https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/03/politics/tim-kaine-trump-14th-amendment/index.html Sen. Tim Kaine says ‘powerful argument’ 14th Amendment could disqualify Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-cohen-spots-desperate-sign-060529700.html Michael Cohen Spots Desperate Sign From Donald Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/donald-trumps-mug-shot-merchandise-145457593.html Donald Trump's Mug Shot Merchandise Move May Cost Him His $7 Million Profit Leave it to Donald Trump to try and make money off of his Fulton County mug shot while possibly violating U.S. copyright law at the same time. The former president knew his voter base would eagerly buy merchandise with his face boldly emblazoned on it, but his lawyers should have checked on the legalities of this first. According to Politico, Donald Trump earned over $7 million in sales, from t-shirts to the “Never Surrender” coffee mugs, in the first week after he was indicted in the Georgia election interference case. However, a 2022 article in the University of Georgia School of Law’s Journal of Intellectual Property Law noted, “In the context of photographs taken by law enforcement during the booking process, the author of the mugshot photograph is the law enforcement agency.” That could mean that if the Fulton County sheriff wants to go after Donald Trump for those profits, he might have the legal ground to do so. And as MSNBC pointed out, Fulton County “just happens to be in desperate need of funds to address the horrific conditions in the Fulton County Jail.” It could be the perfect storm of legal events for the former president, who is already in enough hot water. The irony of it all is that Donald Trump’s adviser, Chris LaCivita, threatened to go after anyone who created their own line of merchandise from the former president’s mug shot. “If you are a campaign, PAC, scammer and you try raising money off the mugshot of @realDonaldTrump and you have not received prior permission …WE ARE COMING AFTER YOU you will NOT SCAM DONORS,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter). That tweet won’t age well if the Fulton County sheriff decides to take legal action against Donald Trump — it’s another brewing battle for the former president.
In today's episode of "Who's Flipping This Week". Mark Meadows Planning to Flip on Trump in Georgia Case Along With Other Indicted Co-Conspirators, Per Report https://www.mediaite.com/news/mark-...th-other-indicted-co-conspirators-per-report/
Good luck in actually getting the Trump Klan to pay up. Letitia James wants Trump, sons, and lawyers fined $10K each for repeatedly making losing arguments in her fraud case https://news.yahoo.com/letitia-james-wants-trump-sons-184525857.html Trump's legal team keeps making the same failed arguments in court papers, NY officials say. NY AG Letitia James asked a Manhattan judge to fine Trump, his sons, and his lawyers $10,000 each. This would penalize Trump's team for wasting everyone's time with failed and "frivolous" arguments, she says. New York Attorney General Letitia James has had enough of Trump's same old losing arguments. In a blistering court filing Tuesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a Manhattan judge to impose $10,000 fines apiece on Donald Trump, his two eldest sons, and their lawyers for recently raising the same "frivolous" legal arguments in fighting her $250 million business-fraud lawsuit. Over the past year, she argues, and most recently last week, lawyers for Trump have repeatedly raised these arguments in fighting the case, which is scheduled to go to trial October 2. Among those losing arguments are claims that the case is a politically-motivated witch hunt, and that James has no legal standing or capacity to sue him because Trump's alleged business frauds did not harm the public. "The attorney general's motion is itself frivolous," Trump attorney Clifford Roberts told Insider Tuesday, declining to comment further. These cross-accusations of frivolity were set off last week, when James asked the judge to resolve part or all of the case pretrial. In fighting this proposed preliminary injunction, Trump once again raised some previously-failed arguments, including questioning James' standing and capacity to bring the case. Trump also repeated another failed argument, claiming that disclaimers in his disputed bank filings warned banks not to rely entirely on his math – disclaimers the former president said in an April deposition made the filings "worthless." "This Court soundly rejected these three arguments" – standing, capacity, and the filings' so-called "worthless" clause – in decisions going back to October, 2022, James said in a memorandum of law also filed Tuesday. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron ruled back then that the "worthless clause" was itself worthless, because the language in the clause "makes abundantly clear that Mr. Trump was fully responsible for the information contained within." Allowing "blanket disclaimers to insulate liars from liability" would completely undercut banking filings, the judge wrote. Engoron rejected those same three arguments – standing, capacity, and the "worthless" clause – a month after that first rejection, in tossing Trump's November, 2022 motion to dismiss the whole case. "The court rejected these arguments for a second time, noting that they 'were borderline frivolous even the first time defendants made them,'" James wrote Tuesday. "Sophisticated defense counsel should have known better," Engoron chided at the time, though the judge rejected financial sanctions at that point. Engoron even "observed that reading Defendants' brief 'was, to quote the baseball sage Lawrence Peter ('Yogi') Berra, 'Deja vu all over again,'" James wrote Tuesday. Trump's dismissal arguments failed on appeal, only to be "exhumed" again last week, James said Tuesday. Engoron should set "the maximum allowable sum" for sanctions, James argued, "because Defendants and their counsel were previously admonished by the Court that their conduct in raising previously-rejected arguments was frivolous and sanctionable," James wrote Tuesday. The attorney general is seeking $220,000 in sanctions, or $10,000 for each plaintiff, including the Trump Organization and nine related trusts and LLCs, plus Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, former CFO Allen Weisselberg, company comptroller Jeffrey McConney, and seven defense lawyers. The attorney general alleges in her lawsuit that Trump and his company routinely inflated the value of his properties in a decade of financial fillings. In relying on this fraudulent math, banks extended hundreds of millions of dollars in loans at lower interest rates, she says. In other financial filings, Trump allegedly lowballed his properties' worth to save on property taxes, the attorney general has said. Trump has denied wrongdoing. In a deposition made public last week, he raised many of the same arguments, including that no bank was victimized and that disclaimers in his disputed financial filings render them "worthless." Engoron has yet to rule on the attorney general's early-decision or sanctions requests. He also hasn't ruled on team Trump's open request that the whole case be tossed. The judge has promised that the matter will go to trial in his Manhattan courtroom on October 2 "come hell or high water." But the judge, who will preside over the non-jury trial, has previously sanctioned Trump for failing to fully comply with James' subpoenas for his personal business documents. Her office has suggested this will lead to further penalties.
