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NEW #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal š§µ starts HERE: 1/...
Hope Hicks is back on the stand.
Merchan: "Good afternoon Ms. Hicks. Remember you're still under oath."
#TrumpTrial #Trump #legal š§µSTARTS HERE. 1/ā¦
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š See my previous post, just before this one, in my TL
Pagliery:
The judge starts out be making an odd clarification about his gag order.
He says that despite the restrictions on what Trump can say *outside* the courtroom, he can absolutely testify from the witness stand.
Trump lawyer Todd Blanche thanks him.
mid-January 2018, #MichaelCohen texted #KeithDavidson that he had tentatively scheduled #StormyDaniels to appear on #Hannity (she never did)
#Steinglass asked why Cohen was pushing for her to appear on the program. Davidson answered that Cohen believed Daniels would further deny the sexual encounter w/ #Trump.
Cohen had a relationship w/ Sean Hannity, a Trump supporter. In 2018 before Cohenās guilty plea, it was revealed that Hannity was a #legal client of Cohenās.
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Klasfeld:
We're back.
Trump's attorney Susan Necheles hands over "a stack of news articles" by legal commentators like Jonathan Turley, others. She says Trump wants to post them, but she wants to make sure they do not violate the gag order.
"We think that they are perfectly fine."
Prosecutor:
š¤šš¼"It seems odd that they're asking the court for an advanced ruling" on these sorts of things.
NEW #TrumpTrial š§µ starts HERE. #Trump #legal 1/...
McBrien:
Merchan is back on the bench, Davidson is on the stand, and the jurors have returned.
Emil Bove for the defense begins the cross.
#TrumpTrial š§µstarts HERE. #Trump #legal
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Via Andrew Weissmann:
Court about to begin. The defense table, from left to right: Blanche, the defendant (ie Trump), Bove, and Necheles (notably farthest from Trump). Gaggle of photographers shoot Trump, inches from his face: he maintains an implacable and dour expression. ADA Josh Steinglass and his team now enter: Steinglass is very much the lead here.
Sounds good, but I am sure #TFG will be unable to keep his mouth shut for 2 reasons:
1) As he will be convicted in at least one trial, his strategy is to de-legitimize the #US legal system ("#WitchHunt," etc.)
2) The megalomaniac cannot accept that a mere judge tries to gag him, aka "no-one tells Donald J. Trump to shut up!"
(except maybe #Putler or #MBS, but that's a different šµ tory.)
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GOOD
#HarveyWeinstein faces New York retrial after 2020 rape conviction overturned
Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, says his team is determined to retry case against the disgraced movie mogul #legal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/may/01/harvey-weinstein-overturned-trial?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Via Kyle Griffin:
Breaking: An appeal's court has denied #Trump's request to delay the hush money [election interference] trial.
Trump sought a delay because Merchan refused to recuse, because he couldn't invoke an immunity defense and because the judge made his team file motions with a delay to allow for redactions. #legal #TrumpTrial
NEW #TrumpTrial THREAD STARTS HERE š§µ #legal #Trump 1/...
Anna Bower:
Trump has returned to his seat in courtroom 1530.
Keith Davidson is back on the stand.
Here we go!
