I’m still not convinced that the trial’s even going to start tomorrow. Still waiting for some 11th hour hail-mary type play to push this back a few more weeks.
I think the total number of delay tries Trump has made on this case is somewhere around 11. Nothing has worked so far.
At this point that has gotta start hurting him with the judge, right?
…right?!
I agree that the courts are handling him with way too much deference. But, I think the reason is that these judges want a tight case and leave him no grounds for appeal.
He’s got a gag order he’s broken. So we’ll have to see what happens.
I totally agree. Merchan is not fucking around. He’s following the law to the letter and making reasonable concessions that would be made for anyone. He knows that Trump will appeal, and he’s careful not to provide any credible reason of mistrial.
Now if we could only replace Cannon with an equally fair judge…
He might fire his lawyers and demand a delay because new lawyers need time to get up to speed. It’s up to the judge to accept new lawyers though.
You could argue this is like the refs calling penalties in the last couple minutes of the game. While they still need to call something egregious, refs should step back from potentially deciding who wins. If it were not for how egregious this is, how clearly he seems guilty of so many things from so many points in time …. Should the refs, ie court, be deciding the election?
Just replace “the ref” with the rules. IE: Should the rules be deciding the elections?
The answer is no, my feelings should decide the election riiight!?
Even if jury selection goes forward, Trump lawyers are going to fight tooth and nail on every juror, dragging out that process as long as possible.
Holy shit. ’ voting for yourself" is a most excellent way to refer to masturbation
Erected official
But only if you’re thinking about your own thicc ass, while masturbating.
Dude, we all know how this will end. Nothing is going to happen to him, and he’ll worm his way out of it like the cockroach he is.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
I’m sure his fans could vote a few extra times for him.
He’ll do it on 5th avenue and nobody gon’ say or do shit about it 🚼
What does this matter? It isn’t as though he might lose by one vote.
He’s a Florida resident now. Ironically, that could absolutely happen. lol
This is more poking fun at our system. A criminal can’t vote for president, but they can be the president.
A criminal can’t vote, and they should never be President even if technically allowed. Unless of course you are a party who trying to denigrate their own government to prove a point.
What is that point? Oh yeah, the gubbernut don’t werk! How do we prove it!? By sabotaging it! That makes them patriots… You can’t make this shit up.
Because it’s saying he can still run as a convict, meaning nothing will bar the election going as foreseen.
Finally some consequences is nice.
Amen, it’s good to see his actions actually have some legal consequences.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Pundits and analysts have spent much of the past year debating the political impact should Donald Trump be convicted before November’s election of any of the 88 felony charges he faces.
But one unprecedented oddity lost in the mix is that just a single conviction in any of the cases that Trump faces could put his ability to cast a general election ballot for himself at risk.
The cases will play no role in whether Trump can run for federal office, but there’s a real chance they affect whether he can vote in the 2024 race.
But even within that group of states that disenfranchise felons, there’s a wide spectrum in terms of how a conviction impacts a person’s right to vote.
Trump’s situation would be simpler to figure out, say legal experts NPR spoke with, if all the cases were taking place in the same state.
A conviction in the election interference case that Trump faces in Washington, D.C., federal court would seem not to impact his voting rights, however, because the District of Columbia does not disenfranchise people with felonies.
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