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Oct 2023
47m 55s

A Bad Day for the Kraken

THE BULWARK
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Sidney Powell pleaded guilty and agreed to testify for the state in Georgia—Trump's legal woes just took a turn for the worse. Plus, Jim Jordan's bad day, and a plea for social media types to wait for the facts before weighing in on the Israel-Hamas war. Ben Wittes joins Charlie Sykes for The Trump Trials.

show notes:

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-strategy-law-and-morality-in-israel-s-gaza-operation


https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/to-gag-or-not-to-gag-a-first-amendment-showdown-in-the-jan.-6-case

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