The Hall of Fire

I doubt the new rule with survive legal challenges, sadly. Not with the Roberts court.

Exactly.

Personally I would prefer not to have that kind of reporting here.

This pretty much sums up the gag order hearing so far.

There is a huge trowel of information that has been revealed now that Trump's motion to compel discovery and the hundreds of pages of exhibits have been docketed in a heavily redacted form. That motion was filed on January 16 and the opposition was filed on February 2, and Cannon still has not ruled.

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No. Cohen doesn't just get to decide what he can and cannot say, that is up the judge and Trump's violation of the gag order would more likely be relevant to impeaching Trump's own testimony (if he did testify) rather than justifying Cohen's name-calling. Anyway, saying "I'm sleazeball because ...

I meant to mention Trump's potential further violation of the gag order earlier, but didn't. I'm sure that the prosecutors will mention that at the hearing tomorrow, but I doubt that the judge will specifically address it (though maybe I am wrong).

A reminder that the "star witness" is almost as awful as the defendant.



Two peas in a pod.

This Lawfare dispatch is worth watching, if only for Ben Wittes description of David Pecker, and his laugh.

Trump insists that he is going to testify. In related news, there is a bridge for sale in Brooklyn (or oceanfront property in Kansas, if you prefer).

As Hugo Lowell says, here is the second prong of Trump's defense: https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1782431576204169268 But it is not the non-disclosure agreement that was illegal, it was the false documents that covered up the non-disclosure agreement that were illegal, and the failure to repor...

Here is Trump's defense in a nutshell: https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1782430020801044632 The problem with this is that there is abundant evidence (not just the word of convicted felon Michael Cohen) that this is not true. By making this argument, the defense risks it backfiring in the f...

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:55 pm I'm not seeing the word "conspiracy" in either of those documents.

And yet, the very first statement in the prosecutor Matthew Colangelo's opening statement was ""This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a cover up."

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It seems to me (please correct me if I am wrong) that every university president that has been summoned to testify before the House about campus antisemitism has been a woman. There was former Harvard president Claudine Gay, former Penn president Liz Magill, MIT president Sally Cornbluth and now Col...

I had not seen that but I now see that Maggie Hagerman tweeted that earlier today.



Will we be seeing at Truth Social posts about Pecket overnight?

I wonder if this helped push through aid for Ukraine. BBC: German spying: Two men held over suspected Russian sabotage plot The two men, described as dual German-Russian nationals, were detained in Bayreuth on suspicion of spying for Russia, prosecutors say. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said auth...

Sunny, John Hurt voiced Aragorn in Bakshi's animated LOTR (and later played the character "Kane" in Aliens, who had a very bad case of indigestion).