must be nice getting to appoint the judge directly involving your criminal case
what a cunt.
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Why is she being allowed to get away with this? Didn't she already get reprimanded?
She was also separately the judge in an earlier lawsuit that Trump filed trying to stop the government from examining what it obtained with the search warrant, for reasons that made no sense and they couldn't really articulate. The Trump filings were essentially legal nonsense, so this judge took it upon herself to try to weave together something else for them, that still didn't make any sense. She was faffing about with appointing a time consuming special master (not at all appropriate for that situation) and trying to find ways to prevent the government from examining the evidence. Jack Smith played along with her but at the same time appealed the legality of any of this to the eleventh circuit (actually pretty conservative circuit too). When they finally got the case they said this is all legal nonsense, you never should have even taken up this complaint, accused them of just doing all this only because he was a former president. It was a pretty crazy opinion to read, they were not happy with her. Case was dismissed and the government was finally able to examine all the evidence they had seized with the search warrant. Whole charade delayed the investigation by at least 6 months.
And then when the government finally file charges after the investigation is complete, she gets pulled, again, to be the judge in this case (randomly apparently but from a very small potential pool). Ugh. So that's why we have her again. It's been reported Jack Smith has contemplated filing for her removal from the case. It's a tall order though and would also delay things. Potentially could be trying to gather even more evidence for bias before trying to make such a play, or could be trying to see if there's any way he could still get it through in a timely manner while she plays interference for Trump. Either way it's infuriating, as she's tying up probably the most solid criminal case against him, probably trying to delay it past the election.
Judges really don't like to discipline other judges in any way. Because they know how presidents are set.
Precedents.
But your typo still kinda works....
Particularly in Florida.
In 2000.
Typo, or clever wordplay?
Don’t you already know the answer to this though? 😢
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My physical demeanor will change dramatically towards the powerful, wealthy, and forceful if Trump wins another term. I was very ragged through that entire term. And I will be much worse in dealing with it again.
But I refuse to abandon the US to Trump and his toadies and run off to another country.
There will be plenty to take care of here.
why wait for then to break out the molotovs.
It's so sickening that a teabagger like this, being the Fifth Column which is against our Constitution, against freedom, and against America, can have a job within our government even now.
Just trying to string it out till the election, then he can pardon himself if he wins or start a civil war if he loses.
He’s going to do both.
Remind me: doesn't a pardon include or rather imply an admission of guilt?
Because no guilt, no grounds for pardon, right?
Can pardons be effectively handed out for all kinds of crimes? Or are there crimes, which just can't be pardoned - strictly from a legal point of view of course.
True, but what does that matter to him? He’s their god king. It’s all for the sound bite they can parrot.
That's more DoJ policy, which is legally like an employee handbook: precedent that it is to be followed when deciding to prosecute cases. It would still need to go to court and be weighed by a judge.
Edit: On the topic of civil or state charges, it can be argued as admission of guilt, but again, up to the court to decide.
The President ultimately gets to decide who to pardon. Everything else relates to the Office of the Pardon Attorney/DoJ is there to "help" the President make the president make his decisions. And Trump has already ignored the norm and pardoned whoever he wanted.
You can be pardoned for crimes you haven't committed yet, legally speaking.
Not crimes you haven't yet committed - you can't pardon an assassin for murder then send them on their way
It can be crimes you haven't been convicted of, which is what I think you meant to say
It sounds absolutely batshit insane that judges can take sides and not be impartial when it comes to politics in the US.
Well they aren't supposed to, the US government is pretty corrupt
Seems like it's more of "Jack Smith wants to get this trial going" vs. "Cannon maybe wants to back door delay it a little while."
In any case, I don't think Smith is going to win his fight for a speedy trial. There are just too many was to dilly dally.
Quietly?
Quiet is relative. She's not frothing at the mouth yet, so she's not quite as loud as most Trump-Slurpers.
Ehh, I got that reference.
She's doing it in a way that leaves her with plausible deniability.
Someone wants to be on the Supreme Court.....too bad Trump doesn't really reward loyalty.
You'd be surprised how many lawyers & judges are republicans
I really don't think I'd be very surprised at this point
I misread and thought that a Camera company was going against Trump.
Apparently just a coincidence that's she hasn't received any death threats. /s
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