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Post by SSHoya on Mar 10, 2024 14:20:26 GMT -5
Trump campaign insider recounts failed hunt for 2020 fraud in new book The December 2020 claim of voter fraud was explosive, if true: More than 700,000 people had voted twice in Wisconsin, the tip alleged. But when a highly paid expert for Donald Trump’s campaign began to study the claim at the behest of a Trump lawyer, he quickly realized that not only was it false, it had also traveled a surprisingly twisted path before landing in his inbox. The expert, Ken Block, learned it had first appeared in a post on a website called TheDonald.win, where it was spotted by the owner of an IT company, who brought it to the attention of the general manager of Trump’s golf course in the Bronx. Since the election, Block writes, he has received subpoenas as part of investigations by special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani T. Willis, who are both pursuing criminal cases against Trump, alleging that the former president improperly tried to overturn the election. At issue in both of those cases will be whether Trump understood that the allegations he was making about voter fraud were false. Block said he has provided documents and met with investigators but did not know whether he would be asked to testify in any trials. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/10/trump-ken-block-campaign-fraud-book/
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 11, 2024 19:38:02 GMT -5
A longtime Mar-a-Lago employee who is a central witness in the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is now speaking publicly because he believes that voters should hear the truth about his former boss and the case before the November election. Brian Butler, who is referenced as “Trump Employee 5” in the classified documents indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith, told CNN in an exclusive interview that he doesn’t believe the criminal case against Trump is a “witch hunt,” as the former president has claimed. www.cnn.com/2024/03/11/politics/trump-employee-5-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/index.html
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 11, 2024 19:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 14, 2024 12:05:52 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 18, 2024 21:28:50 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 20, 2024 14:14:04 GMT -5
I've tried cases in front of some rather obtuse federal judges and it's as frustrating as h*ll. Here, Loose Cannon's actions seem deliberate. Time for DOJ to seek recusal. ‘Very, very troubling’: Judges, lawyers flummoxed by Judge Cannon Lawyers and former judges said they are baffled by an order issued this week by the federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s pending trial on charges that he mishandled classified documents — and believe her instructions suggest the case will not go to trial anytime soon. “In my 30 years as a trial judge, I have never seen an order like this,” said Jeremy Fogel, who served on the federal bench in California and now runs the Berkeley Judicial Institute www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/20/trump-cannon-judge-pra-jury-instructions/
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 21, 2024 13:15:07 GMT -5
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Post by hoyajinx on Mar 21, 2024 16:46:01 GMT -5
I’ve never heard of this happening. When I was in law school, the students going for clerkships would stab each other to secure one. This is a huge red flag among the dozens of other red flags. She is an unqualified disaster as a judge, and, given how unethically she’s acted, probably as a person as well.
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Post by DanMcQ on Mar 23, 2024 6:59:49 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 23, 2024 9:27:43 GMT -5
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Post by CTHoya08 on Mar 23, 2024 16:04:41 GMT -5
As a former district-court clerk who did not particularly enjoy working for his judge . . . This is a huge, huge red flag. People don’t quit these jobs. People don’t even speak negatively about their judges, in the open, because it’s not a good look for an attorney (or the firm that employs him) to be “speaking ill of a federal judge.” So for multiple clerks to resign midterm, there has to be something seriously off here. In other words, Cannon is not (or is not just) incompetent. The clerks must be seeing and hearing things that are giving them serious ethical concerns. And I don’t say that to paint them as saints. I mean they must be weighing the career damage from walking away from a clerkship against the career damage from staying on with this judge, and concluding that the latter is worse.
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Post by RusskyHoya on Mar 23, 2024 23:31:59 GMT -5
I try very hard not to be a doomer, but part of me is starting to believe that she will ultimately wait until a jury is empanelled (and thus double jeopardy attached) and the case has been argued and and then grant a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the jury instructions are impermissibly vague. This nonsense with the competing jury instructions feels like it's laying the groundwork for that.
IANAL but my understanding is that this would not be appealable.
