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    https://twitter.com/AliBaumanTV/status/1643249606854078468
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    It's going to slip under the radar due to the Trump stuff today, but earthquake news from Wisconsin: https://twitter.com/SplitTicket_/status/1643428667983556608 If they follow in the reverse footsteps of NC, where the Republicans flipped the court and immediately reversed all of its recent rulings including on gerrymandering, the new Wisconsin court will probably do the opposite and force competitive maps there for the first time in eternity. Maybe a Michigan part 2? UPDATE: The GOP appears to have held onto an open Senate seat to restore their supermajority, and they've already bounced around the idea of impeaching Protasiewicz to prevent her so the fireworks may not be over yet. https://twitter.com/SplitTicket_/status/1643444263525711872 UPDATE x2: Apparently impeachment doesn't apply to judges, which has a separate removal process that requires supermajorities in both houses (which WI GOP don't have). https://twitter.com/IanJJamison/status/1643446995619545097
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    when are you going to invite your niece to test it out?
  4. Raptorpat
    Are you saying he used his remarks in response to the NY indictment to complain about a separate, federal investigation?
  5. Raptorpat
    Did you... read... anything?
  6. Raptorpat
    DA's press conference is here: https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-to-hold-press-conference-following-supreme-court-arraignment-of-donald-j-trump/
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    The links are in the DA tweet I linked earlier and I skimmed them at the end of work a few hours ago. But it looked like each of the charges ties to an individual check (the alleged fraudulent reimbursements to Lawyer A were broken up into monthly installments). So it's not that one big crime was broken up into 34 bits, it's that the crime was repeated that many times. That would mean it's an up or down question, either it was fraudulent to cover up another crime or it wasn't. If it's not, he's off the hook. If it is, he's on the hook x34.
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    https://twitter.com/ManhattanDA/status/1643336754642952192?s=20
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    https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1643331688578134019?s=20
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    We still haven't seen any of their materials yet, and USDOJ guidance is completely irrelevant to state prosecutions.
  11. Raptorpat
    We knew the national enquirer paid off another women on his behalf, iunno if this is her or not.
  12. Raptorpat
    NBC just got a note slipped out of the room. 34 counts of falsifying business records and conspiracy, relates to hush payments to two separate women.
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    the only person completely immune from trump-style name-calling https://twitter.com/StormyDaniels/status/1643318360761876486?s=20
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    They're in the courtroom, which is blacked out and no communications are supposed to be going in our out until it's over. So we'll find out eventually.
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    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1643265444575313920?s=20
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    https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1643299195938299909?s=20
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    That's a bit of a stickier wicket to actually untangle what culpability he might have to contribute to a national post-covid crime wave. But my point was that he wrote a legalese memo exercising his prosecutorial discretion without regards to the optics and has been attacked by adversaries and nonlawyers ever since, and then he dropped the other Trump case because he thought it was too difficult to prove and got attacked by Democrats. So I just don't see him throwing flimsy claims against the wall to play in the game, it just feels out of character.
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    But we don't even know what the state charges are yet. He dropped the Cy Vance tax fraud case, which is separate from this Stormy hush money case. This is actually a main factor in the "by the book" approach that I'm talking about. After he was elected, he circulated an internal memo setting his prosecutorial priorities for his term which included not wasting resources on prosecuting poor kids jumping MTA turnstiles or low level crimes that aren't attached to felonies. Which, regardless of the merits, created all sorts of political drama through to today solely because he wrote a legalese memo about prosecutorial discretion without regard to the political optics.
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    https://twitter.com/annagronewold/status/1643279506734473216?s=20
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    I don't think Bragg is throwing things at the wall to make them stick. He dropped the Trump tax fraud case that he inherited a year ago when he took office (and got a lot of flack and resignations over it) because he didn't think he could prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt. Worth remembering that Bragg's been really bad at the optics game since he won his race in 2021 because he's always been a staff attorney and not a real politician. So he's always been by-the-book even to his own detriment. Without seeing the charges, I just have a hard time believing he'd completely flip his persona to throw flimsy charges at the wall just to make national Democrats happy.
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    I wonder if they are precluded from re-running for their seats after expulsion?
  22. Raptorpat
    He knows they're too pot-committed to ever leave Florida. So he's trying to assert his dominance over a "woke corporation" to please the base/burnish his street cred in advance of his run. And while the army of lawyers are running his team around in circles and buying time on RCID, Iger is publicly declaring Disney's intent to continue prioritizing diversity in its content.
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    https://deadline.com/2023/04/disney-ceo-bob-iger-retaliation-by-florida-gov-ron-desantis-anti-business-anti-florida-1235316451/amp/
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    https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1642985265214963712?s=20
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    when I load Twitter now, there's a doge at the top
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