Laura PourMeADrink

Laura PourMeADrink's Journal

April 12, 2023

Jan 6th typical DC tourist gets 4 yrs 4 mos sentence

https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1645942604922535937?s=20

April 12, 2023

IMHO, Venice is the most unique & beautiful city

Noah’s Violin
The vessel is a large-scale replica of a real violin, made from about a dozen different kinds of wood, with nuts and bolts inside, as well as space for a motor. Venice, Italy.

April 12, 2023

"At least, if we had a more moderate, more normal Republican"

We all may have thought that for a second? Re compared to TFG? Listening to Asa Hutchinson, on CNN, I don't want ANY Republican, period paragraph.

Although his handlers came up with a good way to approach gun control. 'He had not heard a plan that was good enough yet but he's open'. What a total bunch ( of half-decent) bullshit.

April 11, 2023

More Brain Work 2

AND IF YES, WHAT IS COMBINATION?

April 11, 2023

Something may START happening in GA case in the middle of May?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/us/trump-georgia-election-fani-willis.html

Georgia Looms Next After Trump’s Indictment in New York
Former President Donald J. Trump now faces a very different legal challenge in the culmination of a more than two-year Atlanta investigation into election interference.

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For Ms. Willis, the choice to pursue a narrowly focused indictment or more a sprawling one — a classic prosecutor’s dilemma — carries with it potential risks and benefits on both sides. And American history offers few examples in which the stakes are so high.

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“Certainly prosecutors would have this conversation of what’s in the best interest of justice and what is strategically preferable for a case,” said Barbara McQuade, a law professor at the University of Michigan and former federal prosecutor. A narrow case can be easier for jurors to understand. But it is also possible to go “too narrow,” Ms. McQuade said, denying a jury the ability to see the entire scope of a defendant’s criminal behavior.

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If Ms. Willis chooses to seek indictments in the Georgia case, she may do so after a new grand jury begins its work in the second week of May, though nothing is set in stone. Typically, presenting such cases to a regular grand jury is a short process that takes a day or two.

April 10, 2023