🧵NEW THREAD for #TrumpTrial #legal #Trump here. 1/...
Apparently Trump woke up.
Via Orden:
Trump has re-entered the courtroom, per pool, but the video feed hasn't yet been turned on in the overflow room.
🧵NEW THREAD for #TrumpTrial #legal #Trump here. 1/...
Apparently Trump woke up.
Via Orden:
Trump has re-entered the courtroom, per pool, but the video feed hasn't yet been turned on in the overflow room.
I stopped counting. 🧵 1/…
“The judge in #Trump’s hush money criminal case on Friday turned down TFG’s request to postpone his trial bc of publicity about the case.
It’s the latest in a string of delay denials that Trump has gotten from various courts this week as he fights to stave off the trial’s start Monday with jury selection.
#legal
https://apnews.com/article/4c79619c5e89e13d672e070a4244a302
Small part of a thread by Daniel Barnes:
After roughly 2 hours of argument, Judge #Cannon seems unlikely to grant motions from Carlos De Oliveira and Walt Nauta to dismiss some or all of the charges against them in #Trump's classified #documents case.... ... ...
What wasn't discussed today? Anything about future timing in the case and when we might get a new trial date. #legal
I’ll start a 🧵#TrumpTrial #Trump #legal
I will NOT (& often CANNOT) answer questions, so please don’t ask me any. If you have a comment/question for the universe, please label it “NFL” (Not For Laffy) so I can skip thru my replies.
1/… Via Pagliery:
Trump is sitting in court now, surrounded on both sides by his lawyers.
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Via Emptywheel: 1/…
This will be an important case. If SCOTUS throws out application of obstruction to Jan6, those who PLANNED to obstruct vote certification could only face misdemeanors, whereas those who got caught up, could face civil disorder charges. #legal
Josh Gerstein:
After years of dodging and weaving about the gravity of #Jan6 , #SCOTUS seems likely to grapple with the subject as it considers whether an obstruction charge used against hundreds of rioters was misapplied.
👏🏻“Federal appeals court has overturned a #WestVirginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools.
The ruling Tuesday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocks a West Virginia law banning transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams” #LGBTQ #legal
https://apnews.com/article/badf5518ada74d01a3f0a0420d2f4074
Wut.
Via Kyle Cheney:
Apparently, in #Texas, state bar investigators did such a "scattershot" job putting together its complaint against #SidneyPowell for her role in the 2020 election that an appeals court has thrown the case out. #legal 🤦🏻‍♀️
https://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=430b390e-0f80-43e2-9d6b-53a97caf9fb9&MediaID=e591d629-9c76-4d77-920d-f04faab58bf7&coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&DT=Opinion
Starting a new thread 🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal
Via Inner City Press (I call him Press):
Trump's lawyer Blanche: There are a number of the jurors that we have social media posts for very much contrary to what they said. We don't want to confront them openly
Judge: They were not told it is an anonymous jury.
Trump's lawyer Blanche: Juror number 1 has a series of extraordinarily hostile Facebook posts-
Judge: Can I see them?... Was I handed the right thing? The sheet has 2 screen grabs
New 🧵bc Internet is out, I’m using my iPhone, & I f’d up the last 🧵 #TrumpTrial #legal #Trump 1/…
McBrien:
To Q18 about whether he or a relative had an experience/interaction with the criminal justice system: "It was a good experience, but a tough one. The system was helpful," the potential juror says, after pausing and tearing up.
Mr. Laffy is on the phone with Verizon. My coverage will be spotty til Internet is back. She was excused.
#TrumpTrial Via McBrien:
The first potential juror of the day, who mentioned that her bad anxiety might prevent her from being fair and punctual, had said: "The more days that go on and more and more people in my life know that I'm here without me even telling them, they just put pieces together."
#TrumpTrial #legal #Trump I have to share this one! Via Tyler McBrien: 1/…
Juror starts by jumping to Q14-19, saying she's disqualified because she served time. Tearing up she says, "I wrote down all my crimes, it was over 10 years ago, and you guys keep calling me back for jury, and I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to be here."
