Posted on 10/25/2023 11:43:36 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Someone needs to smack this stupid bitch into next week.
The nation needs to get fed up with these petty dictators trying to impose their personal hatred on everyone else.
Gag orders are supposed to protect defendants, not prosecutors. Trump should violate this kangaroo’s unlawful
order every hour of every day.
That collection of bastards is probably realizing Trump is going to be in power again, and they don't want the tables turned back on them.
An illegal gag order from a judge who doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing.
FEDEX
Trump alluded to the judge and the person sitting next to him, so how does the judge know if it was his clerk or the witness, Cohen, sitting on the other side of the judge. His decision shows his prejudice.
all of this is just setting up multiple avenues for appeal.
The more this judge does, the easier it will be for Trump to win on appeal.
One of my favorite all time movies. Right on the money.
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A person be ordered to testify in their own case?
I’m hoping the next time the judge pulls this Trump goes off on him and it ends up like State of Georgia Vs. Denver Fenton Allen, that court transcript was wild.
Rapidly reaching the heights of jurisprudence to rival that of Lance Ito.
Trump should pay EnMoron in pennies.
Maybe our new Speaker should exercise a little authority and have some fun at the same time. SUBPOENA this turd judge and have it Served personally by the US Marshalls with a Warrant to bring the Judge to Congress forthwith to testify before the House Judiciary. Let Jim Jordan Grill her and find her Testimony “Not Credible” and JAIL HER FOR CONTEMPT
“U.S. CODE
TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 6—CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 193. Privilege of witnesses
No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or by any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.”
Simply look up Hinds Precedents, especially chapters 53 and 51, and Cannon’s Precedents, especially chapters 184-185. You’ll find numerous detailed cases of Congress asserting its power, arresting people, holding them until they agreed to answer questions, and then releasing them. Some of these people did not refuse to appear, but simply failed to satisfactorily answer questions.
Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)
If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.
Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.
Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.
Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.
Some references
[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html
[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html
[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit
[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html
[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf
[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/
In 1857, a New York Times reporter refused to say which members of Congress had asked him to get them bribes (protecting his “sources” just as various Judith Millers today protect the people who feed them proven lies that costs thousands of lives), so Congress locked him up until he answered and then banned him from Congress.
In 1924 an oil executive appeared but refused to answer certain questions, so the Senate held — literally held — him in contempt. Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana argued that this question of contempt was of the gravest importance, and that it involved “the very life of the effective existence of the House of Representatives of the United States and of the Senate of the United States.” The matter was taken to court, and the witness fined and imprisoned.
SPJNK
Even if you were to assume the gag order was valid, this episode was petty. Trump didn’t even specify who he was talking about.
Yep. This was pretty petty on the part of the judge.
Maybe Trump is wanting to be put in jail. Think of the imagery...and fund-raising potential.
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