Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:22 am
thanks everyone for the play by play. I tried watching but it's over my head.
Hard to remember that this is the hearing on the motion to compel Junior, Ivanka, and TFG to give depositions. There's nothing going on but James trashing -- and the brief "Okay, we know you're going to rule against us but please let us string it out as long as we can by giving us lots of time to appeal" by Faschetti.
Got in for two seconds, in time to hear Habba bashing Michael Cohen as someone whom the courts had found to be a liar and guilty of undermining the institutions of democracy.
Okay.... And who was Cohen working for?
AG office dude says: A man is not immune from prosecution just because the prosecutor doesn't like him (paraphrase).
Looking very government-official-like. An interesting contrast to the mob-lawyer look sported by...the mob lawyer...and the Judge Jeanine look of Habba.
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Wallis effs up by stating that James in conducting a civil suit. This is after an hour of talking about how James is conducting both a civil and a criminal suit.
Not great. He had the judge on his side and now appears to be fudging. Sounds so defensive.
"Counselor, when the judge speaks, you need to stop speaking."
Thanks for the great blow-by-blow p0rtia and filly!
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
Judge calls on Habba to respond to Wallis' points. This should be good....
Alas IANAL, so I don't have an opinion on the legal weight of anyone's points, but....
...Habba is back on James is conducting selective prosecution and is unconstitutional. "The evidence is irrelevant if you are improperly investigated, which is prosecutorial misconduct."
BTW, the woman who is sitting next to the judge is a lawyer who seems also to be in charge of running the zoom. She has come down on Habba half a dozen times for talking too fast; breaking up; and interrupting the judge.
Judge asks both side if Trump's prior court loses give James the right to talk about going after Trump in her campaigns. Lobs a soft ball to Wallis.
Wallis catches the lob and says words that amount to, "Yup, judge, you're right, that's the context
Judge, rightly unsatisfied with Wallis' pallid words: "Let me see if I can sum up what you're saying (!): This was not James waking up one morning and saying 'I don't like this guy', this is James following a well-trodden footpath, is that right?"
Wallis: Yes.
Judge turns to Habba.
Habba: It's political. The case is tainted. More of the same James-bashing; tainted, unconstitutional.
Judge: What did James say that assumes guilt of TFG. Give it your best shot.
Habba: I think I stated it. It's that same comment. "I have unfinished business." She's going to sue him and she's going to indict him before she has any facts.
Judge: That's not assuming he's guilty.
Habba: James said: "I believe that the president of the united states can be indicted." (her shot went wide).
Woman at Judge's side is his law clerk, who he allowed to question the attorneys. She is very familiar with all the cases cited and and one point admonished Habba for interrupting her!
Datsoso's inability to keep his lips zipped is not the Court's or the law's problem. And there is no reason that the court has to make a special accommodation just because his client is a flaming Narcissist with a justification complex so wide that he will tell everyone what he has done and demand the court rule its perfectly fine.
p0rtia wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:01 pm
Judge: What did James say that assumes guilt of TFG. Give it your best shot.
Habba: I think I stated it. It's that same comment. "I have unfinished business." She's going to sue him and she's going to indict him before she has any facts.
Judge: That's not assuming he's guilty.
Habba: James said: "I believe that the president of the united states can be indicted." (her shot went wide).
Habba could not even find the quote she had read just minutes before about money laundering. Of course it was not an answer to the judge's question anyway. Yes, her best shot was a dud.
bob wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:57 am
Habba is the parking-garage attorney who was plucked from relative obscurity.
It would appear her client likes her "moxie," and she may well be auditioning for a Newsmax gig.
But she is not serving her client's interests, even if the client initially will be pleased by her performance.
The google shows that she is a frequent guest talking head on NewsMax.
Someone on the Twitter said that she worked for NewsMax, but that's (currently) a no.
She sure has the style down. The trip down HILLARYSPIEDONTRUMP was...not her best moment in today's venue. Made you doubt everything else she said. And rightly so.