Rep #JamieRaskin (D-MD) called the provision “one of the most blatantly #corrupt provisions for political self-dealing & the plunder of public resources ever proposed in #Congress.”

The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, only applies to members of the #Senate & would allow them to sue for $500,000 if data was sought without their being notified, as well as once it was obtained.

“That’s a cool one million per Senator,” Raskin said in a stmnt.

#law #Trump #Jan6
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5601358-senate-phone-record-legal-challenge-raskin/

#House passes bill to reopen government after longest #shutdown ever
The legislation now goes to #Trump to sign into #law.

The bill INCLUDES the provision allowing Senators who were investigated by the #DOJ for their alleged involvement in Trump’s effort to overturn the #2020election to sue the #US #government for $500,000.

It DOES NOT INCLUDE the #healthcare subsidies for the #ACA, nor a reversal of the GOP #Medicaid cuts Democrats wanted.

#SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-reopen-update-house-returns-5771f2befb15f4ab45e327369f2e98d9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-12-Breaking+News

“If we believe that citizens should receive notice when the #government subpoenas their phone bill, great! Perhaps this revolutionary new policy—which #CivilLiberties groups would probably support—should be the law. But then the law should protect the civil liberties of all 320 million Americans, as the #EqualProtectionClause of the #Constitution demands, not just the 100 Americans in the #Senate,” #JamieRaskin added.

#law #Trump #Republicans #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #shutdown

“The Senators may not like being treated like the rest of America, but these phone-record subpoenas & non-disclosure orders are routine in grand jury investigations at the state & federal level. No one has an absolute right to be notified that their call records have been subpoenaed, much less the right to a million bucks if it happens. This provision would not give any Americans other than US Senators these rights,” #JamieRaskin said.

#law #Trump #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #shutdown

“There was no ‘phone tap’ or eavesdropping on the content of their conversations. The call records subpoenaed were the kind of information you see on a phone bill—a list of calls made & received,” #JamieRaskin said, adding that the 8 senators were “pathetically casting themselves as victims.”

Jack Smith sought the phone records of 8 senators as well as 1 member of the House during his investigation into #Jan6, including those known to have spoken to #Trump during the #insurrection.

#law

Rep #JamieRaskin (D-MD) called the provision “one of the most blatantly #corrupt provisions for political self-dealing & the plunder of public resources ever proposed in #Congress.”

The provision, which is retroactive to 2022, only applies to members of the #Senate & would allow them to sue for $500,000 if data was sought without their being notified, as well as once it was obtained.

“That’s a cool one million per Senator,” Raskin said in a stmnt.

#law #Trump #Jan6
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5601358-senate-phone-record-legal-challenge-raskin/

#House passes bill to reopen government after longest #shutdown ever
The legislation now goes to #Trump to sign into #law.

The bill INCLUDES the provision allowing Senators who were investigated by the #DOJ for their alleged involvement in Trump’s effort to overturn the #2020election to sue the #US #government for $500,000.

It DOES NOT INCLUDE the #healthcare subsidies for the #ACA, nor a reversal of the GOP #Medicaid cuts Democrats wanted.

#SeditiousConspiracy #Jan6
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-reopen-update-house-returns-5771f2befb15f4ab45e327369f2e98d9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-12-Breaking+News

AYFKM???

And some Democrats actually voted for this?!

Deal to end #shutdown would also allow some #Republicans to sue the #US government for #Jan6 investigation

Legislation moving through #Congress that would end the longest government shutdown in US history would also allow 8 Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from the #DOJ's investigation of the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol #insurrection.

#law
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/deal-end-us-shutdown-would-also-allow-some-republican-senators-seek-500000-2025-11-11/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

AYFKM???

And some Democrats actually voted for this?!

Deal to end #shutdown would also allow some #Republicans to sue the #US government for #Jan6 investigation

Legislation moving through #Congress that would end the longest government shutdown in US history would also allow 8 Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from the #DOJ's investigation of the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol #insurrection.

#law
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/deal-end-us-shutdown-would-also-allow-some-republican-senators-seek-500000-2025-11-11/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Total crap

#BBC director resigns after criticism of #Trump #Jan6 speech edit

Dir-Gen Tim Davie & head of news Deborah Turness both announced their resignations Sunday.

Britain’s public broadcaster was criticized for editing the speech Trump made before insurgents attacked the Capitol.

Critics the BBC documentary editing was misleading & cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

#FourthEstate #journalism #TrumpIsATerrorist
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-09-Head+of+BBC+resigns

Total crap

#BBC director resigns after criticism of #Trump #Jan6 speech edit

Dir-Gen Tim Davie & head of news Deborah Turness both announced their resignations Sunday.

Britain’s public broadcaster was criticized for editing the speech Trump made before insurgents attacked the Capitol.

Critics the BBC documentary editing was misleading & cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

#FourthEstate #journalism #TrumpIsATerrorist
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-09-Head+of+BBC+resigns

#GiftArticle

#JackSmith, #Trump’s Target, Shifts From Defense to Counterattack

The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings & the 2024 election.

Bring it.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/us/politics/jack-smith-trump-investigations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.olrq.3OTGE8r_e1HD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Quite the opposite, in fact. #JackSmith, who spent >2 years aggressively collecting evidence to prove #Trump mishandled #ClassifiedDocuments & tried to overturn the results of the #2020election, appears eager to publicly challenge a foundational pillar of #MAGA canon: that Trump was a sinned-upon innocent who did nothing to deserve scrutiny, much less 2 prosecutions.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection

…Until now, #Trump, in the half-joking estimation of one longtime adviser, has been able to order up investigations of his political enemies like Ubers.

But in two low-key but self-assured appearances over the past six weeks, #JackSmith has made it unmistakably clear that he will not only defend himself but take a hammer to Trump’s exaggerated or false claims about his work as special counsel.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection

Whether #JackSmith gets the chance to confront his accusers on the biggest official stage available to him, a public #House or #Senate hearing, remains very much an open question. Some #Republicans have privately expressed concern that #Trump’s quest for vengeance could backfire by giving a credible anticorruption investigator an open mic.

#law #SeditiousConspiracy #ElectionInterference #coup #Jan6 #insurrection