#alvinbragg — Public Fediverse posts
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Harvey Weinstein averts fourth NY rape trial as prosecutors move to drop charge
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Harvey Weinstein averts fourth NY rape trial as prosecutors move to drop charge
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Mangione, accused insurance CEO killer, could face hurdles with mental breakdown defense
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Mangione, accused insurance CEO killer, could face hurdles with mental breakdown defense
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NYC man indicted on hate crimes charges in alleged antigay beating
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/nyc-subway-beating-hate-crime
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https://www.europesays.com/news/29227/ Judge declares a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial ##MeToo #AlvinBragg #APTopNews #ArtsAndEntertainment #California #CurtisFarber #Entertainment #GeneralNews #HarveyWeinstein #Headlines #Indictments #JessicaMann #JoshHadar #Juries #LegalProceedings #Manhattan #MarcAgnifilo #NewYork #NewYorkCity #News #SexualAssault #TopStories #Trials #USNews
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U.S. Returns Hundreds of Looted Antiquities to Italy
Italy’s Min…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #AlessandroGiuli #alvinbragg #Antiquities #archaeology #ArtCrime #artnet-news #carabinieri #Christie's #Crime #Etruscan #fbi #Greek #Hellenisticperiod #Herculaneum #History #HomelandSecurity #IronAge #law #Lawenforcement #looted #ManhattanDA #memorandumofunderstanding #MinistryofCulture #Politics #repatriation #Roman #RomanForum #TilmanJ.Fertitta #trafficking
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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trump-mcconnell-roberts-thats-not?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#uspol #uspolitics #fascism #corrupt #treason #corruption #scotus #heritagefoundation #project2025 #trump #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #AlexAronson @kimlanelaw Scheppele #mcconnell #mitchmcconnell #federalistsociety #leonardleo #johnroberts #scotus #shadowdocket #judicialbranch #SenateJudiciaryCommittee #usattorney #darinsmith #DanBishop #PhillipWilliamsJr #wyoming #northcarolina #alabama #alvinbragg #specialcouncil #jacksmith #alinahabba #newjersey -
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#uspol #uspolitics #fascism #corrupt #treason #corruption #scotus #heritagefoundation #project2025 #trump #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #AlexAronson @kimlanelaw Scheppele #mcconnell #mitchmcconnell #federalistsociety #leonardleo #johnroberts #scotus #shadowdocket #judicialbranch #SenateJudiciaryCommittee #usattorney #darinsmith #DanBishop #PhillipWilliamsJr #wyoming #northcarolina #alabama #alvinbragg #specialcouncil #jacksmith #alinahabba #newjersey -
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#uspol #uspolitics #fascism #corrupt #treason #corruption #scotus #heritagefoundation #project2025 #trump #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #AlexAronson @kimlanelaw Scheppele #mcconnell #mitchmcconnell #federalistsociety #leonardleo #johnroberts #scotus #shadowdocket #judicialbranch #SenateJudiciaryCommittee #usattorney #darinsmith #DanBishop #PhillipWilliamsJr #wyoming #northcarolina #alabama #alvinbragg #specialcouncil #jacksmith #alinahabba #newjersey -
UPDATED: From Manhattan to Rome—Couple Charged in Sex Trafficking Operation | Crime
Updated Information 4/9; 3:45 p.m.—According to the Rome Police Department, a search warrant was executed on April 7…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #alvinbragg #NewYork #newyorkstatepolice #sextrafficking #southjamesstreet #utica
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From Manhattan to Rome: Couple Charged in Sex Trafficking Operation | Crime
ROME, N.Y. — Two people have been indicted for running a prostitution operation that included sex trafficking a…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #alvinbragg #NewYork #newyorkstatepolice #sextrafficking #southjamesstreet #utica
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NYC pension system will be in better hands after Brad Lander’s departure as city comptroller
Brad Lander won’t be New York City comptroller much longer — and that’s good news for Gotham’s rank…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Personalfinance #AlvinBragg #BlackRock #BradLander #Business #exxonmobil #LarryFink #PersonalFinance #ZohranMamdani
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Knicks owner James Dolan endorses ex-Manhattan prosecutor in bid to unseat DA Bragg https://www.rawchili.com/nba/311561/ #AlvinBragg #Basketball #Crime #DistrictAttorneys #JamesDolan #Knicks #manhattan #Metro #NBA #NewYork #NewYorkKnicks #NewYork #NewYorkKnicks #USNews
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They τhrew all yall eager🟤azses ouτ τhere τo be τhe face of goιng afτer #trump and now τhey can'τ/won'τ proτecτ yall from hιs vengeful, auτhorιτarιan rampage. 🤷🏿♀️ Yall gon' learn... one day.😒
#FaniWillis #LetitiaJames #AlvinBragg
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⬆️ @vij
>> The gov of [#IL] completely cowed [#Trump]…. But the Dem prez hired and given the full might of the US govt didn’t.
Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg successfully prosecuted Trump in #StormyDaniels case.
#NewYork AG #LetitiaJames successfully prosecuted Trump Org in a business fraud case.
#Biden's AG #Garland failed in EVERY SINGLE CASE #J6, #ClassifiedDocs, #FakeElectors, … & Biden DOJ argued to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that DOJ should DEFEND Trump in Carroll rape & defamation case
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⬆️ @vij
>> The gov of [#IL] completely cowed [#Trump]…. But the Dem prez hired and given the full might of the US govt didn’t.
Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg successfully prosecuted Trump in #StormyDaniels case.
#NewYork AG #LetitiaJames successfully prosecuted Trump Org in a business fraud case.
#Biden's AG #Garland failed in EVERY SINGLE CASE #J6, #ClassifiedDocs, #FakeElectors, … & Biden DOJ argued to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that DOJ should DEFEND Trump in Carroll rape & defamation case
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⬆️ @vij
>> The gov of [#IL] completely cowed [#Trump]…. But the Dem prez hired and given the full might of the US govt didn’t.
Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg successfully prosecuted Trump in #StormyDaniels case.
#NewYork AG #LetitiaJames successfully prosecuted Trump Org in a business fraud case.
#Biden's AG #Garland failed in EVERY SINGLE CASE #J6, #ClassifiedDocs, #FakeElectors, … & Biden DOJ argued to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that DOJ should DEFEND Trump in Carroll rape & defamation case
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KMR Talent CEO Mark Measures Hit With Fraud & Larceny Charges Over Millions Allegedly Stolen From Clients & Staff
#Legal #News #AlvinBragg #KMR #KMRTalent #MarkMeasureshttps://deadline.com/2025/04/kmr-talent-mark-measures-fraud-indictment-1236373872/
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KMR Talent CEO Mark Measures Hit With Fraud & Larceny Charges Over Millions Allegedly Stolen From Clients & Staff
#Legal #News #AlvinBragg #KMR #KMRTalent #MarkMeasureshttps://deadline.com/2025/04/kmr-talent-mark-measures-fraud-indictment-1236373872/
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New York D.A. Urges Judge Not To Dismiss Donald Trump’s Hush Money Conviction, Proposes Other Sentencing Options
#News #Politics #2024Election #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Trumphushmoneytrialhttps://deadline.com/2024/12/trump-hush-money-sentencing-dismissal-1236199876/
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New York D.A. Urges Judge Not To Dismiss Donald Trump’s Hush Money Conviction, Proposes Other Sentencing Options
#News #Politics #2024Election #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Trumphushmoneytrialhttps://deadline.com/2024/12/trump-hush-money-sentencing-dismissal-1236199876/
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Prosecutors Agree That Donald Trump Sentencing Should Be Paused As President-Elect’s Attorneys Pursue Dismissal Of Hush Money Conviction
#News #Politics #2024Election #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Trumphushmoneytrialhttps://deadline.com/2024/11/trump-hush-money-trial-sentencing-3-1236181407/
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Prosecutors Agree That Donald Trump Sentencing Should Be Paused As President-Elect’s Attorneys Pursue Dismissal Of Hush Money Conviction
#News #Politics #2024Election #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Trumphushmoneytrialhttps://deadline.com/2024/11/trump-hush-money-trial-sentencing-3-1236181407/
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Justice #Merchan’s decision came at the request of #Trump, who had asked to #delay the sentencing until after the #election, partly so he had more time to challenge his #conviction. Prosecutors working for the Manhattan DA, #AlvinBragg, who brought the case, had deferred to the judge, paving the way for at least a brief postponement.
