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Another One Bites the Dust

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Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein has rejected Trump’s request for him to intervene and move his election interference case (also known less accurately as the hush money case) from that mean awful judge in New York.

Hellerstein, echoing his denial of Trump’s pretrial bid to move the case, said the defense failed to meet the high burden of proof for changing jurisdiction and that Trump’s conviction for falsifying business records involved his personal life, not official actions that the Supreme Court ruled are immune from prosecution.  (AP)

🎶Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust (yeah) 🎶

As far as I can tell, Trump has only one Hail Mary pass left.  (related to this particular case)

Hellerstein sidestepped a defense complaint that Trump’s state court trial had been plagued by “bias, conflicts of interest, and appearances of impropriety,” writing that he “does not have jurisdiction to hear Mr. Trump’s arguments concerning the propriety of the New York trial.”

The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which prosecuted Trump’s case, declined comment. Earlier Tuesday, the office sent a letter to the trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, objecting to Trump’s effort to delay post-trial decisions in the case while he was seeking to have the U.S. District Court in Manhattan step in.

Merchan is expected to rule soon on two key defense requests:

  1. Trump’s call for the judge to delay his Sept. 18 sentencing until after the November election,
  2. [Trump’s] request that the judge overturn his conviction and dismiss the case in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling.

Merchan has said he will rule Sept. 16 on Trump’s motion to overturn the verdict. 

Tick tock, Donnie!

I hope that with these two dates approaching (Sept 16 and Sept 18) Trump is as nervous as a good shitting peach pits, as my old boss liked to say.

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  1. 1.

    randy khan

    I assume the tl;dr version of the ruling on the Trump motion will be “Fat chance.”  But since he’s a careful judge, the actual opinion will be much longer and go into detail.  I will say that some of the things I saw about the motion were farcical enough that “fat chance” might have been the appropriate response.

  2. 2.

    Scout211

    The federal judge that denied his request kindly recommended he and his attorneys use the proper appeals process to the state appeals court and state supreme court.  But this has not stopped Trump and his attorneys to try again to appeal to a federal court.

    (CNN)      Former President Donald Trump will continue to fight to move his New York hush money case into federal court – and delay his sentencing on that conviction – by now appealing to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a notice of appeal filed Tuesday night.

    A federal judge in Manhattan denied his initial request to move the case to the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. Trump’s attorneys filed a notice of appeal of that decision soon after.

    Trump’s legal team filed the petition last week to move the state case to federal court in the wake of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision. They also asked the federal judge to postpone Trump’s sentencing, currently set for September 18.

    Judge Juan Merchan still has not ruled on Trump’s separate request to delay the sentencing until after the election.

    The judge could issue a decision as soon as this week.

  3. 3.

    Kosh III

    Too bad we’re not China, they’d just execute him. (semi-sarcasm)

    But seriously, he should be given prison time of a 4 1/2 years plus parole for the rest of his miserable life.   Although, confiscating all his wealth and putting him in the poor house would be a much more satisfying sentence.

  5. 5.

    waspuppet

    Your periodic reminder that:

    an actual American,

    who is actually running for president in the real sense,

    who was charged with crimes,

    and is actually innocent,

    would be moving heaven and earth to get all his legal proceedings done before the election so everyone could vote based on their knowledge of his total innocentitude.

    Trump isn’t doing any of that.

  7. 7.

    Steve LaBonne

    A rapist, a fraudster, and a demented loon walked into a bar. The bartender turned to him with tears in his eyes and said “Sir…”.

  9. 9.

    waspuppet

    @Kosh III: There’s no wealth to confiscate. No net wealth, anyway. I’d like to see him in prison but I’ll happily settle for a real forensic audit that finally proves that his net wealth is negative. They can confiscate his assets, after which he’ll be very glad to be in prison, because then Uncle Vlad’s friends won’t be able to get at him.

  14. 14.

    Scout211

    @Baud: Thanks.  I wondered why the second circuit.

    @WaterGirl: LOL!  I hope his celebrity magic is waning these days, though.

    I just hope that the judiciary is finally tired of being manipulated by Trump and his attorneys.

  16. 16.

    Dangerman

    Public service announcement (I’ve shared it previously):

    Proper CPR is 100 compressions per minute. The beat of that song is perfect.

    Carry on.

  24. 24.

    JPL

    There was a school shooting at a high school in Winder, GA about a hour from Atlanta.    One person was air lifted to the hospital, but CNN is saying that the nearby hospital said they admitted several people.

  29. 29.

