The request will be made before US district judge Aileen Cannon
so we all know how this will go
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She'll need about 6 months to make a decision.
This is how two tiered justice systems looks like
This is more like a new, third tier altogether.
If most of us get Justice Standard Edition and rich people get Justice Plus, this is like Justice Platinum Rewards.
There are four tiers:
Rich justice
^
White justice
^
Black justice
^
Indigenous justice
Na sorry, there's another one above the others. Ex-president appointed judge-justice.
I'd say 'untouchable' isn't even a tier.
You can leave off the "indigenous justice" since there isn't fucking any.
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This ain’t two tier. It’s rigged.
Never in human history has there been a peaceful cure for conservative fascism. Never.
Trump’s lawyers are expected to argue that none of the memos should have been given to prosecutors on the crime-fraud exception, which allows prosecutors to see privileged communications between a defendant and a lawyer, if their legal advice was used in furtherance of a crime.
They're expected to argue on the basis that these memos didn't amount to using Corcoran's legal advice.
But surely that's a moot point, because while Trump didn't use of any specific legal advice, he absolutely abused the privileged information obtained from Corcoran (such as the date of the inspection and the date of his return) in obstructing the return of classified documents to the whitehouse.
The memos make quite clear that Trump abused attorney-client privilege in furtherance of a crime. Plain and simple.
And I severely doubt Corcoran didn't know what Trump's intentions were with that information - and if not before, he certainly should've known afterwards when being "asked" to pluck out documents.
I legitimately have to wonder how it can be legal for Trump to be trialled by judges he put into power, and that have shown such clear and demonstrable biases in his favour - even going so far as to deliberately delay cases as far as legally possible.
As @ptz@dubvee.org put it, it's like he's got an extra special justice system especially for him - who knew all you needed to do was appoint your own judges.
The SC is dragging their feet on immunity too. I wonder if biden hypothetically drone striking trump would speed that decision up at all. I mean, can't try biden unless he's impeached, right?
The Court has to know that ruling a former President immune for breaking the law isn't a viable decision.
Like, it would immediately make any sitting President a king, and supercede the Court's power.
Which is why they'll wait, but rule he isn't immune. Not because it's the right thing, but because doing otherwise would make the Court less, and they're selfish fucks that want to be on top.
It's also holding up one or two other trump trials while they wait for the decision. Though a tiny part of me hopes they rule presidents are kings and biden just goes "OK bet" and does whatever the hell he wants. I can imagine him watching helmetcam footage of a few supreme court justices getting black bagged by seals while eating an ice cream cone.
I will not be suprised if they rule him immune in that very specific case, under his excuse that he was "defending democracy with the information he had at that time".
It blocks full immunity for everything and gives Trump a free pass, the SC will retain power, and the US saves a little bit of face, on paper, in legitimizing the jan 6 troubles.
While this should be cut and dry, I have no confidence the judge appointed by convicted felon Trump will make the legally correct ruling.
"To prevent future misuse of these client-lawyer documents I order them all destroyed forthwith"
Asking to suppress the memos should be another criminal charge.