Just posted on Politico: DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic The Justice Department has quietly asked Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies — part of a push for new powers that comes as the coronavirus spreads through the United States. Documents reviewed by…
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Judge in Roger Stone trial slaps down motion to disqualify her
Roger Stone’s lawyers recently threw a Hail Mary, filing a motion to disqualify Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who presided over Stone’s trial for being a worthless ratfucker witness intimidation and lying to Congress. Well, the response to the motion is in, and it didn’t go Stone’s way: x BREAKING: Judge denies Roger Stone motion to disqualify her,…
KY-Sen: “I challenge him to show me one trial where the jury coordinated with the defense lawyers.”
Kudos to U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D. OH) for calling out Moscow Mitch: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) tore into Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday for how he maneuvered Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in favor of the president. In his remarks before the final vote on the president’s impeachment, Brown spoke of how the Senate took an oath to act as…
Hung Senate Jury and Senate Mistrial: “at least we could agree that we had a fair trial”
Trial without witnesses is no trial at all. The impeachment as indictment can never be withdrawn. The constant attempts to reduce the impeachment to a civil, rather than a criminal trial, since a bribe of $391 million was at stake for a personal use of public monies in the pursuit of “opposition research” (worth $391…
Trump “…impeach me fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate” because Super Bowl exoneration
Trump communicated to the House — “If you are going to impeach me, impeach me fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate,” with the goal of getting acquitted by the time of the Super Bowl and/or the SOTU, because audience and ratings. This is all that counts for Trump. In the…
PA-Sen: PA Dems Slam Pat Toomey (R) For Trying To Limit The Number Of Impeachment Trial Witnesses
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Just last night, the Washington Post reported that Pat Toomey is lobbying for a limited, partisan witness deal in which Democrats can call one witness in exchange for one called by Republicans. Calling witnesses is about hearing the whole truth, not scoring political points. Call Pat Toomey to tell…
IA-Sen: “Joni Ernst (R) just said the quiet part out loud about the Senate impeachment trial”
The stupid, it hurts! Chris Cillizza at CNN nails it: Sometimes politicians can't help themselves. They get careless. They say stuff they shouldn't say. They tell the truth that they have been trying to disguise. So it went for Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst on Monday night. Following an afternoon at the Senate impeachment trial in which…
Like a mustache cup, Bolton's story cannot stop his testimony in the Senate trial
Boom! Trump paying the price for his iniquity, malevolence, and base ineptitude. Congressional Democrats called for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in President Trump’s impeachment trial following a new report that the president told Bolton last August he wanted to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless it aided investigations into the Bidens….
Trump says he'd love to show up at trial and 'stare in their corrupt faces'; so why doesn't he?
Today at a press conference following the 2020 Davos Global Economic Summit, Donald Trump claimed that he’d love to show up at his impeachment trial and confront his accusers. I assume this will happen right after he runs into an active-shooter situation at a school. Because Trump is nothing if not a big bowl of bluster and…
Breaking: McConnell Reveals Rules to Keep the Trial a Sham
McConnell lays out ground rules for Trump’s impeachment trial and compressed schedule to consider the charges In a four-page resolution, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the opening arguments would begin at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, with each side given 24 hours to present their case over a two-day period. The Senate will vote…
Trump Senate Trial Latest: Moscow Mitch Has Not Released His Memo on Trial Rules to Democrats.
The Media may be fooled by Moscow Mitch, but someone put something into Senator Dick Durbin’s Wheaties because he called out Moscow Mitch’s bad faith when setting the rules for Trump’s trial in the Senate. Note: Democratic Senators don’t like to point fingers at other Senators because of some insipid norm or rule that hasn’t…
Things the Media Has Missed About Upcoming Senate Trial of Trump.
I’m not a lawyer nor a constitutional scholar, but the Media has not being doing its job when it comes to covering the upcoming Senate trial of Trump. I know. “A real shocker there Merlin. Have you thought about auditioning for the role of Captain Obvious?” Hear me out for a few minutes. First up,…
There may be Senate trial witnesses due to some GOP senators possibly voting in favor
There may be witnesses in the Senate trial of the impeached POTUS* due to the possibility of four GOP senators who may vote in favor. Remember that it's about testimony (and documents), not about Bolton x Senior White House officials tell CBS News they increasingly believe that at least four Republicans, and likely more, will…
All is well! “You can't remove me with an impeachment trial, I'm (still) the Commander-in-Chief”
The dog wagged once. Did the WH dodge a ballistic missile since apparently there were no casualties in the several Iranian missile strikes in Iraq. Message sent, but will Trump’s apparent lack of policy and strategy actually move Iran closer and quicker to nuclear weapons. Because Trump’s crimes are catching up to him, he jumped…
John Bolton says he's willing to testify in Senate impeachment trial
Straight from the horse’s mustache: During the present impeachment controversy, I have tried to meet my obligations both as a citizen and as former National Security Advisor. My colleague, Dr. Charles Kupperman, faced with a House committee subpoena on the one hand, and a Presidential directive not to testify on the other, sought final resolution…
Trump cannot assassinate his way into a trial dismissal
Trump was unhinged in his tweeting on 29 December, and was ready for something to divert public attention, as the Arms for Dirt evidence continued to close in him in spite of withholding documents and witnesses. Because it would be unpatriotic to ask for the documents during wartime(sic)…., but the 30 December call between Putin and…
Neal Katyal: the impeachment trial could take longer perhaps because Trump fears the truth
We’re all appreciating the history of the moment, even as we are appalled that Trump continues to evade an accounting of the truth of the Arms for Dirt Scandal. Neal Katyal’s thread outlines the coming stakes. THREAD ON IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL IN THE NEW YEAR. The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans in the Senate…
Already impeached, IMPOTUS seems to reject a full, fair Senate trial with actual witnesses
Senators McConnell & Graham conspired with the defendant to rig his Senate trial by refusing to comply with due process. Trump insisted on cross-examination of witnesses. Trump also has ordered staffers not to comply and is withholding documents. The rules remain the Senate’s. Even as he’d like a spectacle trial with his demanded CT witnesses…
even after the Senate trial, Trump remains an impeached POTUS. “Get over it”, Donald
At some technical moment in 2020, there will be the delivery of the articles of impeachment, there will be a Senate trial, and some result. Trump however remains impeached in perpetuity. Even if he tries to nullify the impeachment by suing the House and arguing “the entire process is politically motivated” as if his confessions were as…
a fair trial, if you can ensure it – “a republic, if you can keep it.”
For the habitual liar who whines weekly of the unfairness of the truth confronting his follies. fairness should be what Trump wants from his “rigged” Senate trial. Reading Lawrence Tribe’s tweet stream is now more fun, complete with references to Wittgenstein and Rawls, as well as Marbury v. Madison (1803). x This man is having a…
