Biff_Poindexter
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Trump lawyers made a "stunningly stupid" move, former judge says
The former president's legal team made an "absolutely absurd" argument for delaying his federal trial for more than two years, a former judge says.
www.newsweek.com
"Former President Donald Trump's legal team made a "stunningly stupid" mistake while arguing that the former president's trial in Washington, D.C., should be postponed until 2026, according to retired Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell. While arguing for the delay in a filing earlier this month, Lauro and his colleagues cited Powell v. Alabama, a 1932 Supreme Court case that reversed convictions for nine young Black men who had been accused of raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. The Court's decision in Powell v. Alabama was due in part to the defendants not being given sufficient time to prepare an adequate defense.
She denounced Trump's legal team for citing Powell v. Alabama, noting that the young men accused in the 1932 case were sent to trial in roughly a week, while Trump's team was being given more than six months to defend the former president. "The moment in that hearing that struck me, I only have two words to describe it: 'stunningly stupid,'" Cordell said. "When Trump's attorney compared their desire to delay the case to what happened in the case of Powell v. Alabama...what the Trump team did was say that, 'Well, what happened in that trial is what could happen here in this trial.' Which is absolutely absurd."
Some Civil rights leaders like Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Green and others have compared Trump to MLK and Mandela -- but it could it be that Trump is being treated much more unfairly by the legal system than these men ever where? I think it was a brilliant move by Trump's legal team to compare their situation to the Scottsboro 9 case, and if you are not familiar with that case - it involved 9 black men being falsely accused of rape; their trial ended and a death penalty verdict was given 6 days after their indictments. On top of that, when their cases were appealed by the racist organization, the NAACP and some commie Jew lawyer - the witnesses against the 9 men, recanted their testimony and admitted it was made up - however, they were still found guilty. It was appealed up to the Supreme Court years later - but most of the men ended up spending years in prison - it wasn't until 70 plus years later in 2013; that the state of Alabama issued posthumous pardons. The case went on to inspire certain literary classics like To Kill A Mockingbird and Native Son.
However, what Trump is facing is probably far more of an injustice than what the Scottsboro 9 faced -- and like the Scottsboro case, it is being done by racist Democrats. Sure, these men were falsely sentenced to death, faced Lynch mobs before the trial even began - but Trump is probably dealing with much worse - so it makes sense that he is mentioned in the same frame as MLK or Mandela - who, let's be honest -- in comparison to Trump, they kind of deserved what they got. Mandela was a terrorist, by all accounts, not a unifier. MLK was also a terrorist, a womanizer, and didn't do much to unify our country - he was not very well liked back then. Trump on the other hand, is a unifier, is very well liked, and this makes his situation so much worse than the others.
