Pinning this one and removing the others as it was first and has the most engagement.
If you’re trying to keep track of where we’re at in the Trump prosecutions:
Updated 07/15/2024
New York
34 state felonies
Stormy Daniels Payoff
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest
Trial
Conviction <- You Are Here Guilty, all 34 counts.
Sentencing - Originally scheduled for July 11, 2024, now delayed until September 18th following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Presidential immunity.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/trump-sentencing-date-delay-proposal/index.htmlWashington, D.C.
4 federal felonies
January 6th Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - The trial, originally scheduled for March 4th, had been placed on hold pending the Supreme Court ruling on Presidential Immunity.
The Supreme Court ruled that the President does enjoy limited immunity for “official acts”, it now returns to lower court to determine what, if any, of his acts leading up to 1/6 were “official”.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/politics/supreme-court-donald-trump-immunity/index.html
Conviction
SentencingGeorgia
10 state felonies
Election Interference
As of 3/13/24 - Judge McAfee cleared 6 charges, 3 against Trump, saying they were too generic to be enforced.
As of 3/15/24 - The case may proceed, but either Fulton County DA, Fani Willis and her office or Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade must remove themselves due to the appearance of impropriety.
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
All 19 defendants have surrendered.
Trial - October 4th, 2024 hearing has been set to determine if Fani Willis can remain on the case.
Three defendants, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, and bail bondsman Scott Hall, have all pled guilty and have agreed to testify in other cases.
Conviction
SentencingFlorida
40 federal felonies
Top Secret Documents charges
Investigation
Indictment
Original indictment was for 37 felonies. 3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - The trial had been set to begin May 20, 2024, but was subsequently delayed indefinitely by the judge, and has now been dismissed outright under the claims that the prosecutor was not Constitutionally appointed.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-tosses-trump-documents-case-ruling-prosecutor-unlawfully-appointed-2024-07-15/
The expectation is that this will be appealed and the Judge removed from the case.
Conviction
SentencingOther grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, or the Arizona fake electors, have not been announced.
The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again resulting in a demand for $10 million is not listed as it’s a civil case and not a crimimal one. He was found liable in that case for $83.3 million.
There had been multiple cases in multiple states to remove Trump from the ballot, citing ineligibility under the 14th amendment.
The Supreme Court ruled on March 4th that states do not have the ability to determine eligibility in Federal elections.
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She really dismissed it over the appointment of a special prosecutor? Completely insane, but the fake Supreme Court will probably rubber stamp it. America is so fucked.
Its all good, now they can have her removed from the case
and she doesn’t get to rule on a lot of the key decisions she had been dragging her feet on, so when she is replaced that judge will not have to inherit her bullshit decisions on important aspects of the case.
This. Jack Smith hasn’t been able to nail her on any of her antics thus far, as they’ve been plausibly deniable, but her specious reasoning for the dismissal is a prime target for reversal by the 11th Circuit. She’s so bad at her job, she can’t even stall properly.
If Smith doesn’t go to the 11th Circuit, then he was a terrible choice to begin with, and he was never going to win anything.
The question now might be whether he appeals to the 11th Circuit Court or straight to the Supreme Court. I fear either way may be too slow to get anywhere before November.
I doubt this will run its course before November, but if it can be a drain on his sanity and coffers, I’d say it’s still in the public interest to keep it going. As someone who listens to Knowledge Fight often, this kind of stuff gets under their skin and derails their ability to be effective at messaging.
Ultimately, it’s in the public interest to keep going, if only because it’s still a crime that deserves to be tried on the real possibility that he loses in November.
Agreed. It’s all very disgusting but no reason for despair, just continued fight.
True, but it will all take so long that the case still won’t get anywhere before the election. In a way this might even have been the judge’s ultimate delay tactic, capping off the slow-walk that she already perpetrated.
It’ll put more pressure on Trump’s system so I can’t complain. Its obv bullshit but it gets the rubes’ hopes up so it all balances out. I don’t buy his assassination attempt has changed anything
It changes nothing, it’s even worse it was a republican that did it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Washington — The federal judge overseeing the case alleging former President Donald Trump mishandled sensitive government documents after leaving the White House has dismissed the charges against him.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
The original article contains 37 words, the summary contains 37 words. Saved 0%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
The guy can do anything… unreal.
Except hold a glass of water with one hand. Or walk down a slight slope unassisted.
Or control his own bowels.
Ironically this would also invalidate any of the cases against Hunter Biden if the supreme court agrees with her.
“IrONiCAllY”. dude. if you haven’t been paying even the slightest attention, the fix is in for Trump alone, it does not translate to anyone else, for anything else. jfc.
Cannon’s ruling is going to be appealed. If it gets appealed all the way to the supreme court, again (and Clarence Thomas has specifically asked for this in one of his prior rulings), and the supreme court holds with them, then any charges brought by a special counsel im any case are gone. Her ruling invalidates special counsels in general.
