Update on Trump Legal Cases

[Weyoun]

Update. The court in Virginia has taken the indictments against Comey and James, chewed them up, and shitted both out.

[silverscreenselect]

Apparently, not all corrupt autocrats who are involved in attempted coups have toadying courts willing to their tote water for them and hand out get-out-of-jail-free cards like Trump does. The Brazilian Supreme Court has denied the final appeal of former President (and great friend of Trump and MAGA) Jair Bolsonaro after his conviction for attempting a coup against the lawfully elected successor government. Bolsonaro will begin serving his 27-year prison sentence immediately.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4dl19npv5o

[jarnon]

Bolsonaro will begin serving his 27-year prison sentence immediately

>>> Bolsonaro was also barred from running for public office until 2060 - eight years after the end of his sentence. <<<

Not much chance Bolsonaro (age 70 with health problems) will survive till the end of his sentence, let alone make a political comeback in 2060. A mysterious suicide like Epstein or murder like Whitey Bulger could end his incarceration even sooner.

[flockofseagulls104]

Apparently, not all corrupt autocrats who are involved in attempted coups have toadying courts willing to their tote water for them and hand out get-out-of-jail-free cards like Trump does. The Brazilian Supreme Court has denied the final appeal of former President (and great friend of Trump and MAGA) Jair Bolsonaro after his conviction for attempting a coup against the lawfully elected successor government. Bolsonaro will begin serving his 27-year prison sentence immediately.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4dl19npv5o

Exactly what happens in 3rd world countries. And what the dems were desperately trying to do here. Thank God they weren't successful... Yet. They will keep trying with every ounce of corruption they can muster. Sickening.

[elwoodblues]

Apparently, not all corrupt autocrats who are involved in attempted coups have toadying courts willing to their tote water for them and hand out get-out-of-jail-free cards like Trump does. The Brazilian Supreme Court has denied the final appeal of former President (and great friend of Trump and MAGA) Jair Bolsonaro after his conviction for attempting a coup against the lawfully elected successor government. Bolsonaro will begin serving his 27-year prison sentence immediately.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4dl19npv5o

Exactly what happens in 3rd world countries. And what the dems were desperately trying to do here. Thank God they weren't successful... Yet. They will keep trying with every ounce of corruption they can muster. Sickening.

Holding lawless politicians accountable is something that only happens in third world countries?

[flockofseagulls104]

Apparently, not all corrupt autocrats who are involved in attempted coups have toadying courts willing to their tote water for them and hand out get-out-of-jail-free cards like Trump does. The Brazilian Supreme Court has denied the final appeal of former President (and great friend of Trump and MAGA) Jair Bolsonaro after his conviction for attempting a coup against the lawfully elected successor government. Bolsonaro will begin serving his 27-year prison sentence immediately.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4dl19npv5o

Exactly what happens in 3rd world countries. And what the dems were desperately trying to do here. Thank God they weren't successful... Yet. They will keep trying with every ounce of corruption they can muster. Sickening.

Holding lawless politicians accountable is something that only happens in third world countries?

Putting your political opponents in jail for 27 years does.
Please spare me your attempts at "humor"

[silverscreenselect]

Holding lawless politicians accountable is something that only happens in third world countries?

Putting your political opponents in jail for 27 years does.

Some of these "political opponents" got much worse than 27 years in jail. And it didn't happen in a third world country either.

[jarnon]

Though these cases are closed, their veterans continue to make news:

Judge Chutkan Orders Expedited Process on Epstein Files

Emil Bove (now also a judge) and Todd Blanche Noem made decision not to turn around deportation flights bound for El Salvador after judge's order, DOJ says

[flockofseagulls104]

Holding lawless politicians accountable is something that only happens in third world countries?

Putting your political opponents in jail for 27 years does.

Some of these "political opponents" got much worse than 27 years in jail. And it didn't happen in a third world country either.

Yeah, Bolsonaro was a nazi, too, right? Then why didn't he invade the rest of South America when he WAS President?

Lula was in prison for corruption. He got out based on stupid technicalities made up by corrupt judges. (Sound familiar?) Only conservatives actually ever get convicted. Both here and in Brazil. And he is a communist. They are doing in Brazil what Hillary, Obama and Biden's handlers tried to do to Trump.

