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Here is George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley's take on the implosion of serial liar Michael Cohen and where it leaves the trial:
jonathanturley.org

Commented: Friday, May 17th, 2024 @ 12:17 pm By: John Steed

There is no mafia. If you don't believe me, I'll kill you.
How stupid does he think the people are?
He may have been on pills to make his address to the Nation. Wonder if he is on pills every day.

Commented: Friday, May 17th, 2024 @ 8:45 am By: Buzz Cayton

Biden's radical globalist energy policies are the biggest contributor to Bidenflation, as energy is a component of the cost of almost everything, and he started that crap on his first day in office, continuing it ever since. Biden's overspending, much of it related to his globalist "green energy" push has also been a major contributor to Bidenflation. The only way out of this economic mousetrap Biden has created is to bring back President Trump, who has good sense on energy and spending.

Commented: Friday, May 17th, 2024 @ 8:56 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The average citizen on both sides of the Atlantic has had it with illegal immigration, What is being shown by the new Dutch government will be seen again in the EU elections in June and the US elections in November.

Commented: Thursday, May 16th, 2024 @ 3:49 pm By: borderhawk

If your daddy says so.

Commented: Thursday, May 16th, 2024 @ 11:12 am By: Big Bob

The "wind that will blow it all away" on offshore wind turbines is called a hurricane, and if we rely on these whale and bird killers for power, then after a bad hurricane, we will probably be without power for many months.

Read that book by Shellenberger. It may get you out of your crazy climate cult. You need to stop drinking their kool aid, Bobbie.

Commented: Thursday, May 16th, 2024 @ 11:18 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

The conflicts of interest for crooked Judge Merchan just keep coming. The latest is that the judge's daughter is the political consultant for Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman, who has publicly stated he prepared Michael Cohen to testify. Cohen is Bragg's star witness, and a serial liar who has admitted to perjury in other matters. www.breitbart.com

This is a political show trial from start to finish, and is not what one expects in a democracy that respects the rule of law.

Commented: Thursday, May 16th, 2024 @ 10:40 am By: John Steed

I stand by my posts on the topic. In 2024, anyone who thinks the wind will blow it all away, is in fact, an idiot.

Commented: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 10:00 pm By: Big Bob

That Turley column says it all. I share the concern about getting a fair ruling out of Judge Merchan given his background. When I had a case in eastern North Carolina where the prosecution's case was as weak as this one, I would often use a strategy of offering no evidence in the case. That did two things. One, it gave the defense instead of the prosecution, the last argument to the jury which is very beneficial. The second is that the pattern jury instructions that the judge must read to the jury in such cases set out that a defendant does not have to offer evidence but can rely on the weakness of the state's case. Jurors can often take those instructions as a sign that the judge himself thinks that particular case is weak. While I would use such a strategy with a Beaufort County jury or a Hyde County jury or a Washington County jury, it might not come accross as well with a jury in Trump-hating Manhattan. Failure to get a change of venue to a more neutral jurisdiction (like more mainstram Statten Island) or a special venire (jurors brought in from a more neutral venue) has also signalled to me that the deck was stacked against Trump in this courtroom.

I would also note that I have seen judges recuse themselves on their own motion, without being asked, for conflicts much less than the conflicts of interest that the judge in the Trump case has. That speaks volumes about what to expect from this judge.

Commented: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 7:36 pm By: Steven P. Rader

MJ is a funny little guy. Weirdly evangelical but, at least what I can tell, is willing to do his job, which is to govern. Stood up to MAGA and survived.

And I will give him credit: he is the only republican to shut crazy Marge up. That woman is a freak show.

Commented: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 2:37 pm By: Big Bob

What really needs prosecution in the next administration is the RICO conspiracy among the Biden apparatus to thwart our immigration laws. Biden and all of those involved with that scheme need to be charged and prosecuted, and that should happen in a place with a very conservative jury pool and conservative judges.

Commented: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 12:23 pm By: borderhawk

This could present a real danger to Beaufort County Schools. We have a superintendant, Cheeseman, who seems to want to go along with whatever the education establishment wants, will not stand up for our students or local desires, and has a rubber stamp majority on the school board. We need to change that in November by changing the school board.

Commented: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 12:14 pm By: Conservative Voter