Posted on 05/14/2024 7:13:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday requested the judge overseeing ex-Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon's criminal contempt of Congress case to order that he begin his four-month prison sentence, after an appeals court last week upheld his conviction.
Prosecutors said there is no legal basis for Judge Carl Nichols to continue the stay on Bannon serving his sentence after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals' conclusive ruling that rejected the basis for Bannon's appeal on all grounds.
"Consequently, there is no longer a 'substantial question of law that is likely to result in a reversal or an order for a new trial,'" prosecutors wrote in their filing Tuesday.
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Does Trump have anyone in mind for AG?
Not that he’s let on, but it can’t be DeSantis, since they are both from Florida..................
Trump can’t make DeSantis his VP since they are both from Florida but there is no reason he can’t make him AG.
I’m think that its only the VP that cannot be from the same state but I’m not 100% sure.
What percentage of people who have ever been held in contempt of congress had to serve jail time for it????
AG would be perfect for DeSantis.
This judge is owned by the Deep State..
When he was approved: Carl J. Nichols, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia
REPORTED: ROLL CALL VOTE
11-10
Aye: Grassley, Hatch, Graham, Cornyn, Lee, Cruz, Sasse, Flake, Crapo, Tillis (Proxy),
Kennedy (Proxy)
Nay: Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, Blumenthal (Proxy),
Hirono, Booker (Proxy), Harris
Carl John Nichols is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
On June 7, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Nichols to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Dominion defamation lawsuits
On August 11, 2021, Nichols denied motions to dismiss lawsuits brought by Dominion Voting Systems alleging that Sidney Powell (1:21-cv-00040 (CJN)), Rudy Giuliani (1:21-cv-00213 (CJN)), and Mike Lindell (1:21-cv-00445 (CJN)) defamed and damaged Dominion by their statements alleging fraud and misconduct in the 2020 presidential election. Those lawsuits therefore were allowed to proceed.
TikTok Inc. v. Trump, no. 20-2658 (D.D.C)
On Sunday, September 27, 2020, Judge Nichols, granting in part the motion of plaintiffs TikTok and ByteDance, issued a preliminary injunction partially enjoining (i.e., temporarily stopping) the Department of Commerce’s implementation of President Donald Trump’s August 6, 2020, executive order prohibiting certain transactions related to TikTok. The portion of the prohibition that Nichols enjoined would have barred Apple and Google from offering TikTok in their app stores, and would have taken effect just before midnight that night.
On December 7, 2020, Judge Nichols granted a second preliminary injunction requested by TikTok and ByteBance, enjoining the remainder of the Commerce Department’s implementation of that executive order. The case (then captioned TikTok v. Biden) was dismissed by joint stipulation of the parties on July 21, 2021, following President Biden’s decision to rescind President Trump’s August 6, 2020, executive order.
Yes, the Constitution explicitly states that the President and Vice President must be from different states.............
Imagine a govt body so powerful it thinks it has rights to compel your testimony against a POTUS or find a judge to jail you.
I think Congress has a 9% favorability rating, leaving 91% of America contemptuous of them
The Judge should re-sentence Bannon to serve his time in the meritless Garland’s office.
When are they just going to drop the pretense and have a Stalin style purge?
Well, there’s Hunter Biden…
No, wait. Nevermind…
They can be from the same state but the electors of that state can only for one of them. For example they could vote for the Prez candidate but not the Vprez or vice versa. People tend to forget that Vice-president is a separate office and is voted for separately by the electors. In our circus-like carny-style vote-for-Prom-King\Queen popular vote election we forget that! Far from what the Founders wanted!
He should hav sucked punch an old Asian lady on the streets of NYC... he would have gotten any time.
correct
Not really, DeSantis has no significant experience as a civilian lawyer. Trump’s AG needs to be a tough, loyal SOB who knows where the levers of power are in the Department of Justice and is willing to use them to advance Trump’s agenda.
1/3rd of a year. Serve it and get moving on down the line.
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