    Leto

    @waspuppet:

    because then Uncle Vlad’s friends won’t be able to get at him.

    Oh ye of little imagination. Donny should be glad that most of the windows he’d be near have bars on them.

  31. 31.

    Belafon

    @Dangerman: 100 to 120. It and “Stayin’ Alive”, among others. Here’s a list from the ACA:

    Stayin’ Alive – Bee Gees
    Adventure of a Lifetime – Coldplay
    Can’t Stop the Feeling – Justin Timberlake
    Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars
    Just a Girl – No Doubt
    More Than A Feeling – Boston
    Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
    Grenade – Bruno Mars
    Rolling in the Deep – Adele
    Take a Chance on Me – ABBA
    Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
    Rhythm Nation – Janet Jackson
    Whenever, Wherever – Shakira
    Getting’ Jiggy Wit It – Will Smith
    Under Pressure – Queen
    Paparazzi – Lady Gaga
    Jolene – Dolly Parton

     

    https://cpr.heart.org/-/media/CPR-Files/Training-Programs/Community-Programs/Be-the-Beat/BTB-2023/new-playlists/CPR-Playlist-2.pdf

    I just did the online portion of my CPR update last night. Got the in-class portion next week.

  33. 33.

    JPL

    @JPL:  CNN is sayting there were causualties.    The students have been dismissed so the threat is gone, and a suspect is in custody.

  34. 34.

    WaterGirl

    @Belafon: I took a multiple-day first aid / CPR class decades ago.

    The day after we were introduced to the CPR potion, one of the other young women in the class showed up and told us that her dad had had a heart attack the night before, and that she had kept him alive with CPR until the medics arrived.

    Goosebumps.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    Another day, another school shooting.   Local news is saying because of a lack of coordination, the police response time lagged.   When they arrived at the school, they weren’t sure where to go.  Apalachee High School   Winder GA    That next to Athens

    fk

  40. 40.

    Scout211

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Wasn’t this case decided already?

    Trump and his attorneys are trying to move the state case (due for sentencing on September 18) to federal court before the sentencing because they imagine that the federal court would somehow determine that his actions of bribery and business records fraud were presidential acts and therefore he would have immunity.

    I know, crazy.  But the SCOTUS six just might see it that way.  At least they hope it will.

  41. 41.

    Salty Sam

    @Dangerman: Proper CPR is 100 compressions per minute. The beat of that song is perfect.

    I would hate to regain consciousness with an EMT pumping my chest, humming that song under his breath…

  42. 42.

    mrmoshpotato

    @waspuppet:

    Your periodic reminder that:

    an actual American,

    who is actually running for president in the real sense,

    who was charged with crimes,

    and is actually innocent,

    would be moving heaven and earth to get all his legal proceedings done before the election so everyone could vote based on their knowledge of his total innocentitude.

    Trump isn’t doing any of that.

    Of course not. Dump has been a criminal basically his entire adult life.

  44. 44.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Chief Oshkosh:

    That’s what Epstein thought.

    Epstein was exactly the profile of people who commit suicide in prison – and who the guards shrug and look the other way when it happens.

  45. 45.

    WaterGirl

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    1. Trump petitioned to have the case moved to federal court – even though the trial is over!  (just denied)
    2. Trump filed something to overturn the verdict – decision coming on 9/16
    3. Trump sentencing date is scheduled for 9/18
  46. 46.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: So the kids have to have drills where they pretend someone with a gun is trying to kill them all, and the police departments don’t have drills for how to handle school shootings????

  47. 47.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    It likely doesn’t. People like him don’t worry about the things that normal people do. They sleep fine – because their concept of ethics is to get away with everything they want to. SFB would be one of them but he screws up every single thing he ever puts his greasy hands on because his world is opposite every human’s on the planet that actually knows their exhaust stinks. He doesn’t have a clue. And now that his brain is not just broken but also aging out, it is only going to get worse for him.

  51. 51.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Belafon: I just did my Sudden Cardiac Arrest online training for my tennis coaching gig, last night.  They highlighted the 100 bpm thing too.  I thought that was kind of brilliant.  Especially as a drummer.  I still have to do my in-person First Aid/CPR class this Sunday.

  52. 52.

    No One You Know

    @JPL: This.  I don’t follow the legal maneuvers or of the headlines.  I am discouraged by what looks to me like the utter failure of most judges to commit to a decision that isn’t a decision to decide later. Over and over and over.

    It seems to me that Americans internalized the presidency as a benign autocracy and can’t shift the model. It reminds me of 17th century Poland and its elective monarchy.