The scary part about this is it means that if Trump were to win he would have every excuse and cover from the judiciary to hand pick his own justice department attorney hires to go after people with no semblance of independence. After all, special counsels aren’t even allowed to be used anymore. So you’re of course right, it does fit into a larger fascist plant, and I certainly don’t mean to imply that it doesn’t or this isn’t all for Trump’s benefit.
I just wanted to point out that the current move would also be able to get Hunter Biden off the hook on the off chance that it gets anyone blindly supporting Trump immunity to stop and think for a second that maybe this isn’t actually a good thing (since a lot of them seem to have some pretty extreme beliefs about Hunter Biden going to jail).
“be able to”, no, it won’t. nothing that applies to trump, applies to anyone else, in any circumstance, ever, no matter the legal grounds or precedent. haven’t you learned anything yet? i mean, at all, about what’s been going on.
Cannon’s ruling is going to be appealed. If it gets appealed all the way to the supreme court, again (and Clarence Thomas has specifically asked for this in one of his prior rulings), and the supreme court holds with them, then any charges brought by a special counsel in any case are gone.
Have you been paying attention? For the last two and a half years, we’ve seen the entire court system bend over backwards to carve out special exemptions that only apply to Trump, or make Trump exempt from certain laws because reasons. Trump has received special accomodations for no reason other than the fact that he’s Donald Trump. They could very easily declare that the Supreme Court will determine which special counsels are valid and which ones aren’t on a case-by-case basis. And in this case, the special counsel is invalid because Trump couldn’t have been investigated for official acts in the first place, per their previous ruling. And since this presidential immunity doesn’t also cover the president’s children, the special counsel in that case is valid and therefore Hunter’s conviction stands.
If you objectively follow the logic of their previous rulings, this is pretty much where that road leads to. Special counsels investigating Trump are invalid because Trump is covered by Presidential immunity. Special counsels against Hunter biden are valid because that immunity doesn’t cover a president’s son (until Eric, Don, Ivanka, or Jared need it to). Special counsels currently investigating Biden are valid because it’s not the court’s place to interfere in ongoing investigations, and removing the special counsels would be too disruptive. Or something. It makes sense as long as you don’t think about it too hard. Or at all. Or if you’re a brazenly corrupt Supreme Court judge.
Precedent doesn’t matter any more. The rules now apply when the Supreme Court says they do. And if they say that the rule only applies to Trump because fuck you that’s why, they’re going to say that the rule only applies to Trump because fuck you that’s why.
that is precisely what I’m saying
Trump Appointed Judge Aileen Cannon just made it LEGAL to share TOP SECRET SCIF DOCUMENTS with LITERALLY anybody in the World including our Enemies! But it’s JUDGE MERCHAN’S DAUGHTER we need to worry about!
War Thunder players are going to be so stoked!
Nope. She just said it was ok for trump. Rules for thee.
District Judge Aileen Cannon said in a 93-page order that she has granted Trump’s bid to dismiss the indictment based on the unlawful funding and appointment of special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the charges against the former president.
Yes, and even easier for SCOTUS to over-overturn.
LOL
I wouldn’t be so certain.
In that case I have a great deal on a bridge . . .
Corruption-of-Justice Thomas already agrees with her.
All they have to do is say it was an official act.
I bet they’ll stall until after the election so they can look reasonable if he loses but make the power grab if he wins
And if Trump loses ol Joe says we should move on to heal the country and gives Trump a reach-around just to show he means it, no malarkey.
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Work is never overwhat song is that from? sounds familiar
daft punk?
Seventh months later…
One would think, yes.
Fucking traitor cunt. No wonder that kid in PA took matters into his own hands. This is unbelievable.
I hate to say it, and I know it’s going to sound fatalistic, but her decision is very likely going to stand.
Clarence Thomas literally handed her this argument on a silver platter. And say what you will about him, the legal system still considers him one of nine justices of the highest court in the land, and his words still carry that legal weight.
If Jack Smith appeals, there’s (IMO), a 50/50 chance he wins on appeal. I could see the appeals court using things like logic and rational thought, kicking Cannon off the case and reinstating the charges against Trump (Or however that would work in the legal sense). But I could also see them saying that since she was merely following what Clarence Thomas told her to do, her decision is on sound legal footing, would most likely survive Supreme Court scrutiny, her decision was proper based on the SC ruling, and the decision stands. And from a strictly legal standpoint, they’d be right in doing so.
And if this case were to make it all the way up to the SC…since Cannon was literally following their blueprint, there’s 0% chance that they’ll suddenly rule against her. Nothing good can come out of appealing to the Supreme Court, and in fact it may be exactly what this supreme court wants and why Clarence Thomas added that little tidbit into the decision, so the SC can rule that all special counsels are illegal and the entire J6 investigation was unconstitutional as a result.
(Of course, Hunter Biden’s conviction will still stand, because reasons…)
This case is dead. The other three are on life support, and the doctor has already called for the chaplain to deliver last rites.
