So, as you said, Alison, this was an article. This is an article, a case over an alleged leak to the New York Times. On October 5, 2016, two sets of US attorneys looked over it. Both of them passed. The first time that a U.S. attorney looked into it, there was a classified memo saying, no charges for who was the man, who was then the FBI general counsel or anyone else. That was the finding by the first U.S. attorney. Then the second U.S. attorney opens up an investigation in D.C. same outcome. Then a decade to the day later, when it is the final day on the statute of limitations to bring a case, the second top official in the Trump DOJ races to the District of D.C. and files what, as you described it, is a criminal information, saying, we don't want any pesky grand juries standing in the way. We'll just file these essentially placeholder charges to try to, keep everything on the status quo until we can get to a grand jury. But there's a problem, as you said, Alison, the statute is very clear about it, and I'm going to read the statute right now. An indictment for any Violation of Title 18, US Code, Section 792, 793 or 794 may be found at any time within 10 years next, after such violation shall have been committed. So it says indictment. It doesn't say indictment or criminal information. And you have legal experts like Jack Goldsmith saying that this case has the statute of limitations lapsed. You have people on the right saying, this is a case that is dead in the cradle. And I just published an article on All Rise News, Ah, asking is this the dumbest case today to date against James Comey? Because even with the ridiculous two former criminal cases against him, well, the first one lasted nearly two months, brought by Lindsey Halligan, when no one else would touch it. but at least she, through measures that I don't think the public fully understands yet, got an indictment. And it may not have been a valid indictment, and maybe it died in two months, but it at least got to that point. You, have the second case, which is the Seashells case. It's ludicrous on First Amendment grounds. It thrives on a definition of 8647. and the word, the numbers 86 in particular, that isn't found in any dictionary that anyone who's worked in a restaurant knows is ludicrous. And even if it meant what federal prosecutors said it means, which is Kill Trump, that wouldn't be A prosecutable crime under First Amendment law. But it's been on the books, this case, for nearly half a year so far. Meanwhile, this third case against James Comey, it. It comes to the District of D.C. and it might die before it is born. A federal judge is going to have a hearing this Friday to determine to consider the motion to dismiss that's pending before him. And this is a case, again, like the first one. they can't find a normal prosecutor to bring the case. So in the first case, they turned to Lindsey Halligan, who was illegally appointed. But now they're turning to the second top official in the Justice Department and his deputy and some people they could find in Texas and elsewhere. It is a. An absurd case, and I think that there's a high likelihood that it's going to die faster than the other two.
I'm also wondering if, they tried to get a grand jury indictment and failed multiple times and then charged on information on the last day or. Because why charge on the last day
if you're only going to charge on information?
but then there could also just be a situation where they just decided to forego the grand jury altogether because they were never going to be able to get an indictment and tried this tactic. Now, a lot of people would say they are just doing this as red meat for the base, but the DOJ actually wanted to do this all under seal. It was Comey who wanted to unseal, this particular case and get it out in front of the American people. And so I don't even necessarily know it was that the fact that they wanted it under seal says to me that they were actually trying to bring this case. Does that make sense? It wasn't just a propaganda bit. They were actually trying to bring this case against Jim Comey 10 years after the fact.
Right. I think that's an important point. And it's also an important point that Comey wanted this to be public. He wanted the public to see what was going on. And as soon as he won that effort and Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, said, yes, the public does have a right to know what's going on. Their watchful eyes should be on this case. Comey goes on substack, and he releases a video saying, here we go again. you know, just like he did the two other times that he was criminally prosecuted by this Trump doj. And it shows who, who wants transparency here. It's James Comey, because this case is just so absurd, and even conservative legal experts are panning this and we might see later this week movement on his motion to dismiss before we have any grand jury indictment, whether that can even happen.
And, you say we might hear later this week. Is that because Trevor, McFadden has scheduled a hearing on the motion to dismiss?
That's right. He scheduled the hearing on Friday. So this was one that was scheduled on the docket by the time it was sealed. But now the docket is unsealed. I assume, and I'm going to reach out to the court, that now that everything is unsealed, that hearing will be open to the public. But this is, a case that's very much live. he has his all star legal team on it and he has this crazy set of facts here where they bring a case on the very day that the statute of limitations is set to expire in a case that two other U.S. attorneys said, no, thanks, there's nothing here. And it's coming to a head.
