It’s Day 3 of the actual trial! Day 7, if you include jury selection.
Best sources of live blogging that I have found. Court resumes at 9:30 am.
Josh Kovensky at TPM – Live Blogging
Mark Sumner at Daily Kos – Live Blogging
Anna Bower at Lawfare – Live Blogging on Twitter
TRANSCRIPTS OF NY CASES AVAILABLE THE NEXT DAY Link
Emotional support pup and kitty for the occasion.
I am not tired of this photo yet, but if you are, let me know and I will rustle up a different one for the next trial day.
OzarkHillbilly
snort! First time I’ve seen it.
NotMax
We’re all Johnny Fever now.
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BOOGERPECKER!”//
stacib
Apologies for being off topic, but I’m stunned. I read last night that George Conway (yeah, that George Conway), contributed almost $1M to Biden’s campaign? I know he’s staunchly anti-trump, but sheesh, I wasn’t expecting this.
OzarkHillbilly
@stacib: He’s serious about no more trump.
smith
Sumner’s live blog just went up.
Burnspbesq
Reminder: oral argument on immunity at the top of the hour.
montanareddog
@OzarkHillbilly: Because he hates Trump or wants to stick it to his ex. Porque no los dos? Before anyone else says it.
NotMax
Audio feed of the immunity hearing at the official SCOTUS site. Scheduled to begin at the top of the hour.
narya
@stacib: I think the close-up look he got, not just of TIFG but of other chunks of the party, caused some real change in him. We’ll see if it lasts.
WaterGirl
FYI: I have a post for the NY Trump trial and another post for the Supreme Court Immunity oral arguments
I think I have all the links in the correct posts, but it is a bit mind-boggling to be going back and forth, creating two similar (but very different!) posts at the same time, so let me know if any of the links are wrong.
frosty
Love the pup and the cat. Thank you for not inflicting another picture of T***p at the top of the post.
I don’t think I have the stamina for a live blog of either one. I’ll spend the day pulling weeds instead. Same thing Bragg is doing!!
WaterGirl
@frosty: Well, these are open threads, so you can always tell us about your weeding. :-)
Nelle
Harvey Weinstein gets a new trial in NY? Nothing sticks if you are white enough with $$$ and a penis?
WaterGirl
@Nelle: I don’t know anything about that. What are you referring to?
Burnspbesq
Trump’s counsel getting raked over the coals by Sotomayor and Kagan.
WaterGirl
@Burnspbesq: As well he should be.
I can’t believe the Supreme Court even took up this case, with the framing of the case they pos4ed with their question.
SteveinPHX
Have been showing/forwarding that photo (sans BJ references) a lot. Everybody loves it!
Nelle
I’m having trouble linking it, but sent an email to you. New York Court overturned his rape conviction.
Burnspbesq
@Nelle:
nonsense. The trial judge f***ed up, allowing the admission of clearly inadmissible evidence. Justice demands a new trial. I suspect he’ll be convicted again.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: Thanks for sending the article. I console myself with the knowledge that he is still servicing his 16-year term for rape, etc on a different charge.
Glad they are going to retry the case. Hopefully he will never get out of prison.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly: he is serious about his ex wife not making it back in the WH, too.
Josie
Definitely not tired of the picture. It makes me smile every time I see it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Burnspbesq: Agreed.
WaterGirl
@Quinerly: hahaha. good thought on that.
frosty
@WaterGirl: OK then! I just met with the landscape company and among the topics was ground cover. I asked him about clearing stuff out around our little fish pond. You don’t want to hear a landscaper say “Yeah, that one is a nasty weed.”
He said it about a different one in the back too. :-(
gvg
I have been careful to spend decompression time on I can haz cheezeburger. Its the funny cat pictures site. My reliable go to for mental health for years. Just in case anyone else needs something. There are tabs for other kinds of humor sites, but I am a kitty lover.
gvg
@frosty: On the other hand, you don’t want to hear them say about an invasive pain that it’s a great plant, why do you want to get rid it?
