Wisdom and generous love are where you find them.
— The Best Ever Seen (@The__seen) February 19, 2023
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has a solid summary of the massive judgment against Trump & sons, and mr Trump’s initial reaction in social media.
Key spoiler (mine):At least mr Trump has his priorities right:https://t.co/BEAiudjAFV
— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) February 16, 2024
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit goes to the text of the $355 million dollar decision to show that Trump’s conduct in court contributed to the amount.
Key personal blunder:
By being an asshole and by having a witness who admitted perjury, he made it really easy for the judge to whack him with the Ruler of Justice.
- Dave Columbo considers both sides of Trump legal troubles:
- Interesting Thursday in Trumpville. Trump claims he is immune for whatever he did to anyone (that he says he definitely didn’t do to anyone) while he was President.
An appeals panel goes unanimous against, while they avoid laughing. They say that mr Trump can appeal, but just directly to the Supreme Court. Saves time.
Trump lawyers file a request to the Supreme Court to delay whatever they were going to do on his immunity claims. Then mr Trump decides to drop the whole appeal, delay and all, and go to trial.
But Trump lawfolk say they will keep claiming immunity.
The Palmer Report takes a look at the filing that Trump lawyers dropped, and finds only Trump style gibberish.
So maybe the entire lawyer filing was not intended to win in the Supreme Court. But it might have satisfied the unraveling mind of their client.
Bill Palmer speculates with reason: Senility may have become a major factor in mr Trump’s criminal trials
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson manages to slam Trump on Presidential immunity, Trump on border mendacity, and Trump general ignorance all in one brief passage:
If he knew about Magna Carta, Donald Trump would probably say it was a bad deal and King John should've held out for total immunity.
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) February 13, 2024
- I admit to my own bias on the 14th Amendment case against mr Trump:
I kind of hope the Supremes find some non-flimsy way to wiggle away from this result.https://t.co/6cGL4UYwhJ
— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) December 22, 2023
Which leads us to New York Times columnist David French:
Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez, writing as @normative, has some initial empathy with the judicial predicament:
…then burns to a cinder all logical bridges that might have led SCOTUS to safety:
Ouch! - Nan’s Notebook considers the actual wording of the 14th Amendment and sees a mostly unexamined, but better, reason Trump should be declared ineligible.
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