NY: Trump on Trial!

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Ok well the answer to your question is no lol.

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Trump has the right to speedy trial if he wants one. Presumably though he wants to delay this as long as possible.

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Manhattan DA Bragg sues GOP House Judiciary chairman to prevent interference in Trump case

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is suing House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, over what the lawsuit describes as a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the district attorney and interfere in his office’s case against former President Donald Trump.

Bragg is seeking to block a subpoena for testimony from Mark Pomerantz, a former senior prosecutor in his office, as well as other demands for “confidential documents and testimony from the district attorney himself as well as his current and former employees and officials.”

“Chairman Jordan’s subpoena is an unconstitutional attempt to undermine an ongoing New York felony criminal prosecution and investigation. As our complaint details, this is an unprecedented, illegitimate interference by Congress that lacks any legal merit and defies basic principles of federalism,” Bragg said in a statement.

Jordan subpoenaed Pomerantz late last week for his role investigating Trump and his business empire – as House Republicans have sought to frame the recent indictment against the former president as politically motivated.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/11/politics/alvin-bragg-sues-jim-jordan/index.html

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I'd rather this be unpinned than MAL.

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Trump sues Michael Cohen for $500 million, alleging ex-attorney breached his contract

Former President Donald Trump is suing Michael Cohen for $500 million in damages for allegedly breaching his contract as Trump’s former personal attorney.

The lawsuit, filed in a Florida federal court on Wednesday, accuses Cohen of spreading false information about Trump and breaching his contractual obligations to the former president in Cohen’s public statements, published books, podcast series and other media appearances.

CNN has reached out to Cohen for comment on the lawsuit.

Cohen, Trump’s onetime “fixer,” has recently reentered the national spotlight after Trump pleaded not guilty last week to 34 charges of falsifying business records following an investigation into hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The payments were coordinated by Cohen in the days before the 2016 election, and Cohen’s cooperation with prosecutors has drawn the ire of the former president.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/politics/donald-trump-michael-cohen-lawsuit/index.html

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Federal judge denies Manhattan DA’s request to block House GOP subpoena of ex-prosecutor

A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office for a temporary restraining order to stop a House Judiciary Committee subpoena of former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz.

District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil said Pomerantz must appear for a deposition.

“The subpoena was issued with a ‘valid legislative purpose’ in connection with the ‘broad’ and ‘indispensable’ congressional power to ‘conduct investigations.’ It is not the role of the federal judiciary to dictate what legislation Congress may consider or how it should conduct its deliberations in that connection. Mr. Pomerantz must appear for the congressional deposition. No one is above the law,” Vyskocil wrote after hearing arguments in court on the matter earlier in the day.

Bragg’s office had indicated it would likely ask the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay if Vyskocil sided with the committee, but did not have an immediate comment.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/politics/bragg-jordan-pomerantz-hearing/index.html

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Yeah it was him. Weissman thinks so too.

https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1648125684395433989

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Since Pomerantz left, he's not going to know why Bragg changed his mind.

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Ex-Manhattan prosecutor set to testify before GOP-led House Judiciary Committee in May

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee have settled a court dispute where the prosecutor’s office tried to block congressional testimony from former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, according to a new court filing Friday night.

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan subpoenaed Pomerantz earlier this month as part of his effort to investigate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s indictment of former President Donald Trump.

Pomerantz investigated Trump and his business empire before he resigned from the DA’s office last year, and Republicans argue that his public comments suggest that the charges brought against Trump are politically motivated. In his resignation letter, Pomerantz said Trump was “guilty of numerous felony violations” related to his annual financial statements.

Pomerantz is set to testify on May 12 before the panel, and a lawyer from the district attorney’s office will be able to sit in on the deposition, the two sides acknowledged in statements.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/politics/bragg-pomerantz-testify/index.html

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The Biden Administration didn't arrest him so that person doesn't know what he's talking about.

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Trump prohibited from posting evidence in hush money case to social media, judge rules
In his ruling, Judge Juan Merchan largely sided with a request from the Manhattan district attorney's office regarding what Trump can publicly say about aspects of the case.

The New York state judge presiding over the criminal hush money case against Donald Trump issued an order Monday restricting the former president from posting about some evidence in the case on social media.

In his order, Judge Juan Merchan largely sided with the Manhattan district attorney by limiting what Trump can publicly disclose about new evidence from the prosecution before the case goes to trial.

Merchan's order said that anyone with access to the evidence being turned over to Trump's team from state prosecutors “shall not copy, disseminate or disclose” the material to third parties, including social media platforms, “without prior approval from the court."

It also singles out Trump, saying he is allowed to review sensitive "Limited Dissemination Materials" from prosecutors only in the presence of his lawyers, and "shall not be permitted to copy, photograph, transcribe, or otherwise independently possess the Limited Dissemination Materials."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-barred-posting-evidence-hush-money-case-social-media-rcna83444

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I'm pretty confident he won't withdraw because of that. Losing support is more iffy but I doubt it.

