Posted on 05/21/2024 12:54:09 PM PDT by thegagline
*** [I]n my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor, I have never seen a spectacle such as the one I observed sitting in the front row of the courthouse yesterday.
The judge in Donald Trump’s trial was an absolute tyrant, though he appeared to the jury to be a benevolent despot. He seemed automatically to be ruling against the defendant at every turn. Many experienced lawyers raised their eyebrows when the judge excluded obviously relevant evidence when offered by the defense, while including irrelevant evidence offered by the prosecution.
But when the defense’s only substantive witness, the experienced attorney Robert Costello, raised his eyebrows at one of New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s rulings, the court went berserk. Losing his cool and showing his thin skin, the judge cleared the courtroom of everyone including the media. For some reason, I was allowed to stay, and I observed one of the most remarkable wrong-headed biases I have ever seen. The judge actually threatened to strike all of Costello’s testimony if he raised his eyebrows again. ***
I am one of the few witnesses to his improper conduct who remained behind to observe his deep failings.
Even when journalists do report on courtroom proceedings, their accounts must be taken with a grain of salt. When you watch CNN or MSNBC, you generally see an account of a trial that never took place.
*** There is absolutely no good reason why a trial of this importance, or any trial, should not be televised live and in real time. ***As Justice Louis Brandeis wisely said a century ago, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”*** Today there is no check on partisan reporting of trials and exaggerations and personal opinions are rampant. ***
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It’s a Stalinist show trial conducted in a kangaroo court. Donald Trump is being tried... for being Donald Trump. That is not a crime and if convicted what shall be his penalty?!
The judge actually threatened to strike all of Costello’s testimony if he raised his eyebrows again.
Looks like New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has the same mental issues that Biden has MY WAY OR NO WAY.
If he isn’t disbarred the justice system is forever corrupted the democrats have full control over the public agenda completed.
If guilty the appeal wont happen until after the election....the plan ALL along......
I am thinking Merchan is looking for the Supreme Court or Attorney General if Biden gets re-elected,
If guilty the appeal wont happen until after the election....the plan ALL along......
The crime is espousing populist ideas.
It was a gift. You are not going to dishonor my family by refusing our beneficent gift? How you chose to conduct your affairs after that is your choice, but choose wisely. Stay with him Bugsy and make sure no one tries to hurt him while the thinks about his situation.
I’m guessing that the plan is to replace Biden. If Biden’s replacement doesn’t gain traction, I suspect that there will be a black swan event.
And he’ll still vote DemonRat. SMFH
First...he can’t...Free Speech...Dershowitz isn’t the only one that has said Merchan lost it.
I think these judges have been offered the world if they can get the win.
The trial,was,a,joke and the judge WAS A CLOWN.
The whole thing should be THROWN OUT.
Correct.
This is why POTUS Trump was so delighted to accept the JUNE Biden debate schedule. Rope-a-Dope.
These NYC courtroom tyrants will prove their prosecutable guilt in broad daylight, of INTERFERENCE IN AN ELECTION. Sedition, in some opinions.
They tether Trump to the Court house, causing him to be illegally deprived of the traditional political debate between D vs R, and save Biden from debating, and out of his reliance on his catheter and *Depends needs for frequent changes.
Or at least one of those mansions like Bernie, Barak and Uncle Joe have...
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Exactly. Spare us all this “nobody is above the law” mentality! If that were true, it would be the Clinton crime cartel, Bathhouse Barry, Xiden and Schwartz Gyorgy on trial instead.
That is not a crime and if convicted what shall be his penalty?!
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For some, imprisonment for.life is their ideal. But there are some who want nothing less than the death penalty.
Just wait if Trump is convicted they will say they cant debate a convicted Felon!
Everyone of us, Left or Right, needs to be concerned.
What they can do to Trump by ignoring laws and precedence, no matter how much they hate him or don’t want him to be president again, well they can twist the rules and laws against each of us as they have Trump.
Every man and woman should worry, “What if they did that to me?”
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