Via Lisa Rubin:
As NBCNews has reported, each side gets a NEW allotment of peremptory challenges once the remaining 5 jurors are selected and we move to alternates. Then, each side gets 2 per alternate. (This is under NY statute; I don’t make the rules. 🤷‍♀️) #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal
Via Kyle Cheney:
NEW: A day after it dismissed the bar case against Sidney Powell, a Dallas appeals court ruled that Attorney General Ken #PAXTON *can* face discipline over misrepresentations in his 2020 Texas v. PA Supreme Court filing.
Paxton had argued he was immune.
Unlike the Powell decision, however, there was a dissent here, with one of the three judges agreeing that Paxton should be immune because he filed the 2020 lawsuit in his official capacity. #legal #Texas
Klasfeld:
News #TrumpTrial #legal
In #Trump's NY criminal case, prosecutors file so-called "Sandoval" notice—disclosing unchged prior bad acts they intend to use at trial to impeach his credibility.
The list in rattles off NYAG civil fraud case, # EJeanCarroll case, & more.
"If the defendant chooses to testify, the People intend to inquire regarding the following"
Full list of litigation prosecutors intend to confront Trump w, if given the green light by judge: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24554324-peoples-sandoval-notice-filed
#TrumpTrial #legal #Trump Not sure how much I can post. Now my iPhone is slow. Via McBrien:
…waiting for the Sandoval hearing to begin, despite the tragedy that unfolded earlier this afternoon just outside the courtroom.
As Merchan said earlier, "We've come too far in this trial to jeopardize it now."
đź’Ą Via Kyle Griffin:
#Arizona AG Kris Mayes announces the State Grand Jury has returned indictments in the state's 2020 fake electors scheme.
The following individuals are named as defendants, per the AG: Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten, and Michael Ward.
Charges include fraud, forgery, and conspiracy – class 2, 4, and 5 felonies. #legal
Via Kyle Cheney:
JUST IN: #Trump tells Judge #Cannon his New York trial is moving "expeditiously" and encourages her to postpone some filing deadlines while his lead attorneys are largely stuck in NY. #legal
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.458.0.pdf
REMINDER: I can’t always reply/answer questions. Use NFL (Not For Laffy)
🧵Starts HERE 1/…
Pagliery:
Trump is sitting at the defense table, with Todd Blanche at his right and Emil Bove at his left, plus Susan Necheles at the far left.
Blanche is explaining something, waving his right hand around while Trump nods in approval.
Dozens called for jury duty are downstairs and going through metal detectors.
The judge just sat down. We begin.
Via the #DailyBeast
#DonaldTrump’s #legal payroll is easily the largest and most diverse of any political figure in modern U.S. #history. But while most of the attorneys that #Trump’s various fundraising committees have paid over the years are a matter of public record, one of the top recipients still poses a mystery—with more than $8 million in legal costs going to an unknown firm, or firms, through what appears to be a corporate intermediary.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-legal-bills-are-hiding-an-dollar8-million-mystery
#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal 1/…
Via Klasfeld:
Trump entered the courtroom in his usual slow stroll and perturbed disposition.
He let out a slight exhale as he reached the defense table before sitting down.
Present in the gallery again today:
Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn.
1/…🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal
Via Klasfeld:
Expected first:
The judge may issue his Sandoval rulings, determining what prior bad acts prosecutors can confront Trump with if he testifies.
A key question: "What's fair game?"
Mr. Blowdryer cooperated. I'm back, catching up now.
NEW THREAD🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 1/...
Klasfeld:
We're back.
Prosecution: "The People call David Pecker."
Pecker, 72, provides some biographical information. He's married, and he now does consulting work.
After seeing that Jurors do not currently have notepads, the judge asks those who want them to raise their hands.
Their hands immediately shoot up — a studious bunch.
They are provided with them.
NEW #TrumpTrial THREAD 🧵 STARTS HERE. #Trump #legal 1/...
Klasfeld:
Trump is back at the defense table, and we're waiting for the judge to return to the bench.