"talking to Trump’s campaign managers and chairmen, canoodling with the Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee about fund raising for the non-billionaire president when he ran low on campaign cash, calling the speaker of the house in Arizona and asking him to violate his oath of office…all of it was completely legal because everybody knows laws like the Hatch Act don’t apply to Republicans."

#Meadows #Georgia #RICO #Trump #crime #InmateP01135809 #FaniWillis
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Lucian K. Truscott on why the denial of Mark Meadows' request to have his RICO case transferred to federal court is important:

"Meadows had tried to make the case that pretty much everything he did while Trump was chief of staff was just part of the job –"

#Meadows #Georgia #RICO #Trump #crime #InmateP01135809 #FaniWillis
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/boo-hoo-hoo-hoo

"A federal judge declined to remove Mark Meadows’ Fulton County prosecution to federal court, per an order issued on Friday.

U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones for the Northern District of Georgia said in the ruling that Meadows’ alleged involvement in Trump’s effort to reverse his loss 'was not related to his role as White House Chief of Staff or his executive branch authority.'”

~ Josh Kovensky

#MarkMeadows #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-denies-meadows-bid-to-remove-georgia-case-to-federal-court

"But, so far, no one has been willing to employ the power of the judicial system to stem the violent incitements and the danger they are to the process of justice and democracy.

That must change. Either there’s rule of law or there isn’t."

#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #violence

"In a sane world, neither the Russians nor a criminally charged ex-president of the United States would be in a position to endanger the lives of Americans performing this most fundamental task of citizenship."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #violence
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https://america.substack.com/p/as-the-vise-tightens

"In other words [as ABC now reports], Trump knew that a search was likely in the works when he set Nauta and De Oliveira to the task of removing boxes from storage in Mar-a-Lago, and subsequently returning fewer of them than were removed. The inference is that Trump knowingly removed items he did not want prosecutors to find."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #NationalSecurity #BigLie #insurrection

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/things-that-happened-today-867

As Isabella Ramirez reports, Spazzo Pezzola cried crocodile tears on the courtroom as he, his wife, and mother pled for leniency for him after he "opened up the Capitol like a can opener" on Jan. 6, to quote Judge Timothy Kelly.

But once given his stiff sentence, all that false humility vanished, and he raised his fist and shouted, "Trump won."

Some folks are unteachable and have no shame.

#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #InmateP01135809 #ProudBoys

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tearful-proud-boy-dominic-pezzola-does-a-180-after-judge-shows-little-mercy

"Americans will be able to observe demeanor, body language, and facial expressions, and judge for themselves. And most of the witnesses against Trump are Republicans, including high ranking officials like Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger."

I'm with Joyce Vance: let us see with our own eyes what goes on in that courtroom. Sunlight is the best disinfectant: let it shine in.

#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #Georgia #democracy
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"In the Trump prosecution in Georgia, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee has announced that all proceedings, including the trial, will be livestreamed. It was just that easy. You can watch the case proceed on YouTube.

And just like that, America will have access to true facts. People may disagree about whether a witness was credible, but there will be no dispute about what they said."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #Georgia #democracy
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/three-things-for-your-labor-day-picnic

"One of Trump’s recent federal court filings is truly Orwellian. Trump was trying to delay his trial by almost three years. The filing compares Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, to the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black youths who suffered one of the most notoriously racist judicial persecutions in U.S. history."

~ Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

#Trump #ScottsboroBoys #Orwell #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/31/trump_orwell_and_the_scottsboro_boys

"Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson was prophetic when he titled his 2018 book 'Everything Trump Touches Dies.' Little did anyone know that would apply to Trump’s advisors and attorneys, the people who usually move on to great acclaim and financial reward after serving a president, in equal measure."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-ruling-in-peter-navarros-case

"Why is Trump so eager to get a Biden impeachment underway? Not to retaliate against the Democrats for impeaching him. It’s mainly to have Biden impeachment stories run at the same time as Trump trial stories. That way, Trump and his Republican enablers can deflect attention from the trials and confuse the public with arguments that Biden is even more guilty of something."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-bonkers-plan-to-impeach-biden

New York attorney general Letitia Janes announces in a court filing that "Trump had falsely boosted his net worth by between $812 million and $2.2 billion each year over the course of a decade." The evidence for this is "undisputed," she asserts.

~ William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess, and Jonah E. Bromwich

#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #InmateP01135809 #insurrection

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/nyregion/trump-james-civil-lawsuit-trial.html

"The way in which Judge Chutkan conducted herself—cool, no nonsense, factual—was in stark contrast to the tone of Trump’s lawyer, John Lauro. It sets up a dynamic and a model that other judges could look to when dealing with a bombastic, aggressive defense from Trump’s team."

~ Jay Kuo

#Chutkan #JudgeChutkan #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/all-rise-for-judge-tanya-chutkan

"Beyond the fact that the national party cannot and will not stop being a human shield for Inmate No. P01135809, Republicans out in the several states also break a ton of rocks not taking no for an answer from the people at the ballot box. A nuisance, those people could be. ...

All of this poison will continue to circulate in the national political bloodstream no matter what happens in the 2024 election."

#Republicans #democracy #Trump #crime #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder
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Charles Pierce looks at what's happening in Tennessee and Wisconsin (he might have added Ohio), and concludes,

"The conservative disrespect for democratic norms and institutions is such a vital part of modern Republican politics that the GOP couldn't stop itself even if it wanted to, which it never will."

#Republicans #democracy #Trump #crime #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #Tennessee #Wisconsin
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44939540/tennessee-republicans-silence-justin-jones-cameron-sexton/

Aileen Cannon dishonors the Florida judiciary and is a stain on the American judiciary in general.

Her peers need to deal with her.

#AileenCannon #judiciary #Florida #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie #insurrection

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-florida-documents-case

@wdlindsy

Yesterday Mark Meadows stood up in court and came clean to everything, begging the judge to let his case be tried as a Federal one.

The Prosecutor remains
The Judge remains
Nothing changes other than the court is moved to Northern Georgia.

He thinks he is more likely to get a white jury there.

That's it. That's the difference.

#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #MarkMeadows

Lucian K. Truscott on Mark Meadows' argument that he was just doing his job:

"You can see the problem Meadows has here. Pretty much everything Trump did between election day in November of 2020 and January 6, when the Congress counted electoral ballots and certified the election for Joe Biden, was to overturn the election. That’s not an official duty of a president of the United States."

#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/mark-meadows-international-man-of

"A criminal defendant who believes he will be acquitted does not engage in the histrionics employed by [Trump lawyer John] Lauro before Judge Chutkan."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #crime #criminal #InmateP01135809 #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-wheels-of-justice-begin-to-turn