Ho. Lee. Shit. As a lawyer, I’ve written nasty collection letters to debtors that were nicer than that. That lawyer, and that law firm, pulled no punches in composing that letter; and The Lincoln Project deserves kudos for approving it. Rudy, listen to it–at best, you may be nicely-browned toast; at worst, you’ll be blackened, hockey-puck toast. Either way, you’ll be toast. Maybe you should resign your law license now, before it’s taken away from you. That way, you can retain a little bit of honour, rather than go down in history as a lying liar who is knowingly supporting a lying cheat.
I don’t have a link to hand, but if you can find Detroit’s legal action calling for sanctions against Powell, Wood etc for their ludicrous “election fraud” cases, it’s filled with all sorts of fun snark.
I doubt it’s common, but these lawyers are aware that these are documents that will have a much wider audience than the usual court officials and other lawyers.
Sometimes. C&D’s like this often have a performative element to them; obviously the language is written in a certain way to guarantee coverage in the media. You see the same sort of thing in Dominion’s defamation complaint, where the first several pages are a fairly informal and accessible litany of Giuliani’s misdeeds, with the specific legal claims coming later in more traditional legalese. High-stakes litigators understand the PR value of a well-written letter.
It is indeed a thing of beauty, and it’s interesting that it goes far, far beyond the kind of letter that a lawyer would write in any ordinary circumstances, which would normally be a clear legal threat wrapped in a veneer of politeness. This pulls all the stops to such an extent that it seems to tauntingly invite a countersuit, and I can see why. Rudy is in it up to his eyeballs, and he’s so inept and so fucking stupid that he doesn’t have a chance of prevailing in either a defense or countersuit. It really is quite delightful. One might describe Rudy as one of the many casualties of Trump’s orange path of destruction, except that Rudy has brought it all on himself.
Hence the footnotes: “Here are all the ways in which you have demonstrated yourself to be a deranged, incompetent idiot, and here are the specific citations for each of them.” Unlike Rudy, they can back up every one of their defamatory statements against him.
I don’t think it will. The most it would cause them to do is lose elections. I don’t even think it would cause them to lose their primaries due to name recognition. And in the short term, they will be more beholden to their crazy supporters because that’s all they’ll have left and they can’t afford to lose those.
At the height of his blathering about strawberries, Queeg stopped, realized how crazy he sounded and quickly wrapped up his answer. I can’t picture Trump doing that.
i don’t believe many of them are going to be democrats. most are changing to independent. that could lock them out of primaries in some states.
this could set up running a taylor greene type in many places. hopefully the smackdown from dem. and indy votes would occur. i wouldn’t want to bet the country on it.
Looks like some of the Scots want Agent Orange’s finances investigated as well:
Scotland’s MSPs are set to vote on whether the Nicola Sturgeon’s government should order an investigation into Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resorts.
The opposition-led vote at the Scottish parliament is aimed at pressuring the first minister to seek an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO), amid concerns about the financing behind the Trump Organisation’s resorts.
A lot will depend on the poll numbers (favorability) as well as up-to-date reporting on the voter-registration-changes story.
Imagine Gallup et al reporting that Trump “favorable” ratings have dropped to 15% or lower, in the wake of Trump trying to save himself by stating that the Capitol invaders were losers who were NOT following his directions, and he doesn’t know them, and he’s nothing to do with them. (Trump saying that is not unlikely. It’s not as though he feels genuine respect for those people, no matter how much he talked about ‘love’ on the day.)
Senators respond to incentives, and if they start to believe that Trump’s fans have deserted him–and will vote accordingly–then that changes their incentives.
Paul Manafort was let off on state charges after having been pardoned by Trump on the federal ones because of double jeopardy. However, since Bannon was merely indicted rather than convicted I don’t think double jeopardy will apply.
Double jeopardy doesn’t technically apply to convictions in both the state and federal systems. Prosecutors honor the principle as a matter of policy, not law. But, you’re right, Bannon is fair game even under that policy. Jeopardy typically attaches when trial starts.
WASHINGTON — In a decision that could affect associates of President Trump accused of wrongdoing and hoping for pardons, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that criminal defendants may be prosecuted for the same offenses in both federal and state court.