Breaking:
E. Jean Carroll moved to the collect $5,779,783 from the bond Trump deposited in the court's registry, since that verdict reached the "end of the line" at SCOTUS.
Trump's lawyers are still trying to delay, per the filing.
Ossoff is a extraordinarily effective questioner in tone and substance — and understands the importance of listening and responding when a witness is blathering.
BREAKING
A federal judge NULLIFIES the purported “settlement” behind Trump’s $1.776B slush fund, finding there was never a “case or controversy” — and referring his attorney for possible professional discipline.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
In this section of his speech, Trump is lying about the intelligence community's findings about China's actions in the 2020 election.
This is the actual IC finding, declassified in 2021. www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...
A shockingly close call on how to read plain English in the first sentence of a constitutional amendment.
Moving Justice Jackson concurrence invoking Frederick Douglass on memory.
"The distortion of historical facts—retellings that reimagine and repurpose past events to lend credence to misbegotten aims—may be an even greater threat."
[email protected], nailing it: Trump delivered a "proof of dementia video."
Judge Hannah Dugan receives a NON-JAIL sentence, with a $5,000 fine, following her conviction for obstructing an immigration arrest.
Story soon at All Rise News.
By recess time, Blanche doesn't appear to have been pressed on the collapse of high-profile cases, ending in acquittal, no-bills and/or quashed subpoenas: Comey, James, Kelly, Powell, Abrego, Broadview Six, etc.
Or 10K+ losses n ICE cases.
Grand juries almost never reject indictments. Vindictive prosecution motions almost never succeed. Criminal subpoenas almost never get quashed. It's extremely rare for cases to be dismissed before trial.
Stuff like this keeps happening under Blanche's watch.
You'd never know it from this hearing.
Ironically, just as Blanche sought confirmation, the Trump DOJ he leads kept thumbing its nose at the advice and consent process for U.S. Attorneys.
Federal judges have rejected Trump's unqualified, unconfirmed loyalists in NY, NJ, NM, NV, & LA.
This morning, it was Seattle.
Critical context about Trump's speech:
Trump knew he lost the 2020 election and criminally conspired to subvert it.
That conspiracy was based on knowing lies. Not delusions. Not mistakes of fact. Lies designed to preserve and grow his power.
Pressed by Sen. Whitehouse, Blanche won't commit to sharing communications between DOJ and the plaintiffs in Trump v. IRS.
Judge Williams also directs the clerk to send a copy of her order to where bar complaints against Todd Blanche and Stanley Woodward were filed — in New York and D.C., respectively.
Sotomayor:
In abolishing independent agencies, SCOTUS hands the U.S. president more powers than a king, whom Parliament could constrain from removing high-level royal officers. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Blanche just testified that laws prevented the DOJ from releasing the Epstein files. That's false, and a federal judge told him that last year.
"The Government is the logical party to make comprehensive disclosure to the public of the Epstein Files."
Doc buff.ly/L599Gzb
BREAKING: Feds withdraw NYT subpoenas into reporting on Qatar-gifted jet
The government called the subpoenas to reporters' family members an “error.” www.allrisenews.com/p/judge-quas...
Trump “has been stalling this case for years,” and it’s “time for him to ‘do equity’ and pay the judgment,” a federal judge writes regarding E. Jean Carroll.
Birthright citizenship remains constitutionally protected by the 14th Amendment.
But today we learned that U.S. constitutional guarantees — even the "right to have rights" — can be one vote away from being nullified via executive order, if enough justices agree with a fringe legal theory.
Per the filing, "minutes" after Trump posted this screed, his lawyers informed Carroll's counsel that he would ask SCOTUS to reconsider its cert denial.
— Even though there wasn't a single justice who noted a dissent.
Trump's speech did to his mouth what cyclospora is doing to the bowels of nearly 7,000 Americans.
Tall ship, fireboat spraying white and blue water, and the Statue of Liberty from lower Manhattan now.
As the hearing ended, this remained true.