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Prosecutors: Trump Mar-a-Lago security aide flipped after changing lawyers (www.politico.com)

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A Trump employee who monitored security cameras at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly retracted his earlier grand jury testimony and implicated Trump and others in obstruction of justice just after switching from an attorney paid for by a Trump political action committee to a lawyer from the federal defender’s office in Washington, prosecutors said in a court filing Tuesday.

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[–] athos77@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Georgia Republicans are working on passing a law to let the legislature get rid of any DA they disapprove of.

[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

That sounds like RICO could be expanded to a few more people.

[–] Volkditty@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Damn, what a weird coincidence.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

Fucking fascist trash

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already passed it, but it's designed to target DAs who don't prosecute abortion cases, not to stop Willis; it works through a panel of former DAs/judges and a number of them are appointed by the governor, who has no great love for Trump.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No it's for both, if a loophole exists they will exploit it, you cannot give these people the benefit of doubt, if they don't go after Willis using this they will just go after some other legitimate case's prosecutor down the line.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm not, it's just that if they want to stop Willis it's not very well designed for that because they can't even start accepting complaints until July 2024 and the process seems to be somewhat drawn-out (one panel has to investigate and then refer it to another panel). And of course this assumes it survives the inevitable court challenges.

I'm sure it'll be very effective at shutting down whatever prosecutor goes after Kid Rock for trying to steal the 2028 election, but it's not going to do much about this particular prosecution.