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."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Maybe he should have said they really, really, really, really don’t like Trump supporters, instead.
Nothing like adding a judicial thumb onto the scales of Justice. Or should that be Scales of Just-us?
Not a lawyer, but how do you achieve a change of venue for a Federal crime committed in the District when the Constitution requires the trial be held in the State or District where the crime occurred?
seems like the lawyer understands the field he’s playing in
This Obama appointee is has been actually questioning the government prosecutors.
Obviously the judge is deaf, dumb and blind. Maybe he just needs a refresher on Traditional Values, I think 30 days in Kabul would help him understand
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