You’re most welcome. I do try to explain why I do things as I do, as I feel posters are entitled to know my reasoning. Even if we disagree.
If it makes you feel any better, I’ve done it myself – and I started about half these threads! Trump criming really is a lot to keep track of.
Yes, I’m joking, in a sad sort of way…
I agree it’s a very sad state of affairs for our country.
I could easily go off on a tangent about it, but it would be a hijack. So I won’t.
Glad you were joking. 
Perhaps we could pin them? Sometimes there is a block of time between rulings.
Smith is moving into other tangents of election interference. He is on the scent of fraud now. Tea leaf readers don’t expect him to add on to the existing trump indictment.
I’m wondering if he is going to let loose once the trump indictment is being tried. He wants that case clean and fast, but there is so much more he is holding back. The fraud may be a way for him to go after trump again and add the rest of team crazy.
To Pin or Not to Pin is a discussion for all P&E mods. I’ll start that in the mod loop. My personal gut reaction is to avoid doing this. The Trump threads already annoy enough members of our community. Making them top of page may just irritate those folks more (even though unpinning is the easiest thing ever!) I just bookmark the threads I want to find quickly and that works well, no matter how far down the Refresh page they slide.
Re other “tangents of election interference” (good description, by the way!), my initial reaction is, it depends. I agree Smith is going to charge a lot more people once he’s got this threshold prosecution done and dusted.
If Trump is a named defendant in those further tangents, then I would lean toward keeping those posts within this thread because it is a continuing course of Trump conduct relating to this ongoing subject of election interference and the January 6th insurrection – assuming they are, of course.
However, if the further charges pertain to others only, sans Trump, or if they pertain to, say, grifting off the election lies, then a new thread is better. We don’t want omnibus threads in P&E, and a different topic or defendant or group of defendants would be better as a new topic of discussion.
Does this make sense?
Please don’t pin, change titles, or combine threads. It’s very manageable as it is and is working well. The occasional post in the wrong thread is no big deal. IMO.
Strongly agree, just to, provide one more data point.
I don’t love the idea of pinning.
In a way it is bothering many to help a few.
They should set the threads of concern to tracking.
They can bookmark the threads they care about in Discourse.
They can bring up P&E and then select those tagged Trump and potentially save that off as a bookmark/favorite for themselves. As an example I have Cafe no-tags bookmarked in Chrome.
I can provide details on these tomorrow. I’m on my phone currently.
The grand jury sat today in dc. First time in weeks.
I read something this morning in the Washington Post about sealed motions from the DOJ regarding trump’s continued and constant social media posts and speeches that break all of his pretrial release conditions against intimidating witnesses and such, but i can’t find any more information (probably because it was filed under seal). Has anyone heard anything else about this?
- Sometimes lawyers and judges decide to argue an issue under seal — meaning the public doesn’t get to see the particulars. One such fight erupted last week in D.C., where Trump faces federal charges of trying to block the election results. Prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to file court papers in the dispute this week.
- The fight is related to Trump’s “daily extrajudicial statements,” prosecutors say. The term sounds cool, but they actually mean it in a bad way — that Trump is speaking out of school on his case, something the Justice Department has complained about before.
I heard something about this last week, too. But as you note, since the pleadings are under seal there’s little to discuss unless/until a public ruling is made.
If true (and I have no reason to doubt the Post’s sources), it’s overdue and I hope it yields some action. Trump is flipping off the court and there must be consequences for him doing so.
I wonder what creative sanctions/restrictions Mr. Smith will suggest.
How about a bond revocation and a jail cell?
You mean like virtually anyone else would receive for pulling the same shit? Works for me.
The response from some segments would be very entertaining!
I’m just glad Smith is not letting it pass unchallenged.
Trump is now trying to get the judge in the dc case to recuse, because…? She said mean things? Also not going to work.
I keep in mind that these motions aren’t serious. If they happen to work, great, but their purpose is to play to his base and with any luck influence potential jurors. Has there been a case where Trump didn’t try to get the judge removed? Not counting Cannon of course.
Trying to shape the news and get ahead of Jack Smith/Judge Chutkan. He, DJT, is in violation of many portions of his bail and could have it revoked.
And she’s black and mean to him.
Can’t bribe her, can’t extort her, what do you expect the poor man to do?
If I were her I’d accept a bribe of him going to jail and shutting up. I mean, it’s something I want that he can give me!