You’re going to love this: the latest brief in the Mar a Lago documents case came from Stephen Miller. Yes, that Stephen Miller, the one who came up with the plan of ripping babies out of the arms of their mothers at the Southern Border. He still defends it as a good idea and has given interviews saying there are plans to repeat the policy of breaking up families if Trump is elected in November.
Jack Smith is a high priest of logic. Used in law, that staggers most opponents. That he’s in the side of good is one of best things about this bizarre era we are living through.
Unfortunately, trying to use logic on individuals with the mentality of toddlers is a frustrating exercise. Their whole id is “I want what I want when I want it” which they repeat endlessly until you lose your mind or give up. I think the former president and his ilk think they can wear people down with their nonsense, but I hope Jack Smith can outlast them. I also think it’s time for Loose Cannon to receive another lesson from the 11th Circuit.
I picked Himmler and Heydrich simply because they directly administered and implemented horror. Goebbels was a lot more meaningful in terms of communication than Sam Goldwyn's legendary characterization of a writer as a "schmuck with an Underwood," and if he hadn't killed himself and his entire family, he might well have been sent to the gallows at Nuremberg. But, you know, words vs. action.
I see him more as Kapo - a prisoner-functionary whose job it is to betray his fellow prisoners, help in the process of elimination/extermination. Members of his family are Holocaust survivors and immigrants. Talk about a "self-loathing Jew"!
Miller looks like Adolf Eichmann though. What is so awful is that he now has procreated two children with his Frau Broom-Hilda. This means he is starting his version of Mengele’s Aryan Race!
Yeah, especially Eichmann, balding, on trial. But Miller can't start a "version of Mengele's Aryan Race" because Miller is indisputedly Joosh, so his kids are, too. Leaving aside (as if we can) the uber-faux-Christianity of the mega-MAGAsylum, Miller will learn the lesson of Danton, Robiespierre, Trotsky, and hundreds (thousands) of others: at some point The Revolution devours its own.
“ Trump’s basic position, backed up most recently by his loyal underling Miller, is this: Yeah, I did it, but you can’t get me because I’m Donald Trump.”
What about this is being proven wrong? He has his lawyers doing exactly what he did in New York for years to put off having to pay the contractors that he used or anybody else that he ripped off. And it worked. It worked because having to constantly respond to his frivolous and absurd motions became too expensive and wore them down. I don’t see Jack Smith as being patient so much as hobbled. That Aileen Cannon is still sitting judge on this case tells you everything you need to know who’s could get rid of her? Yeah, she just refused one of Trumps blatantly ridiculous motions, but I think that was so that they didn’t take her off the trial. And Trump has some very big people behind him, largely the federalist society and a lot of lackeys like Miller. Over and over every single federal trial is getting kicked down the road and at the end of that road is November 5. The Stormy campaign fund trial was just sabotaged. Georgia. Chutkin is waiting for the Supremes to hear the ridiculous argument of presidential immunity. And somebody posted his bond so he didn’t have to pay E Jean Carroll.
She only denied tangeranus motion to dismiss because she's planning on dismissing the case after the jury is seated so the government can't re file. It's so friggin obvious.
She can do that and reap the results, if she's that far gone - the government case on the stolen national security documents will be the end of her in that case, but maybe she thinks this is some game in which unhinged judicial rulings from the bench end everything?
LOL, we can agree they're godawful judges but you're describing quasi-psychotic behavior IF I take that literally - "save them from ANY consequences," how does he do that?
These pretrial - trial - post-trial decisions (who to divulge any "in camera" revelations, whatever) will mark each one of these people for the rest of their lives: defense lawyers, judges, jurors, defendants, prosecutors, and in some cases as we have seen in NYC with death threats against a court clerk already, the courtroom staffers, maybe the security guards if there are either credible bomb threats or physical attacks outside the buildings, in the halls, in the cities.
I think you need to read up on our legal history in more granular detail. Even several of the sitting Supreme Court Justices are followed by events that happened over thirty years ago, and more recent issues ("Who paid off Kavanaugh's gambling debts?" etc.) albeit they can only be removed by impeachment, while Cannon can be vetted for any higher posts by judiciary committee hearings, and the judicial oversight rules of the Florida bar as one of their advisory functions if there are items in her past that come to light now, however unlikely that is.
Trump as POTUS is unlikely to be able to turn a switch to simply short circuit these processes and safeguards, and though they've already started via the Federalist Society to form a system to appoint and support each other, it has its limits as well.
Take a long hard look at Clarence Thomas and tell me just how much he cares about the consequences of his transparently corrupt behavior. We live in different times now.
I think we agree on the corruption level having increased, but are reasoning from different premises about the specifics of different cases and judges, that's all.
So the conclusions I reach about what Judge Aileen Cannon can realistically "get away with" seem to differ from what you or others have decided must be the case.
Wait - under what legal theory are you claiming the judge can "dismiss the case" after a jury is seated, and that ends the appeals for a stay due to judicial misconduct?
I missed that part in law school, maybe you can site the precedents, thanks!
Saturday , March 16 EDIT!~
"Cite" not "site," too late at night for me to cite precedents of judges being summarily removed from cases at THIS stage for judicial misconduct, it's also of course bound to help Aileen sail through hearings later until she has to explain WHY she thought it was a great idea to substitute her judgment, previously withheld on the matter (the grounds for "simply dismissing the charges"!)- at this late stage.
