“Trump has already lashed out at the special counsel … for asking for a trial date that would likely overlap with the Iowa caucuses” Do you mean you’d have to rearrange your schedule to accommodate a criminal trial due to your own actions?!? shockedpikatchu.jpg
The ridiculous notion is that such things are entertained for anyone by our courts, but often are for "important" (possessing capital means) people.
Sure you're implicated in serious crimes, but the justice system will take your affluent schedule into consideration!
Watch a street dealer, aka a low income criminal ask to have their trial delayed by 3 years through a public defender and judge all but dictating they take a plea "deal" that only makes the court's life easier.
We crow about being a "developed, first world, wealthy nation" but just like the utter ruins of our K-12 system and our collapsing infrastructure, our pay to play justice system makes us anything but.
As much freedom as you can afford.
Law applied unequally means those in privilege will flaunt it and those still wanting, correctly, have no respect for it.
Fuck the law. Fuck the judges. Fuck the lawyers. Fuck the police. Might equals right in America. The winners will, and currently are, rewriting the histories to absolve them and their ancestors any wrongdoing.
Stop acting like there's some kind of decorum to uphold. If only one side is upholding it, news flash, it doesn't exist. You're just allowing yourself to be outmaneuvered. While any of y'all are up there on the high road, look down and witness the cruelty you arent protecting against. Keep clutching them pearls, cuz every minute more of us are being murdered by those sworn to protect and serve, or medicines that demand the culmination of your entire life's work. The law ≠ morality. This immoral, institutionalized, embodiment of corruption we're in can be summed up with this fact. Footage of whatever crime you are accused of, from police cams, citizens dash cams, private business security cams, the state will leverage it's power to use against you - but that power will actively be used against you if it exonerates you
So what I'm saying, is if your toes are dipped into the criminal courts, there is absolutely zero incentive to not go full cartel. Just wear a suit, sponsor a little league team, donate to both parties, the mayor and the police union and remember to let your obstacles well enough for an open casket, have some class after all, and you'll never see the inside of a cell.
Under a government that imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison - Thoreau
I’m a lawyer and I enjoy getting fucked. I also enjoy fucking. And conserving the fuck out of nature so that it exists in the future—so much so I do it for a living.
This J.D. fucks.
But the judge also said that she would reject a proposal by federal prosecutors to bring the case to trial in less than five months.
There's nothing unreasonable about that. There's too many witnesses to interview and too much evidence to review otherwise. Last thing anybody wants is to railroad the trial.
What gives you that idea? 5 months is plenty of time. He performed a failed coup on the US, we have it on video.
Edit: The judge gave them a month or two extra, it's fine. Non-televised which is a shame.
A federal judge on Monday set a March 4, 2024, trial date in former President Donald Trump’s criminal election interference case, putting the top Republican presidential candidate on trial in Washington, D.C., seven months before the 2024 general election.
It's not a hand to hand drug transaction or a traffic violation. A vigorous defense for a criminal conspiracy needs time. It certainly doesn't need two years, but we're also not at the point of suspending the rule of law and putting folks against the wall.
He was at the point of trying to be king and all he has to do is stop firing his lawyers, lol. 5 months is fine, 7 months is the next best thing.
It's important that the system is followed. It demonstrates that even the worst criminals will be treated fairly and equitably under the law. In a very real sense the institutions that we have spent 250 years perfecting are being tested themselves
This trial is now scheduled to start on March 4, so the defense has about six months to prepare.
While you have your calendar open, the New York hush money trial is set for March 25 and the federal stolen documents trial is set for May 20. The Georgia election interference trial date is not yet set.
Next year is going to be epic.
I see it as episode 10 of what will be the eventual mini-series.
As much as I'm looking forward to it we need a unanimous jury to convict him and those seems like very slim odds. It might all come down to the voters. If Trump is re-elected he may face zero consequences.
https://www.vox.com/trump-investigations/23832341/trump-charges-prison-time-sentence-indictments
Can't wait for season 10 to drop.
But seriously, March is going to be epic indeed if the trial dates remain unchanged. May have to resub to some of the news outlets I dropped this year so I can get multiple news sources for each fascinating development.
Good for the judge.
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It'll start on Jan 6, 2024? Neat!
Article said March 4th
Unfortunately that is a Saturday 🙁
A little too late to be standing up to him now, but hey better late than never.
Excellent. He's had enough delays. Five months is more than enough time as he'll have had 3 years to prepare for a trial such as this.
Holy crap, mf really had the nerve to ask.
he has no shame
His lawyers did... It is literally their job, unfortunately for them
All the GQP men couldn't put Trumpty Dumpty together again.
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