INDICTED (INDICATED) #4 - Quadfecta! Perfecta? - Judge Scott McAfee - Georgia v. Trump ET AL - P01135809- Fani Willis

[MN-Skeptic]

The Gateway House of Boys won't stop harassing and putting Ruby Freeman and her daughters' life in danger. Ruby and Shaye filed a defamation claim against the Hoft Bros and TGP. But they won't stop.

The demand for retraction is too big to attach (5 pages) but it's here and worth reading: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-con ... 24bb4a616a

The case was Freeman et al. v. Hoft et al., No. 2122-CC09815-01 (Mo. Cir. Ct.). and it's CourtListener page is https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61 ... er_by=desc

But it was remanded and I can't find the docket for the Circuit Court. I'd appreciate it if somebody could find it because I'd like to add it to the Protopage.

The Guardian had this article today -

Workers at far-right site Gateway Pundit feared credibility issues, filing shows

Employees of the far-right website Gateway Pundit, which has played a key role in spreading lies about the 2020 election, were worried contributors were not credible and expressed concerns about plagiarism, a court filing last month revealed.

Lawyers for Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers suing the site for defamation, made the disclosure in a 16 April court filing seeking a court order forcing the website to turn over more internal documents. They said they had obtained text messages from Gateway Pundit’s director of operations and associate editor “expressing concerns that a contributor engaged in plagiarism and made claims without any sources”.

“Documents produced by third parties but not by Defendants show that TGP’s staff had major concerns as to the professionalism, reliability, and honesty of several contributors, including Jordan Conradson, who wrote some of the defamatory Articles,” the lawyers wrote in the filing in circuit court in St Louis, Missouri.

More at the link above.

Link to the court filing - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... -discovery

[RTH10260]

California man charged with threatening to kill Fani Willis
The man, Marc Shultz, posted multiple comments last October under two separate YouTube livestream videos

Hugo Lowell and Richard Luscombe
Fri 3 May 2024 23.58 CEST

A California man has been charged with sending death threats to Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney who is overseeing the Georgia prosecution against Donald Trump over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state.

The man, Marc Shultz, suggested that Willis “will be killed like a dog” in one of several comments he posted under two separate YouTube live streams, according to the US attorney’s office for the northern district of Georgia.

He was charged with transmitting interstate threats to injure Willis because of her prosecution of the former president, prosecutors said.

The precise circumstances surrounding Shultz’s threats were not immediately clear on Friday. But the canine remark, which came as Trump ramped up his attacks on prosecutors, closely echoed language Trump has used in the past to describe a killing.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... ani-willis

[raison de arizona]

Here we go again.

The Georgia Court of Appeals has agreed to hear an appeal from defendants over whether the judge erred when he ruled that Fani Willis could remain on the Trump RICO prosecution in Fulton County. This pushes that trial further off, likely beyond the election.

[New Turtle]

Is this an automatic stay, or do defendants need to get one granted?

[p0rtia]

I have not heard stay (and I've been looking). Media doesn't give a shit, just assuming.

OTOH, not a lot going on in the case lately, so I actually have no idea.

[Maybenaut]

Willis could moot all of this by stepping aside.

[andersweinstein]

I have not heard stay (and I've been looking). Media doesn't give a shit, just assuming.

[Rolodex]

I'd have to hunt it down (and it may even be upthread but I'm monitoring a dm with a business so can't go look rn) but I think the GA Senate subpoenaed Willis and asked for records, too. IIRc

[MN-Skeptic]

Anna Bower
@AnnaBower

New: The Fulton County district attorney’s office is appealing Judge McAfee’s order that threw out six counts from election interference case against Trump and others.

[Foggy]

... thereby conceding any chance of resolution by the election.

[p0rtia]

... thereby conceding any chance of resolution by the election.

I'll take the counterpoint on this. IMO, there was no chance of resolution by the election either way. Indeed, I think they appealed the charges (which include the phone call fuckhead made to Rathlesburger (sp) and the charge of election interference!) exactly because there is no chance of finishing this year. I was glad they did it. I even thought they should gone to a grand jury to get the charged corrected and reinstated in full--which would have taken quite a while.

