Well…the “pound the table” part comes from a longer expression: When the law isn’t on your side, pound the facts. When the facts aren’t on your side, pound the law. When neither are on your side, pound the table. In other words, the lawyer didn’t have much choice. I’m sure Trump insisted on the appeal, which is his right. The facts and the law in this case are definitely not on Trump’s side, so what else can his attorney do? You also have to remember that because Trump was present in the courtroom, the attorney was also having to perform for Trump. And you know Trump wants to see some table pounding. So he may have just been making the arguments he knew Trump wanted to hear him make, even though he knew they were meritless.
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A twinge of pity, gone in a New York second. 
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Oh I had no such twinge. Not a bit. As I said, they knew who he was when they took him on.
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Nice one, fuckface.
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Going through the motions, faking the emotions?
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I guess. At this point, I don’t know why anyone would take him on as a client unless they’re a true believer. So who knows. Even though this guy has argued cases before the Supreme Court multiple times, he may think saving Trump is worth whatever damage this is doing to his reputation.
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Wait, what?
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Dammit, the judge in the Georgia election fraud case is throwing out parts of the indictment because he ruled that several of the crimes Trump & Co. are accused of committing fall under Federal authority instead of State authority.
So frustrating that TFG keeps getting away with this shit because he commits bigger crimes instead of smaller crimes. It reminds me of a bit from Boardwalk Empire in which Steve Buschemi’s character gets out of one charge by having his lawyer arrange for him to be charged with Federal sex trafficking, bumping the case up to another court where he was able to get everything dismissed with a small fine.
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asks that the court find probable cause for the charges and issue arrest warrants for ■■■■■ and Vance
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The fruits of Jack Smith’s 2-year investigation into Trump will land on Tanya Chutkan’s desk today
It may be the final inflection point in the case before Nov. 5.
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This gif is still satire, unfortunately.
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My teevee says that Judge Tanya Chutkan has unsealed a redacted version of Jack Smith’s filing on Presidential Immunity. 180 pages - waiting for a copy to get posted!
Edit:
Found it!
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Very first sentence(s):
The defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election because, he claims, it entailed official conduct. Not so.
And all of the defendant’s remaining conduct was unofficial: as content, form, and context show, the defendant was acting in his capacity as a candidate for reelection, not in his capacity as President. In the alternative, if any of this conduct were deemed official, the Government could rebut the presumption of immunity.
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Trump: “Make them riot. Do it!”
Yeah - he’s going to jail.
Page 8.
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