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NEW #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵 starts HERE: 1/...
Hope Hicks is back on the stand.
Merchan: "Good afternoon Ms. Hicks. Remember you're still under oath."
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😂 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 Cohen’s guilty plea, it was revealed that Hannity was a #legal client of Cohen’s.
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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:
🤔👉🏼"It seems odd that they're asking the court for an advanced ruling" on these sorts of things.
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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 🧵starts 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 💵 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 🧵 #legal #Trump 1/...
Anna Bower:
Trump has returned to his seat in courtroom 1530.
Keith Davidson is back on the stand.
Here we go!
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👀Via Katie Phang:
Interestingly: Eric Trump has accompanied his father to court today. Perhaps Trump’s legal team heard all of the chatter about the appearance to the jury with no family members being present?…
👀 “Google 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.” #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)
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...the anti-democratic, plutocratic #HeritageFoundation bemoans the imaginary #TyrannyOfTheMajority*, it successfully has been implementing a #TyrannyOfTheMinority, a #plutocracy in tendency(!) similar to the post-feudal system in Europe.
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110888931313470397
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HistoPol (#HP) (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)
#USpol #Elections2024 Every time I read something like this, I have to think of this #FederalistSociety BS piece, The #TyrannyOfTheMajority.Mastodon
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That's why I said, "...should be ruled unconstitutional,..." It might not be, given the fact that the complete institutional setup was meant to protect the WASP landed gentry.
How inadequate the system.of checks and balances has proven to be could be seen by the repeatedly failed attempts to hold rogue office holders to account: #OJohnRogge, #Agnew, #Nixon, #Trump, #Alito,...the systemic failures even have a tendency to grow worse.
While the...
@philip_cardella
@CarlG
#USHistory #Legal #FediLaw
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...their peers or another branch of government. (Impeachment is clearly not working for the Presidential office, the chief reason being the undemocratic #filibuster.)
So, any any special Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights (#LEBOR, #LEOBR, or #LEOBoR) for the police is undemocratic and should be ruled unconstitutional, including contractual means to circumvent this fact.
It's a manifestation of #AnimalFarm.
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@CarlG
#USHistory #Legal #FediLaw
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...#RomanRepublic, elected officials of one of the 3 branches of government, deserves immunity while in office. Once their term ends, they must be accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
This is what really differentiates a democracy from (absolute) monarchy or Putinesque authoritarianism/tyranny.
Therefore, if there is serous cause that members of the government committed crimes, their immunity must be lifted by their...
@CarlG
#USHistory #Legal #FediLaw
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...recently begun to think that given the slaver and colonial origins of the police force in the US, it might become necessary to rebuild everything from the ground up. How? I wouldn't know.
Looking at the causes auf #BLM and the current police brutalities against students exercising their #1A on public grounds (sometimes private--different story,) the system might be beyond repair indeed.
In essence, as in the...
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...#Orwellian #dystopias simultaneously: #1984 and, more pertinent in this context, #AnimalFarm. Seen from this novel's perspective, aspiring to be the One Animal [that] Is more equal Than Others makes perfect sense. It even strongly appeals to the lowest human instincts.
I have long thought that #DefundThePolice doesn’t have any merit, except for anarchists waiting for the breakdown of civil society to loot shops, etc.
I have...
@CarlG
#USHistory #Legal #FediLaw
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...of the #MagnaCarta 2), which only applied to barrons and the clergy, the #US despite #Reconstruction and all the Amendments was never able to really overcome systemic racism and plutocratic discrimination. In fact, ever since #CitizensUnitedVsFEC, the pendulum has been swinging in the opposite direction, so far culminating in the overturning of #RoeVsWade.
Alas, we are living in at least two...
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...that they are moving abroad because of (the #Conservative takeover of) the #SupremeCourt. I'm at least as worried about this #PoliceState development.
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...equal than others. And then there's
b) The #US are inexorably moving towards a #PoliceState, at least in the states that have #LEOBRs, if you also factor in the #surveillance by the various #intelligence agencies.
You don't even need to keep in mind the #Conservative #Project2025 playbook, the #GQP draft version of #Hitler's #Ermächtigungsgesetz*(#NS #EnablingAct of 1933), to see that trend.
@GottaLaff wrote...
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Litigation is a huge issue in the #US. Penalties often are astronomical seen from an international perspective. Also, malfeasance by police officers including #RacialProfiling and l, IMO, #PredictivePolicing seem to be much more frequent, maybe just more reported.
However, my bottom line is that
a) #SystemicRacism will never be overcome w/o abolishing #LEOBR|s. Police officers are nothing but citizens in uniform. They're no animals more...
The Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights (#LEBOR, #LEOBR, or #LEOBoR)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Officers%27_Bill_of_Rights
What is your opinion on this? "Critics say that the LEOBR makes it impossible to discipline or remove bad officers, such as after they have been convicted of felonies in the courts. Under LEOBR, officers are judged only by other officers. LEOBR prevents the formation of independent review boards that provide independent oversight over police actions."?
Inventive.
I recently took an "internet trip" down the bills of rights, #MagnaCarta, etc.
I realized that there is much more to it than is usually taught. It got too much, so I dropped it eventually.
(I think I was trying to track down the first bill that awarded the right to vote 🗳 in #AngloSaxon culture.)
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Klasfeld:
Trump is back at the defense table, and we're waiting for the judge to return to the bench.
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Via Klasfeld:
Trump entered the courtroom in his usual slow stroll and perturbed disposition.
He let out a slight exhale as he reached the defense table before sitting down.
Present in the gallery again today:
Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn.
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
#DonaldTrump’s #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 #Trump’s various fundraising committees have paid over the years are a matter of public record, one of the top recipients still poses a mystery—with 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
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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)
