Trump’s attorneys say Judge Tanya Chutkan has made statements that “create a perception of prejudgment.”

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        Defense counsel should probably remember that after a certain number of improper actions, they’ll be defending their status to stand before the bar as well as defending Trump.

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      You could also cross out either black or woman from that sentence and it will still ring true for him. Take your pick.

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      He wrote himself a pardon he can’t use. Watch for everyone trying to squirm and make this a federal case - those are the ones with pocket pardons.

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    Of course he didn’t ask the judge assigned to his case that HE APPOINTED to recuse herself.

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          I can’t believe a fucking ex-President has so many on-going criminal cases that we get confused over them… and that he’s still a front runner to be nominated again.

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            And that’s all those indictments are a selling point to his base, because they see it as proof of him being unfairly persecuted and not properly prosecuted.

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              It seems to me that if he’s being “UnFaIrLy PrOsEcUtEd” that he could easily find a crack team of high-powered lawyers who would fall over themselves to defend a former president from unjust legal action.

              But he can’t.

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    “This was nothing less than an attempt to violently overthrow the government, the legally, lawfully, peacefully elected government, by individuals who were mad that their guy lost,” Chutkan said during one October 2022 hearing, later adding, “it’s blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.” (my emphasis)

    “The people who exhorted you and encouraged you and rallied you to go and take action and to fight have not been charged,” Chutkan said during Palmer’s December 2021 sentencing hearing.

    Those are simple statements of fact.

    Trump’s attorneys have indicated they may seek removal to federal court in another of his cases, in which he’s charged alongside 18 co-defendants in Fulton County, Georgia, for allegedly orchestrating a “criminal enterprise” to thwart the 2020 election results in battleground state.

    Judge Jones’ ruling denying Meadows’ motion to remove makes it absolutely clear that none of these Georgia defendants meet the “low bar” for federal protection from State prosecution for performing their federal duties. Why? Because interfering in a State election is not a federal duty.

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    Typical GOP playbook: Shatter all norms/precedents/ethics to supplant their own agenda/power, but then cry bloody murder when an opponent approaches even a modicum of doing the same.

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    …and upon his conviction, this will be submitted as grounds for appeal. It will never ever end for Trump.

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    It’s too bad Harlan Crow only allows one black person in his life. If this judge was a friend of his, Trump wouldn’t have asked that.