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That Attorney General investigation in Missiouri for election interference in these frivolous show trial court cases against Trump would seem to have a lot of material to work from. Alvin Bragg and Letitia James both campaigned on going after Trump, then abused the powers of their offices to do so. Both should have nice comfy cells in a Missouri state prison. Merchan and Engeron should be on the same cell block.

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 3:04 pm By: Conservative Voter

Government-run schools have gone downhill so far that it is good to see parents being given alternatives. Not only has quality gone to the dogs, but indoctrination is rampant for the woke agenda. Voters are waking up to the problem. Fixing the school boards to put in members who keep close control of their bureaucracies helps but giving parents the option to go outside the government-run schools is even better. More states need to jump on this bandwagon. HOORAY FOR TEXAS.

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 12:12 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

The tunnel vision of your Trump Derangement Syndrome, Bobbie, shows you haven't followed anything at that trial. Even the experts on far left CNN are saying it is a travestry. Paying "hush money" has never been a crime. This is a manufactured political show trial just like Stalin used to do.

Crooked politicized kangaroo courts - where democracy goes to die.

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 10:05 am By: Rino Hunter

Trump wasn't president when he paid hush money to Stormy. Giving him a pass is un American. Nobody is above the law.

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 9:29 am By: Big Bob

There are two parts to presidential immunity. The first is that a president cannot be prosecuted while in office. That is very well established and, for now, protects Biden from his corruption history even though much of that happened before he was president. Biden, however, may be open for prosecution of matters prior to his presidency after he leaves office.

The second, which is less well established and is now before the Supreme Court is permanent presidential immunity for actions taken while president. Most legal scholars beleive that such immunity exists at least to some degree but the issue is whether it covers all actions or just particular types of actions, and that is what the SCOTUS must now decide.

Commented: Wednesday, May 29th, 2024 @ 8:50 am By: Steven P. Rader

You treat the patient, not the political agenda. Gender identity issues are nothing new.

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 8:42 pm By: Big Bob

A president is immune from prosecution while holding office, but given some of the corruption evidence that has come out, Biden might not be laughing after he loses in November. On the witness tampering, Biden's own DOJ would have to go after him on that, and politically that is not going to happen regardless of whether it should under the law.

Whether you ask top legal experts like renowned law proferors Alan Dershowitz or Jonathan Turley or the American public in polls, everyone except the diehard leftists knows this is a political prosecution, and the level of wealth is totally irrelevant in a political prosecution.

The extent that Judge Merchan will abuse his office to temporarily get a conviction, even if certain to be overturned on appeal is astounding. The SCOTUS has long ruled that a jury must be unanimous on all elements of a crime to get a conviction. That is black letter law. Judge Merchan's intended jury instruction, however, would allow conviction without being unanimous on the issue of the neccessary "other crime" which is something the prosecution has not offered a shred of evidence on. An unbiased judge would have dismissed the case at the close of the state's evidence on that alone.

Most judges care a lot about not getting overturned on appeal and srive for lawful rulings on issues for that reason. Merchan seems not to care and repeatedly makes off the wall rulings that invite appeal. Dershowitz thinks this particular one is so bad and so blatant, it may get any conviction overturned very quickly.

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Dr. Hunter I presume?

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 3:17 pm By: Big Bob

Poor billionaires - cant catch a break. Boo-hoo

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 3:15 pm By: Big Bob

www.yahoo.com

I'll never understand.

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 3:12 pm By: Big Bob

There are a lot more women passionately involved in the Pro-Life movement than men. They have a more direct concept of what it means to kill a baby.

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 12:29 pm By: Victoria

There are lots of subtle ways a prosecutor can throw a trial, and I would suspect the Biden DOJ will be using some of them in the Hunter Biden case. Prosecutors doing that is very rare. In the many criminal trials where I have represented defendants, I have never personally seen one of our eastern NC DA's do that. However, my late former law partner John Wilkinson, who was hired as private prosecutor by the victim's family in the notorious Joann Little case, described to me how he watched our elected DA William Griffin systematically throw that case at trial once venue had been moved to Wake County.

One very subtle but effective way for a prosecutor to throw a case is in jury selection. DA's normally try to exclude prospective jurors likely to be sympathetic to defendants. By simply failing to do that, a DA can get a trial jury more likely to reach a not guilty verdict or to be a hung jury. Unless someone is a trial lawyer or a jury consultant, they would not likely even pick up on that. Reporters certainly would not. That is just one of a variety of ways a DA can throw a prosecution.

Failing to do anything about Joe Biden conferring with a prosecution witness is a big red flag that the fix is in, once again, for Hunter Biden.

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 1:06 pm By: Steven P. Rader