So, she would sail right through until the first flurry of questions.
Meanwhile, what ACTUALLY happened?
Judge rejects bid by Trump to throw out classified documents case on constitutional grounds
Politics Mar 14, 2024 6:09 PM EDT
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out his classified documents criminal case, and appeared skeptical during hours of arguments of a separate effort to scuttle the prosecution ahead of trial.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a two-page order saying that though the Trump team had raised “various arguments warranting serious consideration,” a dismissal of charges was not merited.
Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, had made clear during more than three-and-a-half hours of arguments that she was reluctant to dismiss one of the four criminal cases against the 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee. She said at one point that it would be “quite an extraordinary” step to strike down an Espionage Act statute that underpins the bulk of the felony counts against Trump but that his lawyers contend is unconstitutionally vague.
As Trump looked on in the courtroom, his attorneys pressed Cannon to throw out the case, arguing he was legally entitled to keep the sensitive records he is charged with illegally retaining after he left the White House.
His lawyers say the Presidential Records Act gave him the authority to designate as personal property the records he took with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Prosecutors countered that those records were clearly presidential, not personal, and included top-secret information and documents related to nuclear programs and the military capabilities of the U.S. and foreign countries.
WATCH: Biden classified documents special counsel testifies in House hearing
Cannon’s ruling covered only the Espionage Act arguments. A separate motion argued Thursday about whether Trump was entitled under the Presidential Records Act to retain the documents remains pending, but the judge also seemed disinclined to throw out the case on those grounds too.
“It’s difficult to see how this gets you to the dismissal of an indictment,” she told a Trump lawyer at one point.
What I don't get is why more commentary and articles don't explain that the Presidential Records Act was written explicitly to make clear that an outgoing president *shall not* take records - classified or not classified - with him when he leaves the White House. That he & his staff are obligated to turn over any and all White House documents, at the end of his term, to the National Archives. It's that simple.
Lazy journalism. This is bad enough - see THIS for something that is systematically distorting the coverage of the Gaza crisis, and is all over the mainstream media:
"In a statement the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had facilitated the passage of 31 aid trucks to northern Gaza.
“Approximately one hour before the arrival of the convoy to the humanitarian corridor, armed Palestinians opened fire while Gazan civilians were awaiting the arrival of the aid convoy,” it said.
The firing continued as a crowd looted the trucks and some people were run over, the IDF said, adding that it was continuing to review the incident.”
As reported by the Times of Israel and others, contrary to the BBC’s portrayal, the Hamas health ministry did not merely ‘say’ that “20 people had been killed as they waited for aid”: it directly accused Israeli forces of having killed them:
“The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip accused Israeli troops of opening fire from “tanks and helicopters” at the civilians gathered at Kuwait Square late Thursday, killing 21 people and wounding more than 150 others.”
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Then the reporting was updated but the original story (without any IDF response)
was still online. This - these bogus casualty figures and bogus attributions of who has been shooting at Palestinian civilians, who has been launching missiles (thousands of them since October 7) with as much as 15-20% either exploding near the launch site, or falling INTO GAZA instead of sailing on into Israel, if not intercepted by the "Golden Dome" Israel uses, isn't
consistently reported, either.
With all that said, Netanyahu still needs to rein in his ambitions and work even harder (the IDF already takes extraordinary steps) to target IMPORTANT military targets and avoid civilians as much as humanly possible.
I wish Jack Smith had changed the venue in the first place! This "judge" is stupid and compromised - I wonder who is whispering instructions in her ear?!
We all need to vote Blue up and down in every race because who knows what will happen with all the cases. I can't believe the NY case is delayed by 30 days! I live in NY city!
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The delusional and imaginary reality the MAGA-Nazis have created for themselves contains delusional and imaginary laws, which allow the mango moron to do anything he wants with no consequences. Essentially that’s a continuation of the life he has led since childhood. The intrusion of Jack Smith’s logic and the existence of an actual set of laws and justice system, no matter how flawed, is unacceptable to Miller and his ilk because it calls for accountability. And an absolute monarch, as they view *Rump, never has any accountability until, that is, he’s eventually marched to the guillotine. When that situation arises there are no frivolous motions and endless delays.
I just read somewhere, don’t remember where, that Ralph Nader wrote a critique of our justice system and summed it up in two phrases: “Brilliant myopia, and superfluous rigor.” Haggling over peripheral issues in endlessly prolonged court proceedings, as *Rump is once again doing, just to delay, delay, delay, is a perfect example of Nader’s description. Smith cuts through the smoke *Rump constantly blows in all directions, but with a judge in the tank for *Rump, as Cannon has ably demonstrated she is, Smith may indeed run out of both time and patience. The 11th Circuit needs to intervene.
Report finds Minneapolis was wrongly denied federal grant over ‘defund the police’ rhetoric
Brittney Ermon KSTP
Updated: March 14, 2024 - 8:15 PM
Over three years ago, city officials applied for a nearly $1 million grant to reduce crime and drug overdoses, but it was denied.
A new watchdog report regarding the 2020 Bureau of Justice Assistance Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Abuse program found the justification for denying the application contained “critical errors.”
After the murder of George Floyd, some Minneapolis City Council members made a bold statement with a “Defund Police” sign on a stage, and it had consequences.
Under the Trump administration in 2020, the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s acting director was in charge of awarding grants.