More is coming... Jack Smith is Not Done With Donald Trump https://dailyboulder.com/jack-smith-is-not-done-with-donald-trump/ Despite having charged former President Donald Trump with four criminal counts related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and over three dozen other charges concerning the hoarding of classified documents in Florida, Special Counsel Jack Smith is far from finished with Trump and his associates. The ongoing clash between the determined prosecutor and the world’s most famous defendant escalated further on Tuesday, revealing new details about Smith’s expanding investigation into election interference. Smith is now scrutinizing how funds raised through baseless claims of voter fraud were used to support efforts to tamper with voting equipment in several states won by President Joe Biden, according to an exclusive CNN report. On the same day, Smith issued a rebuke to the former president in a fresh court filing, accusing him of making daily statements that could prejudice the jury pool in Washington. This latest development highlights the growing tension between Smith’s team and Trump’s camp as they approach a trial scheduled for the day before Super Tuesday in March. This situation underscores the highly unusual nature of a pending trial involving a former president who is running to reclaim the White House, raising questions about how Trump, due to his position, may get away with statements that a regular defendant would not. Smith’s investigation is not the only one delving into the aftermath of the 2020 election. In Fulton County, Georgia, a series of legal developments involving Trump and 18 co-defendants is unfolding, reflecting the broad legal exposure faced by the former president. A judge is set to conduct the first televised hearing in the case to determine whether the racketeering charges will be split into smaller trials and how soon Trump could face trial. In Georgia, the epicenter of Trump’s election interference efforts, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is awaiting a decision on whether his attempt to move his trial into the federal court system, where he hopes to have the charges dismissed, will succeed. This move may foreshadow a similar effort by the ex-president, potentially complicating District Attorney Fani Willis’ prosecution. Meanwhile, on a day when former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio received the longest jail term of any defendant related to the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress, the legal landscape in Georgia continues to evolve. The sentences handed down to several Proud Boys members indicate that the consequences of engaging in political violence after the 2020 election are increasing. However, despite Trump’s mounting legal problems, it remains uncertain whether the ex-president responsible for the most significant attack on a U.S. democratic election will face severe consequences. Many legal experts have reached the consensus that Smith’s decision to exclusively charge Trump in the federal election interference case was aimed at avoiding the protracted legal disputes typically associated with cases involving multiple defendants, which are currently unfolding in Georgia. These disputes could potentially lead to some defendants opting for individual trials or causing significant delays in the case’s progression through the court system. However, according to multiple reports, it appears that the investigation into election interference is far from over. The special counsel’s team is now directing their inquiries towards the involvement of Trump’s former attorney, Sidney Powell. Powell has previously entered a plea of not guilty to criminal charges in Georgia and has also been identified as one of Trump’s unindicted co-conspirators listed in Smith’s federal election indictment. It remains unclear how this newly revealed aspect of the investigation fits into the broader probe, as Smith’s office has declined to provide any comments on the matter. The continuation of Smith’s prosecutors’ work in this case may raise concerns within Trump’s inner circle. This is not unprecedented, as there is a history of the special counsel pursuing additional charges even after initial indictments. For instance, in July, Smith filed three additional charges against Trump related to the alleged willful retention of national defense information and obstruction in the documents case. Furthermore, new charges were also brought against Trump aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago maintenance manager Carlos De Oliveira.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-trump-official-conviction-could-040210214.html How a former Trump official’s conviction could echo in ex-president’s cases
I don't think this will go very well for Trump. But in reality this is just one of his usual delay tactics used to frustrate justice. Trump asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself from federal 2020 election subversion case https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/11/politics/tanya-chutkan-trump-recusal-request/index.html Former President Donald Trump is asking Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself from the 2020 election subversion case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. Trump, in a new court filing Monday, is pointing to comments that Chutkan made in cases involving January 6 US Capitol rioters. This story is breaking and will be updated.