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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
US District Judge Amit Mehta on Thursday rejected Trumps 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 Trumps 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
(297,185 posts)Guess who's Steaming and Blew his Top?!
UTUSN
(70,684 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)The House of Cards is falling down!
malaise
(268,967 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 28, 2023, 11:00 AM - Edit history (1)
Fuck the Slobfather
That is all
fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)All of his arguments in court are being shot down. All investigations continue to move forward.
MissMillie
(38,553 posts)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
(2,030 posts)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|
"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
(9,739 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)...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.