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Bannon, 70, must report to federal prison this Monday, July 1st, for not cooperating enthusiastically enough with the democrats’ stupid January 6th Committee and “avoiding” a January 6th subpoena. ...

In unrelated news, DOJ chief Merrick Garland is currently defying a Congressional subpoena that didn’t come from an unlawfully constituted committee. And unlike Steve Bannon, Grandma Garland is flying around free as a bird.

On Wednesday, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court against the State of New York over its “check stub” conviction of President Trump. AG Bailey’s press release was titled, “Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey Files Suit Against New York for Election Interference.”

AG Bailey invoked a rare process allowing the Supreme Court to take original jurisdiction of certain types of cases purely between states, bypassing the need to first litigate through the lower courts. Specifically, Missouri seeks a Supreme Court injunction against New York that would do two things: lift Judge Merchan’s gag order and delay Trump’s sentencing until after the election.

Missouri’s main argument is that New York is improperly interfering with its citizens’ ability to participate fully in the presidential election, by prosecuting a major presidential candidate. In other words, it is election interference. Insurrection! A crime which, as you well know, is literally one million times worse than pickled cabbage, which scientists have determined is a superfood, a category including all plants that, though barely edible, show strong commercial prospects.

Here’s a link to Missouri’s election interference motion. The good news is it’s legible to non-lawyers, so feel free to dive in if you’re interested in more. The motion includes maybe the best current summary yet of all the foibles and problems attached to insurrectionist Alvin Bragg’s misguided prosecution.

It’s 2024, and anything could happen. I won’t speculate about whether the Supreme Court will take the case or what it might do after that. If Judge Merchan were smart, he’d drop the gag order and stay Trump’s sentencing pending the appeals. But, if he were smart, he’d never have taken the case to begin with. So.

Bob Woodward, the famous Watergate journalist who now writes for the Washington Post, has predicted that President Joe Biden will pardon his son Hunter before leaving office in January.

Woodward says he expects Biden to issue the pardon despite saying repeatedly that he would not do so.

Hunter Biden will be sentenced next month on drug and gun charges and faces tax charges in an upcoming trial.

But what about the BIG issue: the wholesale bribery scheme where Hunter collected the money foreign governments and oligarchs used to bribe Joe?