#chutkan — Public Fediverse posts
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Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants
A federal judge considering the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of climate research grants worth billions of dollars
told government lawyers they had to produce
“some kind of evidence” of wrongdoing to back up such drastic actions.Climate United, which coordinates investment in clean energy projects,
sued to seek access to $7bn that was frozen before it was cancelled on Tuesday night by #Lee #Zeldin,
the New York Republican congressman turned administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.In US district court in Washington on Wednesday, Judge #Tanya #Chutkan asked lawyers for the EPA:
“Can you proffer any evidence that [the grant] was illegal,
or evidence of abuse or fraud or bribery
– that any of that was improperly or unlawfully done, other than the fact that Mr Zeldin doesn’t like it?”#Marc #Sacks, a government lawyer, said:
“The determination is based on the information contained in the termination letter.”
Chutkan said:
“That’s pretty circular,”
then asked if Climate United had violated federal regulations.Sacks said:
“I think the agency cited both of those regulations within their termination letter.”
Chutkan said:
“I can cite cases all day long, but you have to have some kind of evidence or proffer to back it up.”
She also said:
“You can’t even tell me what the evidence of malfeasance is.”There is plentiful evidence that Zeldin is implementing an assault on attempts to tackle the climate crisis.
The EPA issued a slew of rollbacks of rules to combat pollution on Wednesday.Zeldin said he was “driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age”.
Climate groups reacted with horror.
#Jason #Rylander, legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, told the Guardian:
“Come hell or high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives.
This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.”Climate United is not the only group to have sued over access to grants.
In New York, the Coalition for Green Capital has sued over the cancellation of a $5bn grant,
an act it called “patently and plainly unlawful on its face”
and “arbitrary and pretextual”.
In Washington, lawyers for Climate United argued that the EPA had not followed the law,
meaning Chutkan could rule on the matter.
Lawyers for the government said it was a contract dispute, so she could not.
Chutkan said:
“The government didn’t decide who it wanted to contract with.
A new administration came in, didn’t like the contract any more.
That’s what new administrations do.
But there are procedures that have to be followed.
And it doesn’t appear, at least on the record before me, that those procedures have been followed.”The hearing ended without Chutkan issuing a ruling or temporary restraining order,
but asking both sides to make
👉new filings by Monday evening:
Climate United to amend its lawsuit
and the government to provide information about alleged wrongdoing.
“I don’t have the credible evidence that’s required,” Chutkan said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/epa-grants-trump-judge-tanya-chutkan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Using this info, here is #JackSmith’s evidence of #Trump’s #Michigan #ElectionInterference specifically detailing the #FakeElectors #conspiracy (see screenshots).
The players:
P37: Mike Shirkey
P38: Lee Chatfield
P39: Ronna McDaniel
CC1: Rudy Giuliani
P21: Mark Meadows
CC2: John Eastman
P41: Scott Gragson (?)
P42: Molly Michael (?)
P5: Mike Roman#law #criminal #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #TrumpCoup #Chutkan
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Identifying almost all 77+ redacted players listed in Smith's motion is a trivial exercise, w/ the help of AI. (linked article gives credit to the people who assembled formats.)
Pics: #JackSmith #Indictment Cast of #Redacted Characters (Informed Guesses)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/2/2274391/-First-draft-identifying-all-the-redacted-players-based-on-public-records-and-Gemini-Pro#law #criminal #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan
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Taking the knowledge that Bannon is P1, look at pp 64-72:
Check out the criminality
#criminal #law #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan #JackSmith
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No longer WaPo article, just my reading of the filing:
#SteveBannon is deductively “person 1” or “P1”
Deduced because the audio of this quote from p7 was published by MotherJones."And so they're going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump's going to take advantage of it-that's our strategy. He's going to declare himself a winner."
#Trump #criminal #law #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan #JackSmith
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The filing described what the then-president told key figures in his orbit, including VP #MikePence, attorney #RudyGiuliani & senior #WhiteHouse & Republican Party ofcls, though it shielded some of their names, & how some in his orbit told him his claims of having won the election were false. It also detailed what #Trump was doing on #Jan6, as his supporters violently stormed the Capitol.
#criminal #law #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan
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From WaPo:
#SpecialCounsel #JackSmith laid out new evidence to support his assertion that #Trump’s efforts to subvert the results of the #2020election were taken as a private candidate, rather than his ofcl capacity as the president, in a much-anticipated 165-pg filing unsealed Wed that detailed #Trump’s private interactions w/his VP & others.
#criminal #law #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan #MikePence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/02/jack-smith-filing-trump-immunity-jan-6/ -
Just checked in w/ #FauxNews they have as their chyron “Trump Campaign: Jack Smith filing full of falsehoods”
FFS, they have HARD EVIDENCE, documented, phone records, depositions made under oath!
Cavuto said that there wasn’t much new information!!!
#spin #propaganda #Trumpaganda #criminal #law #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan #JackSmith #Trump
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#Trump sidelined his campaign #legal team on Nov. 13, putting Rudy #Giuliani (CC1) in charge BECAUSE he was willing to #lie about the #election results.
