Trump Fails to Persuade Judge to Throw Out Jan 6. Civil Suit

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This is one of five or six KKK Act lawsuits pending against TFG. In addition to damages, there is a chance that in one or more of these cases, there could be a finding to keep TFG off the ballot. TFG has tried and failed to get these cases dismissed

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/trump-fails-to-persuade-judge-to-throw-out-jan-6-civil-suit?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics&utm_content=politics

Former president Donald Trump failed to persuade a judge to throw out a civil lawsuit brought by Capitol Police officers over injuries they suffered during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

US District Judge Amit Mehta on Thursday rejected Trump’s claim that presidential immunity protected him from liability for actions that were within his official duties.

The arguments raised by Trump and other defendants were “in large part duplicative of those the court already considered and addressed” in a previous civil suit against the former president, Mehta wrote. In that case, Mehta ruled that Trump’s speech at a rally preceding the riot went beyond protections afforded by the First Amendment and those shielding presidents from civil liability while in office. .....

The case brought by the Capitol police officers stands apart because of the long list of 20 defendants, Mehta wrote.

[Cha]

1. TY & Judge Amit Mehta!

Guess who's Steaming and Blew his Top?!

[UTUSN]

2. K& Big R #5

[True Blue American]

3. Slowly but Surely

The House of Cards is falling down!

[malaise]

4. Good

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Fuck the Slobfather
That is all

[fightforfreedom]

5. Trumps losing streak continues.

All of his arguments in court are being shot down. All investigations continue to move forward.

[MissMillie]

6. Time for the judge to stop the "frivolity" again

Seriously... he stalls and stalls. Every filing he makes looks just like the one before it, containing arguments that have already been decided.

$1 million in sanctions has apparently NOT deterred him or his lawyers in the least.

[LaMouffette]

7. Traitor Trump did NOTHING to stop the Jan. 6 attack for 187 minutes! He is GUILTY.

Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, GUILTY of dereliction of duty and stochastic terrorism.


[link:https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1112323797/jan-6-hearing-recap-187-minutes|

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack detailed former President Trump's "complete dereliction of duty" as he ignored pleas to condemn the violence and call off the mob from his White House Counsel, top aides and members of his own family.

"This man of unbridled destructive energy could not be moved, not by his aides, not by his allies, not by the violent chants of rioters, or the desperate pleas of those facing down the rioters," said Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., during Thursday's prime-time hearing.

[twodogsbarking]

8. Has Trump tried threatening the judge, his family, their entire state of residence?

[ProfessorGAC]

9. So The Claim Is...

...that the president, whose #1 responsibility is executing & enforcing the law, was performing an "official duty" by asking supporters to descend on the capitol in an angry rage?
No wonder it's dismissed. The official duties of the chief law enforcement officer do not include breaking the law & subverting the constitution.
Not seeing how the judge could decide any other way.