SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 16, 2024 14:06:31 GMT -5
How is smith subject to any DOJ rules? He is his own boss. Garland and Monaco always remind us that they are "hands off" with Smith and let him run his own show. Aileen Cannon is right. You are not a lawyer. It amazes me how Republicans have the hubris to think they are experts in everything. I remember HH79's trenchant 1st Amendment analysis several months ago - a real thigh slapper, to wit: "The refusal of MSNBC to air the obviously newsworthy event of Trump's Iowa victory speech is one of the darkest chapters in the history of the first amendment of the United States. From now on, no Republican office holder should ever appear on the clearly and Un shamefully partisan censoring MSNBC network. This was a truly sad and tragic day for America's fourth estate. You can take as much air time as you like to attack/refute/deride/rebut the content but censorship and promoting darkness rather than light is never ok in America." Editorial decision by MSNBC (in HH79's ignorant world, " censorship") is a violation of the First Amendment? Ha ha ha. Gee, does HH79 understand that Fox Propaganda has First Amendment rights to broadcast lies as it does every single day (its own editorial decision) and that Dominion Voting Systems has the right to sue it and win a $787.5 million judgement for it doing so? Does HH79 understand the concept of state action?
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Jul 16, 2024 15:53:44 GMT -5
I appreciate and respect your passion as a lawyer for people and institutions rights to commit censorship
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Jul 16, 2024 16:04:51 GMT -5
Our disagreement is lot like the one people have over the definition of a terrorist where one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. One man's editor is another man's censor.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jul 16, 2024 16:39:10 GMT -5
Our disagreement is lot like the one people have over the definition of a terrorist where one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. One man's editor is another man's censor. I'm surprised that adults (many of whom were taught at Georgetown University) cannot or do not understand the concept of censorship. Censorship is the active suppression of ideas, news, or opinion by a private or public figure so as not to reveal said ideas, news, or opinion in a public forum. The Sedition Act of 1918 was a form of censorship. The Hays Code was a form of censorship. Not disclosing the Manhattan Project was censorship. Not airing an episode of a TV show by an entertainer may be heavy handed, but it does not not prevent said entertainer from speaking further. Censorship is a suppression of, not an avoidance of, content. Jesuits know about this, too. Per an excerpt I wrote at the Football History Project following Georgetown dropping football in 1951: "An article in the spring 1951 Georgetown University Alumni Magazine to discuss [alumni reaction to the] the decision was listed as "suppressed by Fr. Guthrie" (a pre-Vatican II term for censored) in a pre-press copy of the issue. In place of 15 pages of letters from concerned alumni, a series of biographies of various University executives followed, led by an ornate academic treatise on the glory of Catholic education written by Guthrie himself...The letters were never printed." www.hoyafootball.com/features/1951.htm
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Post by guru on Jul 16, 2024 18:51:43 GMT -5
Our disagreement is lot like the one people have over the definition of a terrorist where one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. One man's editor is another man's censor. Wow. I award you no points sir, and my God have mercy on your soul.
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 16, 2024 19:28:28 GMT -5
How is smith subject to any DOJ rules? He is his own boss. Garland and Monaco always remind us that they are "hands off" with Smith and let him run his own show. Aileen Cannon is right. You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, which comes as no surprise to me.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 17, 2024 15:47:53 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 24, 2024 21:21:10 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 2, 2024 14:44:15 GMT -5
Trump’s election subversion case returned to D.C. after immunity ruling A federal judge in Washington is set to regain control over former president Donald Trump’s 2020 election obstruction case as early as Friday under a deadline set by the Supreme Court when it ruled that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution except for narrow circumstances. The justices on July 1 ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that Trump and other presidents are absolutely immune from prosecution when carrying out their core constitutional powers, but can face trial for private conduct or for official acts under narrow exceptions to be hammered out by lower courts. U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan now must decide which if any of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election while president may be prosecutable. A trial will not be possible before the November election matchup against likely Democratic nominee Vice President Harris however, since whatever the judge decides is expected to wind up back before the Supreme Court next year. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/02/trump-election-subversion-immunity/
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 2, 2024 21:15:05 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 9:04:20 GMT -5
This is a clear loser. I defended the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act for about twenty years. If any theory of Demented Donnie's claim had merit, wouldn't you think that everytime the feds lose a motion to suppress based upon an illegal search and seizure ( which is, in fact, rare) it would have been followed up with a civil action seeking money damages?? Trump's attorney filed a notice to sue the Justice Department under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Pursuant to the FTCA, a party suing the federal government is required to submit a notice, after which the Department of Justice has six months to issue its response. meidasnews.com/news/donald-trump-seeks-to-sue-the-justice-department#:~:text=Trump's%20attorney%20filed%20a%20notice,months%20to%20issue%20its%20response.
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 26, 2024 16:10:31 GMT -5
Jack Smith appeals Judge Cannon decision to throw out Trump case Special counsel Jack Smith told an appeals court Monday that U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s decision to dismiss Donald Trump’s classified document case should be reversed, arguing that Attorney General Merrick Garland had clear authority to appoint Smith to lead the prosecution. Smith wrote that Cannon ignored decades of precedent when she issued her stunning decision to toss out the entire indictment, concluding that Smith was wrongfully appointed and wielded too much power for someone who was not in a Senate-confirmed position. The ruling halted what was considered by many lawyers to be the strongest criminal case against the former president as he again seeks the White House. Two other criminal indictments against Trump are also stalled. The former president was convicted in May in a fourth criminal case for falsifying business records related to hush money payments in 2016. He is scheduled for sentencing next month, though his lawyers have asked for a delay. For decades, Smith argued in Monday’s court filing, attorneys general have appointed special counsels, and court after court has upheld those appointments as valid. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/26/trump-cannon-classified-documents-appeal/
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 27, 2024 15:21:55 GMT -5
The wheels of justice grind slowly but they do grind. Superseding indictment against the Insurrectionist-in- Chief. Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a superseding indictment in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, slimming down the allegations against the 2024 presidential nominee in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. Prosecutors have not dropped any of the four charges that they initially brought against the former president. However, the newly retooled indictment has carved out some of Trump’s alleged conduct, including allegations about the attempts to use the Justice Department to promote his false claims of election fraud. www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/politics/trump-superseding-indictment-january-6/index.htmlNew indictment filed against Trump in federal Jan. 6 case www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/27/trump-dc-indictment-new-charges-jan-6/
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 27, 2024 18:59:19 GMT -5
The wheels of justice grind slowly but they do grind. Superseding indictment against the Insurrectionist-in- Chief. Special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday filed a superseding indictment in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, slimming down the allegations against the 2024 presidential nominee in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling. Prosecutors have not dropped any of the four charges that they initially brought against the former president. However, the newly retooled indictment has carved out some of Trump’s alleged conduct, including allegations about the attempts to use the Justice Department to promote his false claims of election fraud. www.cnn.com/2024/08/27/politics/trump-superseding-indictment-january-6/index.htmlNew indictment filed against Trump in federal Jan. 6 case www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/08/27/trump-dc-indictment-new-charges-jan-6/It's a shame that it was even necessary to do this, thanks to the crazy Supreme Court.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 27, 2024 19:25:05 GMT -5
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