Via Acyn..
Andrew Weissmann:
Bail...It's on the defendant to show he's not at risk of flight...
Let me give you the exact words because this is the provision that the court has to find to release someone on bail in Georgia which is that: "the defendant poses *no risk* of intimidating witnesses, or otherwise obstructing the administration of justice"
That could be a problem... Just today [Trump attacked on TruthSocial]...
Yes, it's possible that #Georgia #FaniWillis #TrumpIndictment could come today. 📌
👀 Via Anna Bower:
George Chidi:
Change of plans. I'm going to court today. They're moving faster than they thought.
#FaniWillis #TrumpIndictment #Georgia #legal
UBS to pay $1.4 bn to settle US fraud charges on subprime loans: Justice Dept
I'm deleting the Georgia/Reuters toots re: Georgia indictments. They're meaningless.
Sorry for any confusion. It appears Twitter is as confused as we are, and reputable reporters are telling us to ignore.
There was a reason I prefaced my posts with a disclaimer.
All are deleted now. 1/...🧵
How #HarlanCrow Cut His Taxes With #ClarenceThomas Cruises — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/harlan-crow-slashed-tax-bill-clarence-thomas-superyacht
6 ex-officers, some of whom called themselves ‘The Goon Squad,’ plead guilty to state charges in torture of 2 Black men
Via Kyle Griffin:
Defendant #Trump “says online that ex-Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, who has been subpoenaed to appear tomorrow before the #Fulton County grand jury, "shouldn't" testify.
Here's #Georgia's criminal code on "influencing witnesses" #legal #FaniWillis #FlopsweatTrump #ChutkanHim
Via nostr:npub1crluuzflt4hfj8clmccw4pfhkdf2u02fehr5a398t3qa9kwj0emsrfmv08:
I'm really grateful for all the smart coverage of the #Fulton GJ, but I keep laughing that Dana Nessel and DJ Hilson just quietly charged 19 people in #Michigan, with little fanfare.
Anthony Michael Kreis:
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘺, 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘢, 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 8/14 𝘢𝘯𝘥 8/15:
Today, the Fulton County DA is expected to start presenting evidence relating to the 2020 election to Grand Jury A. #Georgia #legal #FaniWillis #Trump
Defendant #Trump is awfully rattled. The judge will have to Chutkan him and put her/his foot down.
Via Angry Staffer (and several others, and as always, I won’t post #FlopsweatTrump’s deranged rants):
“Trump is on one this morning.
He’s going after #FaniWillis and blatantly tampering with other witnesses.”
#Georgia #TrumpIndictment
#RIP Clarence Avant dead: 'The Black Godfather' of music was 92
😳“A neo-#Nazi “active club” counts several current and former members of the United States #military as its members, the Guardian has learned, including a lance corporal machine gunner currently in detention on insubordination charges and a former US Marine Corps staff sergeant who was booted from the service for stealing large quantities of ammunition.”
🤦🏻♀️#Argentina's Javier Milei, a presidential candidate often compared to Donald Trump, surprises by leading a primary race with 65% of votes counted
11/11 "Once upon a time, “Bleeding Kansas” was a warning to America — harbinger of a civil war to come. It doesn’t have to be that way this time around. But we won’t succeed until we’re clear-eyed that nearly half of Americans hate who we’ve become, hate democracy when they no longer can win, and will embrace violence to get the results they can’t get at the ballot box."
Please read the entire column.
#Fascism #Republicans
10/ "When all else fails — the canceling of elections, the voter suppression, the rule changing, the growing assault on the free press that makes a shocking raid like Marion County possible — force is their last resort. It was their last resort on Jan. 6, 2021, and they’re telling us now in the bright, deep-fried daylight of an Iowa fairgrounds that they’ll do it again"
9/ "It’s all out in the open now, isn’t it? The U.S. women’s soccer team — young, diverse, not afraid to speak up for equality — are the new, albeit fragile, majority. They are America right now, and the right hates them — because they hate America. And this hatred makes it easier to destroy what America stands for. Even if that requires violence."
8/ "2022 poll found that more than 60% of Republicans would support declaring America as “a Christian nation,” even though a majority also recognized this is unconstitutional. They just don’t care anymore. Jesus, and his gospel of the poor, is weak. The thrice-married Donald Trump who talks of smiting their enemies is strong, the authority figure they truly want to worship from the pews.
How did we even get here?"
7/ "Autocratic contempt for the basic rule of law and the tenets of democracy is justified, in their minds, by falsely claiming the will of the people as instead some kind of “fascist left” that uses cultural power to impose its will on the folks they see as the true Americans. The result is a growing tolerance among young and increasingly online conservative activists to openly embrace the language of racism and sexism — even the nomenclature of the fascism they pretend to oppose."
6/ "Younger millennials & Gen Z—nation’s best-educated generations ever, which seems to coincide w their embrace of diversity, tolerance, progressive ideas —is showing up at the voting booth..This is “the real America” now & the millions clinging to the older hierarchies around race, gender and Christian hegemony are not handling it well. If democracy means this true majority winning elections, then they hate democracy. If the real America is this young and diverse, then they hate America"
5/ "In a few short generations, the U.S. relationship with authoritarianism has devolved from It Can’t Happen Here to “It could happen here” to today’s mantra: Turn on the news, it just happened again. “Hitler tactics” are busting out all over, and the gasping frog of American democracy is beginning to already taste like burnt chicken."