B-Man Posted April 15 Posted April 15 A serial perjurer will try to prove an old misdemeanor against Trump in an embarrassment for the New York legal system by Jonathan Turley The famous Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, “The more laws, the less justice.” This week, New York judges and lawyers appear eager to prove that the same is true for cases against Donald Trump. After an absurd $450 million decision courtesy of Attorney General Letitia James, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will bring his equally controversial criminal prosecution over hush money paid to a former porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Lawyers have been scouring the civil and criminal codes for any basis to sue or prosecute Trump before the upcoming 2024 election. https://nypost.com/2024/04/14/opinion/a-serial-perjurer-will-try-to-prove-an-old-misdemeanor-against-trump-in-an-embarrassment-for-the-new-york-legal-system/ . 2
B-Man Posted April 15 Posted April 15 Waaaaahhh ! We can't broadcast propaganda pictures of Trump in Court. . . . . . . . . it's unfair ! "Unlike nearly every other state, New York does not allow cameras in the courtroom and also prohibits audio recordings..." "... of witness testimony and other proceedings.... In an era when even the U.S. Supreme Court streams live audio of oral arguments, New York is way behind the times; the official court rules for coverage of People v. Trump allows for about 60 journalists (including two sketch artists) to witness the proceedings with 'no video, no photographs, no audio recording.'... In New York — again, in a departure from the federal system and every other state — official rules state that transcripts of what gets said in court must be purchased from the court stenographers who have the job of recording, on a specialized keyboard, every word, action, and ruling in criminal cases." From "Free the Trump Trial Transcripts/The New York court system’s maddening lack of transparency is about to be a national embarrassment" (New York Magazine). Click for more »https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/04/unlike-nearly-every-other-state-new.html#more . 2
B-Man Posted April 15 Posted April 15 The facts are these: Ms. Daniels has said that in 2006 she and Mr. Trump had one, er, intimate encounter. A decade later, as the 2016 election neared, Mr. Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen paid Ms. Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet. A nondisclosure agreement isn’t illegal. Mr. Bragg’s complaint is about the paperwork. Mr. Cohen was reimbursed through 2017 via a monthly retainer “disguised as a payment for legal services,” the DA said. He padded his indictment by separately charging each invoice, check and ledger entry to get 34 counts. Falsifying business records in New York can be a misdemeanor, but the statute of limitations on that has expired. Mr. Bragg therefore must charge felonies, which under New York law means showing that Mr. Trump cooked the books with “intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” Even that requires special dispensation. The 2017 payments are outside the five-year felony window, but state judge Juan Merchan ruled that Mr. Bragg enjoys an extra year of leeway after emergency COVID-19 executive orders stopped the clock on legal cases. Oh dear. In a non-Banana Republic, the law works by uncovering a crime and then prosecuting those guilty of the crime. In a certified Banana Republic, the regime finds someone it dislikes and then calls out the legal bloodhounds to discover or, if need be, to manufacture a crime as a pretext to take out the undesirable person. The latter is what is happening here, which is why the WSJ began its editorial by saying that “it’s a trial that shouldn’t happen in a case Mr. Bragg shouldn’t have brought.” It is worth noting that this is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of fundamental fairness and the impartial application of the law. National Review’s Andrew McCarthy is a staunch critic of Donald Trump. But he is under no illusions about what Alvin Bragg is attempting to do in his prosecution of Trump. “He turns an uncharged misdemeanor into 34 felonies,” McCarthy said recently, “while when dealing with violent crime in Manhattan, he turns felonies into misdemeanors.” Similarly, The Wall Street Journal is not an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump. But it is an enthusiastic supporter of the rule of law, which is why it is officially appalled by what is happening in what can only be called a show trial. “Now the country is on the brink of an extraordinary moment, as Mr. Bragg uses a weak and untested legal premise to put the other party’s presidential nominee on trial during the 2024 campaign.” https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-begins-trumps-trial-tests-american-justice/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-trial-alvin-bragg-juan-merchan-stormy-daniels-dcc214a1 1 2
BillsFanNC Posted April 15 Author Posted April 15 You mean getting a jury made up of a bunch of Billsfuk.c's, Findings, Tibstain's and King's just might not be impartial? Water might be wet too. 1
B-Man Posted April 15 Posted April 15 Trump Hush-Money Trial Begins as Experts Scratch Heads COLLIN ANDERSON Brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, the case was considered dead three years ago, when Bragg's predecessor and federal prosecutors abandoned it. But Bragg, who campaigned on his record suing the Trump administration more than a hundred times as a deputy in the New York state attorney general’s office, revived the case in 2021, filing felony charges against Trump last year alleging he had falsified the business records pertaining to the Daniels payments. A number of legal experts have questioned Bragg's decision to seek felony charges in the case. In New York, charges over falsified business records are typically brought as misdemeanors and are "rarely the senior offense in an indictment," according to the Financial Times. For the crime to rise to a felony, prosecutors must prove that the defendant falsified records to "commit or conceal another crime." https://freebeacon.com/courts/trump-goes-to-trial-in-hush-money-case-as-legal-experts-voice-skepticism-over-the-merits/ . 1
TH3 Posted April 15 Posted April 15 4 hours ago, BillsFanNC said: Do you know even what "marxism" is?
ChiGoose Posted April 15 Posted April 15 2 hours ago, TH3 said: Do you know even what "marxism" is? Generally if someone on this board uses the world “Marxist” or “communist” unironically, you can assume they don’t know what it actually means. 1
TH3 Posted April 16 Posted April 16 14 hours ago, BillsFanNC said: Ha…ha…ha…..Maybe shouldn’t have delayed so much…you know…because he is innocent and this all could be months over…..Or maybe shouldn’t have been banging pornstars because his wife was pregnant..and then being forced to pay hush money….ha ha ha And this is the guy you revere…..
TH3 Posted April 16 Posted April 16 (edited) 1 hour ago, BillsFanNC said: ⬆️ Communist scum Dude...do you realize how dime store psych 101 you are? Let me guess...you loved the Sopranos right? You see dt as your godfather..."Sure he breaks the law...but I am part of hs family and he is going to take care of me...so his faults are embraced..." Feels great right ...part of the fam.... Tony S, Gotti, Corleone....you aint breaking new ground here bro...Just another minion who mistakenly thinks some thug is going to watch out for him....Yet all the while he is just shaking you down while those behind him - not even hidden really - get what they want.... Comic book psychology oh..."Communist" ? What are you ....like 7 years old - just throwing a name out....that makes no sense at all? 😄 Edited April 16 by TH3 1
BillsFanNC Posted April 16 Author Posted April 16 Commies gonna commie I'm sure Trumps poll numbers will go down THIS time.
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