Their lawyers at The Trent M. McCotter, Stanley Woodward. Ah, Todd Blanche. These lawyers going up against Comey, and his legal team reminds me of, remember back in the day when dudes thought they could beat Serena Williams in a tennis match? Like, it's that kind of, it's like that kind of energy for me. let me ask you one last question about this before we move on to the Alaska thing that blew our minds behind the scenes. do you think that this case that has just been unsealed because Comey wanted it unsealed, the 201610 year old espionage case, do you think that the fact that they tried to bring this and it under seal, meaning it wasn't just for propaganda purposes, can bolster Comey's argument for vindictive and selective prosecution in the Seychelles case? In other words, can he file an addendum, or a notice to the court in the Seychelles case saying, hey, my vindictive and selective prosecution claims here is exhibit 462.
you know, I can't imagine that a federal judge, presiding over that case in your Newber, North Carolina isn't aware of this case right now. I would be surprised if there wasn't a supplemental filing by James Comey on this. one wonders at one, at what point is there a straw, a feather, that breaks the camel's back, or in this, a, seashell, an anvil? You know, I, you know, he already has a pretty prodigious mountain of evidence here, starting with where it all be. Donald Trump instructing Pam Bondi in a. Whoops. This was supposed to be a DM social media post saying, bring charges against my enemies here. Here they are by name. Go ahead. so, yeah, I would be surprised if there isn't a little bit of docket activity in North Carolina in the very near future.
Yeah.
And that's one of the reasons you should follow All Rise News is because when that docket activity happens, you'll get it. You'll hear it first over on All Rise. let's move over to Alaska, because Trump has admitted he ordered the Department of Justice to sue Alaska to preemptively ask the court to not certify the results if Dan Sullivan 1, versus Dan Sullivan 2, lost the election if his preferred candidate loses the election. In Alaska, they asked the court literally, to not certify or to block certification of the election. First of all, it's illegal on its face because of Article 1, Section 4, that the states administer their elections. And that was brought up in the California Ninth Circuit hearing multiple times as well. but what I didn't expect, and I felt like Alaska Democrats would push back on this, what I didn't expect was the Alaska, the state of Alaska pushing back on this. The state of Alaska were initially the ones who took the Democrats to court and said, the Dan Sullivans, we want Dan Sullivan. Or they just took, I don't know
if they took the Democrats to court,
but they took Dan Sullivan to court. Or the idea of him, the second Dan Sullivan being on the ballot, took it to court and said, we want him off. This is confusing to voters. And that went all the way up to the Alaska Supreme Court months ago. And the Alaska Supreme Court said, no, they can stay. Dan Sullivan, too, can stay on the ballot. just make sure that you have Dan Sullivan, incumbent Republican Senator, and the other Dan Sullivan, marked clearly on the ballot. and of course, Donald Trump has admitted he ordered the DOJ to file this lawsuit, which he can totally do now, because anything he and the DOJ do to interfere in elections is immune per this Supreme Court. That's why Jeffrey Clark, that's why Jack Smith had to pull Jeffrey Clark and Donald Trump's conspiracy out of his indictment in 2024. there were still plenty of crimes left to prosecute, but they couldn't go after the DOJ because they were absolutely immune. And so now we have Alaska, the ones who initially sued to get the second Dan Sullivan off the ballot, telling Trump to GTFO out of, you know, of our elections. This is Alaska. We settled this. And for the Trump administration to say it's an emergency four months after the Alaska Supreme Court ruled on this matter three months a while ago, is absurd. And so for Alaska Republicans to be pushing back against Donald Trump interfering in this and calling it election interference, I was kind of taken aback by that.