#law #criminal #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan #JackSmith
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A #Trump campaign employee & alleged #coconspirator sought to foment #chaos at the TCF ballot processing center in #Detroit, #Michigan.
#law #criminal #ElectionInterference #ElectionSubversion #Jan6 #FakeElectors #conspiracy #TrumpCoup #Chutkan #JackSmith
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Chief justice Roberts pushed for quick immunity ruling in Trump’s favor – report
John Roberts Jr used his position as the US supreme court’s chief justice to urge his colleagues to rule quickly
– and in favor
– of Donald Trump
ahead of the decision that granted him and other presidents immunity for official acts, according to a New York Times investigation published on Sunday.The new report provides details about what was happening behind the scenes in the country’s highest court during the three recent supreme court decisions centering on
– and generally favoring
– the Republican former president.Based on leaked memos, documentation of the proceedings, and interviews with court insiders, the Times report suggests that Roberts
– who was appointed to the supreme court during Republican George W Bush’s presidency
– took an unusually active role in the three cases in question. And he wrote the majority opinions on all three.In addition to the presidential immunity ruling, the decisions collectively barred states from removing any official
– including Trump
– from a federal ballot as well as declaring the government had overstepped with respect to obstruction of justice charges filed against participants of the 6 January 2021 attack that the former president’s supporters aimed at Congress.The Times reported that last February, Roberts sent a memo to his fellow supreme court justices regarding the criminal charges against Trump for attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden.
In the #leaked #memo, the Times reported that he criticized a lower court decision that allowed the case to move forward
– and he argued to the other justices that Trump was protected by presidential immunity.He reportedly said that the supreme court ought to hear the case and grant Trump greater protection from prosecution.
“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers analysis differently,” the Times said that Roberts wrote to the other supreme court justices in the private memo.
According to the Times, some of the conservative justices wanted to delay the decision on the presidential immunity case until after Trump finished running for a second term in the White House in November.
But Roberts advocated for an early hearing and decision
– and ultimately wrote the majority opinion himself.Before the opinion and ruling went public, the Times reported that Justice Brett #Kavanaugh had praised Roberts on the ruling,
calling it “extraordinary”.Their fellow conservative justice Neil #Gorsuch
– who, like Kavanaugh, was appointed to the supreme court during Trump’s presidency
– called it “remarkable”.The decision came out on 1 July and stated that former presidents are entitled to some degree of #immunity from criminal prosecution.
Both conservatives and liberals saw it as a huge win for Trump, who
– among a spate of legal problems
– is awaiting sentencing for a criminal conviction in May of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments to an adult film actor who alleged an extramarital sexual encounter with him.The supreme court then returned the case to district judge Tanya #Chutkan, who is overseeing the federal case against Trump for allegedly participating in 💥an illicit effort to reverse his defeat in the 2020 election.
That left her tasked with having to figure out how to apply the US supreme court’s decision.
The Times also reported that in the case about 💥whether individual states could kick Trump off the ballot
based on language in the US constitution which bars insurrections from holding office,
⚠️ Roberts told his colleagues that he wanted the decision to be #unanimous and #unsigned.All nine justices initially agreed that Trump should remain on state ballots.
♦️But then, the Times reports, four conservative justices suggested additions to the ruling,
❌ including proposing that Congress would have to approve enforcement of the insurrectionist ban in the constitution. -
Matthew A. Seligman on his #JustSecurity article w/Norm Eisen & Joshua Kolb:
Possible timelines for #Trump’s #DC trial in detail
(long 🧵 below article)
#legal #law #criminal #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #Jan6 #SCOTUS #DOJ #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith #Chutkan
https://www.justsecurity.org/92965/when-special-counsel-smiths-january-6th-trial-will-reach-a-verdict-analyzing-the-alternative-timelines/ -
"But just 75 #minutes after #Chutkan gave notice that the order had been reinstated, #Trump appeared to #violate it by attacking his former attorney general and a potential #witness, William P. #Barr.
"I called Bill Barr Dumb, Weak, Slow Moving, Lethargic, Gutless, and Lazy, a RINO WHO COULDN'T DO THE JOB," Trump said in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social."
He has the vocabulary and grammar skills of a 6 year old.
It's humiliating that this #toddler is sill tolerated in public. -
Her appeal echoes a concern that #Chutkan raised at an Aug. 11 #hearing in the case. She indicated then that #Trump’s public statements — which are unusual in a #federal #criminal case, & the type of behavior that tends to anger judges — suggest that the #trial should happen quickly to avoid WitnessTampering & #influencing potential #jurors.
#Jan6 #ElectionInterference #Conspiracy #law #legal #justice #ElectionObstruction
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In a court filing just before 10PM Fri, #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s team alerted Judge Tanya S. #Chutkan about the post in which #Trump “specifically or by implication” threatened those involved in his DC #criminal case.
The prosecutors said Trump’s post raised concerns that he might improperly share #evidence in the case on social media & they urged that he be #ordered to keep any evidence prosecutors turn over to his defense team from #public view.