The city of Minneapolis applied for $900,000 in federal funding to reduce crime and opioid-related overdoses. The audit found that funding was denied despite meeting all the basic eligibility requirements and scoring second-highest out of 212 applicants.
The report also states a BJA senior policy advisor and an associate deputy director recommended Minneapolis should be awarded the funding.
“Without those resources, we were not able to really address the critical needs of people,” Minneapolis City Council Member Andrea Jenkins said.
Federal documents show the application was denied because of a concern the “defund the police movement advocated by some city council members” would “prevent the proper administration of the funds.”
In the report, officials call the reasoning for denying Minneapolis the funding “inadequate” because it contained “critical errors and omissions.”
“I’m really saddened and disappointed to hear that those kinds of political decisions are being made by the Department of Justice,” Jenkins said. “We have a serious opioid crisis here in Minneapolis and throughout the country, and yet the support to help those individuals is being delayed or denied because of political reasons, and that’s deeply unfortunate.”
RS Eden is a nonprofit fighting to end the opioid epidemic across the state.
“Community-based providers rely on government funding,” said Caroline Hood, RS Eden president and CEO. “The substance use disorder treatment has just ballooned into this massive community-wide need, and funding has to meet the need.”
Hood explained she sees the faces of fentanyl firsthand, and helping those patients is only possible with funding.
“When we don’t have the money, it means we don’t have the staff who can provide care. It means that we don’t have the capacity to explore new interventions to work with research foundations,” Hood said.
Jenkins explained the release of the report still does not right any wrongs.
“The best recourse would be to help and send the resources. The problems haven’t gone away. We still have the problems,” Jenkins said. “To just acknowledge that it was wrong without correcting the problem is egregious as well.”
The audit noted the director did not break the law by denying the application.
The BJA said it plans to improve oversight of how these funds are distributed by having policies and procedures in place to make sure applications are evaluated with accuracy in the future.
You cannot be serious - what possible good can come from advocating the death penalty before accused individuals have even been convicted?
Take about "selective justice," and it's the template the TRUMP CULT relies on!
"Lock her up," "Hang Mike Pence," - it's come to that, seems to mean that the contagion is spreading to people like you, Kozmo, who should definitely resist it and retain your own self-respect - don't get down in the mud with them.
Besides, it's more than enough to keep pounding away, day after day, to DEFEAT their desperate delaying tactics, because that's all they have, and this time last year, March 2023, there were STILL people on here saying "Trump will never be indicted, never be fined, never face consequences," so even when the process is underway, apparently the thinking is, well, it has to be done our way - the defendants and the defense attorneys have to cooperate with us in convicting their own clients!
That's as absurd as what the Trump cult is ranting about, just done out of better motives.
John Luman Smith (born June 5, 1969) is an American attorney who has served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney, acting U.S. attorney, and head of the department's Public Integrity Section. He was also the chief prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, an international tribunal at The Hague tasked with investigating and prosecuting war crimes in the Kosovo War.
****** What part of "prosecuting war crimes" isn't clear enough for you, exactly? He's unable to simply snap his fingers and control the entire machinery of the judicial process, especially given a defendant who is completely bereft of any sound legal arguments to "defend the indefensible," and has only desperate delaying tactics.
They have already established a winnable case with the material evidence they had before indictments, and then based also on evidence supplied by PO 1135890* himself, on the public record, which Trump seems determined to KEEP supplying.
This will not end well for Trump, even if elected and ordering the prosecution to halt, it will all be shifted to the Congress as long as at least one branch is controlled by Democrats, and into an immediate impeachment if they keep the Senate and take the House!
Counsels of despair make zero sense when Trump hasn't even managed to show he can stop Biden in the six or seven key swing states, what has changed in Trump's favor since January 2021 on that front, exactly? NOTHING that will last, or doesn't cut both ways, as in Muslim Americans being upset about Biden's support of Israel, but will TRUMP help them out?.
In fact, Wisconsin seems poised to finally reflect a much more robust Democratic presence at all levels, for example, with changes in the Wisconsin Supreme Court and with a Democratic governor. And the backlash against the attacks on women's rights, how has that helped Trump and the GOP? Or the IVF debacle? *******
We may very well be witnessing the most spectacular downfall in modern times of a Regulus influenced native in the criminal, Donald John Trump.
At this writing on December 14, 2023, PO1135890 is facing four trials with 91 charges. The trials will take place in the spring and summer of 2024.
■ This Star brought trump to the “very high ranking position” of president. ✅️
■ This Star brought trump to a “dramatic reversal.” He lost the 2020 election. ✅️
■ It was determined that trump committed fraud in New York. ✅️
■ PO1135890 will have to pay at least $250 million to the state of New York. ✅️
■ PO1135890 “abused” his power by trying to overturn the 2020 election results to his favor. ✅️
■ PO1135890 “abused” his power by inciting the Insurrection on January 6, 2021. ✅️
■ Once the native of the Star Regulus seeks revenge, the native is doomed. ✅️
■ At this writing, PO1135890 is seeking revenge against President Joe Biden, all of the prosecutors that are in the process of bringing PO1135890 to justice, the judges, and everyone who has spoken out against him. ✅️
Certainly, “ultimate failure and even imprisonment” is a very real possibility facing PO1135890."
LOL It's a bad omen and evil juju for Trump, straight out of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and it couldn't happen to a nicer [Expletives deleted], could it?
