#grand juries

[makingcontact]

70 Million: Grand Juries, the Black Box of Justice Reform?

Ric Simmons, law professor at The Ohio State University, poses for a portrait in the hallway of Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio on September 20, 2022. Professor Simmons’ research focuses on the intersection of the Fourth Amendment and new technology. He has written about the use of big data in the criminal justice system, searches of cell phones and other electronic devices, and…

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#70 million #70 Million Podcast #Anita Johnson #Dallas #grand juries #jury #justice reform #legal system #police brutality #prosecutors #protestors

[tomorrowusa]

SO MUCH LOSING!

When Donald Trump isn’t busy dining with Nazis or plotting to terminate the US Constitution, he gets to watch his legal team suffer setbacks.

In recent months, former President Donald Trump and his allies have suffered a string of defeats in court as they’ve tried to resist or impede criminal investigations into his conduct.  

The latest example was Trump’s unsuccessful bid to block testimony from his former White House lawyers before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election subversion. The attorneys, Pat Cipollone and Pat Philbin, appeared before the DC-based grand jury on Friday. 

The night before, a federal appeals court tossed out the special master review that was holding up parts of the criminal probe into government documents that were taken from his White House to Mar-a-Lago.  

The Trump-world losing streak reflects the deference that courts tend to give to criminal investigations – particularly when the probes that have not yet brought charges. Courts have shown far less tolerance for legal delay tactics in cases concerning criminal probes. 

His setbacks are at both the state and federal level.

Many of the disputes over the subpoenas are playing out in state courts across the country based on where the witnesses in question now reside. Those courts often made the determination that the witnesses are “necessary and material” to the investigation, while pointing to the approvals the subpoenas got from the judge in Georgia who is supervising the Fulton County grand jury. 

Trump has tried to claim that being a former president gives him special standing. The courts aren’t buying that.

As if Trump were not in enough trouble, a New York law just went into effect which permits adult victims of previous sexual abuse to sue their attackers.

E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation as lookback window for adult sex abuse survivors’ suits opens in New York

With this sort of luck, Trump may be wondering if his only way out is to defect to Russia or North Korea.

#donald trump #legal problems #subpoenas #lawsuits #so much losing #grand juries #criminal probes #investigations #e. jean carroll #sex abuse #federal appeals court #lock him up!

[richardarrant]

America is the only country in the world to still use a grand jury system.They should be abolished because they are a form of communism.Great Britain abolished this stupid system in 1948. Get your head out of your asses america.Abolish this system now!

#grand juries

[coastalconguero]

#politics #justice #law #courts #grand juries #georgia #elections #lindsey graham #south carolina

[sprqpointintern]

come on europeans! who's with me!!

#finland deserved that crown!!! #eurovision #eurovision song contest #eurovision 2023 #esc 2023 #esc23 #eurovision finland #eurovision sweden #finland #sweden #eurovision jury #eurovision memes #fuck the jury! #eurovision grand final #cha cha cha #Matthew.chat

[batboyblog]

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#Trump #grand jury #Supernatural meme #news #politics #New York #hush money #stormy daniels #Alvin Bragg #donald trump

[tsrdfs]

Artists Susan Herbert (1945-2014) Gilbert & Sullivan cat painting "family portrait", So go to him, The sun and I

#gilbert and sullivan #the yeomen of the guard #the pirates of penzance #the gondoliers #The Sorcerer #hms pinafore #Patience #Utopia Limited #ruddigore #The Grand Duke #the mikado #Princess Ida #iolanthe #Trial by Jury #Susan Herbert

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #news #republicans #twitter #conservatives #tweet #gop #donald trump #hush money #indictment #stormy daniels #manhattan grand jury #alvin bragg #new york #the serfs #2023 #jeffery epstein

[a9saga]

chat can we get some puke emojis for cameron winning america's favorite houseguest

#projectile vomiting all over #the jury picked the slightly wrong winner and he really honestly did not give better answers to the jury's questions imo #but at least it was never gonna be fuckin bowie jane and at least matt got a girlfriend #i guess it's pretty poetic for jag to be the first cancelled eviction/battleback houseguest to win the series #but in the last weeks especially matt did it all better #jag was originally my favorite houseguest i make my critiques out of love for the both of them #also did they really stretch this season out 100 days to give us a christmas spin off #i sat through 100 days of this shit #for frankie grande in christmas pajamas #whatever goodnight stevie ray i love you daddy's coming home #bb25 #big brother #bb25 spoilers #shut up kaily

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns and opposes the recent indictment of four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP), alongside three Russian nationals. The unsealed indictment states that on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, levied charges of “conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections.” While no evidence of conspiracy, propagandizing, or interference has been presented, the APSP and its members have the right, as all U.S. citizens do, to freely criticize U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

#BAP #APSP #Uhuru #frame up #imperialism #FBI #Grand Jury #courts #antiwar #NoWarOnRussia #Russia #Tampa #StopFBI #elections #protest #Black liberation #Struggle La Lucha

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

One of the funniest subplots in the Donald Trump Indictment Show—which centers on the hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016—involves the multiple reports that, after predicting to his followers that he would be arrested on March 21, the ex-president and his allies came to believe he was in the clear.

