Federal Judge Strikes DOJ from the Docket in E. Jean Carroll's Case Against Donald Trump
Source: lawandcrime.com
Adam Klasfeld Nov 20th, 2020, 12:05 pm
In late October, a federal judge denied the Department of Justices effort to fend off rape allegations against President Donald Trump in a defamation suit on the taxpayers dime, but the courts docket did not catch up with that reality for weeks.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan made the record abundantly clear in a 1-page order on Friday.
[T]he docket sheet erroneously lists Mr. [Stephen] Terrell and another attorney as counsel for defendant Trump, Kaplan wrote, referring to a Justice Department lawyer. That is incorrect. They represent only the United States.
Carroll says that Trump defamed her by denying that he raped her in the dressing room of the department store Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s.
The Justice Department tried to barge into the case in September, insisting that Trump responding to rape allegations with comments like Shes not my type is just one of the duties befitting of the President of the United States.....................................
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/federal-judge-strikes-doj-from-the-docket-in-e-jean-carrolls-case-against-donald-trump/
Gee---maybe Rudy can take this case.
The judge ordered on Friday that Trumps prior private counsel in the state lawsuit represent the outgoing president in federal court.
leftieNanner
(15,079 posts)Or he could be scrounging for a new attorney.
I wonder if Rudy is available?? He only charges $20K per day. That drippy hair goop don't come cheap.
Trump! You are a LOSER!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,878 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)or the king thereof in his diseased mind.
Thank goodness for our level-headed courts. What a relief in today's bizarro world.
KY.........
lastlib
(23,203 posts)....and tRump the Last.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,489 posts)(Merriam-Webster)
(The Grammarist)
That does describe him quite well.
Donald the Zeroth.....
Actually, Donald the Minus Oneth.....
KY............ ..........
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)... in many ways. If the king was strong the country was strong and vice versa.
In this way something is rotten in the State of Denmark has a double meaning. Yes, the country has big problems, but also the state of the prince is bad...
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)and tries to get the DOJ to defend him.