If she moved the trial back now, the Fulton county case would slot it right after the DC prosecution because Fani Willis wants to go to trial ASAP. I'm curious to see what sort of trial date she gets... she might even try for something before March on the off chance the DC trial gets delayed by interlocutory appeals.
I wonder how many Americans are even aware he was in the Democratic race.
Actually, I'm wondering if Chesebro will beat him to it. It's pretty clear that Chesebro is desperate to avoid prison--first, the extremely quick request for a speedy trial, then his failed bid to avoid being linked with Powell. Whoever flips first will probably get the sweetest deal from Willis. It's obvious this decision will raise Meadows' stress level. As reluctant as Chesebro is to admit guilt, he's got to be worrying about what happens if someone else flips first, and given the number of co-defendants, it's pretty likely that at least some of them will try to.
This, IMO, is the big development of the day. I have no doubt that having to do a mugshot has wounded Trump's ego (which could lead to some ill-advised tweeting), but in the long run, Chesebro going to trial in two months will do more damage. The pool of 19 defendants is going to keep fracturing. I'm guessing that those who can't afford the legal fees of a lengthy defense won't move to sever their cases. With a trial coming up so soon, they'll be more motivated to flip. So it's quickly becoming a game of who squeals first.
TBH, I'd love it if the media didn't give any attention to the surrogates Trump sent to the debate. If you can't be arsed to show up yourself, we're not gonna waste time on your puppets.
In this case, I don't think it's a matter of "so he'll show up in court" as opposed to "so he'll stop shitposting". Which he won't. My wild-ass guess is that the sequence will be Trump violates bond conditions-->original bond is forfeited and new bond is set at a much higher amount, say $1,000,000-->Trump violates second bond--->bond revoked, Trump remanded into custody.
Any lawyers around who can tell us when this bond agreement takes effect? Today, when it was signed, or not until after he's been booked? I ask because Trump is still shooting his mouth off on Truth Social. If the agreement took effect as soon as it was signed, Trump's already violated the conditions.
I'll bet his legal advisors have also told him to stop posting about his various legal woes on Truth, and we can see how well that's worked out. The more he shoots his mouth off, the more likely Jack Smith is to get that January 2nd trial date the DOJ requested.
Uh huh, and later he'll claim he can't present the report because he's been silenced by whichever judge or prosecutor he's most pissed off at that day. If only his First Amendment rights weren't being violated, he could clear this all up!
Interesting timing. Looks like the names/charges won't be revealed until around midnight, local time. If you're a full-on unhinged MAGA crazy it's not going to matter when the news comes out, but for some other potentially violent types, there's a bit of a cooling off period to announcing at midnight on a weeknight.
Think about it. If you found out about the indictments in the afternoon and you were angry about them, you'd have all evening to drink yourself stupid while brooding over the injustice of it all. But if you find out at midnight, you're probably thinking, "fuck it, I've got work in the morning and I need to keep this shit job," and you might not drink/enrage yourself to the point of impulsively deciding to go shoot something up. The anger/resentment are still there, but maybe won't reach the point of physical action.
A lot of somebodies. The scramble to blame each other should be darkly entertaining. My guess is that Giuliani has been/will be first to sell out as many people as possible.
Wonder how long this lawyer's gonna last. And whether we'll be experiencing a popcorn shortage in the coming year.
Causing permanent damage to your platform is an interesting definition of winning. I occasionally do a drive-by on some of my old subs although I haven't commented or voted on anything in some time. The pace on big subs like r/news and r/politics is markedly slower than it was three months ago. There are fewer threads and I have the impression that there are fewer posts per thread as well. Looks like many of the mods who have been booted are being replaced with people who mod 50+ subs, so basically the subs will be completely automoderated. I'd expect to see a lot of bad mod calls and little in the way of a nurturing atmosphere which isn't going to help matters. The enshittification continues.
Looking forward to this ruling. Not so much whether or not the DOJ gets the protective order--it will--but the wording of the ruling in terms of warnings to Trump and his team. She might already be considering how/when/if she'd remand him into custody.
I'm worried about the media circus aspects, although I wouldn't mind it being recorded for posterity. If it were broadcast, I'd prefer it be on CSPAN and maybe PBS, shown in full without commentary.
They're pointing out the thing adds strong evidence to the arguments they've been making for the better part of the last 20 years.
But it doesn't, really. People like to think of a power of attorney as an all-or-nothing proposition, something that cannot be used at all unless a person's mentally incapable, but it's a just legal permission to act in someone's behalf--something which can be done even if that person is capable of handling a task themselves but chooses not to.
I agree it's well past time for Feinstein to step down, but the daughter using a power of attorney for a legal matter isn't the evidence people would like it to be. It would only be "evidence" if there were specific language in the POA about it not taking effect unless Feinstein's mentally incapable, which seems unlikely.
IMO, if they're going to make a push for it to be an annual thing, it would be a good idea if the shot were available before school starts in the fall.
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