Namely, how will they find enough time to spend the massive influx of campaign contributions from grateful constituents and gay activists? Of course, the four state senators whose votes put the legalization over the edge are now facing retribution from within their own party and challenges to their seats from the left, but we’ll ignore that for the moment and just say: We never before thought anything involving the words money and politics in tandem could be so heartwarming.
Mueller’s sentencing memo in Paul Manafort’s DC case was due today … here’s what may be going on assuming it doesn’t show up in the next 45 min:
1. They’ve filed under seal, and once a redacted version is okay’d we’ll get it soon.
2. They missed the deadline. Option 1 is what’s happened in the past during the plea deal breach briefing (and sometimes the lawyers wouldn’t publicly confirm they’d filed at all), and is much more likely than option