Serves as an educational national and even planetary "civics lesson," and remember, Vladonald Trumpskiy did manage to lose the second impeachment vote 57-43 so there's that, too. Anything that hammers away at that $^%$! nihilistic neo-fascist nitwit's nebulous aura of success through fraud and pathological lying is intrinsically helpful!
I was concerned when I read somewhere that the Judge reserved the right to revisit the claims during the trial and if she dismisses then Trump is scott-free.
Jack Smith is certainly the man for this job. But it’s terrifying to think democracy is in the hands of the likes of Eileen Cannon. I am beginning to blame Merrick Garland - he should have got this going a lot sooner. If the orange turd is re-elected, we are truly…you know what. Plutocracy, which we’re already within sight of, then dictatorship. And then the end of this empire. Probably a violent end, too.
Oh my Mary Pat. You struck a nerve. Instead of a good restorative sleep, I have Stephen Miller in my mind’s eye resembling Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula. Miller is way scarier.
Maye with Judge Cannon being beholden to Trump for appointing her and apparently not greatly respected in legal circles they can bamboozle her into dismissing the cae or at least causing a lot of confusion and delays.
No wonder Trump admires Putin and the other dictators. There is no Russian DOJ to question Putin on the handling of classified documents pr questioning him about election interference or paying off a hooker to keep her mouth shut or for sexual assault. No Russian SNL or other late night talk show hosts to poke fun at him. Trump is salivating over the thought of having that kind of power.
Lucian, I'm sure you're writing this down with old-fashioned pen on paper, in a new-fashioned WTF notebook emblazoned SHIT THAT YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE UP on the binding. (Real product I found on the web, bindings in something like 14 colors.)
Stephen Miller? My inner DVD plays the scene in the brilliant 1942 Lubitsch comedy "To Be or Not To Be," when Jack Benny, a Polish ham of an actor pretending to be a Nazi double agent, says to Sig Rumen, Gestapo chief in Poland, "May I say, my dear Colonel, that it's good to breathe the air of the Gestapo again. You know, you're quite famous in London, Colonel. They call you 'Concentration Camp' Ehrhardt." I now think of that Trumpoid as "Concentration Camp" Miller/Mueller. As for the Deranged Degenerate Defendant (surely called by classmates, pre-exile to miliary school, as Dopey Donnie, or Donnnie Dum Dum), in 1995's "Judge Dredd," Silvester Stallone (spot-on casting: those lips!), "The evidence hs been falsified! I never broke the law! I AM THE LAW!"
Life isn't just a retread of movie scenes? Oh, yeah? *You* argue with Oscar Wilde: "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."
Hollywood's 1930's moguls, especially Walt Disney, were afraid of criticizing Hitler because of the money to be made from German audiences. They even ran scripts through Goebbel's representative in Hollywood. Only when a Jewish Warner Brother's salesman in Germany was nearly beaten to death, did WB take action. There's a great book about all this, but I can't remember the title or author.
Thank you LT for a rather chilling post and this mention of the film "To Be or Not To Be" which is highly recommended (by me). Makes me want to watch it again. It was made in 42 when the war was not going so well for the Allies. The gloomy feeling is all through these comments..
Jack Smith is a high priest of logic. Used in law, that staggers most opponents. That he’s in the side of good is one of best things about this bizarre era we are living through.
Except he is stifled so far and the trials need to happen for him to prevail!
It’s frustrating but he’s having the intended effect.
Unfortunately, trying to use logic on individuals with the mentality of toddlers is a frustrating exercise. Their whole id is “I want what I want when I want it” which they repeat endlessly until you lose your mind or give up. I think the former president and his ilk think they can wear people down with their nonsense, but I hope Jack Smith can outlast them. I also think it’s time for Loose Cannon to receive another lesson from the 11th Circuit.
I hope so. There have been various Internet posts about her husband, a former employee of a Trump pal
I did not know this!
That figures!!!
Stephen Miller is Josef Mengele reborn. He is a sick, sick man.
I cannot stand the sight of him ever since the first day I ever saw him saying, 'the president of the united states will NOT be questioned!'...WTF???
I saw that too.
He had a hairline drawn on his head with a sharpie.
Mengele was the depraved doctor. I think more Himmler or Heydrich than Mengele.
Goebbels
I picked Himmler and Heydrich simply because they directly administered and implemented horror. Goebbels was a lot more meaningful in terms of communication than Sam Goldwyn's legendary characterization of a writer as a "schmuck with an Underwood," and if he hadn't killed himself and his entire family, he might well have been sent to the gallows at Nuremberg. But, you know, words vs. action.
I see him more as Kapo - a prisoner-functionary whose job it is to betray his fellow prisoners, help in the process of elimination/extermination. Members of his family are Holocaust survivors and immigrants. Talk about a "self-loathing Jew"!
Miller looks like Adolf Eichmann though. What is so awful is that he now has procreated two children with his Frau Broom-Hilda. This means he is starting his version of Mengele’s Aryan Race!
Yeah, especially Eichmann, balding, on trial. But Miller can't start a "version of Mengele's Aryan Race" because Miller is indisputedly Joosh, so his kids are, too. Leaving aside (as if we can) the uber-faux-Christianity of the mega-MAGAsylum, Miller will learn the lesson of Danton, Robiespierre, Trotsky, and hundreds (thousands) of others: at some point The Revolution devours its own.
The fact that he’s a member of our tribe is revolting!
it's always been Heydrich. seriously, look at a picture of both of them side-by-side. it's uncanny...