  53. 53.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: The local news said schools provide their plan if an emergency occurs to the local police department.   Not sure what caused the delay.

    Truthfully it’s still murky.   Sheriff says multiple casualties, but all that is confirmed is one patient was air lifted to Grady hospital.

  57. 57.

    Belafon

    I also found an R&B list:

     

    Rock Steady – Aretha Franklin

    Motownphilly – Boys II Men

    Work from Home – Fifth Harmony ft. Ty Dolla $ign

    Needed Me – Rihanna

    Cuff It – Beyoncé

    About Damn Time – Lizzo

    Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It – Will Smith

    Rhythm Nation – Janet Jackson

    Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe – Barry White

    Kiss – Prince & The Revolution

    Respect – Aretha Franklin

    Rapper’s Delight – Sugar Hill Gang

    All Night Long – Lionel Richie

    Bonfire – Childish Gambino

    Rock With You – Michael Jackson

    https://www.heart.org/en/about-us/office-of-health-equity/black-history-month/be-the-beat-playlist

  60. 60.

    Lapassionara

    @Scout211: Orders denying removal are not usually immediately appealable, IIRC. I don’t see the Second Circuit making an exception to that rule, but I suppose it is possible, since with Trump it appears that any legal avenue he decides to take becomes possible.

  61. 61.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    Most do but it is an almost unfixable event. If someone wants to shoot up – say a school, but really any small to medium gathering,  they show up, start shooting and someone calls the cops who take 1-5 minutes to get there. There is zero logic in the thought process in this. It’s all hate and stupidity. And the size of the population doesn’t help in this, 334 million, only 330 million more than when the constitution was signed and the fastest means of travel was a horse.

  69. 69.

    Captain C

    @Kosh III:

    But seriously, he should be given prison time of a 4 1/2 years plus parole for the rest of his miserable life.   Although, confiscating all his wealth and putting him in the poor house would be a much more satisfying sentence.

    Why not all of the above?

  70. 70.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @JPL:

    CNN is sayting there were causualties.    The students have been dismissed so the threat is gone, and a suspect is in custody.

    The threat is gone with respect to this shooting but the threat is never gone when school is in session. Something something freedom.

  71. 71.

    stinger

    Trump’s legal team filed the petition last week to move the state case to federal court in the wake of the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision.

    I knew that in the past some presidents had sex with women not their wives. I hadn’t realized it was part of their official duties.

  74. 74.

    sdhays

    @stinger: I’m fascinated to see how events that occurred prior even to the election, let alone him taking the oath of office, are now supposed to be “official acts”.

  75. 75.

    cmorenc

    @WaterGirl:

    @JPL: The ship has already sailed on the chief justice’s reputation and that of his supreme court.  I hope that keeps him awake at night.

    Unfortunately, the ship has not yet sailed on the power of chief Justice and his 5 RW SCOTUS cohorts to continue running interference for Trump, in addition to continuing to inflict wreckage on US Constitutional and federal law.  Even if they end up effectively cutting Donnie loose from their protective cloak, the overruling of the Chevron case frees them to become a shadow Administrative government arbitrarily undermining the real one on every policy they dislike as an “arbitrary and capricious” extension of government power beyond what the statutory text will support.  We won’t really be rid of Trump unless and until we get rid of the far-RW SCOTUS majority Trump installed.

  76. 76.

    rikyrah

    Pop Crave
    @PopCrave
    Megan Thee Stallion on Kamala Harris running for president:

    “To be alive in a lifetime where a Black woman or a woman at all could be the president, I feel so blessed. This is what the future is about. We really about to get a strong, Black female in there. I feel like America needed a woman to come in here and put a woman’s touch on it. It’s been going a little crazy lately, and we need somebody to put their foot down. I feel like Kamala, she gon’ do that.” (via
    @billboard
    )
    https://x.com/PopCrave/status/1831343729904423218

  78. 78.

    Anoniminous

    @JPL:

    police response time lagged

    O doughnut thirty perhaps?

    Having worked with cops during emergencies their training and response time are lousy. As in:
    1. They don’t know what to do when they
    2. Show up a day late and dollar short

  80. 80.

    Steve in the ATL

    No worries—our governor has solved the issue of school shootings:

    Kemp said he’s “praying for the safety of those in our classrooms, both in Barrow County and across the state.”

  83. 83.

    Trollhattan

    Congratulations America, you’re back atop the BBC and Deutsche Welle news pages, where they’re again scratching their heads over our gun policies.

  84. 84.

    Lobo

    Sadly and tragically here is the Onion headline:

    ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

    Guns ruin everything.

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