And of course Boebert chose to play the “Do you know who I am?” card. The correct answer is, “Actually, we know what you are. Who you are is a distinction without a difference.”
Any lawyer who takes on Trump as a client deserves what that entails.
All his lawyers are at best educated fools. Then there are gems like Habba, Giuliani, Ellis, Powell (I could go on, and on, an on). I suppose if I were being as charitable as possible I could say Trump gravitates towards lawyers with the most, er, innovative and eccentric legal theories.
Texas AG Ken Paxton was acquitted at his impeachment trial. He still faces legal troubles. And these are not small legal problems. Never send in politicians to do the work of the legal system. #Jailhim
No we absolutely do not want DeSantis as president, we don't want him in charge of anything. And we certainly don't want his loony medical guy as surgeon general or worse in charge of the CDC
Not arguing with your assessment of Boebert but find it interesting, you like all of the news reporting are giving the man she was with a free pass. This is my point, the reporting has been totally sexist, like only she did something wrong, him meh!
No one said not being in Congress was an excuse for the behavior. But they are not "equal" in their public persona/presentation/presence all of which do make a difference. And, as far as is known, he did not lie about it, double down and only have to back track when videos showed up.
Of course it helps to remember that in the actual WW2, the greatest generation didn’t stand up against Fascism until after France fell, Britain was bombed nightly, we were attacked by the Japanese Army and had Germany declare war on us.
What was that comment by Churchill that Americans will always do the right thing after they do everything else? I might add that it normally takes something violent and deadly before we get off our butts.
Issuing a gag order against the Apricot Arthropod will be worthless. He will just ignore it, as he is constantly doing when it comes to his bail bond in this same case (and the case in Atlanta), I don't see how this order would be much different.
IMO, Judge Chutkan has three options:
1 Issue the gag order with severe penalties should TFG disregard it, as seems most likely. I can hear the ranting already about her denying him his 1A rights to free speech and intentionally damaging his chances to win in '24 at the insistence of "the corrupt DOJ and Sleepy Joe."
2 Enforce the terms of the existing bail bond, which he has blatantly ignored. He is already in violation of the agreed upon terms, which he attested to with his signature. The penalty? Revoke bail and take him into custody -- a wished for but highly unlikely occurrence given the logistics entailed. Further, this option will ultimately be viewed by the MAGAdroids as more persecution of Dear Leader and increase his martyrdom for "Der Kampf." (I'm not concerned about the denizens of the MAGAverse voicing their complaints but of the violence that would likely follow such an action taken by the court.)
3 In order to protect all those who are, or will be, involved in the case -- from the judge down to the alternate jurors -- do what is being suggested more and more often: move up his trial date to limit the time he has to try and intimidate anyone. This option also has the benefit of seeing a likely conviction well before Nov, 2024.
Of the three options, only the third will have *any* effect in curtailing TFG's malignant outpourings. A rapidly approaching court date will fly in the face of his favorite tactic utilized in court: stall, stall some more, stall again, lie and bloviate, and then return to stalling. Making the Apricot Arthropod face the music sooner rather than later would be more troublesome and painful to him than any other sanction of which I can think.
Judge Chutkan could combine 2 and 3. A house-arrest order, coupled with a requirement that the local law enforcement in whichever "house" is chosen set up jamming equipment on his property designed to eliminate the ability for continued violations to eminate from there, and an order than no one is to assist him in violating the "gag" order from a different location, as well as moving up the trial date one month for the egregious violations cited in the government request, and a threat of one week more for each further proven violation.
She could even be "nice" by offering to allow him limited excursions to previously specified campaign locations, while requiring him and his campaign to certify that no transmission devices will be within his reach during his "furlough", and warning of the consequences of his violating the order in his "campaign" rants.
With all the focus on successfully recovering all the secret documents Trump kept, isn't it likely he's got a stash of everything photocopied and squirreled away in the cloud / on a thumb drive / or maybe at the bottom of his golf bag?
And of course Boebert chose to play the “Do you know who I am?” card. The correct answer is, “Actually, we know what you are. Who you are is a distinction without a difference.”
Excellent! Thanks.!
I want to puke every time Trump is referred to as "Mr. President".
Any lawyer who takes on Trump as a client deserves what that entails.
All his lawyers are at best educated fools. Then there are gems like Habba, Giuliani, Ellis, Powell (I could go on, and on, an on). I suppose if I were being as charitable as possible I could say Trump gravitates towards lawyers with the most, er, innovative and eccentric legal theories.
