ChiGoose

Falsehood believed by the ignorant and liars. Ironically, Trump is arguing at the Supreme Court that Biden *should* be above the law.

Nah, I just use data instead of making stuff up. It makes conservatives upset and confused, but that's on them.

Could you imagine a world in which the laws are enforced? The horror!

I don’t think that’s true. I think she’s just in way over her head. She isn’t really ruling in Trump’s favor, she’s just… not ruling. Motions are piling up, she’ll schedule hearings for things she should just decide out of hand, and after the hearing, she’ll say she’s going to consider the issue and then… not rule on anything substantial. I think she’s wary of getting slapped down on appeals yet again and just doesn’t want this case to happen so she’s dragging it out hoping it’ll eventually go away.

There seems to be a trend of people who are unable to differentiate someone cooperating with law enforcement with someone obstructing law enforcement. It’s weird, but a bit telling of their media habits.

He’s not. But to people who don’t understand the law, have enclosed themselves in a partisan bubble, or are just lying grifters, he is. That's just more of a reflection on them then on reality.

Trump wasn’t a cause, he was a symptom. The GOP has been sick for a very long time. Many of us just didn’t realize it until he made it clear. Things would be better if we destroyed the two-party system and stopped forcing people to choose from the lesser of two evils.

Don’t forget curing cancer.

God forbid the rule of law be enforced!

Biden let the conservatives get what they wanted on the border in exchange for doing the right thing abroad. The GOP backed out at the last minute because they want the border to be bad to help their god king. Biden then got the bills he wanted done anyway. Now the GOP doesn’t have them as leverage in border negotiations. Some people think the GOP is playing 3d chess when they’re really eating checkers pieces.

Brown seemed to handle it fairly well too.

10% of students thinking it’s ok to restrict access for Jews is bad. However, ascribing the behaviors or beliefs of 10% of a population to all of that population is disingenuous.

Only that it gets disproportionate coverage because the media has a bias to the elitist institutions. Basically, keep it in context.

Most college students reject protests "Just 8% of students say they have taken part in pro or anti-Israel demonstrations that began at Columbia University April 17 and spread across America — and 81% want universities to hold protesters accountable who destroy property, vandalize, or illegally occupy campus buildings, per the survey carried out by Generation Lab for Axios. In addition, two-thirds of students (67%) said that occupying campus buildings was an unacceptable form of protest, while 58% said the same of refusing orders to disperse. Nine in 10 students said demonstrators blocking pro-Israel or Jewish students from accessing parts of campus — as notoriously happened at UCLA — was also unacceptable. Just 13% of students said the Middle East war was one of the three most important issues to them — far behind topics such as health care, climate change, gun control and immigration. Four in 10 students said healthcare reform was one of their top three issues, followed by educational funding (38%), economic fairness (37%), racial justice (36%), climate change (35%), gun control (32%), immigration (21%) and national security (15%)." *** Huh, it's almost as if the protestors aren't representative of students as a whole and would likely be ignored if they weren't protesting at the kind of elitist institutions that journalists venerate.

Merchan denies motion for mistrial. Tells the defense they also bear responsibility for objecting during testimony.

Trump's team unsurprisingly moves for a mistrial after Daniels' testimony. Unlikely they will succeed here, but the judge was not pleased with how the whole thing went down.

Very weird, since I was assured the judge was in the tank for the prosecution...

Bolded part is wrong. State and national laws and policies influence local outcomes. If violence is the fault of Dems, why are the most dangerous places in the country NOT in states run by the Dems?

Important point for the prosecution here. One of the best defenses Trump can make is that he paid Daniels off because he didn’t want Melania to find out and it had nothing to do with the campaign (see: John Edwards) This defense would be undermined if Trump didn’t care about keeping the encounter secret or didn’t try negotiating an NDA for the decade between the encounter and the launch of his campaign.

Apparently it's popular in Irsreal. Interesting since he's a teetotaler, but business is business.

Merchan getting annoyed with Daniels

Seems like Stormy is having difficulty threading the needle of what is allowed and what isn't. Can't blame her, she's not an expert on that part of it, but the judge isn't happy. Stormy can testify to the facts of the interaction but if it gets too lurid, it'll veer into being more prejudicial than probative which would likely result in the judge sustaining multiple objections and risk making the prosecutors look bad in front of the jury.

The salacious aspects of her testimony will get all the headlines, but I'm more curious to hear her side of the hush money negotiations. Was there any serious movement on the negotiations before the Access Hollywood tape? If so, how close to the actual incident vs the election? Did the attitude from the Trump side change after the Access Hollywood tape? Did she personally have any indication that Trump himself was doing this to benefit his campaign?

Over 13,000 people were arrested in the 2020 George Floyd protests. More than 2,500 protestors have been arrested or detained on campuses across the country. The Manhattan DA's Office charged 437 cases of First-Degree Falsifying Business Records over a 10 year period. (On average of just under once per week for a decade) Previous instances of prosecutions of covert payments to benefit a political campaign include (helpful table starting on page 9 here) Richard Brega Clarence Norman John Dote Richard Luthmann