#criminal #law #convict #felon #fraud #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #SCOTUS #immunity #FuckSCOTUS
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Justice #Merchan’s decision came at the request of #Trump, who had asked to #delay the sentencing until after the #election, partly so he had more time to challenge his #conviction. Prosecutors working for the Manhattan DA, #AlvinBragg, who brought the case, had deferred to the judge, paving the way for at least a brief postponement.
#criminal #law #convict #felon #fraud #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #SCOTUS #immunity #FuckSCOTUS
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#Manhattan #DistrictAttorney’s #AlvinBragg's office argues #DJT is "vexatious and frivolous" in third attempt to get Juan Merchan recused from #NYC #courtcase
Trump's defense team has also argued previous verdict against #MAGAman must be set aside due to recent #SCOTUS presidential immunity decision.
Prosecutors say case "entirely personal" and has "no relationship whatsoever to any official duty of the presidency."
https://www.law.com/2024/08/01/trump-again-seeks-merchans-recusal-citing-daughters-political-work/
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#Manhattan #DistrictAttorney’s #AlvinBragg's office argues #DJT is "vexatious and frivolous" in third attempt to get Juan Merchan recused from #NYC #courtcase
Trump's defense team has also argued previous verdict against #MAGAman must be set aside due to recent #SCOTUS presidential immunity decision.
Prosecutors say case "entirely personal" and has "no relationship whatsoever to any official duty of the presidency."
https://www.law.com/2024/08/01/trump-again-seeks-merchans-recusal-citing-daughters-political-work/
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Harvey Weinstein NYC Rape Retrial Gets Start Date – Update
#Legal #News #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #GloriaAllred #HarveyWeinsteinhttps://deadline.com/2024/07/harvey-weinstein-rape-trial-hearing-1235901214/
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Harvey Weinstein NYC Rape Retrial Gets Start Date – Update
#Legal #News #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #GloriaAllred #HarveyWeinsteinhttps://deadline.com/2024/07/harvey-weinstein-rape-trial-hearing-1235901214/
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Harvey Weinstein NYC Rape Retrial Gets Start Date – Update
#Legal #News #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #GloriaAllred #HarveyWeinsteinhttps://deadline.com/2024/07/harvey-weinstein-rape-trial-hearing-1235901214/
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Harvey Weinstein NYC Rape Retrial Gets Start Date – Update
#Legal #News #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #GloriaAllred #HarveyWeinsteinhttps://deadline.com/2024/07/harvey-weinstein-rape-trial-hearing-1235901214/
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#Trump’s NY #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference “#HushMoney” sentencing may be postponed due to #SCOTUS #immunity ruling
Trump’s lawyers are seeking to vacate his #NewYork #conviction based on Monday’s #SupremeCourt ruling on presidential immunity. The Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg says he is not opposed to a #delay requested by Trump’s lawyers so they can seek to vacate his conviction.
#law
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#Trump’s NY #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference “#HushMoney” sentencing may be postponed due to #SCOTUS #immunity ruling
Trump’s lawyers are seeking to vacate his #NewYork #conviction based on Monday’s #SupremeCourt ruling on presidential immunity. The Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg says he is not opposed to a #delay requested by Trump’s lawyers so they can seek to vacate his conviction.
#law
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Prosecutors w/Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg's office said limits on Trump's speech about trial witnesses were no longer needed. But they urged Justice Juan #Merchan to keep in place restrictions on his comments about #jurors, #CourtStaff & individual #prosecutors, citing risks to their #safety.
#law #criminal #Trump #witnesses #GagOrder #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference #StochasticTerrorism
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Prosecutors w/Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg's office said limits on Trump's speech about trial witnesses were no longer needed. But they urged Justice Juan #Merchan to keep in place restrictions on his comments about #jurors, #CourtStaff & individual #prosecutors, citing risks to their #safety.
#law #criminal #Trump #witnesses #GagOrder #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #ElectionInterference #StochasticTerrorism
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Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses.
