A GJ says the evidence is there. Your party is losing all it's cheating mechanisms.........
Well don't get your hopes up. Each one of these cases eventually gets dropped, thrown out or Trump loses.
The Justice Department's
indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center may contain serious legal defects that could lead to a full or partial dismissal because it struggles to articulate the elements of the alleged crimes
The 11-count indictment alleges that the
civil rights nonprofit organization, best known for its work to oppose the Ku Klux Klan, lied to donors about paying confidential informants to infiltrate hate groups and deceived banks about the bank accounts used to make those payments.
It charges the group with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and making false statements. The group denies all the charges and vows to defend itself in court.
Legal experts say it is not clear exactly how the SPLC's statements to donors represent material falsehoods or omissions, or why its past use of paid informants would run counter to its mission of dismantling
white supremacist groups, a tactic that federal and local law enforcement also utilize to infiltrate and break up criminal organizations.
"I don't think any prosecutor with white-collar experience would look at this indictment and believe it makes out the elements of a crime," said Kyle Boynton, an attorney who previously worked both as a federal civil rights prosecutor and an FBI agent. "It's not a valid indictment."
What Trump is doing is an impeachable offense. He will answer for this next year.
In a statement, a Justice Department spokesperson noted that the grand jury agreed to indict the group on 11 counts, just based on a portion of the evidence presented.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has long been at the center of the right-leaning groups' ire, and represents the first of what is expected by many in the nonprofit world to be the first of more progressive groups who are likely to find that they're in the Justice Department's sights
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Allies of the Trump administration have accused the group of being "anti-Christian" and unfairly targeting Republican-aligned groups like Turning Point USA, the Family Research Council and Moms for Liberty.
In October, FBI Director Kash Patel severed the bureau's ties to the group, which for decades has worked closely with law enforcement to pass along tips and intelligence about hate groups that could pose public safety risks, according to the group's spokesperson. The spokesperson added that there were never formal ties, but that the group frequently shared evidence about potential threats with law enforcement officials.
Trump is working with those hate groups.