MAGAts are Nazis because Hitler is trump's stated hero.
Whenever I see him, I picture him in an SS uniform. He just looks like a Nazi. A very evil and ugly man.
Heydrich.
He is a Sonderkommando.
“ Trump’s basic position, backed up most recently by his loyal underling Miller, is this: Yeah, I did it, but you can’t get me because I’m Donald Trump.”
What about this is being proven wrong? He has his lawyers doing exactly what he did in New York for years to put off having to pay the contractors that he used or anybody else that he ripped off. And it worked. It worked because having to constantly respond to his frivolous and absurd motions became too expensive and wore them down. I don’t see Jack Smith as being patient so much as hobbled. That Aileen Cannon is still sitting judge on this case tells you everything you need to know who’s could get rid of her? Yeah, she just refused one of Trumps blatantly ridiculous motions, but I think that was so that they didn’t take her off the trial. And Trump has some very big people behind him, largely the federalist society and a lot of lackeys like Miller. Over and over every single federal trial is getting kicked down the road and at the end of that road is November 5. The Stormy campaign fund trial was just sabotaged. Georgia. Chutkin is waiting for the Supremes to hear the ridiculous argument of presidential immunity. And somebody posted his bond so he didn’t have to pay E Jean Carroll.
He is facing no consequences
....see Roy Cohn!
And now he has the king of the swift boaters as his campaign manager! It can only get worse as hard as that is to believe!
Oh how I wish you were wrong
She only denied tangeranus motion to dismiss because she's planning on dismissing the case after the jury is seated so the government can't re file. It's so friggin obvious.
She can do that and reap the results, if she's that far gone - the government case on the stolen national security documents will be the end of her in that case, but maybe she thinks this is some game in which unhinged judicial rulings from the bench end everything?
They all expect Trump to be reelected and save them from any consequences
LOL, we can agree they're godawful judges but you're describing quasi-psychotic behavior IF I take that literally - "save them from ANY consequences," how does he do that?
These pretrial - trial - post-trial decisions (who to divulge any "in camera" revelations, whatever) will mark each one of these people for the rest of their lives: defense lawyers, judges, jurors, defendants, prosecutors, and in some cases as we have seen in NYC with death threats against a court clerk already, the courtroom staffers, maybe the security guards if there are either credible bomb threats or physical attacks outside the buildings, in the halls, in the cities.
I think you need to read up on our legal history in more granular detail. Even several of the sitting Supreme Court Justices are followed by events that happened over thirty years ago, and more recent issues ("Who paid off Kavanaugh's gambling debts?" etc.) albeit they can only be removed by impeachment, while Cannon can be vetted for any higher posts by judiciary committee hearings, and the judicial oversight rules of the Florida bar as one of their advisory functions if there are items in her past that come to light now, however unlikely that is.
Trump as POTUS is unlikely to be able to turn a switch to simply short circuit these processes and safeguards, and though they've already started via the Federalist Society to form a system to appoint and support each other, it has its limits as well.
Take a long hard look at Clarence Thomas and tell me just how much he cares about the consequences of his transparently corrupt behavior. We live in different times now.
I think we agree on the corruption level having increased, but are reasoning from different premises about the specifics of different cases and judges, that's all.
So the conclusions I reach about what Judge Aileen Cannon can realistically "get away with" seem to differ from what you or others have decided must be the case.
Wait - under what legal theory are you claiming the judge can "dismiss the case" after a jury is seated, and that ends the appeals for a stay due to judicial misconduct?
I missed that part in law school, maybe you can site the precedents, thanks!
Saturday , March 16 EDIT!~
"Cite" not "site," too late at night for me to cite precedents of judges being summarily removed from cases at THIS stage for judicial misconduct, it's also of course bound to help Aileen sail through hearings later until she has to explain WHY she thought it was a great idea to substitute her judgment, previously withheld on the matter (the grounds for "simply dismissing the charges"!)- at this late stage.
So, she would sail right through until the first flurry of questions.
Meanwhile, what ACTUALLY happened?
Judge rejects bid by Trump to throw out classified documents case on constitutional grounds
Politics Mar 14, 2024 6:09 PM EDT
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out his classified documents criminal case, and appeared skeptical during hours of arguments of a separate effort to scuttle the prosecution ahead of trial.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a two-page order saying that though the Trump team had raised “various arguments warranting serious consideration,” a dismissal of charges was not merited.
Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, had made clear during more than three-and-a-half hours of arguments that she was reluctant to dismiss one of the four criminal cases against the 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee. She said at one point that it would be “quite an extraordinary” step to strike down an Espionage Act statute that underpins the bulk of the felony counts against Trump but that his lawyers contend is unconstitutionally vague.
As Trump looked on in the courtroom, his attorneys pressed Cannon to throw out the case, arguing he was legally entitled to keep the sensitive records he is charged with illegally retaining after he left the White House.
His lawyers say the Presidential Records Act gave him the authority to designate as personal property the records he took with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Prosecutors countered that those records were clearly presidential, not personal, and included top-secret information and documents related to nuclear programs and the military capabilities of the U.S. and foreign countries.
WATCH: Biden classified documents special counsel testifies in House hearing
Cannon’s ruling covered only the Espionage Act arguments. A separate motion argued Thursday about whether Trump was entitled under the Presidential Records Act to retain the documents remains pending, but the judge also seemed disinclined to throw out the case on those grounds too.
