Showing posts with label Jill Wine-Banks. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 12, 2024

QOTD: Remove Judge Cannon From Docs Case

 

Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks on MSNBC discussing Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon's continued delay in setting a trial date and not dispensing of the Malignant Loser's frivolous motions to obstruct the trial:

"She has made bad decisions that have no relationship to what the law is in this case. She has refused to make decisions that should have been made months ago. [snip]

She is not dumb, but she is really not doing her job. There is a rule that judges, one of their jobs, is to set a trial date. So her saying this is too complex a case, I'm not going to set a trial date, that seems to be something that could be subject to a mandamus, and that's something that may have to be. And that may mean that getting a new judge would be delaying the case, but I would rather delay it for a new judge and not worry that she will take this and after the jury's impaneled, do something that would deal with double jeopardy so she would dismiss the case and make it impossible to retry him." (our emphasis)

Cannon has to be removed from this case, for obstructing it and for sheer incompetence. The concern, as Wine-Banks noted, is that once the jury is impaneled (if ever), she'll find something in the Government's handling of the case to dismiss it, so the Malignant Loser would never face trial. 

 

Saturday, July 2, 2022

QOTD: Barring Trump From Future Office

 

Jill Wine-Banks, a former prosecutor for the Watergate scandal, addressed a possible charge against the Malignant Loser that would go beyond prison time on MSNBC:

"I will try to put aside what I think should be the case, and just talk about what I think are the best crimes to indict him for and whether he should or shouldn't, I will leave to other people. But I think it would be horrible not to act on what is now blatantly obvious to anyone who is watching the hearing. My favorite crime would be [18 U.S. Code § ] 2383, not the seditious conspiracy which is 2384. The reason is that the penalty for 2383 is not just jail, it is being barred from ever holding federal office again. And for me, that would be a more important goal than jailing the former president." (our emphasis)

Would the Justice Department pursue such a charge against the person who incited an armed insurrection, and who planned to lead it to the steps of the Capitol and beyond? We hope so, because "rebellion or insurrection" against the newly-elected President is clearly what the Malignant Loser planned for leading up to and on January 6. That's clear as can be. Now it's up to prosecutors in the Justice Department and the Attorney General to apply the law as they would any private citizen who committed that offense.