Donald Trump entered a plea of not guilty via a court filing on Thursday to state-level charges brought in Fulton County accusing him of orchestrating a sweeping “criminal enterprise” to reverse his loss in the 2020 election.
It’s like the lights are on and the roaches are scurrying in all directions. But many of us could see it happening.
When you have 19 defendants in a case and a deadline to plead you tend to get a lot filings as the deadline approaches. None of the filings are surprising up to this point. I mean nobody has plead guilty yet.
Apparently Clark is drafting his own motions since no actual professional trial lawyer would draft anything that could be referred to as contemptuous. That is something somebody who hasn’t drafted a pleading since trial practice in law school might do.
Kemp just announced that he’s not going to allow a special session to be called so that Georgia State Republicans can remove Fani Willis from office.
If they do try to remove Willis that will be the end of the Republican party in Gerogia. They are already skimming along minority party status. We might think that every white person in Georgia is a racist radical Republican but it is pretty clear that the Republicans have been losing state wide elections over the past few cycles. This is not going to bode well for the party going forward.
Donnie’s gonna go through some things.
I know a handful of Georgians who are white northerners who went there for exceptional job opportunities. Emory University, Delta Airlines and the CDC in particular. I would expect there are others drawn to Georgia for similar reasons.
Well, that’s good news, although I’m sure the Georgia Constitution allows the legislature to call itself into session.
Yes, Article V Paragraph 7, section (b) allows 3/5 of the members of both houses to call themselves into session by requiring the Governor to call a special session within 3 days of receiving a petition asking for a special session. If the Governor doesn’t act, the legislature may convene itself.
A lot of noise coming from the right but the sense I get is that the justice system is moving along. The prosecutions and convictions of the J6 insurrectionists have limited any sort of organized terrorist movement against the Justice system. I think there’s still a sleeper cell/lone wolf type risk due to Trump’s peristaltic stochastic attacks on all of his enemies, but right now his focus seems to be cutting videos on a daily basis to stay ahead of his GOP rivals.
The Meadows removal motion is a tricky one legally, but I think Neal Katyal might be right that the prosecution might be able to drop a claim to keep the matter in Fulton Co. The other issue for Meadows is that I think his testimony probably hurt him. The bar for removal is low, but in his testimony he kept equating his role with Trump’s political objectives and exposed that he was doing more than just setting up meetings. He also seemed to know that what he was advocating for on behalf of Trump was either illegal or on legally questionable grounds, and that he had information from WH counsel as to the same. It will be interesting to see how the judge rules there, but I don’t think it’s going to be a clean win for Meadows.
In addition, I’m curious as to how the GA judge rules on Willis’ motion and reminder to the judge to address the issue of severing the defendants and that, on balance, GA law probably leans towards moving up the trial date for all the defendants, including Trump.
A driving factor behind the legal system’s tougher approach to Trump is the real threat of Trump terrorism. The best way to reduce the threat is to set a quick trial schedule and remove obstacles to delay. I think it’s somewhat personal if not existential for judges & staff, and that means that the legal system isn’t going to bend over backwards to accommodate Trump and might not be even that charitable to him. The reason is simple: the guy intimidates witnesses, potential jurors and court officials and employees on a daily basis. Treat Trump like the mobster that he is and then the legal system will work effectively to curtail the threat.
It’s those damn bones spurs again.
I think that’s been going on since Jimmy Carter was governor. The Atlanta area, especially (“The New South”). An old family friend (long dead now) went there in the early '70’s. He was some kind of high level (civil service) social services administrator in NYC government, and Carter brought him to help improve social services/social work in GA. (I remember visiting the family when they still lived on Staten Island.)
Trump himself lodged a complaint via a motion responding to Willis, saying that the judge shouldn’t clarify his order at all
I’m not a lawyer, but on its surface, filing a motion to insist on NOT clarifying something seems quite illocigal, at least insofar as how any judge would look at that and say “yes, in the interest of justice, more ambiguity in my direction is a good thing.” I mean I get why Trump did it, but why would any judge rule in such a way?
Yes. For around 30 years I have seen droves of young adult children of my colleagues who are African-American, moving to the Atlanta area. It was a tip-off on the extent to which South has been changing.
I know a guy from Savannah who is old south. So many of his neighbors from the north keep telling him he has a funny accent that he is getting a complex. The Republicans have held on to this point but every election the state is getting bluer and bluer. A whole lot of Georgians are sick to death of the MAGA Republicans, especially those folks who live in Atlanta which seems like about half the state.
OT: Proud Boy leader Joseph Biggs sentenced to 17 years for Jan. 6 crimes
A lot of the special effects for the MCU movies has been done in Atlanta, attracting a lot of techs in special effects.
That and no good photo-ops.
Complete version of Trump plea: Not guilty, and as soon as I’m elected I’m going to send the marxist racist Fani Willis to Gitmo and have her waterboarded. Maybe you, too, judge. Capisce?
“I know that I messed up that day, but I’m not a terrorist,” Biggs said.
Ah, but you are.
