Stone's getting called to the carpet

[bigtree]

Darren Samuelsohn @dsamuelsohn 2m2 minutes ago

NEW: Judge Jackson scolds Roger Stone in a new order over his latest book intro ripping Mueller and demands a March 11 status report "detailing his efforts to come into compliance with the court's rulings" on the gag order.

Court docs here: http://ow.ly/I3HT30nVSjk


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[malaise]

1. Off to jail

scumbag

Get thee to the greatest page NOW

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Hope this is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Let him die in prison.

[RKP5637]

3. The guy just keeps ratcheting it up, just doesn't get it. n/t

[True Dough]

4. Overdue

This simpleton has pushed his luck too far for quite a while.

[maveric]

5. Lock Him Up!

[empedocles]

6. Stone's behavior seems to be public screaming for a trump pardon.

Stone is a bad case for trump to test the trump pardon power credibility/viability.

[peggysue2]

8. I don't know why Judge Jackson keeps giving this man breaks

He clearly doesn't deserve them. He has no respect for the law or this judge's repeating orders.

Hope she finally throws him into a cell!

[triron]

14. Hope she's done with that March 11.

[blaze]

9. And now he has to document all his fuck ups

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• Defendant must produce any records, including the December 17, 2018 agreement
referenced in the Declaration of Anthony Lyons [Dkt. # 55-1] ¶ 4, and any other
contracts, letters, emails or other communications with the publisher, detailing the
terms and schedule for the release of the new edition of the book with the January
2019 Introduction, including all records reflecting when retailers could begin
offering the book for sale and records reflecting the date when the book would be
first offered for sale by online vendors such as amazon.com and Google Books.

• Defendant must inform the Court of the exact date the book was first made available
for purchase online, and the Introduction was made available for viewing, at
amazon.com and Google Books or any other online vendor.

• Defendant must inform the Court whether and when he became aware of: the fact
that the new edition of the book had been printed by the publisher; the fact that
copies of the book had been shipped from the printer; the fact that copies were
available at bookstores; the fact that retail bookstores were selling the book; and
the fact that the book was available for purchase or viewing online.

• Defendant must specify the date and content of any Instagram or social media posts,
including deleted posts, or other public statements he made from January 15 to the
present concerning or publicizing the release of the book, including any statements
announcing the date the book would be published or available for purchase.

• Defendant must describe all steps he took, or communications he had with the
publisher or any retailer, if any, concerning the release or sale of the book between
the entry of the order on February 21, 2019 and March 1, 2019, and he must produce
any records reflecting those communications.

SO ORDERED.

AMY BERMAN JACKSON
United States District Judge
DATE: March 5, 2019

[DontBooVote]

10. That is some world-class ass-covering there by Judge Jackson. I want Stone in jail today!

However, I'm also supportive of Judge Jackson's need to build a solid case that she gave Stone every opportunity to abide by her orders. She has done a sufficient job of showing restraint so that she could not be credibly accused later of having engaged in judicial overreach or bias.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, this is just my perception of her restraint in not tossing his pointy-headed numbskull in the slammer already. This is strike three, hopefully.

[MH1]

13. I'm shaking my head ... obviously this is a rich white guy, right?

Of course a poor black dude would never get the opportunity to make such a mockery of a judge's order like that ... but if he did, he wouldn't get a week to figure out and then "explain yourself".

My exact words on reading the o.p. were somewhat more profanity-laden.

[defacto7]

16. He told the court he's broke, whatever that means.

[uponit7771]

11. !?!? How's "Please explain what you're doing here" go to jail?!

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Roger Stone is like so many in the white male privilege class.

They really don't believe judges have the resolve to follow through on their warnings.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. for good reason

Facts support their assumption of privilege.

[AlexSFCA]

15. why is he not in jail?

[Firestorm49]

17. He's been reprimanded before, yet his sorry ass is still out on the streets defying her.

Jail the mother!

[ffr]

19. That ought to help out his sentencing.

NOT!

[leftynyc]

20. He hasn't been tried yet

This is Stone, not Manafort.

[ffr]

22. Who will be the judge in Stone's prosecution? Or will that be a grand jury?

I'm not thinking of Manfort, nor was I thinking of Gates. I do think about Mike Pence a lot. How did you know I was thinking about Mike Pence?

[leftynyc]

23. LOL

The grand jury has already spoken with their indictments. This will be the judge which is why stone is trying all these stunts to get her to recuse. My advice, never think of pence before eating, it's bad for the digestion.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Jackson will be the judge, and presumably there will be a jury unless he chooses to waive that.

I doubt he will at this point.

A grand jury has already indicted Stone so their job is done.

[CharleyDog]

21. send him straight to jail. Harsh words to these types never work, they

think they "know more than you" and think rules and laws don't apply to themselves, because "I know more than you, so ha ha ha." (I hear this a lot from Republican family members so sure they are right.