From the reporting, the judge seems to be handling the issue appropriately. She basically told the defendant, you better agree on something reasonable with the prosecution, because you aren’t going to get a better deal out of me.
Sorry, Russians, even federal discovery has some limits and is subject to reasonable restrictions and protections.
On a more serious note…
Will take feckless shit Nunes try to subpoena his way into this?
PS Took me 7 tries to subpoena to pass the spell check… I bet the Bar exam has this as a spelling bee component…
“Clearly this is an unprecedented case, Your Honor, because the deputy solicitor general of the United States is down here at the courthouse with us common folk,” Dubelier sneered at one point, pointing to senior prosecutor Michael Dreeben.
Just a hint, genius. That’s how high the stakes are.
I’m betting the information somehow makes its way to the wrong hands by accident. These lawyers are too arrogant.
"personal identifying information about victims of identity theft,”
Huh. What is that all about I wonder?
I can’t help imagining how fucking hilarious it would be if it all turns out that Strzok’s and Page’s phones were hacked to send those idiotic texts…but that’s probably too much comedy to hope for.
“Clearly this is an unprecedented case, Your Honor, because the deputy solicitor general of the United States is down here at the courthouse with us common folk,” Dubelier sneered at one point, pointing to senior prosecutor Michael Dreeben.
I have to hand it to Prigozhin. He’s fighting hard — perhaps even harder than Manafort and Flynn.
Mike Dreeben is an excellent lawyer and a truly decent human being. I know Eric Dubelier and his firm (Reed, Smith) to be non-trivial opponents, and I can see that they’re trying to use US concern for “national security” to compromise Mueller’s arguments — but, in this case, for his client’s sake, he’d better have something more than sneers up his sleeve.
@cervantes
@ncsteve
@tena
@sniffit
And any other lawyerly types;
Is sneering not frowned upon in when addressing a judge? Even when it’s not directed at the judge?
Everytime I see the phrase “Russian Troll”, I immediately think of Donnie…
Is that wrong?
Is sneering ever ok?
No of course not. Yes of course frowned upon, universally, no matter where the person is sneering or what is being sneered at.
Plus nobody likes a person who sneers a lot.
Well, to be perfectly blunt, not having been in the court-room you and I do not know that anyone actually sneered. As far as I know, the word was introduced by Ms. Ollstein.
But to answer your question: judges are human, too.
So that’s why I have such a deep visceral reaction to Trump. He doesn’t even have to say anything, he’s such a sneerer.
What gets me about him is that he’s a bully. I despise bullies.
I think bullying and sneering go hand in hand. And I’m not sure which comes first.
Everyone hates lawyers already. Sneering is never a good look. Or at least a safe look.
Not sure if it’s relevant to this but Americans’ photos were taken from FB and used in Russian bot posts, FB pages, etc. That’s the only identity theft I recall but I could be wrong.
I don’t trust them for a second and don’t like it one little bit. Why would a Russian even attempt defense? They know they’ll likely never be punished. They can launder money outside the US in the future and have straw men do their dirty work. The only reason I see for them to be involved is to learn our spy craft, methods, etc.
Since you know these people, I hope you’ll keep us informed about any developments. Thanks.