She’s is NOT alone
Sotomayor admits some Supreme Court decisions have driven her to tears (thehill.com)
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With credit card debt hitting record levels, the two points are not necessarily mutually-exclusive…
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At this point, can we please put to bed the myth that the Trumpers are playing eleven-dimensional chess? This was not a clever “sting” operation by the Trump defense. Costello was an asshole, pure and simple. Completely on brand for Trumpers. He just forgot where he was.
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Chump is going to throw everything on Troof Soshul and say anything to the cameras…hoping it gets thru to a juror who is breaking the rules.
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Costello rolling his eyes is not a tantrum. How the judge overreacted is more of an example of a tantrum.
Hardly….
an uncontrolled outburst of anger and frustration, typically in a young child.
“he has temper tantrums if he can’t get his own way”[quote=“bonvivant, post:45, topic:251038, full:true”]
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So would she step down early, to allow Biden to nominate her successor to a Democratic Senate, rather than run the risk of Trump making it a 7-2 reactionary majority on the Supreme Court, or a McConnell-controlled Senate leaving her vacant seat open until a Republican POTUS does the same?
Action talks, bullshit walks.
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Rolling his eyes, saying to strike something, muttering things, etc. All he did was tell him to behave, didn’t remove his testimony or hold him in contempt. Nothing to appeal.
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Even if Biden wins he must also have a Dem majority in the Senate. Otherwise a GOP Senate will never confirm a SCOTUS nominee in his second term. Mitch McConnell stated he’d let SCOTUS dwindle to 6 members if the GOP was in the majority. The next Senate leader, if a Republican, will certainly do the same.
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You’re right—it’s not a tantrum.
But it is contemptuous of the court and the judge—as were other things Costello did while on the stand.
You really don’t understand much about court decorum and manners, and it shows.
I would suggest you keep your fingers off the keyboard on this subject.
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Get a MAGAt outside it’s bubble and have to face real facts…that is a different game. I am not saying a MAGAt won’t hang the jury…but you are right about the folding. It’s easy to stick to their stoopid game when they only deal with FOX and other MAGAts.
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I suppose a smart witness wanting to make a point with the jury, carefully calibrated so as not to alienate the jury, could do so with a “contemptuous” act or statement of some sort. Something that incurred the wrath of the judge even, but nevertheless achieved whatever point they wanted to get a across. No?
Only if that witness wanted to A) have the testimony stricken from the record and B) spend some time in jail for contempt of court.
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Nope. Prosecution goes last in summation, with no rebuttal from the defense.
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Per Josh Kovensky -
A rarer sighting is that of Trump’s daughter Tiffany, in attendance with her husband Michael Boulos.
This surprises me a bit, though still no Melania. Maybe she’s waiting for the verdict.
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"Oh, please, please, please, please, please??? Be best God, and make guilty! "
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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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That would not be a smart witness, then. Such an outburst would land them in jail, and negatively taint the jury’s impression of the defendant and their entire case. Sure, a stupid witness could do that, but a smart witness would STFU.
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TIFBG will never win in the NY court system, but could it be in his pea-brain that he’d do better in the FL court district?
They’d throw the case out in a NYC minute.