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I just hope the Scotus gives Presidents immunity. If that happens JB can have trump locked up and sent to Gitmo. No worries about breaking the law. jB will have immunity.
Commented: Saturday, April 20th, 2024 @ 8:47 pm
By: Big Bob
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Stormy. Its a stormy day.......Stormy
Any legit billionaire who ends up in court because he cant keep it in his pants is an idiot. Stormy....such a stormy day...
Commented: Saturday, April 20th, 2024 @ 8:36 pm
By: Big Bob
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That video in the original post from famous retired Constitutional Law Professor Alan Dershowitz clearly describes how this is a thrown together nothingburger of a case, but given the biased judge and the slanted jury pool still carries a real danger of a conviction. That is the real danger to our Constitutional republic.
As someone who spent decades practicing criminal law, the refusal of Judge Merchan to recuse himself appalls me as his conflict of interest is evident. Trump's lawyers followed up their motion to recuse with a motion for change of venue, which also would have taken Merchan off the case in addition to getting it moved to somewhere that a fair jury pool would have been possible. I did not see them follow that with a motion for a special venire, which would have kept the case in Manhattan but brought in jurors from elsewhere. Jurors from, say, Staten Island would have given a much fairer jury pool. ONe thing that was a big red flag on jury bias was the answers reported on where jurors got their news. New York City has three high circulation newspapers, the very liberal New York Tiimes, right-leaning New York Post, and the not too political New York Daily News. Not a single one was reported as using the New York Post or New York Daily News as their news source, but most of them reported getting their news from the Trump hating New York Times. I also have never seen a case where jurors names were kept secret. That gives a shady appearance to our judicial system.
Commented: Saturday, April 20th, 2024 @ 7:04 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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What is sick is this totalitarian political witch hunt and the abuse of our judicial system to carry it out. The liklihood that this is an all-Democrat jury is being covered up by a crooked judge.
Commented: Saturday, April 20th, 2024 @ 8:31 am
By: Conservative Voter
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They have to protect jurors from the violent MAGA mob that will come after them. Sick.
Commented: Saturday, April 20th, 2024 @ 12:29 am
By: Big Bob
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I notice they keep covering up the political party membership of the jurors, which is extremely relevant in a political case like this one as to whether the jury is fair or not. I have a gut feeling that this is likely because it is an all-Democrat jury. That would more be a lynch mob than a jury.
Commented: Friday, April 19th, 2024 @ 5:11 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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It hardly seems like we are living in America any more.
Commented: Friday, April 19th, 2024 @ 2:47 pm
By: Bubba
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I can't wait for the Special Prosecutor on election interference next year with Alvin Bragg, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, and Juan Marchan, as well as others as criminal defendants. The Biden DOJ sent a humorist to prison for "election interference" for a satire on the asinine things Democrats were doing on voting methods. That has set the bar very low for prosecuting those who have abused prosecutorial and judicial offices for outright election interference.
Commented: Friday, April 19th, 2024 @ 1:56 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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