It is a Wednesday in the Realm and the inmates are still running the asylum here. The following are the headlines that caught my eye this morning:
- Thousands of US health care workers go on strike in multiple states over wages and staff shortages
- Speaker McCarthy ousted in historic House vote, as scramble begins for a Republican leader
- Trump Ordered To Shut Up Or Face 30 Days Behind Bars
- Fulton prosecutors float plea deals to Trump defendants
Now I’ll comment on the headlines, without ever reading the story attached to them. Let’s see how I get it wrong…
- This was only a matter of time. Over worked and underpaid. These people have worked their asses off over the past three years and many of them have left the profession through burnout and stagnant pay.
- “Republican Leader” is an oxymoron these days. Leader of what, this clown show that used to be known as the Republican Party before the MAGIDIOTS took it over? The Republican Party has been broken for almost twenty years now. During that time, it has proven over and over again to be the Party of Grievance, unable to govern themselves, let alone govern the nation.
- The Trump Gag Order. Raise your hands if you think Donald Trump is even capable of keeping his mouth shut in the face of his legal jeopardy. If he does, it will be the greatest feat he’s ever accomplished. The problem is, he just cannot help himself. He will blow up online and/or in public, and he will end up cooling his ass in a jail cell. If not this case, then one of the other four criminal cases against him. He has the right to remain silent, he just refuses to exercise that right and it WILL end up fucking him hard in the end.
- The Prosecutor’s Wedge. It was bound to happen: the prosecutor offering most of Trump’s codefendants a plea deal in exchange for testimony against Trump himself. This is standard practice of every prosecutor involving cases with multiple defendants. They tend to use this wedge in drug and conspiracy cases. During the “Weed and Seed” program in the 1980s and 1990s they would offer deals like “give us three, we’ll set you free”. Since there is no real honor amongst criminals, they almost always will jump on a deal that will either cut their penalty substantially, or get the charges dropped to misdemeanors in exchange for their testimony under oath. I’m pretty sure that most of the defendants in the Fulton County case don’t want to serve time behind bars for Donald J. Trump’s vanity and they will JUMP at the deal. Mark Meadows is probably one of those.
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1 Spot on
2 You are not wrong
3 Trump shut up? Go on, pull the other finger.
4 SOP, but if they lie on the stand and it comes out in discovery, a lot of egg will hit the prosecution.
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In Re #4: Prosecutors and defense attorneys will NEVER put a witness on the stand that hasn’t been fully prepped for testimony. They will never put a witness on the stand that deviates from the known facts in the case. If the witness were to suddenly change their testimony while in the witness box, then that prosecutor or lawyer will immediately move to consider the witness to be “hostile”. This will allow the direct and re-direct questioner to expose the lie and in the case of the prosecution, may also decide the charge the witness.
Prior to the trial, witnesses will probably have submitted a deposition under oath as part of the discovery that the opposing party will have received.
In conspiracy cases, the identity of the witnesses are often redacted. This is where it becomes extremely hard, if not impossible to beat a conspiracy or “RICO” charge. Defendants can only ‘cross-examine’ a witness statement, not the witness themselves.
In Re #3: I didn’t say he would keep quiet. I am saying that he is incapable of keeping quiet — even if it screws him royally in the end — and it will. Just his contempt alone can earn him an open-ended jail time if he’s not careful.
Apparently, he’s pissed off during his current trial because he is not having a jury trial for his fraud case in New York. I’m guessing his lawyers felt that a jury was sure to screw Trump, and felt that a Bench Trial was the best way to go. It is what I would have recommended.
Why? Because a civil trial only requires a plurality on the jury. In a six-person jury, four people can convict. In a twelve-person jury, only seven are required to convict. A criminal trial requires a unanimous jury to find guilt. Trump would have been guaranteed to be screwed in a civil jury trial. So he’s stuck with a bench trial in this case and it isn’t going well for him.
Three years ago, Joe Biden vowed that, if elected, he’d never erect a single new section of border wall between the United States and Mexico. Now, President Biden has rethought that, due to an “acute” need to keep illegal immigration at bay. The AP reports the commander in chief has waived 26 federal laws—including the Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and Endangered Species Act—to clear the way for up to 20 miles of new wall construction in the Lone Star State, a first for the Biden administration.
https://www.newser.com/story/341015/biden-is-expanding-border-wall.html
I guess the election is coming closer.
Yep. He’s getting pressure to “do something“. But I have the same exact argument I did when Trump came up with the plan. It’s not a solution. It’s barely a band-aid. It’s a topical treatment to a symptom of a greater problem. We ALL know what the problem is, and it has nothing to do with Trump or Biden.
Congress hasn’t passed meaningful immigration laws in years. Instead, we’ve been flying by the seat of our pants with Executive Orders from presidents with varying theories of migration policy. Instead of law, we are working off of whims and decrees from temporary clowns. It’s no wonder the overall system is all dysfunctional.
Oh, but wait, Congress itself is dysfunctional. Currently, the Senate is navel-gazing, and the House has been taken over by eight rampaging Trumpublicans who have deposed the Speaker and suspended the House from functioning until a new Speaker is somehow agreed to by a simple majority.
Let’s get CONGRESS to get the border situation sorted.