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Post by dabbler on Mar 25, 2024 13:17:49 GMT -5
Well, Bob Menendez is still not in jail and he's just a D-Senator from New Jersey. The difference is, the whole Democratic Party apparatus and institutions isn't trying to keep him free and running for Senator again. I mean under a Trump system, where he has picked his AG to do what he wants, do you think people who go up for anything approaching any of this with a D by the name have as loose of a run through the system? The menendez thing at the moment is just standard rich guy in the US skating, doesn't feel as political
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Post by easye on Mar 28, 2024 11:18:25 GMT -5
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Post by easye on Apr 15, 2024 15:46:51 GMT -5
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Post by herzlos on Apr 15, 2024 16:42:33 GMT -5
It's going to be hard to find 18 people who are genuinely impartial about Trump. MAGA's would find him not guilty even if he plead guilty. What'd happen if insufficient jury were found?
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Post by easye on Apr 15, 2024 16:48:35 GMT -5
Gitmo?
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Apr 16, 2024 2:14:12 GMT -5
Given that they can even find enough impartial jurors for high profile mass shooters going on trial, it seems unlikely the entire state can't provide over a dozen jurors that appear impartial.
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Post by skyth on Apr 16, 2024 6:41:30 GMT -5
The juror's have to be from Manhatten.
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Post by easye on Apr 16, 2024 9:16:29 GMT -5
If any place can do it, Manhattan can! If you can be impartial there, you be impartial anywhere! LOL Edit: I guess I will put this here as it has to do with the SC hearing a law used to go after J6 criminals. www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1243401678/supreme-court-jan-6-prosecutions-lawSupreme Court hears challenge to law used to prosecute hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants
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Post by Haighus on Apr 16, 2024 10:08:55 GMT -5
If it wasn't supposed to refer to obstructing an official congressional proceding but instead refer to destruction of congressional records, why didn't they use that as the name of the law?
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Post by redchimera on Apr 23, 2024 10:17:35 GMT -5
I'm having a fun time reading through the Beeb's rolling reporting of the (current) trial. Seems he's landed himself with a second rate lawyer. I guess all the one's worth a damn wanted paying up front.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68848464
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Post by mdgv2 on Apr 23, 2024 10:41:09 GMT -5
Entirely hypothetical. What happens in US Law (which I guess will vary state to state?) if you genuinely can’t find an impartial jury?
Like, the accused was filmed, on live television, punting orphans through a window into a burning oil drum, but demands trial by jury?
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Post by crispy78 on Apr 23, 2024 11:29:18 GMT -5
Loving the arguments about retweeting / reTruthing(?) not being a breach of the gag order. The guy is actually insane.
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Post by dabbler on Apr 25, 2024 12:30:56 GMT -5
Listening to the SC arguments on the immunity, there needs to be 1 more role in the SC. Someone to slap the fuck out of the Republicans on there every time they say 'well this will establish precedent so we want to be careful'. As if they give a flying about that anymore, god damn. Infuriating
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Post by Disciple of Fate on Apr 25, 2024 12:41:31 GMT -5
Seems at least 3-4 conservative judges seem open to just granting blanket immunity, bizarre.
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Post by dabbler on Apr 25, 2024 16:39:58 GMT -5
Seems at least 3-4 conservative judges seem open to just granting blanket immunity, bizarre. A precedent that would stand for about half a second should Biden pull half the shit Trump has
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