This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony charges brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg–falsifying business records to commit or conceal other offenses, which in non-legalese means Trump hiding hush-money payments to suppress news coverage of some of the times he had sex with women besides his wife–seemed tawdry and even trivial compared to the other charges Trump faces. And the logic of Bragg’s charges was not easy to follow as the others.
Most stark among the other cases: The attempted murder of democracy that Trump staged after the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith indicted Trump for that last August. But a feckless Supreme Court–on which two ethics-deprived members, Clarence Thomas (R) and Samuel Alito (R), show multiple signs of being at least insurrection-curious–has instead slow-walked its way through handling Trump’s absurd claim that former presidents warrant lifelong immunity from prosecution for acts during their time in office.
As a result, Smith’s case may not come to trial until after the election that could see Trump returned to the White House, from where he could fire Smith and order whatever lackey he appoints as his attorney general to drop the charges.
A separate case that could see Trump and his minions brought to justice for their attempted self-coup now sits in a ditch not because of the waffling of judges but because of a prosecutor’s foolishness. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis decided to hire the lawyer with whom she was having an affair to serve as her special prosecutor, and of course the defense found out.
The first case Smith brought against Trump–charging the former president with taking hundreds of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida and then refusing to return them while being extremely careless in his custody of them–brings the added karmic richness of targeting the guy who campaigned on Hillary Clinton’s self-serving e-mail habits representing an unforgiveable threat to national security.
But Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon has been so solicitous of Trump’s interests and so slow in handing down rulings that she has all but assured that this case, too, won’t go to trial until after the election. In the process, Cannon’s contortions in favor of Trump may have single-handedly invented a new job description: emotional support judge.
All of these cases could have been rendered less eventful had 10 more Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment in February 2021. A conviction would have banned Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States”; instead, many of these cowards said that they punted because courts would hold Trump accountable.
After all that, 12 unnamed New Yorkers showed up and did their job over the past few weeks in Judge Juan Merchan’s court as Bragg’s lawyers effectively made their case. And they did so even though there is a real risk that the efforts of some of Trump’s more rabid supporters to dox the jurors will lead to one of his most deranged followers shooting one of these dutiful citizens–or a random person whom they think looks like one of them–on Fifth Avenue.
We owe these 12 men and women our thanks for showing that even former presidents are not above the law. But we cannot thank them by name.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/31/former-area-resident-encounters-belated-accountability/
#2024Election #AileenCannon #AlvinBragg #ClarenceThomas #convictedFelon #Jan6 #JuanMerchan #ruleOfLaw #SamuelAlito #TrumpBusinessRecordsCase #TrumpDocumentsCase #TrumpFelonies #TrumpImpeachment #TrumpJan6Case
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Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses.
This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony charges brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg–falsifying business records to commit or conceal other offenses, which in non-legalese means Trump hiding hush-money payments to suppress news coverage of some of the times he had sex with women besides his wife–seemed tawdry and even trivial compared to the other charges Trump faces. And the logic of Bragg’s charges was not easy to follow as the others.
Most stark among the other cases: The attempted murder of democracy that Trump staged after the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith indicted Trump for that last August. But a feckless Supreme Court–on which two ethics-deprived members, Clarence Thomas (R) and Samuel Alito (R), show multiple signs of being at least insurrection-curious–has instead slow-walked its way through handling Trump’s absurd claim that former presidents warrant lifelong immunity from prosecution for acts during their time in office.
As a result, Smith’s case may not come to trial until after the election that could see Trump returned to the White House, from where he could fire Smith and order whatever lackey he appoints as his attorney general to drop the charges.
A separate case that could see Trump and his minions brought to justice for their attempted self-coup now sits in a ditch not because of the waffling of judges but because of a prosecutor’s foolishness. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis decided to hire the lawyer with whom she was having an affair to serve as her special prosecutor, and of course the defense found out.
The first case Smith brought against Trump–charging the former president with taking hundreds of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida and then refusing to return them while being extremely careless in his custody of them–brings the added karmic richness of targeting the guy who campaigned on Hillary Clinton’s self-serving e-mail habits representing an unforgiveable threat to national security.
But Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon has been so solicitous of Trump’s interests and so slow in handing down rulings that she has all but assured that this case, too, won’t go to trial until after the election. In the process, Cannon’s contortions in favor of Trump may have single-handedly invented a new job description: emotional support judge.
All of these cases could have been rendered less eventful had 10 more Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment in February 2021. A conviction would have banned Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States”; instead, many of these cowards said that they punted because courts would hold Trump accountable.
After all that, 12 unnamed New Yorkers showed up and did their job over the past few weeks in Judge Juan Merchan’s court as Bragg’s lawyers effectively made their case. And they did so even though there is a real risk that the efforts of some of Trump’s more rabid supporters to dox the jurors will lead to one of his most deranged followers shooting one of these dutiful citizens–or a random person whom they think looks like one of them–on Fifth Avenue.
We owe these 12 men and women our thanks for showing that even former presidents are not above the law. But we cannot thank them by name.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/31/former-area-resident-encounters-belated-accountability/
#2024Election #AileenCannon #AlvinBragg #ClarenceThomas #convictedFelon #Jan6 #JuanMerchan #ruleOfLaw #SamuelAlito #TrumpBusinessRecordsCase #TrumpDocumentsCase #TrumpFelonies #TrumpImpeachment #TrumpJan6Case
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Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses.
This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony charges brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg–falsifying business records to commit or conceal other offenses, which in non-legalese means Trump hiding hush-money payments to suppress news coverage of some of the times he had sex with women besides his wife–seemed tawdry and even trivial compared to the other charges Trump faces. And the logic of Bragg’s charges was not easy to follow as the others.
Most stark among the other cases: The attempted murder of democracy that Trump staged after the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith indicted Trump for that last August. But a feckless Supreme Court–on which two ethics-deprived members, Clarence Thomas (R) and Samuel Alito (R), show multiple signs of being at least insurrection-curious–has instead slow-walked its way through handling Trump’s absurd claim that former presidents warrant lifelong immunity from prosecution for acts during their time in office.
As a result, Smith’s case may not come to trial until after the election that could see Trump returned to the White House, from where he could fire Smith and order whatever lackey he appoints as his attorney general to drop the charges.
A separate case that could see Trump and his minions brought to justice for their attempted self-coup now sits in a ditch not because of the waffling of judges but because of a prosecutor’s foolishness. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis decided to hire the lawyer with whom she was having an affair to serve as her special prosecutor, and of course the defense found out.
The first case Smith brought against Trump–charging the former president with taking hundreds of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida and then refusing to return them while being extremely careless in his custody of them–brings the added karmic richness of targeting the guy who campaigned on Hillary Clinton’s self-serving e-mail habits representing an unforgiveable threat to national security.
But Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon has been so solicitous of Trump’s interests and so slow in handing down rulings that she has all but assured that this case, too, won’t go to trial until after the election. In the process, Cannon’s contortions in favor of Trump may have single-handedly invented a new job description: emotional support judge.
All of these cases could have been rendered less eventful had 10 more Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment in February 2021. A conviction would have banned Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States”; instead, many of these cowards said that they punted because courts would hold Trump accountable.
After all that, 12 unnamed New Yorkers showed up and did their job over the past few weeks in Judge Juan Merchan’s court as Bragg’s lawyers effectively made their case. And they did so even though there is a real risk that the efforts of some of Trump’s more rabid supporters to dox the jurors will lead to one of his most deranged followers shooting one of these dutiful citizens–or a random person whom they think looks like one of them–on Fifth Avenue.
We owe these 12 men and women our thanks for showing that even former presidents are not above the law. But we cannot thank them by name.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/31/former-area-resident-encounters-belated-accountability/
#2024Election #AileenCannon #AlvinBragg #ClarenceThomas #convictedFelon #Jan6 #JuanMerchan #ruleOfLaw #SamuelAlito #TrumpBusinessRecordsCase #TrumpDocumentsCase #TrumpFelonies #TrumpImpeachment #TrumpJan6Case
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Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses.
This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony charges brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg–falsifying business records to commit or conceal other offenses, which in non-legalese means Trump hiding hush-money payments to suppress news coverage of some of the times he had sex with women besides his wife–seemed tawdry and even trivial compared to the other charges Trump faces. And the logic of Bragg’s charges was not easy to follow as the others.
