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Is Rudy Giuliani Actually Broke? We hear a lot about Giuliani's debts and defaults. What about his revenue and assets? His debts and defaults include the following: His accountants have sued him for past-due fees. His former attorney has sued him for $1.4 million in unpaid legal bills. The...

Lots of people wax eloquently about what a court will do, only to find out different when the court actually rules.

Judge Chutkan Hits the Pause Button CNN: "The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case has temporarily paused all procedural deadlines while appeals over a major issue play out – which could lead to his March 2024 trial date being pushed back. "The order from...

I was thinking of the 1,000+ insurrectionists who have pleaded guilty to or been convicted of crimes.

Key word: "potentially." It could just as potentially lead to a significant defeat. I can see why this excites MAGA. Court victories for Trump and his followers are rare. That's because Trump brings garbage cases to court, and because MAGA people are often on the wrong side of the law. This...

Another Trump Immunity Claim Bites the Dust "Donald Trump cannot assert presidential immunity from a defamation lawsuit by writer E Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, a US appeals court has ruled,..." (Source)

If by "accept" you mean recognize it as the law of the land, the left accepts the rulings of the courts. That does not mean they agree with the rulings, but the accept them as the law of the land. An example is Row v. Wade. When the current Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade, the...

I remember when cable TV first started. No ads for people who paid for their TV. Then the ads came. So too with Amazon's streaming service. No ads early. Then the ads came.

More about this is below. As Sativa says, "This could potentially lead to a significant victory for the defendants." It also could lead potentially to a significant defeat.

Review it they will. If the Supreme Court upholds the lower-court ruling, would you still maintain that the statute was misused, or would you accept the ruling and say the statute was properly applied?

A New Wrinkle as SCOTUS Takes up Fischer v. the United States This is a potentially significant development. "The justices said Wednesday they will decide whether Joseph Fischer can be charged under a 2002 law that grew out of the Enron Corp. collapse for obstructing an official proceeding...

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The Defense Rests The Trump legal team rested its case today in the Trump's NY civil fraud trial. The prosecution will have a couple of rebuttal witnesses. Then things will go quiet for a bit while both sides prepare their final briefs. Then Judge Engoron will make his rulings. He has already...

Giuliani Steps in It https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/12/judge-giuliani-defamed-georgia-election-workers-00131288

What if the Supreme Court Says Trump is Immune? With the US Supreme Court now likely to soon take up the Trump immunity question, I expect they will rule Trump does not have presidential immunity and will not, for that reason, be protected from prosecution for the crimes he committed while in...

Trump's Statement RE Supreme Court Granting Smith's Petition "Donald Trump has released a statement slamming Special Counsel Jack Smith after the Supreme Court agreed to look at whether the former president can be criminally charged. ... "The statement said: 'As President Trump has said over...

That may solve one problem but create others. Some of the federal funding that goes to these universities funds research that has important national defense implications, supports businesses, supports desirable medical and scientific breakthroughs, etc. It's easy to propose funding cuts as a...

Correction I was incorrect about the number of US Supreme Court Justices required for a writ of certiorari petition to be granted. It is four, not five. There are nine justices on the Supreme Court. Note that if only four justices vote to grant certiorari, the remaining five could vote to deny...

There is a little more to it than that ... like four felony criminal indictments containing 91 counts. Actual criminal trials are ahead because actual crimes were committed. And given yesterday's developments, no less an authority than the conservative US Supreme Court seems to agree. No man...