The Hall of Fire

This snippet about of the 7 jurors chosen so far is quite disturbing. The teacher said she has friends with strong opinions of Trump, but added that she's not very interested in politics or the news. "President Trump speaks his mind, and I'd rather that than someone who's in office who you don'...

Quite good progress, all things considered.



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More fun to come? Or will the Democrats save Johnson.

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That's because it is. Ford would not have had to offer a pardon, nor Nixon accept one, had Nixon been immune from prosecution. And, of course, Trump also faces charges from private, not just official acts, as his attorneys actually acknowledge elsewhere in the Reply Brief.

The judge declined to rule on the violations of the gag order, instead, setting a hearing for 4/24 on that issue. But of course, that will just encourage Trump to keep violating the gag order in the meanwhile.

I didn't think I was going to get it.

On April 10, 2024, Judge Cannon set a deadline of May 9, 2024, for Defendants to file Rule 16 expert disclosures and any defense CIPA Section 5(a) written notice based on classified discovery produced to date. Needless to say, Judge Cannon was well aware that Trump's New York trial was beginning fiv...

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Big lacrosse school. Or at least it was.

Hobart and William Smith is my sister's alma mater so I am pretty familiar with it. While I understand the academic freedom argument, I don't think the administration had any real choice in the matter. Student safety trumps academic freedom.

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More specifically, the danger of the Messiah complex. As Brian Herbert writes about his father: The author felt that heroic leaders often made mistakes . . . mistakes that were amplified by the number of followers who were held in thrall by charisma. As a political speechwriter in the 1950s, Dad had...

True. I doubt the judge will do anything more than give Trump a warning because he doesn't want to delay the trial.

Monday is going to be even more interesting, now.

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This is very well said by Judge Merchan.

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https://twitter.com/alegalnerd/status/1777869685456846966 The State Public Defender’s office and several civil rights groups and individuals today filed an original writ petition in the Supreme Court — Office of the State Public Defender v. Bonta — claiming “[e]xtensive empirical evidence demonstrat...