Trump, The Washington Post reported late Thursday, “had grown cautiously optimistic” in recent days, after “advisers had counseled him that a possible indictment by a Manhattan grand jury…would not come for some time—if at all.” The former president, the outlet noted, was apparently so unconcerned about the prospect of being charged that he’d “even begun joking about ‘golden handcuffs,’” which is probably not something one does if one thinks there’s a legitimate possibility they might be indicted, convicted, and sentenced to time in prison. “It was a surprise to everybody,” David Urban, a longtime Trump adviser, told the Post, which noted that “some of his lawyers had been preparing to take a few days off.” Following the indictment, The New York Times similarly reported that “Trump and his aides were caught off guard by the timing, believing that any action by the grand jury was still weeks away and might not occur at all.” The paper of record noted that Trump had recently been “telling nearly anyone that he was in a good mood and that he believed the case against him by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, had fallen apart.”

Of course, the biggest indication that Trump indeed believed he’d outrun Bragg? His taking to Truth Social on Wednesday to write: “I HAVE GAINED SUCH RESPECT FOR THIS GRAND JURY, & PERHAPS EVEN THE GRAND JURY SYSTEM AS A WHOLE…. THE GRAND JURY IS SAYING, HOLD ON, WE ARE NOT A RUBBER STAMP, WHICH MOST GRAND JURIES ARE BRANDED AS BEING, WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE AGAINST A PREPONDERANCE OF EVIDENCE OR AGAINST LARGE NUMBERS OF LEGAL SCHOLARS ALL SAYING THERE IS NO CASE HERE.” Sure, that could have been an unabashed attempt to sway the jurors through flattery—but, in retrospect, those very much sound like the words of a man who was extremely confident he was not going to be indicted. “Such respect”! “The grand jury system as a whole”! “The grand jury is saying, hold on”! Do you think he still stands by these statements? If there were ever a time for the internet-ism “ROTFLMAO,” it would be now.

In related news, according to the Times, Trump was less focused on “the legal consequences” of the indictment Thursday than “the political implications.” Trump previously said he would not drop out of the 2024 presidential race if charged, boldly claiming that being indicted might actually help his chances of making it back to the White House. One adviser told the Post that the ex-president and current presidential candidate is planning to “milk [the indictment] for all it’s worth politically.” And while Trump has reportedly raised millions since he first claimed he’d be arrested earlier this month, it does not appear that people are reacting exactly as he had hoped.

Per the Post:

"The causeway that leads to Mar-a-Lago has long been a rally spot for Trump supporters, especially during his presidency, when they would regularly gather to cheer on his motorcade. But as the sun set along the causeway Thursday, more people were fishing for sand perch and croaker than had shown up to support the former president. Shortly before 8 p.m., only a half dozen Trump supporters had amassed in their usual spot."

Meanwhile, according to the Times, on Thursday, “a large group of former Trump Organization employees was quietly cheering the latest developments via text messages.”

#us politics #news #donald trump #republicans #conservatives #gop #2023 #vanity fair #indictments #hush money #stormy daniels #alvin bragg #mar a largo #truth social #the washington post #the new york times #David Urban #manhattan grand jury

[inqilabi]

Trump will be the first president to be indicted. Why him?? Every single US president is a criminal. What about him is indictment worthy to the ruling class?

#i know it's the grand jury but i think the entire legal system is not independent and partial in anywhere #anyway #it's ruling class pushing pulling strings etc

[cappurrccino]

sometimes your spanish lesson has words that are important because they're useful and common, and sometimes your spanish lesson has words that are important because you learn the word for 'frog'

#//juri speaks #hay una rana grande sentada debajo de un árbol!

[because-its-eurovision]

eurovision.tv

#in 2010 and 2015 and 2017 Finland would have qualified without the juries #so statistically this is good news for us #also for Poland and other countries that juries tend to push down #and maybe we'll now get less 'zero televote points' situations in the grand final #I'm cautiously optimistic #eurovision #eurovision song contest #2022

[chistery]

hhhhhhhhhh

#i am out of my adhd meds #i have grand jury tomorrow #my doctor is not answering my calls #life and times of a mahou shoujo

[plutowrites]

so the grand jury has decided that (modern) armin's signature scent would be fresh laundry and irish spring with a hint of citrus.

And he ALWAYS smells good.

#he could never be musty #i cant say the same for those other beasts #armin headcanons #the grand jury= me and elle