Trump (and others) indicted in GA

[Jamalisms]

Agree with this, though how that affects a legal ruling is beyond me.

 

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/02/28/terrence-bradley-text-messages-testimony-fani-willis-honig-sot-lead-vpx.cnn

 

[Little Earl]

On 2/27/2024 at 6:21 AM, WG53 said:

Unless you're up for a spot on the Supreme Court right?

 

Or a Democrat President right?

[WG53]

1 hour ago, Little Earl said:

 

Or a Democrat President right?

Oh yeah lying about a blow job is the same thing   

[Starkiller]

4 hours ago, WG53 said:

Oh yeah lying about a blow job is the same thing   

And don’t forget about lying about inhaling…

[WG53]

48 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

And don’t forget about lying about inhaling…

Funny how his go to isn't even from this century.

[MadMax]

 

Edited March 2, 2024 by MadMax

[Justafan]

 

[nine]

On 2/29/2024 at 7:10 PM, WG53 said:

Funny how his go to isn't even from this century.

 

Weird that he chose to go back 25 years to find a quote despite having a veritable cornucopia of presidential lies to choose from in 2016-2020.

[IsntLifeFunny]

53 minutes ago, Justafan said:

 

"In this kind of case we are talking about money. The fact that they have a relationship, although one can certainly say it was stunningly reckless, absolutely reckless, even if it happened after Nathan Wade was working for Fani Willis, but if it happened before, its even worse," Klieman, a legal analyst for CBS News, said.

 

[Jamalisms]

I've been thinking about this a good bit and trying to see if time changes my opinion at all ... but it hasn't. I still think it likelier than not that she's thrown off the case. And I think it's absolutely, catastrophically detrimental to democracy but I also think she earned it. Just an absolute fool.

 

The relationship was reckless but the cover up is the real problem. It's blatant and obvious that they're lying, in my opinion, and I don't know that that's truly allowed to factor in as a legal consideration but I think it impossible for the judge not to be influenced.

[Starkiller]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/us/donald-trump-charges-quashed-georgia-mcafee.html
 

In a surprise move on Wednesday, a judge in Atlanta quashed six of the charges against former President Donald J. Trump and his allies in the sprawling Georgia election interference case, including one related to a call that Mr. Trump made to pressure Georgia’s secretary of state in early January 2021.

 

The judge, Scott McAfee of Fulton Superior Court, left intact the rest of the racketeering indictment, which initially included 41 counts against 19 co-defendants. Four of them have pleaded guilty since the indictment was handed up by a grand jury in August.

 

While the ruling was certainly a setback for prosecutors, several legal observers said on Wednesday that it did not weaken the core of the case, the state racketeering charge that was brought against all of the defendants.

 

That charge is based on “overt acts” that the indictment says various defendants took in furtherance of the racketeering conspiracy. The judge was explicit in stating that Wednesday’s order does not apply to those acts.

 

The ruling was not related to a defense effort to disqualify Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., who is leading the case. A ruling on that matter, which has made headlines for weeks after it was revealed that Ms. Willis had engaged in a romantic relationship with another prosecutor, is expected by the end of the week.

 

The nine-page ruling on Wednesday took aim at charges asserting that Mr. Trump and other defendants had solicited public officials to break the law by violating their oaths of office. For example, one count against Mr. Trump said that he “unlawfully solicited, requested and importuned” the Georgia secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to violate his oath of office by decertifying the election.

 

The judge said that prosecutors were not specific enough about what violations the defendants were pressuring public officials to commit.

 

“These six counts contain all the essential elements of the crimes but fail to allege sufficient detail regarding the nature of their commission,” Judge McAfee wrote in his ruling. “They do not give the Defendants enough information to prepare their defenses intelligently, as the Defendants could have violated the Constitution and thus the statute in dozens, if not hundreds, of distinct ways.”

 

Prosecutors could potentially seek to bring the quashed charges again in a way that addresses the court’s concerns, but it was not immediately clear if they would do so.

[Starkiller]

From the same article:

 

Also on Wednesday, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, a Republican, signed legislation that will allow a new, Republican-controlled state commission, which has the ability to remove prosecutors, to begin its work. The commission is likely to examine Ms. Willis’s conduct related to her relationship with Nathan Wade, a lawyer she hired as a special prosecutor on the Trump case.

 

Opponents have said that they intend to go to court to block the commission.

[Jamalisms]

Decision coming tomorrow

[IsntLifeFunny]

1 hour ago, Jamalisms said:

Decision coming tomorrow

It's a tough spot regardless of the decision. I can't say she should resign because it likely makes the case look even worse, but at the same time it would be the honorable thing to do. 

 

Either way, the entirety of it is ugly. This RICO case was the most important in US History and she unnecessarily tarnished it.

Edited March 15, 2024 by IsntLifeFunny

[Starkiller]

5 hours ago, IsntLifeFunny said:

It's a tough spot regardless of the decision. I can't say she should resign because it likely makes the case look even worse, but at the same time it would be the honorable thing to do. 

 

Either way, the entirety of it is ugly. This RICO case was the most important in US History and she unnecessarily tarnished it.

If she resigns, the case effectively dies. No prosecutor will be assigned to replace her.