It’s even worse than that, it had nothing to do with Thomas or SC. She claims the AG has no constitutional authority to appoint a special counsel.
Because Thomas literally gave her that argument to make in the immunity ruling. She literally cited his comments and basically copied his ruling like a high school kid copying off the “smart” kid in the class.
He basically told her “Hey, throw the case out. We’ve got your back.”
Except nobody signed on to his concurrence. He was acting alone in his “analysis”
That’s the Thomas two-step. He uses these concurrences to issue marching orders to the judges below him, so that it can be challenged up to the Supreme Court and then his concurrence becomes precedent.
Thomas is not the supreme court. And he’s starting to alienate himself from even the other conservative justices. He’s on an island and I doubt the others would follow his lead if this reaches SCOTUS on appeal.
They’ll rule it’s Constitutional to hunt Democrats for their pelts and you’ll still be pretending the Court is legitimate. 🙄
Oh, suddenly she can move quickly on something when there’s political cover.
Unbelievable corruption.
This sounds like a constitutional question for the Supreme Court, right?
Absolutely, we know that they will decide bases on the time-honired precedent of which side provides the biggest RV as a “gratuity”
John Oliver offered a pretty big RV but Thomas didn’t take him up on it.
That’s because it wasn’t a motor coach. Clearance Thomas has standards.
It was, actually. Blew the rest of the season’s budget on it too lol
He has to weigh that against the luxury fishing vacations.
Now that’s not fair, there are also hunting vacations.
The “liberal media” is not “tripping over themselves to talk about this like it’s some complicated issue”.
The Washington Post called bullshit:
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ruling is a remarkable win for Trump, whose lawyers have thrown longshot argument after longshot argument to dismiss the case. Other courts have rejected similar arguments to the one that he made in Florida about the legality of Smith’s appointment.
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Cannon’s decision comes as Trump is preparing to be formally nominated as the Republican presidential nominee in this year’s election, with the Republican National Convention beginning in Milwaukee on Monday.
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The legal theory that Smith was illegally appointed and funded has generally been considered far-fetched. Trump’s legal team didn’t adopt the argument in court until conservative legal groups pushed it.
“Maintaining an aura of objectivity” is itself blatant pro-fascist bias!
Nowhere do they explicitly connect this to her political ideology. That’s exactly my point, they’re soft-selling it.
The liberal media (no quotes needed, they’re corporate neoliberal) refuses to actually call a spade a spade.
This is not a critical article, this is just them shrugging and being like “Oh, well, it seems like tenuous grounds for dismissal but thems the licks.”
Without intent to offend, perhaps neutral reporting isn’t for you. They reported all the facts and leave you to come up with your own opinion, which is a mark of high-quality journalism.
They are a news agency. They are not here to tell you what to think of the news. You want your news to tell you what to think. I want my news to tell me what happened and give me the information necessary to form my own opinion.
If they said explicitly or implied that she did this because of her ideology, even if that is likely true, that would not be unbiased.
There is no such thing as neutral, unbiased reporting. Believing that there us is a mark of media illiteracy. Making the choice not to duscuss the obvious conflict of interest is a choice, it is a form of bias. Journalists cannot be unbiased, that’s not a possibility with the job.
We should not be allowing a dismantling of our democracy because “you have to be fair to bothsides”.
On the one side, this man is accused of murdering 30 people. On the other side, he’s been called a lover of puppies. Let’s meet in the middle and say he’s a bad driver.
This is an important detail often missed when discussing journalism, objectivity, bias, and, unfortunately, integrity. It’s a necessary piece of fabric that has been fraying for years. As another lemmy post some month ago put it, with the loss of the Cronkite era folks lost faith in the fourth estate. The tragedy is that the stratification of news by party and by medium is that anything right of CNN, most of the fringe blogosphere, and nearly all of the AM stations is that they are presenting opinionated hot takes as journalistic facts. Moreover, this tends to galvanize an already consitent voter base. It seems like without an emotional appeal to resisting consrvative ideologues the rhetoric and relative baseline just keep slipping.
“objectivity” is bullshit and will end up getting hundreds of millions of people killed.
So he got away with it, like everything else. What lesson is this supposed to teach the nation?
That should be reversed in about a week.
Should.
Should is such a funny word isn’t it?
Only the naive expectation is different from “ought to”
Supreme Court will get around to this right away I’m sure. Like, next June. Super fast.
Nah the circuit court in FL going to slap it down. Then scotus can do their corruption afterwards.
I envision the higher courts slapping it down a few times, then an eventual appeal up to the supreme court, who then if four justices are willing to go along with it, put the whole case on ice until next Summer while they argue this. Just like they did with the January 6th trial and presidential immunity rulings.
And then reversed again when the Extreme Court gets a hold of it. It must be nice to have your criminal cases decided by justices you’ve appointed.
Exactly
Well, if the legal justice system won’t do it’s job, maybe a vig- …oh wait…
So nice of his loyal toadie to let him off the hook like that.
I don’t want to say I’m surprised by this, but JFC…
