Elie Honig, Chief Legal Analyst, CNN: “First, this is backward. The way motions work — under the federal rules, and consistent with common sense — is that the prosecutor files an indictment; the defense makes motions (to dismiss charges, to suppress evidence, or what have you); and then the prosecution responds to those motions. Makes sense, right? It’s worked for hundreds of years in our courts. Not here. Not when there’s an election right around the corner and dwindling opportunity to make a dent. So Smith turned the well-established, thoroughly uncontroversial rules of criminal procedure on their head and asked Judge Chutkan for permission to file first — even with no actual defense motion pending. Trump’s team objected, and the judge acknowledged that Smith’s request to file first was ‘procedurally irregular’ — moments before she ruled in Smith’s favor, as she’s done at virtually every consequential turn….
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/21/nielsen-dnc-television-ratings-crash-22-from-2016/
Andrew McCarthy: “HOW JUDGE MERCHAN IS ORCHESTRATING TRUMP’S CONVICTION…Bragg, a county district attorney responsible for enforcing state law, has no authority to prosecute federal crimes, much less crimes under FECA — a corpus so abstruse that Congress created a specialized bureaucracy, the Federal Election Commission, to ensure its uniform application, vesting the FEC and the Justice Department with exclusive enforcement jurisdiction…Yet, Judge Merchan has swallowed whole Bragg’s theory that he can enforce FECA.”
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/08/prosecutors-decline-to-charge-elderly-biden-over-poor-memory/
Q: “At what point did you decide to file a lawsuit against the defendant?”A: “Well, wherever I went after the story, people said, ‘Are you going to sue him? Are you going to sue him?’ and I would say, ‘No, no, no, not going to do it. I’m just not.’ And then I had a conversation with someone who knew the ins and outs, an actual lawyer, and he said, ‘You should really seriously think about this.’”Q: “Who was that lawyer without getting into the conversation?”A: “George Conway.”Q: “How did you meet George Conway?”A: “Met him at a party at Molly Jong-Fast’s house.”Q: “Was he your lawyer at the time?”A: “No, no, no, no.”Q: “So after you spoke to George, did you retain counsel?”A: “Yes.”Q: “How soon after?”A: “The day after. The day — two days later.”Q: “Did George recommend Ms. Kaplan?”A: “Yes, he did.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4158573-the-disqualification-of-donald-trump-and-other-legal-urban-legends/
https://gettr.com/post/p2di2kk03d6
https://thefederalist.com/2022/06/16/after-a-year-of-democrats-hyperventilating-over-jan-6-voters-trust-republicans-more-to-protect-democracy/