Last two minutes from MeidasTouch where they surmise that Meadows may have already pled guilty and the supremacy clause would apply in that case.
https://youtu.be/mgSKVETaIow?t=1165
This sounds like a very strong possibility. It’s been strongly suggested that Meadows is cooperating with the Federal case. He was inside the whole conspiracy, and his testimony would be a smoking gun.
It makes sense that he wants to make sure his cooperation in the federal case will mean that he skates on the State case. I just hope he offers testimony in the Georgia case as well.
His testimony could well seal the deal for Trump.
More speculation that Meadows has flipped:
Hmmmm……I think there might be a mistake in that article, because it says that by moving to federal court he would get a jury pool drawn frim the entire state.
Unless Georgia works differently from other federal courts, I believe the jury pool would be drawn from the Northern District (one of three districts in GA), not the entire state.
This is still friendlier to a Republican than a Fulton County jury. OTOH, currently the case has been handed to a Kemp appointed judge, who I’m assuming is a Republican. If it goes federal he stands a good chance of drawing a judge appointed by a Democrat. Unless the fix is in.
Correct.
Ain’t gonna need a jury if he’s pleading guilty.
It’s even better than that.
Just the “Division” around Atlanta.
- Atlanta Division: Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett,
Henry, Newton, and Rockdale.
And the reasoned political discourse concerning the prosecution has begun, as reported by the NYTimes (gift link):
Definitely a MAGAt.
Ms. Shry’s father, Mark Shry, testified that she was a “nonviolent alcoholic” who “sits on her couch daily watching the news while drinking too many beers.
And then, becoming agitated by the news, gets on the phone to call various people, as she did in this instance. No intention of taking it further. Harmless.
Maybe she is, but I can easily see other MAGAts making all kinds of threats, and following through. Scary. I would not want to be Judge Chutkan, any of her staff, Jack Smith, Fani Willis, the Georgia Grand Jurors, any of their families, other judicial personnel involved in any indictment, etc. etc. etc. Some MAGAts are unhinged enough to do something drastic, and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
At the hearing, court papers said, Ms. Shry’s father, Mark Shry, testified that she was a “nonviolent alcoholic” who “sits on her couch daily watching the news while drinking too many beers.”
After drinking, Mr. Shry told a judge in Texas, Ms. Shry often became “agitated by the news” and started “calling people and threatening them,” the papers said.
So, just a typical MAGAt. Any guesses on what “news” she watches?
Both kinds of course. Fox and Newsmax!
Just had another thought, and it could be chilling.
By publicizing this incident, the NYT did its job: it reported the news.
But I’m wondering if this kind of publicity is ultimately beneficial to anybody. Ms. Shry might be having her fifteen minutes of fame, no matter how harmless (and drunk) she seems. But how many MAGAts will hear about this and say to themselves, “I’ll finish what she started”? Whereas, if they didn’t know from the media, they might not do anything except bloviate on RWNJ message boards.
I recall an old friend who used to operate Toronto subway trains. He’s told me that, on average, there is one suicide a day on the subway system, usually by people jumping in front of trains. But you never hear about them. “Of course not,” he said. “We don’t want to give them publicity which might encourage copycats. So you’ll never hear about it.”
Emphasis mine, and perhaps this is more of a GD question, and I certainly don’t want to veer this thread off into a hijack. But maybe “Should these kind of incidents be reported in the media?” is a question that should be asked.
I would take it the other way: a warning that if threaten, you go to jail.
(Mind you, I don’t think the charge will stick, given that she appears to just make drunken threats from her couch in Texas. Hard to see it meeting the 1st Amendment standard of imminent risk to a judge in DC.)
That seems unlikely. This article is a few years old, but it’s about TTC setting up systems to provide care to people who witness subway suicides. A rep says the average is 33 a year.
I guess it could also be a massive government cover-up, too.
So far as the caller goes, it’s good that people see she’s going to jail for making death threats.
Surely any deal they made with him includes a requirement to cooperate with any investigations/prosecutions related to this whole mess. Once he’s testified Federally, why not just say the same things in a State level court?
Turns out Dean Wormer was right; fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
What is the standard, i wonder. I imagine hundreds of crackpots make vile and malicious idle threats every day. We don’t hear about hundreds of arrests every day. I’d think there would have to be at least the attempt to act on their crazy fantasies. Something that pushed it beyond running off at the mouth.
She left a voicemail on the target’s phone.