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  • No one, including a former president, is above the law.

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 4 22:03:13 2023
    Trump's Attempt to Delay His Jan. 6 Trial Receives a Double Blow

    On Friday, two federal courts in Washington rejected parallel claims
    by former President Donald Trump for immunity from the legal process,
    dealing a blow to Trump's effort to delay his March 4 criminal trial
    date. In doing so, those courts fortified our constitutional
    republic's basic message: No one, including a former president, is
    above the law.

    One Trump defeat on Friday came in his appeal of three civil actions
    against him for allegedly inciting Jan. 6's violence. An even more
    important loss came hours later from federal district court Judge
    Tanya Chutkan. Trump's criminal prosecution is scheduled to begin in
    her courtroom in March, and she rejected Trump's request to dismiss
    the case based on absolute "presidential immunity." Crucially, the
    ruling in the civil case bolsters the ruling in the criminal case at a
    critical juncture.

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/trump-march-trial-delay-ruling-chutkan.html

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Tue Dec 5 16:33:02 2023
    On 2023-12-05, JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Trump's Attempt to Delay His Jan. 6 Trial Receives a Double Blow
    In doing so, those courts fortified our constitutional republic's
    basic message: No one, including a former president, is above the law.

    No worries, I've got Captain Douchebag's next legal defense right here:

    "he's not a former president, he's the current president because blah
    blah blah stolen election blah etc."

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Thu Dec 7 19:28:30 2023
    Retrograde <[email protected]d> writes:

    On 2023-12-05, JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Trump's Attempt to Delay His Jan. 6 Trial Receives a Double Blow
    In doing so, those courts fortified our constitutional republic's
    basic message: No one, including a former president, is above the law.

    No worries, I've got Captain Douchebag's next legal defense right here:

    "he's not a former president, he's the current president because blah
    blah blah stolen election blah etc."

    Hasn't any one else noticed that running for re-election constitutes a concession that he was not elected in 2020?

    Amendment XXII

    1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more
    than twice...

    And while we're here, the argument that subjectingprosecuting a
    candidate to criminal proscution is election interference has it all
    backwards. It's better argument that running for office while under
    indictment constitutes obstruction of justice.

    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Dec 7 20:08:00 2023
    On 07 Dec 2023 19:28:30 -0400, Mike Spencer
    <[email protected]e> wrote:

    It's better argument that running for office while under
    indictment constitutes obstruction of justice.

    He's hoping to make it to the election finish line to freeze or
    eliminate those indictments. His current course of action, which has
    always been his legal strategy is to delay the proceedings.

    Except for that Florida judge, I don't believe federal courts, Appeal
    courts, or SCOTUS will delay any matter before them.

    Hasn't any one else noticed that running for re-election
    constitutes a concession that he was not elected in 2020?

    Logical reasoning is not allowed in Republican circles. I'm not aware
    of the media hammering this point.

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