It looks like some folks are getting tired of letting the Malignant Loser play games with the judicial system.
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday requested that the state’s Supreme Court sanction Donald Trump and other defendants in her $250 million civil suit against him, accusing them of “frivolous conduct.”
James sued Trump, two of his children, Eric and Donald Trump Jr., and the Trump Organization last year over deploying deceptive business practices as part of a long-running alleged tax-dodging scheme. She also accused Donald Trump of inflating his net worth by $812 million to $2.2 billion each year from 2011 to 2021.
The case is set to go to trial Oct. 2.
In Tuesday’s court filing, James is asking that all defendants and their lawyers pay a total of $20,000 for using “previously-rejected arguments” several times.
She said her request for sanctions is “based on frivolous conduct by Defendants and their counsel in asserting legal arguments in connection with the parties’ pending dispositive motions that were previously rejected by this Court and the First Department in this action.”
Specifically, James argued that Trump used three arguments, including that the attorney general has no standing to bring this case against him, in several motions despite the fact that those arguments already had been turned down by the court in November 2022.
The court rejected these arguments for a second time in January after the defendants filed motions to dismiss, noting that they “were borderline frivolous even the first time defendants made them."...
It's too bad the sanctions wouldn't amount to much monetarily (the MAGAt cult would be covering the costs anyway, not the Malignant Loser). The clear effort to delay the proceedings is classic Malignant Loser, but this time he's not likely to get away with it, either with the prosecutor or the judge.
Federal election interference criminal case
Special counsel Jack Smith said Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks against prosecutors and judges threatened to influence potential jurors in his 2020 election interference case.
Smith’s team filed documents in court saying Trump has made “daily extrajudicial statements that threaten to prejudice the jury pool,” referencing the former president’s repeated statements on social media. Trump, who was indicted by a federal grand jury over his attempted coup to remain in office, has repeatedly called Smith “deranged” and attacked the judge assigned to the case, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, as “highly partisan” and “unfair.”
Chutkan warned Trump and his attorneys last month against making any “inflammatory” comments about his prosecution, adding that doing so would only add to the “urgency … that we proceed to a trial quickly.”
“I caution you and your client to take special care in your public statements about this case,” the judge told his lawyer in August. “I will take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard the integrity of these proceedings.”
But Trump has continued his attacks. On Tuesday, the former president posted on his Truth Social platform an attack on the special counsel for an “unchecked and insane aggression” against him.
Chutkan recently set a trial date for March 4, 2024, six months away, saying the public had the right to a swift case. Trump’s legal team had argued any prosecution should be pushed back for years, beyond any bid for office or reelection to the White House.
“I want to note here that setting a trial date does not depend and should not depend on the defendant’s personal or professional obligations,” the judge said last week.
Expect the Malignant Loser and his allies to continue their attacks, of course. The judge should make good on her warning that she would move the trial date up if the Malignant Loser continued to make inflammatory statements, because that's exactly what he has done and continues to do.
UPDATE: Then there's this development in the E. Jean Carroll civil lawsuit --
A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump is liable for making defamatory statements against writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, after she went public with claims that he raped her decades earlier.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled Wednesday that a jury in the trial for Carroll’s civil lawsuit will next consider how much Trump should pay her in monetary damages.
The ruling comes four months after a jury found that Trump is liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll in a separate civil lawsuit she filed against him. The panel in the case rejected Caroll’s claim that she was raped but determined she was sexually abused and Trump should pay her $5 million in damages.
This second lawsuit focuses on Carroll’s claims that Trump defamed her when he dismissed her rape allegations, suggested that she made up the attack to promote her book, and said she wasn’t his “type.”
Kaplan based his decision to move the case to a jury for damages on the May verdict, with him reasoning that the previous judgment “is binding in this case and precludes Mr. Trump from contesting the falsity of his 2019 statements."...
Good, let's get to the damage phase.
