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This is one to keep up with closely. The removal issue is going to be one of the largest issues in the case and, among other things, it's going to involve the question of whether Meadows, Trump, and other federal officials had the constitutional immunity from state criminal proceedings based on their activities as government employees. It's not been decided and could result in many years of litigation. Removal, since it will move the whole case, including the state parts, to federal court could be one of the most momentous decisions in the whole case. Also, given the total seriousness of the claims Meadows and others will be raising, there's a good chance that any decision will be appealed, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court. If that happens, at least the state court case is likely to be delayed for a very long time, possibly up to the election.
1 posted on 09/04/2023 11:47:41 AM PDT by libstripper
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Best Attorney’s vs a political box checker.... hmmmm... Will the law prevail, and can the federal legal system allow it’s role to be usurped by state politicians. John Roberts, how will yu go down in history?


2 posted on 09/04/2023 11:51:15 AM PDT by Waverunner
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Obama judge. Won’t happen.


3 posted on 09/04/2023 11:58:29 AM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States of America!!)
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It is irritating that The Hill implies - with zero evidence - that Meadows does not want the trial televised.

I would be thrilled if that idiot District Attorney had to prosecute my case on live TV!


4 posted on 09/04/2023 11:58:54 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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POTUS is unaffected by Lawfare. So is Mark Meadows.

The legal train can not roll in these blue states, anywhere. If any single charge is under duty for a federal office, the entire case is required to be defended in federal court, not state.

Big Fani knows all this. Political gains among Marxists includes bold idiocy. 😄


5 posted on 09/04/2023 12:05:09 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. For Greater Glory.)
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the atmospherics of the case

Do they teach atmospherics at law school?

6 posted on 09/04/2023 12:05:48 PM PDT by aspasia
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If it has federal charges, it MUST be moved.


8 posted on 09/04/2023 12:09:59 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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“If Jones does permit Meadows to remove, it won’t be on the strength of Meadows’s legal argumentation. It will be because of the atmospherics of the case,” said Lee Kovarsky, a law professor at the University of Texas”

No, it should be exactly on the strength of legal arguments, and would be if the defendant was a Democrat.


10 posted on 09/04/2023 12:17:37 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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Off topic, but relevant...

I still believe the strongest argument for the Defense is that the Prosecution cannot prove - beyond a reasonable doubt - that Donald Trump LOST the election.

No matter what evidence is presented, nor how many election experts testify, the Prosecution has no answer to two decisive facts...

How many ineligible voters cast a ballot in Georgia?

Unknown.

How many Georgia ballots have no verifiable chain of custody?

Unknown.

If they cannot prove Trump lost the election, their foundational argument collapses.


12 posted on 09/04/2023 12:21:06 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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The Georgia case is itself legally suspect. It is a novel case, and were the case go forward, we can easily imagine the consequence. Every Democratic federal official will be tried in Wyoming or some other rock-ribbed Republican state for racketeering; and, every Republican federal official will be tried in a solidly Democrat jurisdiction. There will be no end to it, until either the U.S. Supreme Court speaks to the matter, or the Congress in a shocking moment of non-partisanship sends a Constitutional Amendment to the states for ratification.

The D.C. is similar. Both the Ga. and the D.C. cases are bogus.

The other two cases are more mundane.

The New York case (involving filing a false statement concerning hush payments to Trump’s paramour) rests on whether the statute of limitations had expired.

The Florida case (involving documents) concerns whether Trump sufficiently cooperated with authorities in the return of federal property.

If I were the Democrats, I’d proceed with the documents case first, get a conviction via a plea deal for a slap on the wrist. Then, proceed to the false statements case, with the same object (a conviction via a plea deal). Then, I would magnanimously drop the other two cases, saying that the point has been made: Trump is a liar and a criminal.

As it is, the Democrats are choosing Trump to be our nominee by making him into a victim; and, with the sympathy he’s getting, Trump looks like he could win the election.


13 posted on 09/04/2023 12:24:31 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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Well if they don’t give them immunity...states need to file criminal charges against Biden and the entire white house asap.


22 posted on 09/04/2023 3:25:29 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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