GA / Fulton Cty is famous for taking years to bring large cases to resolution. McAfee agreeing to hear the idiotic conflict charge, or whatever it was, made a pre-election case impossible--and his ludicrous "appearance of conflict" decision put the cap on it. #lifeintheautocrisy

[RTH10260]

BUT...But....but... the bank holdup was over in three minutes...

Trump co-defendant's attorney says client only conspired as fake elector for '26 minutes'

David Edwards
May 29, 2024 3:01PM ET

Georgia state Sen. Shawn Still (R) should have charges against him in Donald Trump's election interference case dropped because he only participated in the conspiracy for 26 minutes, an attorney argued Wednesday.

At a Fulton County Superior Court hearing, an attorney for Still told Judge Scott McAfee that his client did not deserve to be included in an indictment with other co-defendants in the case.

"Mr. Still was indicted for his activity on one day and one day only," the attorney said, referring to a meeting of so-called fake electors. "The meeting on December 14, zero beforehand and zero afterwards. The indictment goes to a meeting that he attended that lasted approximately 30 minutes. He has only been charged for his activities as an elector, nothing else."

"His RICO charge and the eight substantive counts are all with respect to assembling peacefully with other citizens for 26 minutes precisely, listening to information about a lawsuit seeking redress from the government in terms of the outcome of the election," he continued.

The defense attorney also dismissed Still's role as secretary of the meeting.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-co-defen ... awn-still/

[Slim Cognito]

Sure, I beat that guy viciously but only for 30 seconds. What’s the problem?

[RTH10260]

Georgia elections board member denies plans to help Trump subvert election
State GOP praises appointment of podcast host Janelle King as ‘integrity-minded’ as she replaces more moderate Republican

George Chidi in Atlanta, Georgia
Mon 3 Jun 2024 12.00 CEST

A new appointee to the Georgia state board of elections has elicited questions about whether she may be part of preparations to subvert the election on behalf of Donald Trump and others who are hoping to cast doubt on results that don’t go his way.

Those fears are unfounded, she said.

The Georgia speaker of the house appointed Janelle King, a Black conservative podcast host and Republican party hand, to a critical fifth seat on the board of elections in May. The state GOP applauded the replacement of a more moderate Republican with King, seeing her as a vote for “election integrity” ahead of a critical presidential election.

But King flatly denies that she intends to interfere in the state’s elections as a board member or that she has had contact with the Trump campaign or its surrogates with regard to her appointment.

“I’ve heard several rumors about what I’m going to do or not going to do,” King said. “And the way I see it is that this is what people expect of me and what they perceive. But I’ve never been one to do anything based off of what other people want. I like being fair, I like getting good sleep at night.”


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/art ... p-election

[bob]

CNN: Trump appeal to remove Willis from Georgia election subversion case set for October, likely putting trial past Election Day:

The Georgia Court of Appeals has set a tentative date of October 4 to hear oral arguments in the effort to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis removed from prosecuting the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others.

The possibility that the disqualification fight could stretch to October, as well as an ongoing question about how the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on presidential immunity could impact the prosecution, makes it extremely unlikely Trump will go on trial for election subversion in Georgia before Election Day.

Justice delayed, etc.

[SuzieC]

What bullshit. Thank God for Alvin Bragg.

[bob]

Just making it official:

I would be surprised if the Georgia appellate court issued a ruling before election day. But even if it did, it would be little effort to delay further proceedings until after election day. And it will take some time to ramp up in trial court once it returns.

There is some chatter about how some defendants (but not the marquee one) could still go to trial relatively soon. But I doubt that actually will happen.

[raison de arizona]

Huh. Funny how that works.

Fani Willis on #Maddow: “Georgia had never had a prosecutorial oversight committee, and all of a sudden, 14 minorities were elected to office to serve as district attorney. And now, all of a sudden, they need an oversight committee to look after…

[raison de arizona]

https://x.com/KatiePhang/status/1801028656090775940

JUST IN: The Fulton County DA's Office has moved to dismiss the appeal filed by Trump and some of his co-defendants on Judge McAfee's denial of their motion to disqualify DA Fani Willis.

The Fulton County DA's Office argues that the appeal should never have been allowed to move forward in the first place b/c there is a "lack of sufficient evidence based on the explicit factual findings of the trial court."

The motion: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... to-dismiss