I love his voice.
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Shorter Judge comment to Donnie: "When everybody in the room says you’re drunk, sit down!"
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I would be more surprised if he didn’t resign. A politician cannot survive this kind of humiliation and still work effectively for his constituents - not that Qevin ever did much for his constituents.
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Yeah. Trump’s lawyers definitely shouldn’t see that stuff. Nuclear sub capabilities are way too sensitive. Any idiot should know that.
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As long as they post pics of the attractive Judge and leave off the Defendant, I am happy to be a student.
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Did he add “You won’t have Qevin McCarthy to kick around any more!”?
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After Kevin being trump’s lickspittle for the past seven years, you seriously underestimate the average republican’s capacity for self-humiliation.
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As long as they post pics of the attractive Judge and leave off the Defendant, I am happy to be a student.
Not true in all cases with all judges.
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Trust me, that is something that a judge can arrange, she after all gets to give the jury their instructions.
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In an ambulance, after shooting himself in multiple appendages…
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Trump seems to realize Judge Chutkan is serious and has stopped pushing boundaries with her on his POS social media site.
Judge Engoron seems to have called Donnie’s small hands on abusing his staff, hence shutting down most of his shit throwing on this avenue.
He does seem to have some pull with Judge Cannon, though if she postpones the trial, I could see Jack Smith filing an appeal and motion to move to a different judge to keep the case moving.
As for E. Jeanne Carol’s case, well its pretty much down to how much he will be paying her for defaming her after he was found guilty after the other trial.
So, all in all, Donnie must be bursting at the seams, wanting to burn people on his POS social media site. But now he is at the point where if he does, he might be looking at actual jail time for contempt or worse. His frustration level must be YUGE.
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The article actually doesn’t show us Chutkan telling Trump’s lawyers to explain why they think the law doesn’t apply to him. Anybody know of more specific coverage of her ruling?
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He seems to be packing in his fundraising machine along with his office and hightailing it home, to the murder capital of Northern California. Such a fragile little snowflake.
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Surprising would be if he didn’t. It’s clear that his political career is over, why keep putting up with the assholes?
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If I were K Street, I certainly wouldn’t hire a man with his “work” ethic. Undoubtedly, it couldn’t care less about Kev’s ethics.
(“wouldn’t” never made it from my head to my fingers)
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Kevin has survived this kind of humiliation all his life, one way or another.
But his career is effectively over, and he’s now a pariah with the Toddler Caucus, so he might as well resign and start fucking up his attempt at lobbying.
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Donnie doesn’t have small hands.
He has short fingers—not the same thing.
That’s why Graydon Carter called Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian.”
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There’s the old joke about the guy who asks his attorney if the attorney can get him justice, to which his attorney replies, “Well, how much justice can you afford?”
No, it’s not an equitable legal system. Idealistically it should be, but we don’t live in an ideal world. The reality is different, so we have a to ask if it realistically NEEDS to be 100% equitable.
And the answer to that is no, not as long as everybody gets the justice that their individual circumstances require.
For the overwhelming majority of criminal defendants, this goal is achieved. Cases generally don’t require all the pretrial procedure we’re seeing here. And what we are seeing is the extreme end of one side of the spectrum, and our system is most broken at its extremes.
More often than not we see that with the poor being underserved, and not getting even the justice they need. This is a rare example of the other extreme: a rich and powerful defendant getting more justice than he needs by dint of hid money and power.
Yes, it’s frustrating, but it is an imperfect system, and I’d personally prefer that it err towards imperfection at this extreme whilst addressing the imperfections at the other extreme, to lift up the poorest until they receive the justice they need.
It ain’t perfect, but it’s what we’ve got, and in my opinion it’s better than most. Others may disagree.
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I think that headline is an interpretation of
Chutkan approved the second half [the OK to file “procedural objections” to the law in question] noting that both the law governing the use of classified material in criminal trials and precedent from the D.C. circuit bars the defense from being able to see the document.
“Still, the court will allow the defense an opportunity to explain why it believes that
> CIPA’s statutory text and Circuit precedent do not govern this case,”
So, not literally what she said, but strip away the stately legal wording, that’s what she meant. 
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