"This contempt filing stretches the scope of the court’s stay order beyond its plain language. The stay order says DOJ can’t try to advance the case, and their filings do no such thing. The filings are just there so that if the case gets sent back by SCOTUS there will not have been any delay on DOJ’s side."
Trump's defense is accusing Jack Smith & his team of Contempt of Court, because he passed on evidence to them.
It doesn't appear to be logical to provide them with evidence without them asking for it, a procedure they'd then be utilizing to accuse him of violating judge Chutkan's court order.
Except if it was a trap they deliberately set up for Jack Smith & his team.
A Roy-Cohn-style trick.
"Trump’s legal team said Smith and prosecutors working on the case have disregarded an order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan by continuing to turn over evidence to the defense and filing a legal motion, according to a court filing."
@marcelias Every single one of those 126 House "Republicans", who signed the amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania before SCOTUS in 2020 should already be disqualified to hold any office under the United States, for election subversion (<= Nancy Pelosi).
So Trump was blindsided that Sidney Powell decided to flip on him. But... my brother in Christ why?
That woman has been nothing but devoted to him & his "cause" and he's treated her with contempt, laughed at her behind her back, never lifted a finger to help... Then there was the plan to try and blame the whole thing on her...
I'm glad she flipped, not just for the case, but it's been disturbing to watch people serve that guy for NOTHING take abuse and just keep going. It's a ray of sanity.
@futurebird Powell, Chesebro & others flipping is just a matter of self-preservation, in no way an indicator of ideological recovery from assholism.
Which prosecutors likely didn't even expect, just being focused on building the case based on available evidence laying bare the facts of the infamous matter.
@crooksandliars 🤔 Wasn't it Ingraham, who begged for Trump to order his insurrectionary hordes to stop assaulting & taintingthe United States Capitol on Jan 6, 2021?
Did Laura come to the conclusion she made a mistake then?
Do Fox & she approve insurrection & conspiracy against the U.S.?
Anyone else get the feeling that Jared Kushner’s Middle East Peace mission was a criminal scheme that involved selling his position, secret intel and himself to hostile foreign actors for money to help settle his debts?
I don’t think Kushner gave a rat’s ass about peace, do you?
😎 Wow, NY Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron is getting very serious on the Trump clan!
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The case's defendants — Trump, sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and two other top executives in Trump businesses — were ordered to inform the court of "any other entities controlled or beneficially owned" by them, any "creation of a new entity to hold or acquire the assets," and "any anticipated transfer of assets." Engoron also authorized a court-appointed monitor, former federal judge Barbara Jones, to oversee this process until someone can be appointed to dissolve Trump's companies.
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Dissolve Trump's empire of fraud.... 👏👏👏👏 The bill for decades of fraud.
@marcelias Cleta Mitchell should already be an indicted co-conspirator under Georgian laws.
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“It’s absurd for Cleta Mitchell or others to suggest our path to victory is by making it harder for young people to vote,” said the ex-Republican congressman Charlie Dent. “Republicans should not fear how people vote. Good candidates with good messages should resonate with voters.”
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Jack Smith is not "hating" Trump.
It's Jack Smith's job to bring career criminals to justice — and he's certainly excellent at it.
It's completely irrelevant, whether Trump is an asshole or not, the job of the prosecutor is to serve justice & the people's Rule of Law, which no one is supposed to be above — not even more or less wealthy sociopathic real-estate developers, who wrongly assume justice should serve & protect them from accountability & the laws of the United States.
@lawfare Fake elector brains seem to be unable to understand, that despite hypothetically possible removal of their cases to federal court(s) the charges against them will still be Georgia state charges under Georgia law.
And no U.S. President will be able to pardon them for offenses against Georgian laws.
😎 Bad luck, fake elector actors!
Amazing that the Texas House had the courage to call out the obvious impeachable offenses of Paxton; amazing, too, that it wasn't a foregone conclusion until the votes happened that Texas Senate Republicans were dedicated to the grift that is modern Republican politics—it seemed like they were taking it as seriously as their House colleagues. But, nope. They protect their own; they prefer crime. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/16/us/ken-paxton-impeachment-texas
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“Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million. Those were all illegal and we were able to stop every one of them,” Paxton said on the podcast.
“Had we not done that … we would’ve been one of those battleground states that they were counting votes in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election,” Paxton continued.
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@marcelias No lawsuit potentially disenfranchising up to 20 million voters can honestly be called "lawful".
While such monstrously fraudulent initiatives would fit any jail-worthy career fraudster & mobster perfectly.
This Daily Beast piece on DeSantis' security team tripping over themselves to keep a 15-year-old kid from asking difficult questions is pure gold. Getting big time Dead Zone vibes after reading this story, and this kid is my new hero.
His question should be the first that anyone asks every GOP candidate on the campaign trail for the next 14 months:
“Do you believe that Trump violated the peaceful transfer of power,” the teenager asked the governor, “a key principle of American democracy that we must uphold?”
@briankrebs Anyone's entitled to get an honest & straight answer to that very justified question.
However, don't expect one from today's "Republicans".
"When the Republican candidates pledged loyalty to Trump last week during the debate (and on other occasions as well), they were also endorsing and supporting his crimes and promising to continue with them. As a practical matter, they are now his criminal co-conspirators."
@marcelias Sounds like the plan of an organized criminal network, which is inconceivably still allowed to participate in elections it is firmly resolved to rig systematically.
That shouldn't even be possible in bodies politic, where the law rules.