In other news, the scythe-cutting of my acre of lawn was completed this week and it’s now time to start over again. Scythe cutting is quiet and can be done in the early morning when the birds are at their peak, and the slightly moist and stiffened grass is easiest to slice.

gonzotx | April 21, 2024 at 10:07 am

The answer is “no”, of course.

Speaker Johnson has no courage

https://amgreatness.com/2024/04/21/flouting-congressional-will-the-biden-administration-rescinds-womens-rights/

RNJD in reply to gonzotx. | April 21, 2024 at 2:08 pm

Actually Speaker Johnson showed a great deal of moral courage this week. Certainly more than those “Freedom Caucus” fools who think the best way to win elections is to throw yet another Speaker under the bus. Yeah, let’s have more chaos….that will win us votes! 🙄

ALPAPilot | April 21, 2024 at 10:28 am

I’ll ask this question again for all the NY legal people:

§175.05 – 10A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree
when, with intent to defraud, he:

Makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an
enterprise; or

when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit
another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.

§200.50An indictment must contain:
7. A plain and concise factual statement in each count which, without allegations of an evidentiary nature,
(a) asserts facts supporting every element of the offense charged and the defendant’s or defendants’ commission thereof with sufficient precision to clearly apprise the defendant or defendants of the conduct which is the subject of the accusation; and

As far as I can tell, there are at least 3 elements:

1. false statement
2. intent to defraud
3. intent to commit or conceal another crime.

The indictment only addresses the false statement. How can this be legit?

georgfelis in reply to ALPAPilot. | April 21, 2024 at 8:10 pm

(non-lawyer take, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express and I do listen to Gouveia’s podcasts) To call this case tissue-thin is to insult tissues. The theory they’re hanging this on is payments to Cohen (who was not on the campaign staff) using personal funds somehow caused a campaign benefit to Trump, despite all the payments taking place *after* the election. Since this is supposedly a Federal campaign financing violation (It isn’t), that can be used to bootstrap the supposed NY campaign funding violation (which it isn’t either) in order to make the NY statute of limitations go away. The Feds admitted this was not a campaign finance violation back when it was revealed, Bragg’s office admitted it was not a campaign violation when they first received it, then doubled back and sent it to the most rabid anti-Trump judge they could find when Matthew Colangelo was sent over from the Biden DOJ to spearhead the political trial into the Biden administration’s political opponent.

ALPAPilot in reply to georgfelis. | April 21, 2024 at 8:59 pm

I’ve certainly read this in the press as speculation, but not making part of the indictment seems like it violates both NY law and the sixth amendment requirement that the charges be specified.

Mislabeling an expense in and of itself is no crime at all, so the indictment fails to tell us what actions Trump did that make it a crime.

That seems both crazy and unjust.

ALPAPilot in reply to ALPAPilot. | April 21, 2024 at 9:03 pm

One wonders that if Trump gets elected his choice for DA SDNY indicts Bragg and this judge for willfully violating Constitutional Rights.

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