Also be careful they don’t misidentify something nice as something horrible…..
Burnspbesq
Justice Jackson asking all the right questions.
WaterGirl
@frosty: I don’t know why, but somehow that’s reminding me of the conversation with a roofer, who gave me the third estimate on the roof. Less than a year after the roof passed inspection when I bought the house.
When I asked WHY I needed a new roof, and he said “Honey, it’s just plum wore out.”
Mr. Bemused Senior
Let us mourn for just a moment the loss of Cute Overload. It was my go-to for a dose of calm.
Belafon
I like the cat’s paw telling the dog “Don’t say anything.”
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly: I saw an interview where he said his daughter asked him why he didn’t give her the cash instead, and he said (to the interviewer) that he thought the best thing he could bequeath her was a USA that remained a functioning democracy. Seemed to get genuinely choked up about it.
(NB he also said she’d still be well taken care of in an inheriting way even after the donation, so there’s that…)
Burnspbesq
I don’t understand why Dreeben isn’t challenging the implicit assumption that any of the acts alleged in the indictment are official acts.
Burnspbesq
Alito is such a scumbag.
WaterGirl
@Burnspbesq: I don’t understand that, either.
That’s how I felt yesterday in the SC hearing – why weren’t they talking about the Supremacy clause???? Which seemed to me to be the over-arching issue that made all the rest irrelevant.
oldster
I’m never tired of the cat and dog cuddling. What the world needs now.
Burnspbesq
@WaterGirl:
I haven’t listened to that argument, but intuitively I think that what the anti-abortion justices were doing was trying to find a way to construe EMTALA as not requiring abortion as “stabilizing” care. That gets them to where they want to go without pissing all over the Supremacy Clause.
They’ll get their chance to piss all over the Supremacy Clause in U.S. v. Texas.
japa21
@WaterGirl: Personally, I don’t think immunity should apply to either official or unofficial acts. A President’s job is to protect the US from all enemies. So an official act could be sending Seal Team 6 after a rival and be justified by saying that the rival is an enemy of the US. Thus it is a official act. And immunity should not apply.
mrmoshpotato
Excellent picture!
TBone
@Nelle: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Was in hospital when I saw that news and could not comment even to hubby because regard for other patients decorum in ICU
NorthLeft
I love that photo…primarily because the Chocolate Lab could be a twin for my dear departed (June 2023) dog friend Gus. When I showed the photo to my wife, she teared up…as did I.
We did laugh though because Gus absolutely loved our cats, and was constantly snuggling up with them……well one of them at least. The other was not impressed with Gus’ displays of affection.
oldgold
On direct, Pecker has been a much stronger witness than I expected. His testimony has been straightforward and devastating.
TBone
What is Pecker about to dribble down the court?
WaterGirl
@NorthLeft: Now I am tearing up for you.
WaterGirl
@oldgold: I agree.
Gloria DryGarden
@Uncle Cosmo: I saw that interview, too. I’m enjoying the Bulwark interviews, even though they are former Republicans. I love Sarah Longwood’s organization ‘republicans against Trump’ I think it is called. It gives me hope in this time of despair and worry. Who better to convert persuadable conservatives to vote for Biden, than folks who converted themselves, see clearly the danger of that creep, TFG, and know what talking points to use.
As I understand it, there are 3 things that might influence this election. Persuading voters, and getting out the vote is just one. ( and I’m glad to feel some hope about it)
There’s also the gerrymandering issue, and voter suppression activities.
On top of everything else.
Gloria DryGarden
@Uncle Cosmo: I saw it too, and I’m pretty happy about it. Thanks George
I wrote a longer post, then updated it w edits, but my comment disappeared.
WaterGirl
@Gloria DryGarden: You have a 5-minute edit window. If you are in the middle of editing when the 5-minutes expires, you will lose your edits but your original comment remains.