there are 4 federal courthouses in the Eastern District of Virginia: Norfolk, Newport News, Richmond, and Alexandria. So I guess they've got two more shots? Or can you try again in a venue where you've failed? Maybe just once per "term of court?" Although I'm a lawyer I do not know the answer to this question. I do know that one failure USUALLY ends a case but obviously "USUALLY" doesn't apply here...
Maybe it is just a fantasy but I want to believe the prosecutors brought in from Missouri are sick as fuck of Trump’s shit, too. Those of us who go to regular jobs and are distracted with raising families do not see the absolute dumpster fire shit happening daily in the judicial system. Too many of us ignore it altogether, to our own mortal jeopardy. These attorneys are seeing some shit. MAGA or not … they have to be developing some feelings about it.
These prosecutors included critical evidence that Halligan left out: the testimony of James’ niece, who acknowledged that her aunt never charged her rent. Like Halligan, they could have chosen to leave it out. It is an ethical red flag, but not illegal. Prosecutors get to pick and choose what evidence they present, with very wide latitude. Maybe they included it because they knew they’d be under intense scrutiny. Or maybe they just have a serious case of the ethics. I’d like to believe that the latter is true, and that they were side-waving the fuck you fingers on their way out of the jury room.
What I think should happen is this simple scenario:
1) Democrats take over the House on Jan. 3, 2027 (and wishful thinking the Senate, too)
2) Democrats win the Senate and the White House on Nov. 7, 2028, and
3) Democrats take over the Senate on Jan. 3, 2029 and the White House on Jan. 20, 2029
4) Democrats pass (and the new president signs) a whole bunch of laws that say Donald J. Trump Sr., J. D. Vance, DJ Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Jared Kushner, Stephen (Fetchit) Miller, and another named 250 people in the Trump regime, are illegal Americans because they hate democracy and hate the United States and have done their utmost to sell it out to Russia
5) Democrats declare Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, the entire Ellison clan, and all their spawn illegal aliens and deport them to Zimbabwe or Turkmenistan (or somewhere else that Americans can't pronounce)
6) Those 275 or 300 people are arrested and all their assets siezed for the Treasury of the United States, and immediately distributed to all US residents with incomes under $50,000 per year and/or total assets less than $25,000.
And THEN:
The Congress will tell the Extreme Court to go suck their balls because Congress has "retroactively" written these laws--just as the Extremes have retroactively rewritten the Constitution--all under the principal of "scrivener's error" that allows them to enact laws, charge people under them, indict them, convict them, and imprison, deport, or alternatively punish them, according to their criming.
Great that the persecutions keep falling apart one they face the reality of credibility. The problem is the cost, time and anxiety caused by this continued harassment. She should be spending her time doing the job she was elected for, prosecuting actual criminals. I hope she gets to prosecute all the criminals working for trump. The person who is responsible for the most attorney’s being sanctioned and disbarred in the history of the world.
Access Hollywood ended up with a story larger and more revealing than any trivial story about Justin Beiber’s latest “crib.” They revealed just how terrible a huge portion of America really is, especially white men who found the opportunity to cheer for Donald Trump, who had the courage to admit on a hot mic that he doesn’t need or bother with consent. He just sees a beautiful woman and kisses, he doesn’t wait. And he offered sage advice to every sexually frustrated man in America - just grab them by the pussy.
Once again, we were naive and precious thinking that would sink his campaign, that human decency would prevail. As Scrooge McDuck once said, “kindness has little use in this world.”
Keller lives across the Missouri River from here in a suburban county that is notoriously conservative and very Trumpian. Unfortunately, there seems to be a disproportionate number of MAGAts from my state that are running amok in this clusterfuck of an administration.
The 1st paragraph says James is being accused of taking an improper tax break. Is that accurate? I thought it was allegedly mis-stating the intended use, to get a lower interest rate.
You are correct, and I posted a correction about that statement earlier. The charge is not that James tried to get a tax break by claiming 2 properties as her homestead (like Bill Pulte’s father did by claiming homestead tax exemptions in both Florida and Michigan). It’s also not the case that she claimed 2 properties as her primary residence in order to get better mortgage rates (like Trump did on multiple occasions). The actual charge was that James applied for a mortgage as a 2nd home as opposed to a rental property, but the evidence showed that her grand-niece lived there rent free, which is why (I assume) these 2 grand juries have refused to indict for mortgage fraud.