[flockofseagulls104]

Fani Willis case DISMISSED. It never should have been brought. How much time, money and needless suffering of many people has been caused by this one corrupt DA and Biden's handlers who guided her?

Can we get SOMEONE, ANYONE to be held accountable for the BLATANT LAWFARE committed against Trump and many other innocent people? Perhaps starting with Fani? If only our side had a Marc Elias with inexhaustible funding and hundreds of lawyers so we could countersue WIllis and all her co-conspirators in this disasterous practice.

And can we, at long last, for God's sake, get political prisoner Tina Peters released before she dies in solitary confinement?

[silverscreenselect]

He got out based on stupid technicalities made up by corrupt judges.

Another Flock dictionary entry:

"technicality" = A fundamental legal principle whose application results in a decision Flock doesn't like.

The technicality here was that under Brazilian law, defendants cannot be jailed until all their appeals have been dismissed. After Lula was released on this basis, subequent appeals threw out the cases againt him. That's the same "technicality" that Bolsonaro relied on to stay out of jail until now.

[flockofseagulls104]

He got out based on stupid technicalities made up by corrupt judges.

Another Flock dictionary entry:

"technicality" = A fundamental legal principle whose application results in a decision Flock doesn't like.

The technicality here was that under Brazilian law, defendants cannot be jailed until all their appeals have been dismissed. After Lula was released on this basis, subequent appeals threw out the cases againt him. That's the same "technicality" that Bolsonaro relied on to stay out of jail until now.

SSS complete explanation of the entire world.: Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, no corruption exists anywhere except Donald Trump.

[silverscreenselect]

SSS complete explanation of the entire world.: Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, no corruption exists anywhere except Donald Trump.

And Jair Bolsonaro.

[jarnon]

SSS complete explanation of the entire world.: Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, no corruption exists anywhere except Donald Trump.

And Jair Bolsonaro.

A number of countries have Trump-like leaders or former leaders: Duterte in the Philippines, Orbán in Hungary, Netanyahu in Israel, Bukele in El Salvador, MBS in Saudi Arabia, Erdoğan in Turkey. Others such as Meloni in Italy are conservative like Trump but haven’t been accused of corruption.

[silverscreenselect]

More bad news for Republican attempts to rig the 2026 elections. A federal court in Texas has ruled that the state's recent Congressional redistricting was an illegal racial gerrymander and prohibited the use of the new districts in the 2026 elections. Texas has the earliest candidate qualifying deadline and the earliest primary in the nation. Qualifying is going on now, and the deadline is December 8. The state has already said it will appeal to the Supreme Court. It's possible the Supreme Court could issue a stay of the lower court's ruling between now and December 8. The opinion was written by a Trump appointee.

This decision does not affect California's recent redistricting or those in any other state. Republicans in California have filed a suit challenging that redistricting, but that case is at a much earlier stage, since the California redistricting did not take affect until after this November's election.

Justice Alito has issued a stay of the lower court decision upon Texas's appeal. The application went to him because he is the justice who oversees appeals of this nature arising in the Fifth Circuit. The plaintiffs will have until Monday to file a response, at which time the entire Court will decide whether to continue the stay until they can hear the entire case on the merits. If the Court does issue the stay, it means that the new Texas districts will remain in effect for the 2026 election.

The full Supreme Court granted the stay in the Texas gerrymandering case pending the results of a full appeal, meaning that the 2025 map will stay in place for the 2026 election. The 6-3 decision (the three liberal justices dissenting) was unsigned. It's also highly unlikely that the California map and any others enacted before the 2026 elections will be overturned before the elections, so various states have free rein to redistrict as they please for 2026.

[silverscreenselect]

Update. The court in Virginia has taken the indictments against Comey and James, chewed them up, and shitted both out.

The court ruled that Trump's appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim US attorney was illegal, and, since she was the only attorney who presented the evidence to the grand jury in these cases, the indictments were dismissed. Subsequently, a New Jersey court similarly ruled this week that Trump's appointment of Alina Habba as acting US attorney in New Jersey was illegal. That calls into question any indictments Habba's office obtained during her tenure.

Today, the grand jury in Virginia refused to re-indict Letititia James in a case brought by different prosecutors. The status of any future prosecution against Comey is uncertain.