It’s sad to me that you both must feel relief and admiration for a judge doing… well, just what judges do. McAfee’s judging all sounds completely normal to me, not extraordinary. Which, I suppose, is extraordinary in these times.
i believe some of it is his demeaner, i guess we have more fiesty judges in philly. he is really calm, and even keeled.
oh good grief, they are trying for an adultery crime.
He’s really good, I’m not disputing that at all. And it’s impressive that he’s not showboating at all for the cameras. But he is handling the proceeding exactly as I would expect a regular, decent judge to do. I’m as relieved as you, but it still makes me sad. 
like judge ito?
Like Judge Ito.
they are trying all sorts of ways to get around the a/c privilege.
For my part, I’m buoyed that – to the extent the hopelessly cynical (and blindly partisan) are tuning in – it’s the unsophisticated audience who might view McAfee as representative of our broader Judiciary.
One of the cherished institutions that TFG has gone a long way to tarnish is the Courts.
McAfee being – as you implied – just one of a multitude of decent judges may not rehabilitate that misperception in the eyes of the horribly cynical and brainwashed … but it shouldn’t hurt the judiciary’s street cred either 
i can’t believe the one lawyer tried to use an adultery statute to claim fraud/crime in the attorney/client privilege.
the judge shut that down fairly quickly.
I wouldn’t quarrel with a word you said, though I doubt very many of the “unsophisticated” are tuning in. If they had, they would already know how bad the damage is that Trump has inflicted.
Judge McAfee has shown quite a lot of impatience with the Trump team’s presentation. I don’t see a judge who is convinced by anything that’s been testified to such that he is going to remove Willis or Wade from prosecuting this case.
Trump’s lawyer, Marchant (sp?), is the sort of lawyer who drove me crazy in the courtroom: Jumping out of her skin, talking too fast, overtalking the judge and witnesses, posing really sloppy questions. I’ll be pleased to see her lose.
judge mcafee is one of the few judges we have seen and not just read about in transcripts or filings.
i have noticed that by the midafternoon yest. he was looking for more proof than what defendant’s lawyers were giving him.
i did like that he went with a 5 minute break yest when things got heated, rather than bang the gravel and raise his voice.
they are going really hard to get the a/c privilege pierced.
I don’t know how “extraordinary” it is, but it’s certainly reassuring in these times of partisan jurisprudence, as evidenced by an apparently increasingly unhinged Supreme Court and of course Ms. Loose Cannon.
testimony is done. the judge will meet with wade’s divorce lawyer to discuss issues with privilege. then set a date and time for more court time if ness. after the meeting, if not then on to summations date and time tbd.
Ashleigh Merchant.
She seems nice…
One of the lawyers – Harry W. MacDougald, attorney for Jeffery Clark – was introducing into evidence Fulton County Code sections pertaining to things like:
- Conflicts of interest generally—Impartiality
- Gifts and favors—Honoraria
- Disclosure of income and financial interests
- First assistant district attorney and trial assistant district attorneys; appointments; bonds; powers and duties; compensation; additional trial assistant district attorneys
- Filing of statement of need for assistants; compensation
- Employee conflict of interest
- Employee disclosure requirement
- Gratuities and kickbacks
So … they’ll be going after Fani Willis head-on. Stay tuned.
Is this all part of the current motion/hearing (unsure of terminology)? Or would evaluating all this evidence require one or more separate hearings in the future?
It’s disappointing if the defense attorneys can just go on fishing trips against a prosecutor and tie all this up for many months. McAfee has to be sorely tempted to just shout out “Denied! Denied! Denied!”
My guess is that it’s going to be a part of the current Hearing on the Motion to disqualify Willis and Wade (and, by association, their Prosecution team) from this case.
I imagine there will be questions about the relevance of all this to this case.
Looks like this will go into next week.
OK, um, what? A prosecutor is supposed to be the exact opposite of impartial.
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