So she used it for family, which is arguable a second residence for extended family. That monster. If she didn’t use it for commercial gain or as a rental property, it’s not hard to see why multiple juries would decline to pursue this. Plus, the alleged gain was $19,000, which is categorically insufficient to merit federal attention. It’s petty. Trump has monetized his office, accepted bribes and sold meme coins from the Oval Office. He’s a con artist and a charlatan. Watching nature apply a cruel hand to his health is the only justice we will ever see for him.
I think there was also testimony from a prior grand jury proceeding that James would stay there while visiting, so it’s not that big of a stretch to say it was a 2nd home.
I wouldn’t love, love, love to see the complete grand jury transcripts.
The reason why federal prosecutors get indictments 99+% of the time they present to a grand jury is because they tend to be very cautious and very prepared. They only present cases to a grand jury that they’re sure they can win.
At least, that’s they way was before the world’s oldest toddler put a bunch of incompetent hacks in charge with a mandate to indict anyone who has ever hurt his feelings.
it st started when a guy threw and empty plastic bottle at the ground and Rittenhouse thought it was thrown at him or so he claimed. the guy that got shot and survived minus his arm was armed with a skate board, I believe. Rittenhouse said he was scared the skate board would be used as a weapon.
I saw a screen-grab of his Twitter post about him deciding to "make a comeback" because he's "not afraid" after the MURDER of his good friend Charlie. He also, too, said in the tweet that this year he's "met and married my best friend" and his new blushing bride is encouraging him to get back out there to preach more of their right-wing bullshit...I can't remember what it was all about because all I could think was, "Oh, jesus, somebody actually MARRIED him!?"
Lol
there are 4 federal courthouses in the Eastern District of Virginia: Norfolk, Newport News, Richmond, and Alexandria. So I guess they've got two more shots? Or can you try again in a venue where you've failed? Maybe just once per "term of court?" Although I'm a lawyer I do not know the answer to this question. I do know that one failure USUALLY ends a case but obviously "USUALLY" doesn't apply here...
I'm sure that's a photo shop picture because Trumps hands are too big and his ankles are too small
Maybe it is just a fantasy but I want to believe the prosecutors brought in from Missouri are sick as fuck of Trump’s shit, too. Those of us who go to regular jobs and are distracted with raising families do not see the absolute dumpster fire shit happening daily in the judicial system. Too many of us ignore it altogether, to our own mortal jeopardy. These attorneys are seeing some shit. MAGA or not … they have to be developing some feelings about it.
These prosecutors included critical evidence that Halligan left out: the testimony of James’ niece, who acknowledged that her aunt never charged her rent. Like Halligan, they could have chosen to leave it out. It is an ethical red flag, but not illegal. Prosecutors get to pick and choose what evidence they present, with very wide latitude. Maybe they included it because they knew they’d be under intense scrutiny. Or maybe they just have a serious case of the ethics. I’d like to believe that the latter is true, and that they were side-waving the fuck you fingers on their way out of the jury room.
What I think should happen is this simple scenario:
1) Democrats take over the House on Jan. 3, 2027 (and wishful thinking the Senate, too)
2) Democrats win the Senate and the White House on Nov. 7, 2028, and
3) Democrats take over the Senate on Jan. 3, 2029 and the White House on Jan. 20, 2029
4) Democrats pass (and the new president signs) a whole bunch of laws that say Donald J. Trump Sr., J. D. Vance, DJ Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Jared Kushner, Stephen (Fetchit) Miller, and another named 250 people in the Trump regime, are illegal Americans because they hate democracy and hate the United States and have done their utmost to sell it out to Russia
5) Democrats declare Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, the entire Ellison clan, and all their spawn illegal aliens and deport them to Zimbabwe or Turkmenistan (or somewhere else that Americans can't pronounce)
6) Those 275 or 300 people are arrested and all their assets siezed for the Treasury of the United States, and immediately distributed to all US residents with incomes under $50,000 per year and/or total assets less than $25,000.
And THEN:
The Congress will tell the Extreme Court to go suck their balls because Congress has "retroactively" written these laws--just as the Extremes have retroactively rewritten the Constitution--all under the principal of "scrivener's error" that allows them to enact laws, charge people under them, indict them, convict them, and imprison, deport, or alternatively punish them, according to their criming.
Anyone else agree that that's what we need to do?
