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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2023 8:30:04 GMT -8
I tried to phone the ladder company, but it just rung and rung.
For a Change, Previous Guy Doesn't Want to Talk About Something.
Former President Donald Trump is objecting to a motion by special counsel Jack Smith requesting Judge Tanya Chutkan order the former president to disclose whether he intends to rely on an advice-of-counsel defense at trial.
Smith filed a motion to force Trump to confirm or deny his plans to use the key defense, a move many said was an attempt to obtain key attorney communications that would otherwise be covered by attorney-client privilege.
Trump opposed that motion in a brief filed on Friday.
"Under the Federal Rules, a defendant has no obligation, outside certain inapplicable exceptions, to provide his accusers with pretrial disclosures of trial strategies, including any potential invocation of a formal advice of counsel defense," said the filing. "The Local Criminal Rules, likewise, feature no such requirements."
The filing urges Chutkan to deny the motion.
Legal experts have noted that Trump's intention of using this defense is highly significant.
It is likely his only credible defense for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, to claim that he was advised by his attorneys that the plan was legal and he therefore had no malicious intent.
However, were he to disclose his use of this defense at this juncture, it would also eliminate the attorney-client privilege he has on many of the communications he made with his lawyers, because then those communications would become relevant evidence as to whether he was truly advised to commit illegal acts.
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2023 8:31:35 GMT -8
They Are GOing to Need a Lot More Aid and a Lot More Coffins.
Trucks carrying aid, and one loaded with coffins, have entered Gaza for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war erupted
The BBC counted 20 vehicles with white flags moving through the Rafah crossing into Gaza from Egypt - the UN called it a "drop in the ocean" of what's needed
Yesterday, Hamas released its first hostages since its major surprise attack on Israel two weeks ago
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2023 8:32:25 GMT -8
A Miss by Amish
Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity.
The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to the advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry, which produces Amish Farm Chicken, advertised with the slogan “Better feed, better taste.”
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2023 8:33:42 GMT -8
We Know Who Is the Idiot in Chief
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2023 8:35:24 GMT -8
The QOP Don't Care
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2023 8:38:12 GMT -8
A Bummer for Emmer
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) is the natural front-runner to be the next man up in the GOP’s three-week-long search for a new speaker, except for one glaring problem: former President Donald Trump.
Trump allies in the media started blitzing Emmer with attacks Friday, hoping to derail his House speakership bid before it can truly begin, all while boasting that the ex-president agrees with them. “Tom Emmer is Nancy Pelosi in a Suit,” one far-right news outlet declared, referring to the former Democratic speaker.
After the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the House’s top job and the subsequent failures of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) to unite the bickering GOP conference, Emmer is the only Republican left who has previously won an internal party contest — giving him an obvious advantage over the mostly little-known representatives tossing their hats in the ring ahead of a new internal party vote scheduled for Tuesday. He also has the backing of McCarthy.
With the margin of error in the speakership fight so small — Emmer or another candidate can only lose five GOP votes on the floor — those advantages may prove moot in the face of Trump’s opposition.
Anyone Who Wants This Job Must Hate Themself
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2023 8:39:47 GMT -8
It Took Them EIGHT YEARS to Get Rid of This Clown
An upstate New York judge who pointed a loaded handgun at a Black man during a 2015 court hearing was removed from office Thursday by the state’s highest court.
Justice Robert J. Putorti was a Whitehall Town and Village Court judge. He repeatedly emphasized the race and stature of the litigant when recounting the episode, sometimes boastfully, according to an independent review by the New York State Court of Appeals. Putorti had said he aimed the gun at the man because he approached the stand too quickly, crossing a stop line for litigants.
In one instance, Putorti described the defendant to another judge as being 6 feet 9 inches tall (206 cm) and “built like a football player.” In reality, the man was only 6 feet (183 cm) and 165 pounds (75 kg), the decision noted.
The high court affirmed the state Commission on Judicial Conduct’s removal of Putorti, and noted the former judge’s description of the defendant “exploited a classic and common racist trope that Black men are inherently threatening or dangerous, exhibiting bias or, at least, implicit bias.”
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Post by mhbruin on Oct 21, 2023 8:41:29 GMT -8
Todya's Worst Juveniles in the World
Two juveniles have been charged after several slides at a Massachusetts park were doused with acid in this summer and four children were injured, the Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said.
The juveniles, whose identities cannot be released due to their ages, have been charged with four counts of assault and battery on a child with injury and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon as well as vandalism, Gulluni said. His office did not say whether the pair have been arrested.
“Our collective effort to charge those we believe are responsible should make clear that protecting this community’s children is among our highest priorities,” Gulluni said in a statement late Thursday. “Whether the threat and harm caused were intended as pranks or malicious acts, it will not be tolerated.”
In June, police and firefighters responded to Bliss Park in Longmeadow for a report of a suspicious substance on the playground equipment. At about the same time, firefighters and emergency medical technicians went to a nearby home for a report of children with burns who had just left the park.
“I let the kids go play. I didn’t notice that there was liquid to collect at the bottom of the slide. I just assumed it was rainwater,” their mother, Ashley Thielen, told Western Mass News in Springfield. “I didn’t really think much of it, and then, my baby, who is 1, just started crying. That was when I knew this liquid that they were around wasn’t water.”
The acid left mostly superficial blisters and swelling on her children’s skin, Thielen said, but it could have been much worse.
“The bottom of the slide, where it was, there was a good amount of it collected there,” she said. “I was surprised he didn’t start splashing in it.”
Authorities determined that someone broke into a storage room where chemicals are kept at the park’s swimming pool and stole muriatic acid. The acid, which can be used for cleaning or for maintaining a pool’s pH balance, was then poured on three slides, authorities said.
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