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 26, 2024 18:52:37 GMT -5
Collateral to the DOJ investigation Co-Conspirator 4: Jeffrey Clark, a former senior Justice Department official who sought to use the agency’s influence to help reverse President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat, violated legal ethics and should be sanctioned professionally, even prohibited from practicing law in the nation’s capital, an attorney for the D.C. Bar told a disciplinary panel Tuesday. “To use the authority of the Department of Justice to overturn the election, based on a lie, with no concerns that the department had no evidence of fraud that affected the election — and Mr. Clark didn’t have any evidence either — what Mr. Clark was attempting to do was essentially a coup at the Department of Justice,” said Hamilton P. “Phil” Fox III, lead prosecuting attorney for the D.C. Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel. In a separate, federal indictment in D.C. accusing Trump of election interference, prosecutors vividly depicted Clark’s alleged role in a conspiracy that they say Trump orchestrated. That indictment identifies Clark only as “Co-Conspirator 4,” but it includes details that match reporting about Clark’s post-election role. It portrays him as a linchpin of plans to bypass the acting attorney general and use the imprimatur of the Justice Department to spread “knowingly false claims of election fraud” and deceitfully substitute legitimate electors with sham alternates supporting Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/26/jeffrey-clark-trump-bar-license-revocation-hearing/
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 28, 2024 7:25:08 GMT -5
After U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon issued an unusual order on March 18, concerning prospective jury instructions in former Pres. Donald Trump’s classified documents case, some observers wondered if the government has any means of challenging jury instructions before they are delivered. Let’s explore that question. To make a long story short: there is a path, but it’s not easy. After interviewing several lawyers and performing some rudimentary independent research, I found six instances in which the government challenged yet to be delivered jury instructions by means of a petition for a writ of mandamus. In four of those instances, the petition succeeded. In two challenges—one successful, one not—the government brought the action after the jury had already been sworn in. (If readers know of other precedents, please alert me to them at roger.parloff@lawfaremedia.org.) At the same time, it should be stressed that all the successful challenges were spurred by truly extraordinary situations—as any successful mandamus action must be. Additionally, in some cases the government was able to bring these actions as a result of unusual procedural postures that might not repeat themselves with the Trump prosecution in Florida. Finally, none of the petitions I came across were filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the federal appellate court whose jurisdiction embraces Florida. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/could-the-special-counsel-challenge-judge-cannon-s-jury-instructions-before-they-re-delivered
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 29, 2024 15:09:13 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 29, 2024 15:17:04 GMT -5
A Republican-appointed judge denounced Donald Trump’s social media attacks against the judge presiding over the former president’s hush money trial in Manhattan and his daughter, calling them assaults on the rule of law that could lead to violence and tyranny. Several of the 23 D.C. federal judges who have sentenced Jan. 6 defendants have noted Trump’s role in events, including judges appointed by presidents of both parties. But the recent statements by appointees of Trump’s GOP predecessors is notable in breaking with partisan affiliation. After one Jan. 6 trial last year, Walton called Trump a “charlatan” who led followers into believing unfounded allegations and falsehoods, and who “doesn’t in my view really care about democracy but only about power. And as a result of that, it’s tearing this country apart.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/29/trump-judge-attacks-violence/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 3, 2024 1:01:20 GMT -5
Enough of Cannon's BS. Special Counsel should move to recuse this incompetent cultist judge. Washington — Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal judge to keep a presidential recordkeeping law out of instructions that would be provided to the jury in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, according to court documents filed by Smith's team late Tuesday. Prosecutors warned that including the law in the instructions risked jeopardizing the proceedings, and signaled they would appeal the judge's decision if she ruled against them. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jack-smith-special-counsel-jury-instructions-documents-case/Special counsel sharply rebukes Cannon’s jury instruction order in Trump case Special counsel Jack Smith pushed back hard against the judge, saying that the jury instructions were based on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise” and warned that he may appeal if the judge rules against him. Legal experts say Cannon’s focus on jury instructions seems odd because a trial is not imminent and the judge still has a number of decisions to make in the pretrial proceedings before the instructions are relevant. They also say the premise of Cannon’s orders indulged some mangled interpretations of laws that have been pushed by Trump’s lawyers and supporters. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/03/trump-documents-case-cannon-jack-smith/
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 3, 2024 6:32:28 GMT -5
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