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wow, what desperation. to claim that he should be held in contempt for filing paperwork with the court is fantastic in its absurdity
Not just any paperwork, and not to the court. Smith's team sent Trump's team discovery documents. They are literally crying because Smith's team is giving them requested documents even though they don't technically have to.
I imagine they are upset that it will prevent them from stalling further on the grounds that "they just received all of this material and we'll need time to go through it all!"
I'm sure they were hoping the appeal with buy them time then they'd try to get more time once they got the discovery. Jack Smith just blew up that dumb charade.
Is it? That's not what the article seems to say.
Judge also apparently agreed he shouldn't have done it, but said it also wasn't a big deal and they were being babies.
More specifically, the Judge said that there was nor order preventing the Gov from filing. She then issued an order to that effect; so if Smith continues doing it, there likely would be a contempt order issued.
it's just a delaying tactic... just file a never ending stream of pointless but legally valid motions, and they have to respond... which takes time...
that's been his main strategy forever...
How dare the prosecution file motions BEFORE a deadline! What do they think they are?!?!? Professionals?!?!???!? I demand they be held in contemp your honor!
I mean, trumps lawyers have done things like forget to ask for a jury, fail to comply with discovery, leading to automatically losing the case, and make the same flawed argument half a dozen times.
Maybe their view is a bit skewed
His lawyers willingly work for him. With his track record of treatment of legal counsel, that really speaks for itself.
They can change him! You don't know him like they do!
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Earlier this month, attorneys for Trump asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to hold Smith in contempt
Pot tries calling kettle black but then reveals that they're not even in the same room and the pot is actually a giant turd and the arguments are just fart noises and everything is shit because the pot won't stop touching things with its shit-covered hands. Then it turns out that the kettle actually was black when it really was supposed to be black the whole time, so it's really doing its job, but the pot is still a big heaping pile of putrid shit and acne puss and should stop calling itself a pot just because 40% of Americans are either loathsome or too stupid to be left alone with a box of crayons so they decided to elect their pile of shit-acne-puss to be recognized as a pot.
I'm pretty sure I lost the thread there, but fuck Trump.
It was a glorious journey in the reading.
I don't think it's fair to say 40% of Americans.
He only had ~74M votes in the last election, and he still lost. That equates generously to around 1/4 of all Americans (329M), back then. If the support numbers haven't shifted, that's still significantly under 25% of Americans that are too stupid to be left alone with a box of crayons.
Sad to see this history writing itself.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — The judge overseeing the federal election interference case against former President Donald Trump has rejected his request to hold special counsel Jack Smith and his office in contempt.
“This measure is an addition to the Stay Order, aimed to further advance its purposes, and does not reflect a determination that the Government has violated any of its clear and unambiguous terms or acted in bad faith,” she wrote.
Chutkan noted in her order that Smith's office was factually correct: Her motion did not forbid the special counsel from continuing to meet deadlines.
The motion earlier this month came from Trump lawyer John Lauro who argued that Smith should be held in contempt for an “unlawful” production of discovery and said that federal prosecutors are engaging in “partisan-driven misconduct.”
Trump is waiting for a ruling by a federal appeals court in a case in which he argues that he's immune from being prosecuted over his election interference efforts because he was president at the time.
She then quoted a prior statement she made in which she said seven months would be “sufficient time” to prepare for trial, suggesting that an additional few weeks could be added since the case has been paused since December.
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Well, first of all, first of all, I just want to say this: how dare he? I know, everyone knows, that if it's due today, do today. Am I right, folks? That's what hardworking Americans have been saying all along.
"Let's give all the jurors money and say it's from me!"
He's just in the courtroom, yelling random impossible shit