Posted on 09/09/2021 10:31:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
"This brief - and I will be reserved about what I'm about to say - reads less like a legal brief than something you might read on a blog," said Mehta, an Obama appointee. "And that's not acceptable. I expect better from you, I expect better from every other lawyer in this courtroom."
Mehta conceded that there could be a valid legal argument for why Fischer's client would not be able to receive a fair trial in Washington, but said the lawyer's rhetoric was an inappropriate way to go about raising the issue.
"You just can't come in here and start sneaking statements about traditional values and whether people in a particular city have them or despise them. It's just not going to fly," the judge said.
Fischer is representing Thomas Edward Caldwell, one of 18 co-defendants in a felony conspiracy case centered on the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers.
Last month, Fischer submitted a motion on behalf of Caldwell, a Virginia resident, seeking a change of venue. In the filing, he argued that the district's residents are largely hostile to former President Trump and his supporters, making it difficult to convene an impartial jury.
"District residents not only despise Caldwell's politics-they despise many things that traditional America stands for," the motion reads. "District residents, who largely style themselves as chic, sophisticated, worldly, high-brow urbanites, are repulsed by rural America's traditional values, patriotism, religion, gun ownership, and perceived lack of education. Conversely, rural America is repulsed by what it perceives as East and West Coast progressive snobbery, addiction to government funding, lack of moral values, and petulant intolerance for those with different viewpoints."
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I guess speaking truth to power only applies to democrats.
Anything Obama appointed is hostile to traditional values . . . or any values at all except those of Satan.
Lol,the idiot can’t refute it, so she has to whine about it.
I wouldn’t have an argument with anything he said.
The corrupt judge agrees with those D.C. residents and is not about to let the case go anywhere that might result in a fair trial.
He should have given the Judge a copy of the Book “To Kill a Mockingbird”.
Better yet, a copy of the DVD.
The Judge wouldn’t get the point anyway.
Grounds for appeal, perhaps.
The lawyer should have demanded that the judge recuse the self for bias then
Truth is hate to people who hate truth.
just point to statements from 1000 different Fed.gov officials and long-term voting patterns.
You’re right. The more the lawyer makes the judge sound biased against the defendant, the better the appeal will be successful.
He should have known this was going to get out and insulting the members of the jury pool isn’t going to win him any points. On the other hand it could help with an appeal.
No surprise, especially as the judge not a natural born citizen. Nope, he’s from India. As found on the Internet: Judge Amit P. Mehta was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on December 22, 2014. Born in Patan, India.
Political prisoners.
Her response will mean an appeal is guaranteed.
“I expect better from you” the judge said.
“It’s just not going to fly,” the judge said.
Fly like what, jackass?
Being on a jury trial in DC is considered a paid vacation.
Well, it’s just the judge not accepting the truth and it being written in plain English. Can’t have anyone calling out theses folks for who they are.
And of course, the judge knows full well that he’s included in the group of “East and West Coast progressive snobbery, addiction to government funding, lack of moral values, and petulant intolerance for those with different viewpoints.”
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