Most stark among the other cases: The attempted murder of democracy that Trump staged after the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith indicted Trump for that last August. But a feckless Supreme Court–on which two ethics-deprived members, Clarence Thomas (R) and Samuel Alito (R), show multiple signs of being at least insurrection-curious–has instead slow-walked its way through handling Trump’s absurd claim that former presidents warrant lifelong immunity from prosecution for acts during their time in office.
As a result, Smith’s case may not come to trial until after the election that could see Trump returned to the White House, from where he could fire Smith and order whatever lackey he appoints as his attorney general to drop the charges.
A separate case that could see Trump and his minions brought to justice for their attempted self-coup now sits in a ditch not because of the waffling of judges but because of a prosecutor’s foolishness. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis decided to hire the lawyer with whom she was having an affair to serve as her special prosecutor, and of course the defense found out.
The first case Smith brought against Trump–charging the former president with taking hundreds of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida and then refusing to return them while being extremely careless in his custody of them–brings the added karmic richness of targeting the guy who campaigned on Hillary Clinton’s self-serving e-mail habits representing an unforgiveable threat to national security.
But Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon has been so solicitous of Trump’s interests and so slow in handing down rulings that she has all but assured that this case, too, won’t go to trial until after the election. In the process, Cannon’s contortions in favor of Trump may have single-handedly invented a new job description: emotional support judge.
All of these cases could have been rendered less eventful had 10 more Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment in February 2021. A conviction would have banned Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States”; instead, many of these cowards said that they punted because courts would hold Trump accountable.
After all that, 12 unnamed New Yorkers showed up and did their job over the past few weeks in Judge Juan Merchan’s court as Bragg’s lawyers effectively made their case. And they did so even though there is a real risk that the efforts of some of Trump’s more rabid supporters to dox the jurors will lead to one of his most deranged followers shooting one of these dutiful citizens–or a random person whom they think looks like one of them–on Fifth Avenue.
We owe these 12 men and women our thanks for showing that even former presidents are not above the law. But we cannot thank them by name.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/31/former-area-resident-encounters-belated-accountability/
#2024Election #AileenCannon #AlvinBragg #ClarenceThomas #convictedFelon #Jan6 #JuanMerchan #ruleOfLaw #SamuelAlito #TrumpBusinessRecordsCase #TrumpDocumentsCase #TrumpFelonies #TrumpImpeachment #TrumpJan6Case
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Convicted felon Donald Trump. That factual description written into history Thursday by a jury of 12 New Yorkers interrupts a streak of people with far more power and privilege enabling the disgraced 45th president to evade accountability for far more serious offenses.
This wasn’t the case I expected to see result in a guilty verdict first, or maybe ever. The conduct covered by those 34 felony charges brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg–falsifying business records to commit or conceal other offenses, which in non-legalese means Trump hiding hush-money payments to suppress news coverage of some of the times he had sex with women besides his wife–seemed tawdry and even trivial compared to the other charges Trump faces. And the logic of Bragg’s charges was not easy to follow as the others.
Most stark among the other cases: The attempted murder of democracy that Trump staged after the 2020 election, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol.
Special prosecutor Jack Smith indicted Trump for that last August. But a feckless Supreme Court–on which two ethics-deprived members, Clarence Thomas (R) and Samuel Alito (R), show multiple signs of being at least insurrection-curious–has instead slow-walked its way through handling Trump’s absurd claim that former presidents warrant lifelong immunity from prosecution for acts during their time in office.
As a result, Smith’s case may not come to trial until after the election that could see Trump returned to the White House, from where he could fire Smith and order whatever lackey he appoints as his attorney general to drop the charges.
A separate case that could see Trump and his minions brought to justice for their attempted self-coup now sits in a ditch not because of the waffling of judges but because of a prosecutor’s foolishness. Fulton County, Ga., district attorney Fani Willis decided to hire the lawyer with whom she was having an affair to serve as her special prosecutor, and of course the defense found out.
