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BREAKING: Judge overseeing the Fulton County special grand jury has *rejected* Donald Trump's bid to quash the special grand jury's report, to disqualify DA Fani Willis and prevent further prosecution.
McBurney's ruling is unsparing. He notes, glancingly, Trump has capitalized on his potential prosecutions despite claims that he's suffering harm from them. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23891541/2022-ex-000024-ex-parte-order-of-the-judge-1.pdf
What a footnote, right on the second page... #AlwaysReadTheFootnotes
"And for some, being the subject of a criminal investigation can, a la Rumpelstiltskin, be turned into golden political capital...."
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LetMyPeopleVote
(146,244 posts)This TFG motion from TFG was really weak. It asked to invalidate 40 years of law on special grand juries on the basis that TFG did not like this procedure. TFG did not have standing to attack this law and so there will be indictments coming down from Fanni Willis
Botany
(70,700 posts)"Judge overseeing the Fulton County special grand jury has *rejected* Donald Trump's bid to
quash the special grand jury's report, to disqualify DA Fani Willis and prevent further prosecution."
FAFO.
Trump and his attorneys filled a motion Friday afternoon to have Fani Willis removed from the
case against him in Fulton County Friday Afternoon and 1st thing Monday morning the judge
says "no."
LiberalFighter
(51,584 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)pnwmom
(109,031 posts)a hearing on a subsequent Trump motion for August 10.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Raven
(13,918 posts)down today.
Botany
(70,700 posts)jaxexpat
(6,912 posts)That is, after all, a "framing" hammer.
Botany
(70,700 posts)I don't want to beg but could Fani please drop the indictment today.
Trump is @ 74 felony charges and he could be @ > 100 by the end of the week.
Wonder Why
(3,413 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,394 posts)That's all Trump is attempting to do, delay things in any way possible until after the election.
Reminds me of Netanyahu in Israel, delay delay delay until he can seize power again ad be immune from prosecution. And now he's taking away the courts ability to hold him accountable entirely.
garybeck
(9,946 posts)sheshe2
(84,171 posts)MissMillie
(38,633 posts)or at least part of it could.
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,244 posts)Marcuse
(7,579 posts)malaise
(269,540 posts)That is all
Wonder Why
(3,413 posts)"The drumbeat from the District Attorney has been neither partisan (in the political sense) nor personal, in marked and refreshing contrast to the stream of personal invective flowing from one of the movants."
In other words, Trump has a big mouth and has been using it improperly to intimidate and terrorize those trying to uphold the law and the constitution.
When all the cases have been adjudicated, he should then be charged with terrorist threats to add insult to injury.
smb
(3,484 posts)pnwmom
(109,031 posts)I don't think this document addresses the most recent actions, which have led to a hearing scheduled on August 10, under a different judge.
LetMyPeopleVote
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