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Judge orders Trump to attend lecture on how not to use evidence to attack witnesses: report

A judge ordered former President Donald Trump to appear virtually for a May 23 hearing in his Manhattan criminal case after previously setting rules preventing him from using evidence to attack witnesses, The Associated Press reports.

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan added the video hearing to the calendar on Thursday, aiming to review the restrictions with the GOP frontrunner, his lawyers and prosecutors, and ensure that Trump understands he risks being held in contempt of court if he violates them.

"We'll set up the camera for Mr. Trump to appear wherever he is at that time and we'll do it here in the courtroom virtually," Merchan said.

Though Trump's legal team has requested to have the case transferred to federal court, which U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein is considering, the case is continuing in state court.

In an order this week, Hellerstein also scheduled paperwork deadlines and a late June hearing for the case, which pertains to payments Trump's company made to his former attorney Michael Cohen. Prosecutors believe the funds were used to repay and compensate Cohen for hush money payments he made during Trump's 2016 campaign to cover up allegations of his extramarital sexual affairs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-orders-trump-to-attend-lecture-on-how-not-to-use-evidence-to-attack-witnesses-report/ar-AA1b6udg

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Trump's lecture was today. The judge made it clear to him if he violates the protective order he risks a range of sanctions up to contempt. Trial is March 25. Judge says it is unmovable and Trump has to make himself available. That could be problematic for his primary if he hasn't wrapped it up yet.

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Just had New York County Supreme Court hearing where I believe my First Amendment Rights,“Freedom of Speech,” have been violated, and they forced upon us a trial date of March 25th, right in the middle of Primary season. Very unfair, but this is exactly what the Radical Left Democrats wanted. It’s called ELECTION INTERFERENCE, and nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before!!!

^ Trump

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Why are you upset with that? A trial within a year if not atypical for high profile cases with good defense attorneys. This is the latest the judge is letting them delay. Moreover, Trump potentially could become a convicted felon right as he's locking up the primary.

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He's not likely to go to jail for this if convicted.

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Trump says the case is about to be dropped, lol.

WOW! LEGAL EXPERTS ARE SAYING THAT D.A. ALVIN BRAGG WILL BE IMMEDIATELY FORCED TO DROP HIS WEAK & DISPARAGED CASE AGAINST “TRUMP” BECAUSE HIS TOP INVESTIGATOR, JEREMY ROSENBERG, CORRUPTLY COLLUDED WITH A DISGRACED, DISBARRED, AND CONVICTED FELON & PERJURER IN ATTEMPTING TO FRAME ME WITH A “CRIME” THAT DOESN’T EVEN EXIST. THEY APPARENTLY BECAME CLOSE FRIENDS WITH LIFESTYLE MONEY SPENT, A CRIME. THIS ON TOP OF CLINTON LAWYER TURNED PROSECUTOR, MARK POMERANTZ, ILLEGALLY WRITING A BOOK ON THE CASE!

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If Trump’s been indicted , why doesn’t the DOJ just publicly announce it right now

It will likely be a speaking indictment that lays out all the facts. They're not announcing anything now because they speak through their filings. It's possible Garland might announce something on Tuesday after it happens.

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Is there any confirmation of this outside of claims by well-known liar and idiot Donald Trump?

In the other thread there's a tweet ABC apparently confirmed it and CNN has apparently confirmed 7 counts.

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I feel like Jack Smith really stepped in it by bringing the case in Florida and not Washington. Now Trump is going to get a jury of 12 MAGA cult members when his trial rolls around.

The problem is that if he brings it in DC and Trump gets the case dismissed for venue (very possible), he can't then bring it in Florida. It will just be over.

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Am i reading right? the judge overseeing the case is the one who Trump appointed and is the one who issued the “special master” to slow down the examination of the documents?

Yes but she'll probably recuse or be forced to recuse.

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Unfortunately he'll have a better chance of getting the GA case moved to federal court.

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Manhattan Judge May Be Open to Moving Trump Trial Date as Cases Mount
The judge, Juan M. Merchan, said in a letter that while he was not yet ready to discuss potential changes to the March 25, 2024, trial date, he would be willing to have the conversation in February.

The judge presiding over the criminal case against Donald J. Trump in Manhattan signaled that he could be open to changing the date of the trial — now set for March 2024 — in light of the handful of other potential trials the former president now faces.

But in a letter sent to Mr. Trump’s lawyers, the judge, Juan M. Merchan, said he would wait until February to have that discussion, given Mr. Trump’s “rapidly evolving trial schedule.”

In March, the Manhattan district attorney’s office brought charges against Mr. Trump stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star. The trial was soon scheduled for next March. But in the months that followed, Mr. Trump was indicted three more times. The cases, taken together, have created a legal logjam that coincides with the former president’s third run for the White House.

In his letter to one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche, Justice Merchan wrote that he did not believe it would be fruitful to discuss a potential change this month, “in light of the many recent developments involving Mr. Trump.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/nyregion/donald-trump-manhattan-trial-date.html

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Did you mean to post that in the civil trial thread?

https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=565157.0