NY AG Latitia James, who made it a campaign promise to get Trump, has won a major part of her case. The judge held that because Trump and his organization overvalued assets in loan applications, ALL Trump companies- including those not in the suit- will go into receivership:
So theDem game plan comes into focus. First, load up on criminal charges around the country, forcing Trump to spend, spend, and spend some more to defend. At the same time put his assets- all of them- into receivership. Including this google.com/gasearch?q=Tru…
Imagine the Trump Org lenders right now. You think they have a warm and fuzzy feeling about the security of their loans after the state court assumes control in a receivership
On the bright side, imagine how many illegal immigrants NY can now house. They can turn golf courses into giant tent cities, convert Trump Tower into a giant immigrant housing project, etc.,
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The federal court has denied Mark Meadows removal of the Ga RICO case against him. His case was a close one, but footnote 33 of the opinion and surrounding text convinces me that Jeff Clark’s removal should be granted. Read opinion here: documentcloud.org/documents/2394…
Meadows’ argument he was operating under the Constitution’s Take Care clause was weakened by the absence of any federal law outline the executive branch’s authority over state-run elections. Clark’s case is stronger.
The DOJ has statutory authority to prosecute federal crimes, even those committed in connection with state run elections. That includes authority to investigate such crimes. Clark’s draft letter referenced in the indictment deals with possible criminal activity.
The hearing in Fulton County court in the Trump RICO prosecution just wrapped up. The judge denied motions by Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro to sever each case from the other. Those defendants will be tried together beginning October 23.
The State told the judge that for the RICO case against all defendants, the State plans to call about 150 witnesses. Their estimate is they will take four months. The judge observed that with all 19 defendants being tried at the same time, he expected the trial to run at 8 months
The judge did not rule whether the remaining defendants, who don’t want a speedy trial and/or have scheduling conflicts, will be severed from the Powell/Chesebro case. But he was highly skeptical of the State’s push to keep it all as one single case.
@ProfMJCleveland @shipwreckedcrew Fani Willis should not get away with using her very, very poorly pled RICO conspiracy charges to make an end run around federal officer immunity. The indictment doesn’t describe an enterprise, doesn’t describe when and how Meadows joined a conspiracy to violate RICO.
@ProfMJCleveland @shipwreckedcrew But the indictment does describe various over acts by Meadows to further the aims of the conspiracy. In her filing in federal court, however, Fani asks the court to ignore those allegations and to focus instead on the allegation that he joined a conspiracy. Others did the acts.
@ProfMJCleveland @shipwreckedcrew But the only facts pled in an attempt to link Meadows to this illegal conspiracy are MEADOWS’s participation in what the indictment says were overt acts to further the conspiracy. Conspiracy charges cannot be proven without proof of overt acts by at least one conspirator.
Based on the court’s finding the DA Willis was conflicted from investigating one of the alternate electors, she should be disqualified from the entire case. The indictment accuses all defendants of having engaged in a RICO enterprise and conspiracy to alter the election.
Since she was conflicted from investigating and indicting one of the alleged conspirators, she is disqualified as to all. The one she let go because of the conflict is now a material witness in the case. I don’t see how she can justify not stepping aside- including her office.
Boiled down to the basics, imagine a prosecutor investigating a criminal conspiracy made up of two individuals. A court finds she is conflicted from going after one conspirator. The solution to the conflict is not to let the one guy skate, while prosecuting his co-conspirator.
I see the renowned Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” rattlesnake flag is in the news. Let’s remove all doubt about what that flag meant to our Founding Fathers. Here is Benjamin Franklin discussing its symbolism:
Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America? The poison of her teeth is the necessary means of digesting her food, and at the same time is certain destruction to her enemies.”
“This may be understood to intimate that those things which are destructive to our enemies, may be to us not only harmless, but absolutely necessary to our existence. I confess I was wholly at a loss what to make of the rattles, …
@ProfMJCleveland has a tread about the blow-up of the Hunter Biden plea agreement. It’s interesting that Weiss’s team added ellipses ( which mean the words inside the ellipses aren’t in the quoted language), to add the concept that the agreements were merely drafts. Misleading?
The Diversion Agreement mentioned in the transcript was signed by Hunter, his lawyers, and by Weiss’s assistant. Nowhere in that document does it say it was a draft. Look at the last page. Where does it say it’s a draft?