#TrumpTrial š§µstarts HERE. #legal #Trump 1/ā¦
šVia Katie Phang:
Interestingly: Eric Trump has accompanied his father to court today. Perhaps Trumpās legal team heard all of the chatter about the appearance to the jury with no family members being present?ā¦
š āGoogle and Twitter recently provided hundreds of files to #Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-#Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot.ā #legal
Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry an #Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury. #legal
https://apnews.com/article/877c1740e69bb576717873fd31961309
Arizona rancher accused of fatal shooting will not be retried, prosecutors say
Prosecutors say they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury.ANITA SNOW (AP News)
Federal judge rejects Donald #Trump's bid for new #EJeanCarroll defamation trial, upholds $83M judgment
The judge said Trump delivered "malicious and unceasing attacks" against her. #legal
Via the #DailyBeast
#DonaldTrumpās #legal payroll is easily the largest and most diverse of any political figure in modern U.S. #history. But while most of the attorneys that #Trumpās various fundraising committees have paid over the years are a matter of public record, one of the top recipients still poses a mysteryāwith more than $8 million in legal costs going to an unknown firm, or firms, through what appears to be a corporate intermediary.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-legal-bills-are-hiding-an-dollar8-million-mystery
#legal
https://trib.al/OpHzqi2
Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector case, hearing reveals
The Michigan AG last year charged 16 Republicans with being "fake electors."Laura Romero (ABC News)
1/ā¦š§µ #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal
Letās start with this, via @darthstar, because NY has laws that govern #GagOrders. I heard the Legals on TV say the same thing as Sean here:
https://mastodon.online/@darthstar/112320741962522803
Sean McCabe (@darthstar@mastodon.online)
@Wileymiller@mastodon.social @GottaLaff@mastodon.social I don't think Merchan's giving him a pass...NY has a process.Mastodon
Via Tyler McBrien:
In addition to sanctions, the prosecution is also proposing an expansion of both the gag order and the protective order which established an anonymous jury to include "an additional restriction on speech with respect to prospective and sworn jurors." #Trump #TrumpTrial #legal https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24556619/20240418-people-supplemental-aff-in-support-of-motion-for-contempt-filed.pdf
At the bench conference Judge #Merchan appeared to be speaking firmly to #Blanche.
The result of the conversation ā Blanche may not be allowed to accuse #MichaelCohen of #perjury directly. But he may say that Cohen lied under oath. A #legal distinction.
Blanche suggested to the #jury there was a monetary motivation for Cohen's testimony, saying his livelihood relies on #Trump being destroyed.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
It seems like #Blanche will seek to convince the jury that everything was appropriate & done by the book, not even worthy of notice. That #Cohen was #Trump's lawyer, & he was paid for #legal services. But he'll also seek to distance his client from the matter: "President Trump had nothing to do w/the invoice," he said.
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
#TrumpTrial has begun
#Trumpās #criminal trial for falsifying business records during the 2016 presidential campaign to hide an extramarital affair that occurred while his 4th(?) wife was pregnant from his majority #evangelical #Christian #electorate; to that end he arranged an illegal & financially fraudulent #HushMoney pay-off to the adult-film actress #StormyDaniels.
Once the prosecutor & Trumpās #legal team have outlined their cases to the jury, the 1st witnesses will be called.
#law
#WomensHealth #Pregnancy #PregnancyAndChildbirth #Legal #LawFedi #Abortion #USpol
Wow. #PoliticsGirl is known for astute and well-read commentaries on #politics.
Being personally affected for decades, this is one of the most emotional and convincing speeches of hers.
It is about #MyBodyMyChoice and the life-threatening health impact her pregnancy has had on her and why there should be a right to an access to #BirthControl and to an #Abortion.
American Pregnancy
There are days when I actually canāt believe that with all our advances, and all we know, weāre even contemplating the idea of the American government forcin...YouTube
Wut.
Via Kyle Cheney:
Apparently, in #Texas, state bar investigators did such a "scattershot" job putting together its complaint against #SidneyPowell for her role in the 2020 election that an appeals court has thrown the case out. #legal š¤¦š»āāļø
https://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=430b390e-0f80-43e2-9d6b-53a97caf9fb9&MediaID=e591d629-9c76-4d77-920d-f04faab58bf7&coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&DT=Opinion
The first potential #juror that is being questioned this morning says she has previously worked as a #law clerk for the federal government & has discussed the #legal merits of this case w/many of her coworkers. Justice #Merchan asks if that would influence her if sheās chosen for the jury. She paused before saying she could be fair, but then added: āIt is hard to unring a bell.ā [no doubt. I couldnāt be on this #jury]
#Trump #criminal #law #TrumpTrial
The #defense is objecting to skipping the question about current & past employers.
