Judge Merchan has just granted a request from the DA's office to take additional time before ruling on how SCOTUS' immunity decision impacts the case & sentencing. A difficult moment (among too many recently) for those who believe in the importance of having the rule of law.
🚨BREAKING: Georgia Supreme Court orders RNC and Georgia Republican Party to file letter explaining why they should not be SANCTIONED in election case. https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgia-cobb-county-undelivered-mail-in-ballots-challenge/
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews former CIA Officer and current Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger on the threats of Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, specifically Tulsi Gabbard, to be the Director of National Intelligence. https://youtu.be/Qq9zxBewqos
NEW: Few people have been more integrally linked to Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 gambit than Matt Gaetz. Now, a man who has done as much as anyone to rewrite the history of that effort, could lead the prosecutors who have called it a stain on our democracy...
GOOD NEWS: Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss have received Rudy Giuliani's watch collection, a ring, and his vintage Lauren Bacall Mercedes Benz! (Finally.) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-georgia-poll-workers.html?smid=url-share
Today, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman put Rudy Giuliani in his place. Disbarred, disruptive, and disgraced, Giuliani sat in a Manhattan courtroom and ranted about his impoverished existence now that he’s been forced to surrender his assets to the Georgia election workers he defamed — …
Elon Musk knows his actions lead to threats, harassment, & fear for innocent public servants just doing their jobs—but that’s exactly the point. Intimidation is the strategy. Bully them into quitting so they don’t have to be fired...
Of course I DO blame the Senate. Tossing Impeachment #2 on the basis that it was too late to remove Trump by then (since he was no longer in office by the time the Senate deigned to take it up) was always a BS move, cowardly and illogical as well as ahistorical and without basis in the...
Great explainer in Just Security by Norm Eisen and Adam Klasfield about the pending Jan 6 civil cases against Trump. Unlike criminal cases, civil cases may proceed against a sitting president. https://buff.ly/3ZuAbx4
NEW: Wisconsin has filed an updated charging document against Ken CHESEBRO and others accused of orchestrating the fake elector plot. The main new addition: interviews with the fake electors who say they were duped...
A federal judge has dismissed Michael Flynn's lawsuit that accused the government of malicious prosecution during the special counsel investigation into Russia's election-meddling. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.411523/gov.uscourts.flmd.411523.47.0.pdf
NJ AG Leticia James & NY DA Alvin Bragg Tell Trump They WILL NOT DISMISS His Civil & Criminal Cases. Because #JusticeMatters #PointsOfLight https://youtu.be/AGjDPIbjlzQ?si=SZFe-qWLOO3R__EL
NEW: Jim Jordan and Jim Comer's "star witness" Alexander Smirnov has pled GUILTY to lying to the FBI about a Joe Biden "bribery" scheme with Burisma. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexander-smirnov-pleads-guilty-bidens-fbi-informant/