Friday, June 03, 2022

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I think I'm enjoying this because back before law school, when I worked for a law firm, I worked on a case with a pro se plaintiff. I still have memories of that asshole in his deposition. Judges tend to cut pro se parties some slack they obviously wouldn't give to legal counsel. But that doesn't mean the judge gives them the keys to the courthouse. I want to agree with Popehat, who has more criminal experience than I (by far): , and yes, Navarro does sound like this: But according to Ryan Reilly, Navarro was treated excessively well (and is too dumb/arrogant to know it): As you can see above, he was standing outside the courthouse after having been brought there by the FBI. And the magistrate basically told Navarro to text or call DOJ before he travels out of town. Basically Trump Very Lite, and seemingly an expectation that the next stop is the Supreme Court. He's not getting that kind of extraordinary relief without a lawyer, Harvard Ph.D or no. And this, from his post-court appearance before TV cameras, is priceless:

Navarro went to lament what he sees as the "undue punishment of citizens of this country" and the "disregard" for the Constitution. He was also apparently upset at the disregard for his public appearances.

Irony is in the corner laughing herself sick, because Navarro put his "Green Bay Sweep" plan to overturn the election into a book:

The Green Bay Sweep is Peter Navarro's name for a procedural strategy to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. He outlined the plot in a book published in November 2021 and spoke about it in multiple media interviews. It took its name from the Packers sweep, where the Green Bay Packers of the 1950s and '60s, led by Vince Lombardi, would flood a zone with blockers, allowing the football to be advanced dependably behind them. In the political iteration, devised by Steve Bannon, the Electoral College vote count would be blocked by repeated challenges to various state's vote counts by Republican members of the House and Senate favorable to Donald Trump. Each challenge could take up to two hours of debate by each chamber, individually, leading to as much of 24 hours of televised hearings.

According to the plan, public pressure created by the delay would lead state legislatures in six key battleground states with Republican-dominated legislatures – Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada – to de-certify election results, with the intended outcome that Trump would have more certified electoral college votes than the election's actual winner, Joe Biden.

"Disregard" for the Constitution?  Heaven forfend!

Oh, let's go a bit deeper into this:

Yes, I'm pretty sure "Aloi" is with the DOJ, because: As Popehat said, pro se is Latin for "absolute fucking circus."  Apparently Navarro did have a public defender assigned to him, who spent most of the hearing telling Navarro, to no avail, to shut up.

Just as well.  What would we have for comic relief if he remained silent?
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