A Supreme Court case concerning double-jeopardy rules is receiving outsized attention due to its potential implications for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
At issue in the case heard Thursday is whether and when being tried in state and federal courts for the same crimes is permissible. Under a current constitutional exception, it has been allowed for years.
A court reversal here could be far-reaching – and represent a sea change in
how state, federal and tribal criminal cases are handled.
The justices raised tough questions Thursday about being tried twice for the same crime in different jurisdictions – "a double whammy," as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put it – yet a majority seemed inclined to preserve what the Trump administration calls 170 years of precedent allowing an exception to the double jeopardy provision.
Michael Flynn sentencing memo did not redact one key bit of information: the memo clearly states that the Trump transition team was heavily involved in Flynn’s illegal dealings with Russia. The man who headed up the Trump transition team was none other than Vice President Mike Pence. Pence, while defending Michael Flynn on television, knew that Flynn was also lying about his contacts with Russia. Flynn committed numerous crimes, and Mike Pence did everything possible to cover up those crimes. Pence will be implicated in those very same crimes as well.
ReplyDeleteflynn is charged with collusion in the biggest political crime of the century and he gets ZERO time in jail. And Pence will not e charged with anything. He is as pure as driven snow. My suggestion: get back on your meds.
DeleteWhen Fox News throws Trump under the bus, you know it's over.
ReplyDeleteYesterday, Fox News pundit “Judge Andrew Napolitano” made the pronouncement that he expects Donald Trump Jr to be indicted and arrested. Now, Tucker Carlson is announcing that Donald Trump is “not capable” of doing the job, and that he hasn’t delivered on his promises. That’s quite a change of direction for a guy who generally serves as a Trump cheerleader, while spinning phony conspiracy theories about Trump’s adversaries. This kind of thing doesn’t tend to happen at a tightly scripted propaganda outlet like Fox, unless it comes from the top.
Cohen's sentencing memo names Trump as a criminal co-conspirator in campaign finance felonies.
Looking forward to the Manafort memo tonight, you? You'll be squirming like a worm.
It's coming. Even Fox News knows it.
"Nothing will happen" - Smithson.
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Napolitano has never been supportive of Trump, a know-it-all who has been wrong as much as he has been correct. I quit listening to the Judge a long time ago.
Delete“The Dec 7 filing in SDNY on Michael Cohen’s sentencing charges that President Trump (aka “Individual 1”) directed a criminal conspiracy with his attorney Cohen to violate the federal election laws in order to increase his odds of winning the presidency by deceiving voters.” - Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe
ReplyDeleteVarious legal experts are saying that Donald Trump would be criminally indicted and arrested right now if he weren’t holding the office of “president.”
And none of this includes what is yet to come: Trump - Russia conspiracy.
“The Dec 7 filing in SDNY on Michael Cohen’s sentencing charges that President Trump (aka “Individual 1”) directed a criminal conspiracy with his attorney Cohen to violate the federal election laws
DeleteThe Dec 7 filing says no such thing . . . nothing about a criminal enterprise to subvert the election. He didn't need to do that. He was running against an entitled and lazy candidate. Didn't need help to beat a corrupt and lazy politician such as Hillary.
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