The first case Smith brought against Trump–charging the former president with taking hundreds of classified documents to his Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida and then refusing to return them while being extremely careless in his custody of them–brings the added karmic richness of targeting the guy who campaigned on Hillary Clinton’s self-serving e-mail habits representing an unforgiveable threat to national security.
But Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon has been so solicitous of Trump’s interests and so slow in handing down rulings that she has all but assured that this case, too, won’t go to trial until after the election. In the process, Cannon’s contortions in favor of Trump may have single-handedly invented a new job description: emotional support judge.
All of these cases could have been rendered less eventful had 10 more Republican senators voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment in February 2021. A conviction would have banned Trump from holding “any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States”; instead, many of these cowards said that they punted because courts would hold Trump accountable.
After all that, 12 unnamed New Yorkers showed up and did their job over the past few weeks in Judge Juan Merchan’s court as Bragg’s lawyers effectively made their case. And they did so even though there is a real risk that the efforts of some of Trump’s more rabid supporters to dox the jurors will lead to one of his most deranged followers shooting one of these dutiful citizens–or a random person whom they think looks like one of them–on Fifth Avenue.
We owe these 12 men and women our thanks for showing that even former presidents are not above the law. But we cannot thank them by name.
https://robpegoraro.com/2024/05/31/former-area-resident-encounters-belated-accountability/
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#HouseRepublicans are summoning Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg to #Congress after #Trump’s #conviction on all counts in his #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords NY trial.
The #House #Judiciary Cmte’s select subcmte on the *weaponization of the federal government* on Fri invited #Bragg & one of his prosecutors, Matthew #Colangelo, to testify on June 13. The cmte said the hearing “will examine the unprecedented political prosecution” of Trump.
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#HouseRepublicans are summoning Manhattan DA #AlvinBragg to #Congress after #Trump’s #conviction on all counts in his #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords NY trial.
The #House #Judiciary Cmte’s select subcmte on the *weaponization of the federal government* on Fri invited #Bragg & one of his prosecutors, Matthew #Colangelo, to testify on June 13. The cmte said the hearing “will examine the unprecedented political prosecution” of Trump.
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Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg Says Donald Trump Conviction Was Reached “Without Fear Or Favor”
#Legal #News #Politics #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Trumphushmoneytrialhttps://deadline.com/2024/05/donald-trump-guilty-press-conference-district-attorney-1235945363/
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Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg Says Donald Trump Conviction Was Reached “Without Fear Or Favor”
#Legal #News #Politics #AlvinBragg #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Trumphushmoneytrialhttps://deadline.com/2024/05/donald-trump-guilty-press-conference-district-attorney-1235945363/
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Lawyers indicated that their opening statements will take a little more than an hour combined. Justice Juan #Merchan also noted that one #juror reached out before court resumed to express nervousness about the media attention surrounding the case, but the judge added that the juror is still here.
#law #Trump #AlvinBragg #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #JuryTampering #WitnessIntimidation #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #MobTactics
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Lawyers indicated that their opening statements will take a little more than an hour combined. Justice Juan #Merchan also noted that one #juror reached out before court resumed to express nervousness about the media attention surrounding the case, but the judge added that the juror is still here.
#law #Trump #AlvinBragg #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #JuryTampering #WitnessIntimidation #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #MobTactics
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Lawyers indicated that their opening statements will take a little more than an hour combined. Justice Juan #Merchan also noted that one #juror reached out before court resumed to express nervousness about the media attention surrounding the case, but the judge added that the juror is still here.
#law #Trump #AlvinBragg #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #JuryTampering #WitnessIntimidation #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #MobTactics
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Lawyers indicated that their opening statements will take a little more than an hour combined. Justice Juan #Merchan also noted that one #juror reached out before court resumed to express nervousness about the media attention surrounding the case, but the judge added that the juror is still here.
#law #Trump #AlvinBragg #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #JuryTampering #WitnessIntimidation #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #MobTactics
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Lawyers indicated that their opening statements will take a little more than an hour combined. Justice Juan #Merchan also noted that one #juror reached out before court resumed to express nervousness about the media attention surrounding the case, but the judge added that the juror is still here.
#law #Trump #AlvinBragg #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #JuryTampering #WitnessIntimidation #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #MobTactics