Right. They called it election interference multiple times. And that was, you know, I think we both reacted very strongly to this legal brief by Alaska, because, as you said, Alaska, the Division of Elections, the Director of Elections there, was the one that tried to disqualify Dan Sullivan at the beginning. And when the Trump DOJ was trying to justify what they were doing, they were saying, we're just essentially, carrying on the torch for the Division of Elections in Alaska. They claim to be acting in Alaska's Behal. Alaska filed this legal brief. They said, we handled this. We designed the ballot. It isn't confusing. It says, which Dan Sullivan is the Republican incumbent. It's clearly marked. It says, which one is the other Dan Sullivan, by putting his middle initial and not having it marked incumbent and saying that the federal government has no role in this, that the federal government's attempt to insert itself into, alas, Alaska's process is election interference because states administer elections. So it's not only that Alaska filed this brief opposing the Trump DOJ's plans, which is significant enough, it's lacerating. It is probably the most biting legal brief filed on that docket, including ones for, you know, Alaskan. Yeah. For the Democratic Party, for Alaskans, for Mary, the campaign of Sullivan's political opponent, who has an early lead. She was less biting than the State of Alaska in its own legal brief, using the phrase openly, that this is election interference by Trump doj. So I think there was a very kind of slim to none chance that the Trump DOJ was going to win in this stunt lawsuit. It was there for the same reasons that they filed 27 losing cases to seize voter rolls, not because they thought they could win, but so they can bang the drum of fake voter fraud claims and to sow distrust in the election and to try to, you know, preemptively claim it's all rigged if the Democrats win a key race that leads to control over the Senate. It's a way to kind of prime the pump of all of that misinformation and disinformation. And, and so I think it's so significant that state authorities in Alaska are fighting back hard against that. Ah, especially considering how this case started out, that it was, as you said, the state of Alaska that was trying to disqualify the second Sullivan, saying this isn't a legitimate candidate. And it had to go all the way up to the state Supreme Court saying both Dan Sullivans are qualified to run for this office under the state, law and Constitution.
Yeah. And it has echoes, of Raffensperger
in Georgia in 2020.
It has echoes of, Arizona, pushing back the Republicans in Arizona, Republicans in Georgia, Republicans in other places that were pushing back against, what Trump and the Department of Justice was trying to do. And it makes me wonder if the Alaska Attorney General might see any Alaska state crimes violated, election, law violated. Because in the next two years, we're not gonna indictments for corruption from Todd
Blanche against this regime.
But nothing is stopping state attorneys general, from investigating potential, state election law, violations by this DOJ and the White House. We'll see.
absolutely. And I think that's such a good point because, I've been comparing what did election interference look like in 2020 versus what it looks like now? And it was an open question at the time. I was really thinking about this. What will the states do? What will the local authorities do? Because back then, states stepped up. Brad Raffensperger didn't bend to pressure. There were election authorities in Arizona and Detroit, who all held firm. And it remained to be seen at that point, are Alaska and Trump DOJ going to be on the same page and they weren't. So the state authorities are holding firm. And the difference is, as you started off this conversation saying, Allison, you know, Jeff Clark, he was his own little island in the DOJ and shunned. And his scheme to, try to participate in Trump's election subversion failed, starting his disciplinary proceedings that ended in the recommendation of disbarment. But now Trump has his Roy Cohn, which is to say Todd Blanche, going on national TV claiming that this is some legitimate case and that it's not a kind naked play to try to, make sure that the candidate he prefers wins, or at least if he loses, that the winner's victory isn't blocked, that you have all of the Trump DOJ leadership all in on the election interference. And that's a change. It's a change when you go from Rudy Giuliani with the hair dye dripping down his face, and not taken seriously, to having the Attorney General of the United States, someone having that title and having respectful interviews on every major channel to get their messaging out, even if the messaging isn't believed, even if the cha. The questioning is challenging, there's a good part of the country that's going to say, well, you know, it's probably sounds like it's on the up and up because it has the buy in of the federal government and that's what makes this election interference so dangerous from the. And different from the last version.
Yeah, I agree, my friend. I appreciate your time today. Thanks for helping us break this all down. Everybody, please subscribe to Adam Klassvelt and All Rise News. I know we'll be covering, vigorously covering this Friday hearing, as it pertains to, the Comey case. And, you know, you're following all of these. The Alaska case, the California 20,000 illegal voters case, which is not going well. The East Potomac golf Course case, which is not going well for them. all these major rulings that are coming down again that we would see once in a month or two, and now we're seeing three or four each week. So appreciate your coverage.
It's needed now more than ever. So everybody, please subscribe to All Rise News. Thanks for watching the breakdown. And Adam, I appreciate your time today.
I appreciate every chance to discuss these issues with you. Alison, always a pleasure.
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