...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Monday, June 24, 2024
Read the room, fella
Also, check your make-up before you go on camera.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Economic outlook post-election
Pass it on. (Further explication in the article.)On Thursday, Moody’s Analytics, which evaluates risk, performance, and financial modeling, compared the economic promises of President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Authors Mark Zandi, Brendan LaCerda, and Justin Begley concluded that while a second Biden presidency would see cooling inflation and continued economic growth of 2.1%, a Trump presidency would be an economic disaster.
Heather Cox Richardson
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Consistency being the hobgoblin, etc.
He bent precedent to arrive at that decision. I'm sure he can bend back again.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Cannon continues bumbling and bolstering Trump's defense
Ridiculous.Trump contends that Smith’s appointment by Garland as special counsel in November 2022 is unconstitutional and that Smith lacked the legal authority to bring the case against the former president.
Though other courts have uniformly swept aside similar challenges to the validity of special counsel appointments, [Aileen] Cannon — a 2020 Trump appointee to the bench — scheduled lengthy oral arguments on the matter, a sign that she was taking it seriously.
[...]
The judge’s intense dive into an issue that has been brushed aside by most other courts has caused head-scratching in the legal community and drawn renewed criticism of her handling of the sensitive case. Adding to the unusual dynamic: Cannon permitted three outside experts — two in favor of Trump’s position and one in favor of Smith’s — to address the court for 30 minutes apiece, nearly unheard of in criminal matters.
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[Friday's] exchanges marked the beginning of a three-day stretch of intense hearings called by Cannon that will continue Monday and Tuesday.
Politico
Pretty sure she'll come down on Smith's side (while chastising him anyway) because she won't want him taking an appeal of her decision to the 11th Circuit where she's already been smacked down.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.Cannon alarmed legal experts across the ideological spectrum in 2022 when she paused the Justice Department’s investigation of Trump’s retention of classified documents shortly after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago. Her decision earned a sharp rebuke from a conservative panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which permitted the probe to advance. The Supreme Court declined to take up Trump’s appeal.
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Trump’s attorneys spent much of the day asserting that Smith’s operation should not be allowed to continue. Bove maintained that allowing the special counsel to remain in place amounted to a “shadow government.”
Cannon responded, “That sounds very ominous.”
[...]
Cannon was randomly assigned to preside over the case. She has moved slowly on many pretrial matters, some of them routine, and she has indefinitely postponed the trial date.
Friday, June 21, 2024
Nevada fake electors getting an assist
Where there are more conservatives to serve on the jury. It's a state case, FFS. It should be allowed to be brought anywhere in the state.Clark County District Judge Mary Kay Holthus ruled that prosecutors with the Nevada attorney general’s office chose the wrong venue in which to file the case, calling off a trial scheduled for January.
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) brought the case in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, but defense attorneys contended that it should have been filed in a northern Nevada city closer to where the alleged crime occurred.
The Hill
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.“We disagree with the judge’s decision and will be appealing immediately,” said John Sadler, a spokesperson for the Nevada attorney general’s office.
Following the judge’s decision, defense attorneys told reporters the case is “done” since a three-year statute of limitations on filing charges expired in December, meaning that the state likely could not bring the case to a grand jury in a different venue.
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Biden won Nevada by more than 33,000 votes in 2020.
Bannon appeals to SCOTUS
So another case they can hear instead of releasing a decision on Trump's immunity case.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
No immunity decision today - again
Yes, so what happens? Maybe the difference will be in "stay" versus "enter".
UPDATE 03:25 pm:
UPDATE 06/22/2024:
Let the children learn
Here's some of what republicans don't want taught to their fragile little children in schools.
On Fox, no less.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
SCOTUS decisions yet this term
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 06/21/2024:
Ailene was approached by other Florida judges
They wanted her to hand the case off due to her lack of experience. Of course she wasn't about to give up the limelight.
Well, that clinched it, I'm sure. She didn't trust him to deliver for Trump.Shortly after Judge Aileen M. Cannon drew the assignment in June 2023 to oversee former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case, two more experienced colleagues on the federal bench [— including the chief judge in the Southern District of Florida, Cecilia M. Altonaga —] in Florida urged her to pass it up and hand it off to another jurist.
[...]
[Cannon's] assignment drew attention because she has scant trial experience and had previously shown unusual favor to Mr. Trump by intervening in a way that helped him in the criminal investigation that led to his indictment, only to be reversed in a sharply critical rebuke by a conservative appeals court panel.
[...]
She has broken, according to lawyers who operate there, with a general practice of federal judges in the Southern District of Florida of delegating some pretrial motions to a magistrate — in this instance, Judge Bruce E. Reinhart. While he is subordinate to her, Judge Reinhart is an older and much more experienced jurist. In 2022, he was the one who signed off on an F.B.I. warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s club and residence in Florida, for highly sensitive government files that Mr. Trump kept after leaving office.
NYT
Since then, Judge Cannon has exhibited hostility to prosecutors, handled pretrial motions slowly and indefinitely postponed the trial, declining to set a date for it to begin even though both the prosecution and the defense had told her they could be ready to start this summer.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
SCOTUS impropriety (aka corruption)
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 06/20/2024:
Authoritarian makes demands
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024
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