Texas AG Ken Paxton was acquitted at his impeachment trial. He still faces legal troubles. And these are not small legal problems. Never send in politicians to do the work of the legal system. #Jailhim
The boebert stuff is just honestly too delicious and on point. 🤣🤣
The only viable "Gag" solution is to move the trial date up to protect "we the people" and the jury pool.
No we absolutely do not want DeSantis as president, we don't want him in charge of anything. And we certainly don't want his loony medical guy as surgeon general or worse in charge of the CDC
Martin Luther King Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”
But as a closed system it also bends towards entropy.
Martin Luther King Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”
But as a closed system it also bends towards entropy.
Is Jack Smith the only man left in the US?
Not arguing with your assessment of Boebert but find it interesting, you like all of the news reporting are giving the man she was with a free pass. This is my point, the reporting has been totally sexist, like only she did something wrong, him meh!
I agree but I also assume he isn't in congress, and yeah, it matters.
Is Not being in Congress an excuse for his totally inappropriate public behavior in a public theatre where children are present? I think not.
No one said not being in Congress was an excuse for the behavior. But they are not "equal" in their public persona/presentation/presence all of which do make a difference. And, as far as is known, he did not lie about it, double down and only have to back track when videos showed up.
WW2 is coming? I like our chances. I'm sure Americans will rise to the challenge like that time Washington seized the airports from the redcoats.
Of course it helps to remember that in the actual WW2, the greatest generation didn’t stand up against Fascism until after France fell, Britain was bombed nightly, we were attacked by the Japanese Army and had Germany declare war on us.
What was that comment by Churchill that Americans will always do the right thing after they do everything else? I might add that it normally takes something violent and deadly before we get off our butts.
It's a work in progress. What didn't you like? Are you open to change? Where do you position yourself in the political spectrum?
Issuing a gag order against the Apricot Arthropod will be worthless. He will just ignore it, as he is constantly doing when it comes to his bail bond in this same case (and the case in Atlanta), I don't see how this order would be much different.
IMO, Judge Chutkan has three options:
1 Issue the gag order with severe penalties should TFG disregard it, as seems most likely. I can hear the ranting already about her denying him his 1A rights to free speech and intentionally damaging his chances to win in '24 at the insistence of "the corrupt DOJ and Sleepy Joe."
2 Enforce the terms of the existing bail bond, which he has blatantly ignored. He is already in violation of the agreed upon terms, which he attested to with his signature. The penalty? Revoke bail and take him into custody -- a wished for but highly unlikely occurrence given the logistics entailed. Further, this option will ultimately be viewed by the MAGAdroids as more persecution of Dear Leader and increase his martyrdom for "Der Kampf." (I'm not concerned about the denizens of the MAGAverse voicing their complaints but of the violence that would likely follow such an action taken by the court.)
3 In order to protect all those who are, or will be, involved in the case -- from the judge down to the alternate jurors -- do what is being suggested more and more often: move up his trial date to limit the time he has to try and intimidate anyone. This option also has the benefit of seeing a likely conviction well before Nov, 2024.
Of the three options, only the third will have *any* effect in curtailing TFG's malignant outpourings. A rapidly approaching court date will fly in the face of his favorite tactic utilized in court: stall, stall some more, stall again, lie and bloviate, and then return to stalling. Making the Apricot Arthropod face the music sooner rather than later would be more troublesome and painful to him than any other sanction of which I can think.
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Judge Chutkan could combine 2 and 3. A house-arrest order, coupled with a requirement that the local law enforcement in whichever "house" is chosen set up jamming equipment on his property designed to eliminate the ability for continued violations to eminate from there, and an order than no one is to assist him in violating the "gag" order from a different location, as well as moving up the trial date one month for the egregious violations cited in the government request, and a threat of one week more for each further proven violation.
She could even be "nice" by offering to allow him limited excursions to previously specified campaign locations, while requiring him and his campaign to certify that no transmission devices will be within his reach during his "furlough", and warning of the consequences of his violating the order in his "campaign" rants.
$100,000 fine for each and every infraction of the order by the defendant.
Chump (Trump?) change for him even though he will be using donations to cover that. No deterrent effect there.
And bringing the trial date closer every time.
With all the focus on successfully recovering all the secret documents Trump kept, isn't it likely he's got a stash of everything photocopied and squirreled away in the cloud / on a thumb drive / or maybe at the bottom of his golf bag?
Just read this little gem: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/18/2194083/-Trump-used-classified-notecards-to-write-to-do-lists-for-his-Mar-a-Lago-assistant
That or he's already sold the good stuff to our enemies.