Criminal Trials of Donald Trump

Discussion in 'Politics' started by wrbtrader, May 12, 2024.

  1. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    Maga will take a generation to leave the Republican Party. Until then they will lose more and more national, state, and local seats.
     
    #151     Sep 6, 2024
  2. Mercor

    Mercor

    There is a different motive
    Merchan knows his trial was flawed and will be tossed on appeal
    Had he done sentencing on the 18th Trump could have had an appeal done before the election and the case would be thrown out. Then the Democrats would have lost the ability to call him a convicted felon, which was the only reason for tho trial
     
    #152     Sep 6, 2024
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  3. wrbtrader

    wrbtrader

    Other political parties in the history of U.S. Politics have vanished in less time. MAGA is one stubborn bunch because they're not a political party but an ideology (political movement)...with Trump as its leader...took over the GOP.

    Some refer to it as a political coup of the GOP although many in MAGA do not understand the word coup.

    In contrast, the following is a list of America's influential political parties that eventually didn't survive (they ceased to exist):

    1. National Women's Party

    2. Silver Party

    3. Readjuster Party

    4. Free Soil Party

    5. Whig Party

    6. Anti-Masonic Party

    7. National Republican Party

    8. Democratic-Republican Party

    9. Not-Nothing Party

    10. Federalist Party​

    Why isn't the Reform Party (Ross Perot) listed above?

    It is not one of the top 10 most influential parties in America's history that no longer exists. More importantly, it still exists with offices in 11 states.

    wrbtrader
     
    Last edited: Sep 6, 2024
    #153     Sep 6, 2024
  4. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    #154     Sep 7, 2024
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Trump still needs to keep his big yap shut.

    Trump must comply with gag order in New York after appeal dismissed
    NPR - https://tinyurl.com/3caj4k6h
     
    #155     Sep 13, 2024
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  6. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    #156     Sep 18, 2024
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  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Trump's latest whining rejected by the judge.

    Rejecting Trump’s demands, Judge Chutkan reminds him who’s in charge
    In granting the special counsel’s request to file a lengthier-than-usual immunity brief, the judge rejected a slew of Trump’s other claims.
    https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-whit...utkan-trump-jack-smith-immunity-dc-rcna172531

    U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sided with special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday when she said he can file a longer-than-usual brief in the forthcoming immunity litigation. But in addition to granting the government’s arguably administrative request, the judge also rejected a handful of complaints that Donald Trump’s lawyers raised in connection with the motion.

    In granting Smith’s plea for more pages — he said his opening immunity brief could be 180 pages — Chutkan observed in her written opinion that the former president’s opposition to Smith’s request comprised “a single statement that the Government’s request ‘would quadruple the standard page limits in this District.’” The rest of Trump’s nine-page opposition, she wrote, “rehashes Defendant’s position that immunity briefing should not begin until he files a motion to dismiss several months from now.”

    Chutkan reiterated her rejection of Trump’s position in her opinion. She noted that having prosecutors file their opening brief — which, thanks to her ruling, can now be longer than the typical 45 pages — reflects the case’s “unusual procedural posture, where the [trial] court has been directed [by the Supreme Court] to accept party submissions on and make specific determinations about the nature of the allegations.” Another way to read her explanation is the judge saying: It’s not my fault the Supreme Court issued this crazy immunity ruling; I’m just trying to figure out the best way to move forward.

    The Obama appointee likewise brushed aside Trump’s claims that Smith’s forthcoming brief arguing against immunity would represent something incredibly unusual or even untoward — “it is simply how litigation works,” she wrote — or that the impending election is a relevant consideration. On the latter point, Chutkan wrote that the Republican presidential nominee’s “concern with the political consequences of these proceedings does not bear on the pretrial schedule.”

    The judge elsewhere in her opinion blasted the “incoherence” of Trump’s litigation position and chided the unsupported nature of the defense’s stance. (The former president has pleaded not guilty in the federal case alleging he tried to criminally subvert the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden.)

    So even though this motion about brief length isn’t the most consequential one in the federal election interference case, Chutkan’s opinion represents the latest assertion of her authority over the matter. At the same time, it represents a reminder that her control is subject both to higher judicial review and to vanishing entirely. The Supreme Court will still have the last word over however she resolves the substance of the immunity issue — that resolution won’t come before the election, and she’ll likely lose control over the case forever if Trump wins that election and gets it dismissed.
     
    #157     Sep 24, 2024
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  8. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    #158     Sep 27, 2024
  9. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    #159     Sep 27, 2024
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  10. Atlantic

    Atlantic

    #160     Sep 28, 2024
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