“It’s difficult to see how this gets you to the dismissal of an indictment,” she told a Trump lawyer at one point.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-rejects-bid-by-trump-to-throw-out-classified-documents-case-on-constitutional-grounds
What I don't get is why more commentary and articles don't explain that the Presidential Records Act was written explicitly to make clear that an outgoing president *shall not* take records - classified or not classified - with him when he leaves the White House. That he & his staff are obligated to turn over any and all White House documents, at the end of his term, to the National Archives. It's that simple.
Lazy journalism. This is bad enough - see THIS for something that is systematically distorting the coverage of the Gaza crisis, and is all over the mainstream media:
https://camera-uk.org/2024/03/17/bbc-news-in-cant-be-bothered-to-do-journalism-mode-on-aid-convoy-story/
EXCERPT:
"In a statement the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had facilitated the passage of 31 aid trucks to northern Gaza.
“Approximately one hour before the arrival of the convoy to the humanitarian corridor, armed Palestinians opened fire while Gazan civilians were awaiting the arrival of the aid convoy,” it said.
The firing continued as a crowd looted the trucks and some people were run over, the IDF said, adding that it was continuing to review the incident.”
As reported by the Times of Israel and others, contrary to the BBC’s portrayal, the Hamas health ministry did not merely ‘say’ that “20 people had been killed as they waited for aid”: it directly accused Israeli forces of having killed them:
“The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip accused Israeli troops of opening fire from “tanks and helicopters” at the civilians gathered at Kuwait Square late Thursday, killing 21 people and wounding more than 150 others.”
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Then the reporting was updated but the original story (without any IDF response)
was still online. This - these bogus casualty figures and bogus attributions of who has been shooting at Palestinian civilians, who has been launching missiles (thousands of them since October 7) with as much as 15-20% either exploding near the launch site, or falling INTO GAZA instead of sailing on into Israel, if not intercepted by the "Golden Dome" Israel uses, isn't
consistently reported, either.
With all that said, Netanyahu still needs to rein in his ambitions and work even harder (the IDF already takes extraordinary steps) to target IMPORTANT military targets and avoid civilians as much as humanly possible.
I wish Jack Smith had changed the venue in the first place! This "judge" is stupid and compromised - I wonder who is whispering instructions in her ear?!
It’s gotta be someone…
We all need to vote Blue up and down in every race because who knows what will happen with all the cases. I can't believe the NY case is delayed by 30 days! I live in NY city!
The delusional and imaginary reality the MAGA-Nazis have created for themselves contains delusional and imaginary laws, which allow the mango moron to do anything he wants with no consequences. Essentially that’s a continuation of the life he has led since childhood. The intrusion of Jack Smith’s logic and the existence of an actual set of laws and justice system, no matter how flawed, is unacceptable to Miller and his ilk because it calls for accountability. And an absolute monarch, as they view *Rump, never has any accountability until, that is, he’s eventually marched to the guillotine. When that situation arises there are no frivolous motions and endless delays.
I just read somewhere, don’t remember where, that Ralph Nader wrote a critique of our justice system and summed it up in two phrases: “Brilliant myopia, and superfluous rigor.” Haggling over peripheral issues in endlessly prolonged court proceedings, as *Rump is once again doing, just to delay, delay, delay, is a perfect example of Nader’s description. Smith cuts through the smoke *Rump constantly blows in all directions, but with a judge in the tank for *Rump, as Cannon has ably demonstrated she is, Smith may indeed run out of both time and patience. The 11th Circuit needs to intervene.
The mental image of the Mango Mamzer’s head rolling off the guillotine makes me smile.
Why feed the Right Wing Nut Job stereotype of "lawless, vengeful, far left crackpots a who are just out to destroy Donald Trump"?
See also: "Defund the Police."
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Minneapolis, MN
Report finds Minneapolis was wrongly denied federal grant over ‘defund the police’ rhetoric
Brittney Ermon KSTP
Updated: March 14, 2024 - 8:15 PM
Over three years ago, city officials applied for a nearly $1 million grant to reduce crime and drug overdoses, but it was denied.
A new watchdog report regarding the 2020 Bureau of Justice Assistance Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant and Substance Abuse program found the justification for denying the application contained “critical errors.”
After the murder of George Floyd, some Minneapolis City Council members made a bold statement with a “Defund Police” sign on a stage, and it had consequences.
Under the Trump administration in 2020, the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s acting director was in charge of awarding grants.
The city of Minneapolis applied for $900,000 in federal funding to reduce crime and opioid-related overdoses. The audit found that funding was denied despite meeting all the basic eligibility requirements and scoring second-highest out of 212 applicants.
The report also states a BJA senior policy advisor and an associate deputy director recommended Minneapolis should be awarded the funding.
“Without those resources, we were not able to really address the critical needs of people,” Minneapolis City Council Member Andrea Jenkins said.
Federal documents show the application was denied because of a concern the “defund the police movement advocated by some city council members” would “prevent the proper administration of the funds.”
In the report, officials call the reasoning for denying Minneapolis the funding “inadequate” because it contained “critical errors and omissions.”
“I’m really saddened and disappointed to hear that those kinds of political decisions are being made by the Department of Justice,” Jenkins said. “We have a serious opioid crisis here in Minneapolis and throughout the country, and yet the support to help those individuals is being delayed or denied because of political reasons, and that’s deeply unfortunate.”
RS Eden is a nonprofit fighting to end the opioid epidemic across the state.
