True, it’s a monstrous argument, pro-eugenics in the ‘well, if we just kill the RIGHT people’ all-ness of it. Cannot argue that.
Insurrectionist who styles his appearance after Hitler says he can’t get a fair trial in DC because he destroyed the city when he rioted.
Arrogant and deluded. Hmm. Now where have we seen that before…?
… I feel seen.
I didn’t realize until just now that this story was true. (The publication being named “Comic Sands” played a role.)
A real-life version of the kid who murders his parents and asks for mercy because he’s an orphan. Gad.
There is some basis for it. The principle of a change in venue is that there may be too much publicity and outrage to enable a fair trial.
That’s why McVeigh was tried in Colorado. It was his own actions that made a fair trial Impossible in OK City.
Good news: a bad lawyer can’t do law-talkin’ stuff anymore. Bad news: this may push back some key Jan. 6-related trials.
A former North Carolina cop has been charged with insurrection due to his actions on 1/6 and his social media posts bragging about his actions. His lawyer claims his client’s actions were “merely a put-on “for the 'gram.””
Comic Sands is George Takei’s website.
Seems like some problems with clients funds (Rule 1.15) and obstructing a lawful investigation (Rule 8.1(d)). Those a quick ways to get disbarred.
This whole election thing seems to be taking down a lot of right-wing lawyers.
Follow-up from the judge’s order about the Eastman e-mails:
I do not think trump can pardon himself after he has left office? Did he do so while in Office?
I think there’s speculation that he signed a pardon for himself while he was in office, but never publicized it. Like he was holding a “get out of jail free” card.
Oh, and it looks like Trump jr. was in contact and planning with Mark Meadows from the day after the election on through January 6.
If he does produce one, is there any way to be sure it was actually written while in office and not done later and then backdated? This question also applies to pardons given to associates. But I think the whole idea of pardons and potential restrictions on them deserves a new thread, rather than hijack this one. So I’ll start one over in GD.
I see @dtilque started another thread to discuss pardons and the limits on them that might/should be imposed, but to respond to your question only: Yes, that’s my belief. I think he started drafting a self-pardon as soon as he learned he had the power to pardon. It never would have occurred to him that pardoning himself was never the intent of the pardon power.
Even this politically supercharged SCOTUS will eventually rule that the pardon power can’t and doesn’t apply to oneself if my speculation is correct. But Trump will delay the process for as long as possible, evading justice for the foreseeable future.
The lawsuit against Greene seeks to prevent her from appearing on future ballots because it alleges she violated the Constitution by encouraging and “facilitating” the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump…
The groups bringing the challenge against Greene’s candidacy describe it as “a national campaign to ensure that election officials across the country follow the mandate of Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment and bar elected officials who engaged in the insurrection, including former President Donald Trump, from appearing on any future ballot.”
That same group is challenging some other candidates for re-election too. (Madison Cawthorn, and I think maybe Gosar too?)
Much as I’d love to see all those ilk kicked out on their asses, I wonder if these motions can have legs? In order to ban these candidates under the Insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment, wouldn’t they have to be first convicted in court of something?
Lets hope they do it to Trump.
Possibly, but precedent does not seem to require it. That clause was put in there to keep Confederate veterans out of office. I don’t think most Southern veterans were ever prosecuted for insurrection.