'Friends of the Court,' ProPublica's investigation into Supreme Court justices' beneficial relationships with billionaire donors, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service!

Here are the highlights from the reporting 🧵👇

DOJ update on prosecutions *40 months* after Jan. 6:

1,424 charged
-510 w assault/impeding officers
-355 w obstruction of Congress

820 guilty pleas
-255 of them to felonies
-565 to misdemeanors

199 convicted at trial

884 sentenced
-554 of them to jailtime

So you have a lawyer who's an in-house salaried employee but then also pay him an extra $35,000/mo for 11 months and say it's legal fees when it's really to reimburse that lawyer for creating a shell company and paying off a pornstar to save your presidential campaign? Got it.

‘God jammed the gun’: Man allegedly tried to shoot pastor during church sermon, dead body later found at accused’s house lawandcrime.com/crime/god-jamm…

‘We want them’: Man who allegedly vowed to ‘push through’ cops to get to lawmakers in Capitol arrested
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‘Made a boo boo’: Former Trump Organization accounting head details how the company reimbursed Michael Cohen during hush-money trial testimony
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Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

I gotta say, pleasantly impressed with the classical hold music selections by the State's Attorney's Office in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Begging Bob to utilize a zoom feature on his phone

‘Massive fraud’: Auditing firm for Trump Media hit with charges, lifetime ban by SEC
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