Posted on 11/04/2023 3:04:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal judge on Friday to bar media outlets from televising the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump in Washington, DC.
Last month, attorneys for a coalition of news organizations, including NBCUniversal, asked United States District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to make an exception to the longstanding rule that prohibits broadcasting and photographing criminal proceedings in federal courts under the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure.
Prosecutors are trying to uphold the rule that states, “the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings” or broadcasting those proceedings unless a judge rules otherwise.
House Democrats have also pushed for live broadcasting of the court proceedings in the criminal cases against Trump. The former president's defense attorney John Lauro agrees, telling Fox News Sunday in August he “would love to see that.”
“I personally would love to see that,” Lauro said. “I’m convinced the Biden administration does not want the American people to see the truth. And they acted on it by filing this protective order, which is an effort to keep important information about this case from the press.”
Chutkan gave Trump a week to respond to the media request, which he has yet to do, but Smith’s court filing notes that the former president’s counsel “has requested that government counsel convey that he takes no position with respect to these Applications.”
On Aug. 1, Trump was indicted in connection to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Smith’s yearslong investigation...
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What are they afraid of?
A little sunshine never hurt anything.
SHOW THEIR PURE EVIL ACTIONS!!!
Could a Trump Justice Department scare these TINY men and women?
They do not want people to see what a sham and how unjust their courtroom is.
What people can’t see and hear they can get their fake news to frame the narrative.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Cui bono?
All criminal court proceedings should be broadcast. Period.
Government in the sunshine!
Sounds like that maggot Smith is wanting to show off for the hairy-chested liberal ladies.
Boy they sure are scared
Trumps lawyers don’t want this? Are they nuts? Trump should be pounding on the table to broadcast this stuff.
Well gee I thought they had such a slam dunk case that everyone would want to see it but they dont want anyone to see it because they have NO case, they never did
Donald J Trump is the biggest political figure in the world right now. Nobody but nobody is bigger than the Donald. He owns every room he walks into. This Jamaican judge should go back to Jamaica because she’s acting like Papa Doc.
She a real Caribbeaner. Born in Kingston. What the hell is she doing in one of OUR courts? Trying one of OUR presidents. Somebody’s ass should be in jail and it isn’t Donald Trump.
I could ask the same question about Obama. What the hell is he doing in our country? In the middle of a war with Muslims some folks pick a guy who takes a Muslim name to be president. And that alone there’s no hope for a lot of people. Being in the country you absorb the culture and if the culture is based on free-speech and the second amendment and blah blah blah. Unless you’re born here, it doesn’t become part of your being. mama papa Doc!
Democrats want cameras in the courtroom so they can edit it like they did in the Jan6 inquisition.
Media approved
Catnip was chosen on purpose by the white boyz down at the DNC to have a foreign, refugee, “woman of color” intimidate and put and American president in jail. That is BS. That is all this RAT fiasco is. We Americans need to do everything we can to get President Trump back in the White House and start letting the Karma kick in.
And turn it into a circus like the OJ trial? No thanks.
Is that what you took away from the OP’s post?
Perhaps you should heed your own words…..
Your brain must hurt when you try to read. I think if you stop tracking it with your finger and moving your mouth less might help.
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