Especially if they end up in jail after all.
On Putin’s advantage to have US forces leave Afghanistan:
We leave this time and we never go back says future China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran…
From that thread:
I thought this was snark but apparently she really means it.
Guys, if a judge tells your team where you can go to get a drink after the hearing that’s not a sign that the judge is about to rule in your favor. It’s a sign that the judge thinks you may need a drink.
“Trump CANCELS Thanksgiving trip to Mar-a-Lago to bunker down in the White House”
What? Is he afraid Joe will change the locks?
Especially not a judge who actually wants to keep their seat on the bench.
That was snark on the part of the judge directed at Guliani; and Ellis is too thick to realize it.
Yep. Especially given all the stories about Rudy being a drunk out there.
The last time he filed an appearance in a case, which means the last time he addressed a court or had his name on a filing or had responsibility for a case actually before a court was 1992. It’s beyond parody.
His arguments on standing, the allegations of the (3rd!) amended complaint, the inability to articulate the relief being sought, all of it would have been humiliating for a junior associate, much less a purported lead counsel.
If the judge had been disposed, it could have been a lot uglier for him, but she seemed to be just letting him ramble on and dig his own hole.
That’s the advantage of being a federal judge—no need to worry about retention: you have a job for life and can do as you will.
(FWIW, the first defense attorney was quite good, and it was diminished returns from there; the other folks should have read the room and zipped it)
ETA: I’ve listened to some stuff I missed the first time. It is unbelievable. He didn’t know what the word “opacity” meant in his own complaint. He told the judge he didn’t know what she meant by “strict scrutiny” and thought that “regular” scrutiny was appropriate.*. He told the judge that he was “saving” an argument for a speak.** It’s unreal.
*that…is not a thing
**that is…unwise, to put it charitably
Sounds like the plaintiffs are already drunk.
Ugh.
Where’s that fat lady, and when is she going to start singing?
Tatters and pears!
What fresh hell is this?
Pardoning him may be the only way that Trump even implicitly concedes he did anything wrong.
Are you kidding? That would last until the next tweet when he walks it back and flips it on its head.
American democracy cannot tolerate the prosecution of political opponents.
American democracy can’t survive overlooking crimes of high office, or the next guy will feel free to wipe his ass with the constitution, and if he’s capable, he’ll get that fatal second term.
Michael Conway, who served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during their impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon,…
Maybe he can’t see that Trump is actually worse than Nixon?
Fuck every last letter of that nonsense.
I don’t understand why it isn’t just standard practice for some federal office of accountability to spend the few years following the end of an administration thoroughly investigating the shit out of every move they made (is that how it works?). Presidents should come in expecting that, and expecting prosecution if they done fucked up. Why is it on the next admin to appear to be “attacking their rivals” if they don’t pardon them?
Whatever happened to, “nobody is above the law”? We are not obliged to “make nice” with our opponents-- that kind of false nobility and “civility” will only encourage these duplicitous, conniving, hopelessly corrupt bastards to keep at it until they succeed in crushing us under their illegitimate rule.
We do need to prosecute Trump and every one of his cronies, to the fullest extent of every applicable law, not out of revenge, but of justice. We must make it unmistakably clear that crimes carry consequences, no matter who you think you are. It’s not a partisan act to uphold the law if there is genuine evidence that proves the crime beyond doubt and the letter of the law is followed in sentencing.
Pardon?!?!? Fuck that noise.
I can see where it could be useful if there is follow-up in the hypothetical that he resigns and Pence pardons him, but Plan A should definitely be prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.
Mr Conway can go fuck himself.
This is why I think maybe “gross assets” is a better measurement of wealth than “net worth”