Great that the persecutions keep falling apart one they face the reality of credibility. The problem is the cost, time and anxiety caused by this continued harassment. She should be spending her time doing the job she was elected for, prosecuting actual criminals. I hope she gets to prosecute all the criminals working for trump. The person who is responsible for the most attorney’s being sanctioned and disbarred in the history of the world.
Access Hollywood ended up with a story larger and more revealing than any trivial story about Justin Beiber’s latest “crib.” They revealed just how terrible a huge portion of America really is, especially white men who found the opportunity to cheer for Donald Trump, who had the courage to admit on a hot mic that he doesn’t need or bother with consent. He just sees a beautiful woman and kisses, he doesn’t wait. And he offered sage advice to every sexually frustrated man in America - just grab them by the pussy.
Once again, we were naive and precious thinking that would sink his campaign, that human decency would prevail. As Scrooge McDuck once said, “kindness has little use in this world.”
Our Mr. Chump loses better than anyone in the world. He can lose a lot more before I get sick of losing.
Keller lives across the Missouri River from here in a suburban county that is notoriously conservative and very Trumpian. Unfortunately, there seems to be a disproportionate number of MAGAts from my state that are running amok in this clusterfuck of an administration.
The 1st paragraph says James is being accused of taking an improper tax break. Is that accurate? I thought it was allegedly mis-stating the intended use, to get a lower interest rate.
You are correct, and I posted a correction about that statement earlier. The charge is not that James tried to get a tax break by claiming 2 properties as her homestead (like Bill Pulte’s father did by claiming homestead tax exemptions in both Florida and Michigan). It’s also not the case that she claimed 2 properties as her primary residence in order to get better mortgage rates (like Trump did on multiple occasions). The actual charge was that James applied for a mortgage as a 2nd home as opposed to a rental property, but the evidence showed that her grand-niece lived there rent free, which is why (I assume) these 2 grand juries have refused to indict for mortgage fraud.
So she used it for family, which is arguable a second residence for extended family. That monster. If she didn’t use it for commercial gain or as a rental property, it’s not hard to see why multiple juries would decline to pursue this. Plus, the alleged gain was $19,000, which is categorically insufficient to merit federal attention. It’s petty. Trump has monetized his office, accepted bribes and sold meme coins from the Oval Office. He’s a con artist and a charlatan. Watching nature apply a cruel hand to his health is the only justice we will ever see for him.
I think there was also testimony from a prior grand jury proceeding that James would stay there while visiting, so it’s not that big of a stretch to say it was a 2nd home.
I wouldn’t love, love, love to see the complete grand jury transcripts.
So glad most of our court system (excluding the Supreme Court) seems to still believe in the law.
The reason why federal prosecutors get indictments 99+% of the time they present to a grand jury is because they tend to be very cautious and very prepared. They only present cases to a grand jury that they’re sure they can win.
At least, that’s they way was before the world’s oldest toddler put a bunch of incompetent hacks in charge with a mandate to indict anyone who has ever hurt his feelings.
Who gets credit for the great graphic?
Made my day.
The previous article by Marcie that's linked
https://www.wonkette.com/p/letitia-james-undefeated-champ-of
Says "Meme found on internet"
That sounds about right. That's where I find my memes.
I don't know i've found 6 or 7 of them irl.
I also noticed the lack of attribution. I'm going w Dok.
it st started when a guy threw and empty plastic bottle at the ground and Rittenhouse thought it was thrown at him or so he claimed. the guy that got shot and survived minus his arm was armed with a skate board, I believe. Rittenhouse said he was scared the skate board would be used as a weapon.
at least that is my memory.
And he got away with it too.
And is now living the good life working in a gun store in Milton, Florida.
It's a better life than death row, where anyone not white who had done the same thing would be right now.
I saw a screen-grab of his Twitter post about him deciding to "make a comeback" because he's "not afraid" after the MURDER of his good friend Charlie. He also, too, said in the tweet that this year he's "met and married my best friend" and his new blushing bride is encouraging him to get back out there to preach more of their right-wing bullshit...I can't remember what it was all about because all I could think was, "Oh, jesus, somebody actually MARRIED him!?"
"The DOJ under Trump either didn’t realize she had made the correction or, more likely, knew about it and prosecuted anyway."
> this was a good excuse for the first try. After that, they knew.
Rump believing that Black women are low IQ is much to his detriment. They are ALL smarter than him.
Black squirrels are smarter than him, and far less nuts…
It also means he underestimates them, also too. They have run circles around him and his minions.
He 's smart enough to know not to call a black woman reporter piggy.