"That's not fair," #Trump atty Susan Necheles said of being denied the info.
#Merchan asks the #press not to report the answers to questions 3a & 3d on the #juror questionnaire: "Who is your current employer?" & "Who was your prior employer?"
"I have the #legal authority to do it,ā he says of blocking the press from reporting info about jurors' employers.
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: #Trump tells Judge #Cannon his New York trial is moving "expeditiously" and encourages her to postpone some filing deadlines while his lead attorneys are largely stuck in NY. #legal
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.458.0.pdf
Klasfeld:
News #TrumpTrial #legal
In #Trump's NY criminal case, prosecutors file so-called "Sandoval" noticeādisclosing unchged prior bad acts they intend to use at trial to impeach his credibility.
The list in rattles off NYAG civil fraud case, # EJeanCarroll case, & more.
"If the defendant chooses to testify, the People intend to inquire regarding the following"
Full list of litigation prosecutors intend to confront Trump w, if given the green light by judge: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24554324-peoples-sandoval-notice-filed
šš»āFederal appeals court has overturned a #WestVirginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools.
The ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing on girlsā sports teamsā #LGBTQ #legal
https://apnews.com/article/badf5518ada74d01a3f0a0420d2f4074
Federal appeals court overturns West Virginia transgender sports ban
A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools. The 2-1 ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S.JOHN RABY (AP News)
#Trump arrived Monday at a New York court for the start of jury selection in his hush money/election interference trial, marking a singular moment in U.S. history.
Itās the first criminal trial of any former U.S. commander-in-chief and the first of Trumpās four indictments to go to trial. #legal
https://apnews.com/article/8da8759352478be8effd3d5734aae35e
Trump arrives at court for start of historic hush money trial
Donald Trump has arrived at a New York court for the start of jury selection in his hush money case. marking a singular moment in U.S. history. Itās the first criminal trial of any former U.S.JENNIFER PELTZ (AP News)
#Whales #Legal #EnvironmentalProtection #FediLaw
Brilliant.
I second this.
https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow/112264286714702607
Indigenous leaders want to protect whales by granting them legal personhood"What we're trying to achieve here is to provide whales with certain rights," Takoko told Morning Edition. "Those rights include the right to freedom of movement, natural behavior, development, cultural expression ā which includes language ā to a healthy environment, healthy oceans, and indeed the restoration of their populations."
#News #ClimateCrisis #Animals
#Conservation
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1242451885/whale-personhood-climate-change-polynesia-maori-new-zealand
I stopped counting. š§µ 1/ā¦
āThe judge in #Trumpās hush money criminal case on Friday turned down TFGās request to postpone his trial bc of publicity about the case.
Itās the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trialās start Monday with jury selection.
#legal
https://apnews.com/article/4c79619c5e89e13d672e070a4244a302
New York hush money case: Judge declines to delay trial after Trump complains of pretrial publicity
The judge in Donald Trumpās hush money criminal case has turned down the former president's request to postpone his trial because of publicity about the case.JENNIFER PELTZ (AP News)
š āCorcoranās quiet exit from #Trumpās orbit could pose a significant issue for the former president, with the potential for prosecutors to call him as a key witness if the case goes to trial. He also was one of the last attorneys on Trumpās defense team to have handled his federal investigations from the beginning, as his #legal peril skyrocketed.ā
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/11/politics/evan-corcoran-trump-legal?cid=ios_app
#IowaSupremeCourt weighs whether 6-wk #AbortionBan can take effect
#Iowaās Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thurs in a case that could decide the future of #abortion in that state, the latest in a series of #legal battles that threaten abortion #access across the country during a historic #election year.
#law #ReproductiveRights #WomensHealth #AbortionIsHealthCare #AbortionRights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/11/iowa-abortion-ban-court/
