"On Monday, a federal judge reiterated his ruling that the former President of the United States raped E. Jean Carroll. In a ruling tossing Donald Trump’s countersuit against his victim, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, wrote that the verdict in the original civil trial 'establishes, as against Mr. Trump, the fact that Mr. Trump "raped" her,'"
~ Charlie Sykes
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #rape #EJeanCarroll
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https://morningshots.thebulwark.com/p/they-are-all-bannonists-now
As Robert Hubbell notes, in seeking to put her thumb on the scales on behalf of Defendant Trump and to undermine federal cases against him, incompetent Florida judge Aileen Cannon disclosed the existence of a secret grand jury investigation that is ongoing in a different jurisdiction.
Which she absolutely ought not to have done….
She is, Hubbell concludes, the most incompetent judge in the federal judiciary.
#Trump #crime #criminal #AileenCannon
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/last-day-to-vote-no-on-issue-1-in
"The reaction against Judge Cannon’s order was swift and brutal. Professor Tribe said,
'Judge Cannon continues her dopey and constitutionally dubious usurpation of the executive branch’s investigative and prosecutorial prerogatives.'
Joyce Vance tweeted,
'Looks like it is a good week [for the prosecution] to ask the 11th Circuit to replace the judge.'”
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #AileenCannon
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As Robert Hubbell notes, in seeking to put her thumb on the scales on behalf of Defendant Trump and to undermine federal cases against him, incompetent Florida judge Aileen Cannon disclosed the existence of a secret grand jury investigation that is ongoing in a different jurisdiction.
Which she absolutely ought not to have done….
She is, Hubbell concludes, the most incompetent judge in the federal judiciary.
#Trump #crime #criminal #AileenCannon
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/last-day-to-vote-no-on-issue-1-in
"'What Trump is doing is, he's asking for personal loyalty to him to outweigh the rule of law,' said Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. 'We see this in any authoritarian takeover of a system. We see the authoritarian say, 'Devotion to me is more important than the rule of law.' "
#Trump #authoritarian #StrongMan #BigLie
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"'The use of lies [by strongmen types] takes place in a larger effort to turn the public against alternate sources of authority,' [Ruth Ben-Ghiat] said. Those sources might include independent courts, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Or — it may be the fourth estate."
~ Odette Yousef
#Trump #authoritarian #StrongMan #BigLie
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"In recent days, my thoughts have returned to an observation that the media reporter Brian Stelter made in Vanity Fair last month (prior to the latest indictment): that 'many news executives and political analysts appear to have succumbed to revisionist history, downplaying Trump’s destruction of a shared reality and his shredding of democratic norms';"
~ Jon Allsop
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #media #MediaFail
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https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump_election_indictment_coverage.php
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 There are people buried in the cemetery up there in Calumet that are in my family line who died that night. Our GGranpa took the girls and came home alone to tell GGma. They found one of the three alive in the dead pile the next morning.
nostr:npub1c6aewuwpfm59exj45t5ahdr7z2dkn8zxqtesq5fza4fw5t27aa3quh4fdh A horrifying story. This is history I had not known. I appreciate your educating me about it.
nostr:npub1vzq495gux2rtp8dy34hge37f348009a9zgaam7swszycra2cf02q3agn6z Indeed — let's hope.
nostr:npub16m853lf74f746xj4s47ndrtmaftxydqwm32afuzhdgwcufazk6yql5kc8n Not enough brain bleach in the world, is there, to rid us of this destructive presence in our minds? He wants us to think of him 24-7.
nostr:npub10d24k240muv385aznymt7w0y7nzrv3xrhys4f8razfdzajqszqjs7vfy4f Yes, well-stated. I agree. I think Trump and the politics of the GOP right now are a very direct assault on canons of truth and decency that bind our society together. By rejecting these, Republicans are rejecting any commitment to the rest of us and to the common good.
nostr:npub1c6aewuwpfm59exj45t5ahdr7z2dkn8zxqtesq5fza4fw5t27aa3quh4fdh Yes, that should be the absolute realization, as you say.
nostr:npub1s7xn28rdf32y6wzaaee7w78ejrrhm7m6prx9wnu47pdgyfezl5aqaxuq97 Yes, all of that, for sure — and even though it may well be malicious and immature nonsense, it had deadly serious consequences.
nostr:npub1k2v0wckdfs4f25zvgpmujaheg325mgk6p8haygx88ks9egs59pgsgt5c03 It's not my point, actually: it's Matt Ford's. The material in quotation marks with his name indicated as author is from the linked article.
nostr:npub1c6aewuwpfm59exj45t5ahdr7z2dkn8zxqtesq5fza4fw5t27aa3quh4fdh I followed you up to your final line. What does being able to say, "I am gay," have to do with any of this? I don't follow.
nostr:npub1dj58zxlgu87f9klu54zeency98pmpqzy58wcw0tyhrennzs476rqdg6nsh Thank you. I'll read with interest. Yes, it seems patently clear to me that the Republican long game for some now has been to lock in minority control for as far as possible in the future. Hence the determination to pack the courts, especially the Supreme bench. They know full well that they represent a dwinding demographic, white, aging, as demographic shifts portend larger and larger Democratic majorities. Dismantling democracy is all they have left, and gaming the system meanwhile
nostr:npub1p0ycaundq55puyhhtqrpxgfrrqw8nfxzpuvxw68ffu95amfsxakq6yrz7w "So I guess there is a special tier for mob bosses masquerading as former presidents" — a great sentence and good observation. Yes, so it seems!
"The chances that the trial gets moved out of D.C., let alone to West Virginia, are very low to vanishing. Venue is proper because this is the jurisdiction where all the plotting, criming and injury happened. It’s also where all the witnesses and lawyers are.
To Lauro, I’d say this. If your client doesn’t want to be tried in D.C., then tell him not to commit crimes in D.C."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #DC
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/trumps-lawyer-made-the-sunday-talk
"The billionaires who push Trump and his lies through their publications, think-tanks, and media outlets do so because they believe if he’s re-elected, they’ll get even more tax breaks and that Trump will continue his efforts to gut the IRS and EPA, which they hate.
~ Thom Hartmann
#Trump #Republicans #crime #BigLie #billionaires #EconomicElites #TaxBreaks #media
https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-to-de-program-fox-watchers-on-2dd
"Anti-democratic measures like Ohio’s Issue 1 are emblematic of how the fight for abortion rights is playing out in a post-Roe America. With almost 70 percent of Americans supporting abortion rights, opponents are increasingly offering no substantive response."
~ Laleh Ispahani
#Ohio #abortion #democracy
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https://newrepublic.com/article/174814/ohio-election-abortion-rights-ballot-democracy
"Instead, they’re deploying a quiet, nationwide strategy of altering the playing field in ways that concentrate power in the hands of conservative extremists—limiting abortion by undermining democracy itself. Anti-abortion activists realize they can’t win a fair fight, so they’re changing the rules of the game.
This approach is not new. Attacking democratic initiatives and voting rights has long been at the forefront of an anti-abortion strategy."
#Ohio #abortion #democracy
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