Posted on 04/06/2024 8:15:40 AM PDT by thegagline
Former President Donald Trump lost three major legal challenges in the past week, including his efforts to dismiss a racketeering case on First Amendment grounds.
Here is a look at the rulings in three separate cases this week in Georgia, Florida, and New York.
New York judge denies Trump’s attempt to delay hush money trial
New York Judge Juan Merchan denied the former president’s attempt to delay his criminal hush money trial on Wednesday, after Trump claimed he was protected under presidential immunity.
Merchan said that Trump had plenty of opportunity before March to claim presidential immunity in the case. Trump asked Merchan to delay the trial until after the Supreme Court rules on his immunity claim, but the trial is slated to begin April 15, and the Supreme Court won’t hear arguments in the immunity case until April 25.
The case, which is the only criminal trial that could have a verdict prior to the 2024 elections this November, centers on claims that Trump allegedly paid hush money to former porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
He has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, and has pleaded “not guilty,” to all counts.
Georgia judge rejects Trump’s attempt to dismiss RICO case through a First Amendment challenge
Georgia judge Scott McAfee on Thursday denied Trump’s claim that his public statements and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election were protected under his right to free speech.
McAfee said that Trump was not protected by the First Amendment because the indictments claim the statements were made in “furtherance of criminal activity.”
“In other words, the law does not insulate speech allegedly made during fraudulent or criminal conduct from prosecution under the guise of petitioning the government,” McAfee wrote in the ruling. “The defense has not presented, nor is the Court able to find, any authority that the speech and conduct alleged is protected political speech.”
Florida judge declines Trump’s latest bid to dismiss classified docs case
Florida judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Trump was not protected under the Presidential Records Act on Thursday, marking the second time she rejected Trump’s attempt to dismiss the case.
Trump’s team claimed that he had the authority as president to designate certain presidential documents, such as the classified documents discovered at his Mar-a-Lago resort, as personal even after he left office.
Presidents are usually required to hand over presidential records to the National Archives at the end of their term, but they can keep personal documents that are unrelated to their duties as commander in chief.
Cannon has indicated that she would take the PRA into account in the case, directing Trump’s legal team and the prosecution to prepare jury instructions with the PRA in mind. But she claimed that the current argument Trump filed earlier this week is not grounds for dismissal of the case.
The Florida trial was originally expected to begin in May, but there will likely be a delay in the proceedings. The prosecution, led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, has proposed a July 8 start date instead.
It used to be that one could only obtain as much Justice from the legal system as one chose to afford, but now the system has been totally weaponized by partisan hacks.
Traitor Roberts presides over the slide with a severe case of Long TDS.
We all know it is Soviet Style show trial stuff. Very sad that this kind of Communist harassment has found its way here
Trump still loses because all these bogus lawsuits are costly and time consuming.
But the people lose to ..because of BOGUS corrupt lawsuits.
Why should anyone trust the apparently corrupt “court”? This is outrageous.
Why should anyone trust the apparently corrupt “court”? This is outrageous.
Why should anyone trust the apparently corrupt “court”? This is outrageous.
Hell to Pay.
Communist harassment has found its way here because the Democrats are now the American Communist Party in all but name. Remember that just because America still has a market economy and not pure socialism does not mean that Marxists are not in control. Red China permits a large private sector in manufacturing and shipping and Russia, which is governed by Putin, a former KGB general, has lower income tax rates than the Western democracies.
Their Lawfare will move to actual Warfare after Trump destroys Biden and the Democrat Party.
When that happens the whole story line will swap 180 degrees from #Insurrectionists to #Resist and defy any attempt to Govern them
The only Good Communist, is a **** Communist
Trust is now long gone.
In a few months most will agree.
McAfee criminalizes political speech. Spit*******
Statutes are to be interpretted in avoidance of constitutional violations. It’s one of the first principles of statutory construction.
This is why Trump will not win in November. If they can openly defy him in broad daylight in a courthouse, think of what they can do at 3am.
He actually wasn’t a terrible POTUS, although I think he got credit for a lot of good stuff that he didn’t deserve. Letting Shrill anywhere near the levers of power, like the health care project, was a horrible idea. Probably couldn’t have stopped her, though.
The Judge in the Stormy Daniels case in NY is open malicious prosecution and he is a judge shopped partisan who is an part of the Get Trump election interference conspiracy. He is going to rule against Trump no matter what and it is open warfare in the appeal courts to fight his biased and conflicted rulings
Judge McAffee did no such thing. He simply declined the motion not on it's merits but because this judge wants to kick the can down the road so he ruled that Trump had to wait until the trial started and Trump's rights had been officially and explicitly violated before there was cause to grant the motion. So Trump will have to re file after the trial starts when the judge has finally deemed Trump properly harmed to grant relief.
Judge Cannon also basically kicked the can down the road in a decision that is actually favorable to Trump because if she ruled on this now, Jack Smith would appeal and probably win in the biased court of appeals. Her delaying the ruling means that Smith cannot appeal her decision until she actually rules on the motion putting the resolution of the appeal well after the election and Trump potentially taking office.
Who do they think they are fooling? Such an orchestrated law fare attack, govt totally unhinged.
As a senior, we lived in and thru wars, elections, society changes.. This is the first time we lived in a period where people forgot how we came this far.. A people who take freedom so lightly, they would throw it away and vote for a regime that has no more care but to imprison any who disagree with them.. To control your activity and what you believe.
Do you understand this is a commie administration.. Do you understand what will be your lot if they stay?
Do you understand we are in unknown territory.. To you know we all are gonna be cooked and not know it till it’s too late.. If we don’t stop it
Trump has stood in attacks no one else has had to take. They go after him and leave their corrupt Joe Barry be.
Just so over all this... Congress, wake up..
Either get on the Trump train or the tracks, you disgusting Never Trump freak.
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