Friday, August 04, 2023

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CRAZY!" Trump began. "My political opponent has hit me with a barrage of weak lawsuits, including D.A., A.G., and others, which require massive amounts of my time & money to adjudicate. Resources that would have gone into Ads and Rallies, will now have to be spent fighting these Radical Left Thugs in numerous courts throughout the  Country. I am leading in all Polls, including against Crooked Joe, but this is not a level playing field. It is Election Interference, & the Supreme Court must intercede. MAGA!"
They might; just not in the way Trump means.
According to reporting by Sarah Lynch and Jacqueline Thompson, Cannon "closed jury selection for the trial of an Alabama man — accused by federal prosecutors of running a website with images of child sex abuse — to the defendant's family and the general public, a trial transcript obtained by Reuters showed. A defendant's right to a public trial is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Sixth Amendment." 
Cannon also forgot to swear in the jury pool before selection, which forced the whole process to be restarted, before the defendant pleaded guilty. 
Santa Clara Law School professor Stephen Smith was aghast at these errors, saying, "She ignored the public trial right entirely. It's as though she didn't know it existed." 
Experts say that errors of this sort, which deprive defendants of constitutional rights, are so severe the Supreme Court has recognized them as grounds for invalidating the whole trial.
She really is a dumpster fire. (And no, if she clowns up the MAL case this badly, it doesn't mean Trump wins.  It just means there's a new trial, probably with a new, competent judge.  Her weaknesses in the court room are not an advantage for Trump.  Even if this is the case that takes the longest to resolve, he's still got Georgia and Manhattan and D.C. on his plate.  As Neal Katyal observed, Trump has been in court more in four months than most lawyers.)
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