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Trump trial: Prosecutors withhold witness lineup from former president’s team
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 4/19/2024 | ashley oliver

Posted on 04/19/2024 8:39:41 PM PDT by bitt

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To: Bob Wills is still the king

Yeah, but damn near everything conservative states do nowadays seems to get overturned by the Feds, so the “reaching down” part seems a unevenly applied.

The Constitution (often I think via the Feds citing the 14th) is also supposed to extend protection of our unalienable (granted by God) rights, including especially those listed in the Bill of Rights (though We the People have more rights not listed) to We the People in the states.

New York has chosen to single out essentially ONE person, President Trump, in a grossly unprecedented manner which is functionally a bill of attainder, and the hits just keep coming.

We the People have the unalienable right (listed and not listed) not to be singled out (lawfare) by government at any level.

When that CRIME is occurring before our very eyes and can easily be seen by appellate courts, why should it be allowed to proceed?

You will probably laugh at that, but that is what people are seeing and thinking and feeling as we watch this travesty.

So no surprise we are a skeptical, and do not want to see a former President randomly languishing for four years in a prison (like “J6” people in Washington), with the US Congressional Democrats subsequently (as they seem to be planning) having viciously, in another grossly obvious bill of attainder, taken away his Secret Service protection.


21 posted on 04/19/2024 10:12:11 PM PDT by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communifascism!))
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To: Maris Crane

I would think the Trump defense team would have sent a 911 call to the Supreme Court for judicial assault.


22 posted on 04/19/2024 11:35:37 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Auntie Dem

True but nobody ever accused the fascist libs of having any logic.


23 posted on 04/19/2024 11:47:51 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: Maris Crane

Doesn’t work like that


24 posted on 04/19/2024 11:51:30 PM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind btw Alina Habba is fine as grits)
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To: bitt

Everyone with two brain cells knows this could never hold up to any appeal, so they’re just going whole hog to get a guilty verdict. This is wrong to the Nth degree and when all the dust settles their should be a slew of people losing their law licenses.


25 posted on 04/20/2024 12:15:35 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was off the ping list.)
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To: Weirdad

We’re Waaay beyond skeptical, Gus.


26 posted on 04/20/2024 12:26:26 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was off the ping list.)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king
This is a state case. Absent some federal legal question

Is this why Bragg is mum on the nature of the felony that he used to bootstrap his expired misdemeanors into a felony?

The Trump team can't defend against the underlying felony because Bragg won't say what it is, so most people assume that it is a campaign finance violation -- which is federal, not state.

Until Bragg divulges what the felony is, nobody can go to federal court to challenge it. Once the trial starts and the felony is known, what is the recourse at that point to go to a federal court?

-PJ

27 posted on 04/20/2024 12:37:11 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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28 posted on 04/20/2024 12:43:23 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: bitt

Does trump have good lawyers?

Seems everything in the court room is going the prosecutors way.

How can trump even get a fair verdict in a state that never votes republican and where jurors are liberals


29 posted on 04/20/2024 12:58:27 AM PDT by forYourChildrenVote4Bush
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

When basic civil rights are violated there is nothing wrong with Federal courts stepping in.


30 posted on 04/20/2024 1:25:08 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: bitt

Sixth Amendment.


31 posted on 04/20/2024 2:06:28 AM PDT by Fido969 (Ia)
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To: Bullish

Once they get a guilty verdict, they won’t care about the appeal, it will be “Trump is a convicted felon” until the end of time.


32 posted on 04/20/2024 2:08:04 AM PDT by Fido969 (Ia)
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To: forYourChildrenVote4Bush

Look at Hunter’s lawyers appealing everything, even before the trial starts.


33 posted on 04/20/2024 2:09:32 AM PDT by Fido969 (Ia)
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To: gundog

Is that Judge Van de Lay?


34 posted on 04/20/2024 2:57:59 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: gundog

Jerry bery bery bad man.


35 posted on 04/20/2024 3:00:58 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Organic Panic

We’re no longer a republic.

As long as that’s the case, the law is whatever Deep State says it is.


36 posted on 04/20/2024 3:26:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: wardaddy

If we must accept all this bullying from our court system ...we are not a free country.


37 posted on 04/20/2024 4:23:58 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Organic Panic

“Isn’t it illegal to do this? Isn’t prosecution required to present all evidence and witnesses to defense?
Such a farce. These jerks know full well this whole thing will be thrown out AFtER they install Chomo Joe . This is only to keep Trump off the campaign trail.”

I have witnessed several key trials, run by democrats, wherein evidence was withheld to the defendants.

https://nypost.com/2021/11/17/rittenhouse-defense-accuses-prosecutors-of-withholding-video/

https://www.foxnews.com/story/former-duke-lacrosse-rape-prosecutor-charged-with-withholding-evidence-misleading-court

These are just a couple of obvious problems. What I have noticed is that in these politically charged trials, the prosecutions being politically motivated tend to deny the defense a fair trial. Judges who are not impartial and prosecutors who are not impartial, lead inevitably to impartial judicial proceedings.

Virtually every lawyer who is impartial has come out and said that Trump can’t get a fair trial in NYC. The Judge and his family have a financial interest in convicting him. The prosecutor ran on convicting Trump of something. Any one of these should be enough for an appeal. Withholding potential evidence, even the witness order, could be seen to attempt to impair the defense. So logically speaking, your right, it’s a political move to get Spy ring leader re-elected- Joe Biden.


38 posted on 04/20/2024 5:10:28 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan (Repeatedl)
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To: bitt

PURE EVIL!!!


39 posted on 04/20/2024 5:40:05 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: bitt

IS IT LEGAL TO DO SO???


40 posted on 04/20/2024 6:29:59 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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