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To be fair: Getting served with your indictment at your 80th birthday party is kinda rock star.

A more useful article would have explored the singularity of the Court's freedom from well-established rules that that apply to other judges and hundreds of thousands of government employees, and the collapse of the assumption that the justices can be relied on to behave themselves. :yeahthat: Basi...

Rolodex wrote: ↑Sat May 18, 2024 9:06 pm I suspect that protestation is for the hoi polloi (MAGA) and begging.

Oh, yeah; e.g.:

“I had zero communications with any of the electors in Arizona, zero involvement with any of the litigation or the legislative hearings in Arizona,” he said, standing just steps outside the courtroom. “We will proceed with trial, and I’m confident if the law is faithfully applied, I’ll be fully exo...

Some jerk* made Bad Legal Takes (sorta)!:



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Kendra wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 11:28 am Haven't spotted a link yet, but CNN reporting Eastman's arraignment in Arizona is today

Eastman's mugshot official AGOTUS portrait:

p0rtia wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 10:55 amAnd I want to know what the neighbor's sign actually said.

before Cohen was cross-examined, which indicates to my IANAL brain that he holds some bias and might not be the best observer. And all of that is excellent fodder for cross-examination. Whether defense counsel landed the "he's biased therefore unreliable" is both subjective and ultimately...

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 10:11 pm Am I to believe that Justice Alito arrived home every evening and never noticed the flag?

In January 2021, much of the nation was still on lockdown and working remotely. IIRC, that included SCOTUS justices.

Another dumb question but I'm seeing bits and pieces of hints on the Internet that Cohen's testimony was disastrous on cross and/or that he "flipped" or something something. Anyone else seen this stuff? E.g., Newsweek: Michael Cohen Had His 'Knees Chopped Out' on the Stand: Legal Analyst ...

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 12:21 pm I have no idea, but I doubt any of them want to spout their legal theories under oath. It's not like Fox News where lying is a requirement.

Doubtful any would be permited to testify.

zekeb wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 6:42 pm Isn't it more an issue of "is it your car"? You're liable.

If someone steals your car and causes damage with it, you're probably up to "you're also liable."

noblepa wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 5:48 pm Right now, I don't think that any kind of generalized principle of law can be articulated about such a situation.

Did you turn on the car? You're liable.

Grifters gotta.

538 (ABC): Biden's path to winning the Electoral College runs through the Midwest : He's polling just short of Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania . * * * In 2020, Biden won the national popular vote by 4.5 percentage points, but he won Wisconsin — the state that tipped him over the 270 el...

Isn't this a little early as they aren't even "official" candidates yet? Well, they are official candidates at this point: Candidates for their parties' nominations. ;) But I take your point (and I somewhat agree), in June they'll both still be "presumptive nominees," and not ac...

P&E: “And Ye Shall Know the Truth” : I want to emphasize, to any of you who might read this, the tremendous significance of THE TRUTH. In the purest sense, telling the truth is something that always is the right thing to do. * * * In a related matter, would George H.W. Bush have been constitutio...

To go a step further: A blue check mark almost certainly means you are paying to tweet.

This change made me switch from not blocking to habitually blocking most blue check marks.

Some nimrod told Orly Taitz that he had seen Rahm Emanuel meet with the judge during the Connie Rhodes trial in Georgia (actually, it might have been during the show-cause hearings on sanctions). The “proof” was that the judge was supposedly seen in a Columbus, GA coffee shop with a “dark-completed...

Considering those two factors, together with the ultimate smackdown of the thin-skinned bullies, that simple "LOL, no" email is worth thousands of dollars in attorney's fees. You gotta be a hella lawyer with an airtight case to send something like that, and that's our MikeDunford in actio...

Too also: The second letter (which, admittedly, is more lawyerly) took time to write.

I was just about to ask if that was a legal way to get around a gag order. No, as the order includes people acting of the direction of this defendant. Normally, if it isn't a question of legality, but a question of proof: What is the evidence that these people are acting at the direction of the gag...

And:

Laity wrote: Ankeny was improperly decided. State Courts cannot overrule US Supreme Court Precedents such as Minor, Wong Kim Ark, The Venus, Shanks v. Dupont, et al. Somebody help me here. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out what precedent the Indiana court overruled. Bueller? Bueller? ...