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OK- 2 days after #RKelly self-described manager Don Russell pled in EDNY, now Chris Gunn a/k/a DeBoSki faces bail revocation (US letter below), Inner City Press covered Russell plea innercitypress.com/edny1rkellydon… & will live tweet, thread below documentcloud.org/documents/2212…
SDNY called Don Russell "Chicago man;" now EDNY says Christopher Gunn, a.k.a. 'DeBoSki,' Chicago man charged with making interstate threats to kill or seriously injury the #EDNY prosecutors in the #RKelly case. Judge is Hector Gonzalez.
Judge Gonzalez: I'll deal with the request for bail revocation first. I've review the items submitted. I received a recording on a CD drive from the government. Has the defense see it?
AUSA: We emailed it to them.
Defense: I only reviewed half of it.
AUSA: We emailed it to them.
Defense: I only reviewed half of it.
The #SCOTUS held in #Trump v. Vance that Article II and the #SupremacyClause do not categorically preclude,
or require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal
subpoena to a sitting #President. #scotusToons
See the oral argument:
or require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal
subpoena to a sitting #President. #scotusToons
See the oral argument:
" In 1807, John Marshall... granted Burr’s motion for a subpoena duces tecum directed at President Jefferson...
...In rejecting the prosecution’s argument that a #President was not subject to such a subpoena, Marshall held that a President does not “stand exempt” from the #SixthAmendment’s guarantee that the accused have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses for their defense. "