“Community-based providers rely on government funding,” said Caroline Hood, RS Eden president and CEO. “The substance use disorder treatment has just ballooned into this massive community-wide need, and funding has to meet the need.”
Hood explained she sees the faces of fentanyl firsthand, and helping those patients is only possible with funding.
“When we don’t have the money, it means we don’t have the staff who can provide care. It means that we don’t have the capacity to explore new interventions to work with research foundations,” Hood said.
Jenkins explained the release of the report still does not right any wrongs.
“The best recourse would be to help and send the resources. The problems haven’t gone away. We still have the problems,” Jenkins said. “To just acknowledge that it was wrong without correcting the problem is egregious as well.”
The audit noted the director did not break the law by denying the application.
The BJA said it plans to improve oversight of how these funds are distributed by having policies and procedures in place to make sure applications are evaluated with accuracy in the future.
Me, too.
It's come to that.
You cannot be serious - what possible good can come from advocating the death penalty before accused individuals have even been convicted?
Take about "selective justice," and it's the template the TRUMP CULT relies on!
"Lock her up," "Hang Mike Pence," - it's come to that, seems to mean that the contagion is spreading to people like you, Kozmo, who should definitely resist it and retain your own self-respect - don't get down in the mud with them.
Besides, it's more than enough to keep pounding away, day after day, to DEFEAT their desperate delaying tactics, because that's all they have, and this time last year, March 2023, there were STILL people on here saying "Trump will never be indicted, never be fined, never face consequences," so even when the process is underway, apparently the thinking is, well, it has to be done our way - the defendants and the defense attorneys have to cooperate with us in convicting their own clients!
That's as absurd as what the Trump cult is ranting about, just done out of better motives.
Wait, "Runfastandwin" has a theory Judge Cannon can ALSO "just do whatever she wants" and the feds are stymied, we better wait to see if he's right.
Do I need to label this as SARCASM?
Smith is a hunter. Let’s hope he’s also a killer; I think he is..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(lawyer)
John Luman Smith (born June 5, 1969) is an American attorney who has served in the United States Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney, acting U.S. attorney, and head of the department's Public Integrity Section. He was also the chief prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, an international tribunal at The Hague tasked with investigating and prosecuting war crimes in the Kosovo War.
****** What part of "prosecuting war crimes" isn't clear enough for you, exactly? He's unable to simply snap his fingers and control the entire machinery of the judicial process, especially given a defendant who is completely bereft of any sound legal arguments to "defend the indefensible," and has only desperate delaying tactics.
He is the right man for this job! And he has some very distinguished assistance in Mr. Dreben (?).
They have already established a winnable case with the material evidence they had before indictments, and then based also on evidence supplied by PO 1135890* himself, on the public record, which Trump seems determined to KEEP supplying.
This will not end well for Trump, even if elected and ordering the prosecution to halt, it will all be shifted to the Congress as long as at least one branch is controlled by Democrats, and into an immediate impeachment if they keep the Senate and take the House!
Counsels of despair make zero sense when Trump hasn't even managed to show he can stop Biden in the six or seven key swing states, what has changed in Trump's favor since January 2021 on that front, exactly? NOTHING that will last, or doesn't cut both ways, as in Muslim Americans being upset about Biden's support of Israel, but will TRUMP help them out?.
In fact, Wisconsin seems poised to finally reflect a much more robust Democratic presence at all levels, for example, with changes in the Wisconsin Supreme Court and with a Democratic governor. And the backlash against the attacks on women's rights, how has that helped Trump and the GOP? Or the IVF debacle? *******
*https://livingmoonastrology.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/regulus-the-star-of-donald-trumps-destiny/ ******* "Janice Lea Nelson Says:
December 14, 2023 at 11:48 pm
We may very well be witnessing the most spectacular downfall in modern times of a Regulus influenced native in the criminal, Donald John Trump.
At this writing on December 14, 2023, PO1135890 is facing four trials with 91 charges. The trials will take place in the spring and summer of 2024.
■ This Star brought trump to the “very high ranking position” of president. ✅️
■ This Star brought trump to a “dramatic reversal.” He lost the 2020 election. ✅️
■ It was determined that trump committed fraud in New York. ✅️
■ PO1135890 will have to pay at least $250 million to the state of New York. ✅️
■ PO1135890 “abused” his power by trying to overturn the 2020 election results to his favor. ✅️
■ PO1135890 “abused” his power by inciting the Insurrection on January 6, 2021. ✅️
■ Once the native of the Star Regulus seeks revenge, the native is doomed. ✅️
■ At this writing, PO1135890 is seeking revenge against President Joe Biden, all of the prosecutors that are in the process of bringing PO1135890 to justice, the judges, and everyone who has spoken out against him. ✅️
Certainly, “ultimate failure and even imprisonment” is a very real possibility facing PO1135890."
LOL It's a bad omen and evil juju for Trump, straight out of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, and it couldn't happen to a nicer [Expletives deleted], could it?
It takes 67 votes in the Senate to convict. In our dreams!
Serves as an educational national and even planetary "civics lesson," and remember, Vladonald Trumpskiy did manage to lose the second impeachment vote 57-43 so there's that, too. Anything that hammers away at that $^%$! nihilistic neo-fascist nitwit's nebulous aura of success through fraud and pathological lying is intrinsically helpful!
The patience of a saint hardly goes far enough in describing Jack Smith. He's obviously someone not easily rattled by willful ignorance.
