Sinking potential drug boats, which may or may not actually be drug boats, is perfectly legal and not an act of war because :checks notes: they are targeting the drugs, and any people who are dying are collateral damage. I’m somehow not making this up.
Perhaps it was this turd that came up with the idea originally. Good thing the GOP rubber stamped a lifetime judicial appointment for him.
You are accused of being politically affiliated with a person who was disorderly. What do you have to defend yourself?
Judge all but called the DOJ a bunch of lying liars in the Comey case today. Comey wants the grand jury transcript to argue for a dismissal, to which the answer is typically no for grand jury secrecy reasons. Judge ruled that Comey should get it.
First, the evidence against Comey that was presented to the grand jury appears to have been collected both without a proper warrant and also in violation of attorney - client privilege. It came from a review of material collected nominally from a search warrant of his lawyer for a different matter, but the material used in the Comey case doesn’t seem to have been covered by that warrant and reviewing the material for the Comey case should have required a new warrant. Second, the prosecutor seems to have misled the grand jury about whether or not there was additional evidence not seen by the grand jury, and third, the prosecutor is either lying about what the grand jury concluded or omitting part of the grand jury record from their disclosure to the judge.
Short AP article:
Full decision by judge
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459120/191/united-states-v-comey/
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Where do these incompetent prosecutors come from? Oh right, they are Trump toadies.
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Apparently we have to be careful about how we invoke the meme of our Glorious Leader fellating “Bubba” , per last week’s tranche of Epstein emails.
One Memphian had the feds pay her a visit late at night when she referenced the meme as regards a state senator.
(In fairness, considering how the meme was invoked, and the recency and manner of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I can understand law enforcement taking a quick look, but…)
That while sitting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed.
Maybe overtly threatening the press is just his way of making pals.
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In the Comey case yesterday, Haligan had to admit on the stand that she never presented the operative indictment to the Grand Jury, which is, shall we say, not allowed. (Recap: she presented 3 counts to the GJ, they narrowly voted no on the first and yes on the next 2. Proper procedure is to rewrite the indictment with just those 2 counts, present it a second time to the GJ and have them sign off. Instead she basically just crossed out the first count and had the foreperson sign off). Ty Cobb, who was Trump’s White House counsel, is among those who think this is very wrong.
Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb on Wednesday said Attorney General Pam Bondi and interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan should be disbarred over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case against former FBI Director James Comey.
Speaking with anchor Chris Jansing on MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, Cobb said it was “shocking” that the indictment “was never properly returned,” which made the indictment against Comey “dispositive.”
Cobb added that he thinks “both Halligan and Bondi should be disbarred.”
“You know, Bondi has twice submitted affirmations to this court about the propriety of Lindsay Halligan’s grand jury presentation,” Cobb continued. “She knew this. There’s no way she could not have known this. And that just means that she lied, or that she’s equally incompetent, but more likely that she lied.”
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5614365-bondi-halligan-disbarment-comey-ty-cobb/
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I can never get past Ty Cobb’s famous name.
I can’t get past his mustache. I respect him for following his own path, and he definitely works hard on it, but it’s too much for me.
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I think this merits being memorialized as a milestone.
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Comey and James indictments both dismissed without prejudice, meaning that in theory the government could refile, but in Comey’s case the statute of limitations has expired.
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There appears to be some disagreement among legal people about whether or not the government can refile the Comey charges. Typically the indictment pauses the countdown towards the statute of limitations expiring, and they would be allowed to refile. But the judge appears to be ruling that the indictment wasn’t valid to begin with, and thus does not extend the statute of limitations.
Generally, “[t]he return of an indictment tolls the statute of limitations on the charges
contained in the indictment.” United States v. Ojedokun, 16 F.4th 1091, 1109 (4th Cir. 2021). “An invalid indictment,” however, “cannot serve to block the door of limitations as it swings closed.” United States v. Crysopt Corp., 781 F. Supp. 375, 378 (D. Md. 1991) (emphasis in original); see also United States v. Gillespie, 666 F. Supp. 1137, 1141 (N.D. Ill. 1987) (“[A] valid indictment insulates from statute-of-limitations problems any refiling of the same charges during the pendency of that valid indictment (that is, the superseding of a valid indictment). But if the earlier indictment is void, there is no legitimate peg on which to hang such a judicial limitations-tolling result.” (emphasis in original)).
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They sure do spend a lot of the government’s time doing petty things instead of actually doing their jobs.
I’d tell them, “go ahead and put me on trial for saying truthful things, you dumbfucks.”
Kelly must be shaking in his boots after being threatened by a Fox news persona. /s
That pretty much is their jobs these days…