I was concerned when I read somewhere that the Judge reserved the right to revisit the claims during the trial and if she dismisses then Trump is scott-free.
I think that you read about a different claim from the one about the Presidential Records Act, which Lucian writes about. The other claim is that the Espionage Act is too vague to prosecute Trump under, even though it wasn't too vague to prosecute many others under. That's what Cannon put off deciding. See https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/weissmann-judge-cannon-s-ruling-today-was-worst-possible-outcome-for-jack-smith/vi-BB1jVwSe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=848e205b5e8945f783ffadbcd5b36521&ei=17
That is true!
Jack Smith is certainly the man for this job. But it’s terrifying to think democracy is in the hands of the likes of Eileen Cannon. I am beginning to blame Merrick Garland - he should have got this going a lot sooner. If the orange turd is re-elected, we are truly…you know what. Plutocracy, which we’re already within sight of, then dictatorship. And then the end of this empire. Probably a violent end, too.
We are them. Should have waited 'til morning to read this. Thanks, I think, Lucian
Oh my Mary Pat. You struck a nerve. Instead of a good restorative sleep, I have Stephen Miller in my mind’s eye resembling Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula. Miller is way scarier.
Rock a bye bye baby....
Miller is that sad soul who endured ever day of High School abuse plotting revenge!
Good point!
That''s why I read his posts with my morning coffee. One of the benefits of living on the east coast and staying off the grid after dinner.
So the argument just comes down to, I did it yes, but you can't prosecute me because I'm Honest Don. What a waste of time this all is.
“Yes, I did it, and you can’t catch me because I’m Donald Trump, and I’m above the law! Ha, ha, ha, cackle, cackle!”
Maye with Judge Cannon being beholden to Trump for appointing her and apparently not greatly respected in legal circles they can bamboozle her into dismissing the cae or at least causing a lot of confusion and delays.
No wonder Trump admires Putin and the other dictators. There is no Russian DOJ to question Putin on the handling of classified documents pr questioning him about election interference or paying off a hooker to keep her mouth shut or for sexual assault. No Russian SNL or other late night talk show hosts to poke fun at him. Trump is salivating over the thought of having that kind of power.
Putin is doing election interference as we speak!
Yes Kate, just kill opponents and throw in two or three fake opponents (Oh, and take careful mptr of anyone who dares to vote against him :)
But remember, Trump knows him very very well and trusts him over our intelligence service.
The degree of penetration into hearts and minds is daunting. We must do all we can , each of us
Thanks for laying this out clearly, Lucian. Yes, we are they!! MIller and his henchmen are writing it in bold capital letters……..
Aesop's ghost gotta be happy to see a real live Tortoise and the Hair (intentional) Race.
Lucian, I'm sure you're writing this down with old-fashioned pen on paper, in a new-fashioned WTF notebook emblazoned SHIT THAT YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE UP on the binding. (Real product I found on the web, bindings in something like 14 colors.)
Stephen Miller? My inner DVD plays the scene in the brilliant 1942 Lubitsch comedy "To Be or Not To Be," when Jack Benny, a Polish ham of an actor pretending to be a Nazi double agent, says to Sig Rumen, Gestapo chief in Poland, "May I say, my dear Colonel, that it's good to breathe the air of the Gestapo again. You know, you're quite famous in London, Colonel. They call you 'Concentration Camp' Ehrhardt." I now think of that Trumpoid as "Concentration Camp" Miller/Mueller. As for the Deranged Degenerate Defendant (surely called by classmates, pre-exile to miliary school, as Dopey Donnie, or Donnnie Dum Dum), in 1995's "Judge Dredd," Silvester Stallone (spot-on casting: those lips!), "The evidence hs been falsified! I never broke the law! I AM THE LAW!"
Life isn't just a retread of movie scenes? Oh, yeah? *You* argue with Oscar Wilde: "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."
Hollywood's 1930's moguls, especially Walt Disney, were afraid of criticizing Hitler because of the money to be made from German audiences. They even ran scripts through Goebbel's representative in Hollywood. Only when a Jewish Warner Brother's salesman in Germany was nearly beaten to death, did WB take action. There's a great book about all this, but I can't remember the title or author.
Holy crap! I didn't know that. Worth tracking down the book!...(quick web search)...
Looks like you're thinking of one of these two books:
1. Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America Hardcover – October 24, 2017
by Steven J. Ross [ It was a Pulitzer Prize finalist ]
https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Los-Angeles-Against-Hollywood/dp/1620405628
2. The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler Hardcover – September 10, 2013
by Ben Urwand
https://www.amazon.com/Collaboration-Hollywoods-Pact-Hitler/dp/0674724747
Thanks, for finding it.!
It was definitely #2, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler Hardcover – September 10, 2013, by Ben Urwand.
Thank you LT for a rather chilling post and this mention of the film "To Be or Not To Be" which is highly recommended (by me). Makes me want to watch it again. It was made in 42 when the war was not going so well for the Allies. The gloomy feeling is all through these comments..
Absolutely!!
So…
Looks like we gotta kill Nazis all over again.
‘Jus sayin’
Also:
If Citizens United says that Corporations can vote; can every individual participant in said corporation be prosecuted for voting twice?
Jus askin’
As someone above said - MAGA-NAZIS!!! I really like that - I hope it sticks and gets around!!
And “Nat-C’s” for Christian Nationalists.