Trump appealed to the District Court of Washington DC to dismiss Jack Smith's criminal suit against him.
The appeal was based upon three arguments previously rejected by the trial judge Tanya Chutkan:
1. The proposed DC criminal trial constitutes double jeopardy because Trump wasn't successfully impeached for his involvement in the January 6th riot/insurrection;
2. The president has immunity for acts performed within the outer perimeter of the scope of his/her office;&
3. The president has aboslute immunity for any criminal act, or from any civil liabilty during his/her period of office.
(I think there may have been something about absolute presidential immunity forevermore, but that's so bonkers I can't get my head round the mere suggestion.)
The appellate court consisting of a panel of three judges (Republican appointee Judge Henderson and Democrat appointees Judges Pan and Childs) affirmed Judge Chutkan's ruling per curium (all three agreed) that there is no legal, or constitutional basis for dismissing the case on those grounds and that Trump's right to defense is the same as any other US citizen.
The District Court also ruled that Trump has until the 12th February to request a stay of the order pending appeal to the Supreme Court. If they don't hear from him by then, the trial is back on.
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I often wonder if Florida governor Ron DeSantis is the antichrist as he's back to doing things that boxed him into issues that were unpopular with Florida voters.
The son of Immigrants, he rages against immigrants and once misappropriated funds to bus some illegals across Texas state line and drop them off at Martha's Vineyard with no approval or jurisdiction to do so.
He's anti-Disney, anti-gay, anti-woke, anti-books and now it's reported he's reaching out to send the Florida National Guard to guard the Mexico border.
C'mon Ron... pay attention to Florida, the state where you were elected to serve.
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Time Once Again To Find Out If Spring Arrives Or Folks In North Murka Will Suffer Six More weeks of White Hell.
For any out there NOT familiar with how this annual ritual is conducted -
Y'all's humble
watcher of the weather whistle pigs will provide a running tally of prognostications as the subterranean oracles emerge from Winter quarters with their verdicts on the fate of Ol' Man Winter.
As always, reports from esteemed Correspondents (that'd be Y'all) on local conditions are Welcome.
Input from insightful Commentators & Analysts (also Y'all) is equally welcome.
Dawn will soon break in the Atlantic Time Zone & we'll Commence!
Running Tally -
Glorious Spring Arrives -
........... 4
Continued White Hell -
............... 9
New This Year!
For Y'all's entertainment - Live Stream recap of the festivities @ 10:00 am EST ...
We'll see how That goes.
Nova Scotia's Shubenacadie Sam will again do the honors as The 1st Furry Forecaster to Foretell the Future of this year's Winter.
They're fixin' to Commence ...
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Where have we seen this BS before? Accusations of being a 'Russian agent'
An 81 year old black American left-wing political activist of many decades is facing up to 15 years in prison - in effect for voicing opinions that offended The Biden Regime in regards to the conflict in Ukraine. Scandalous! No one is safe from this tyrannical, hate-filled regime!
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As shown in the below video, India has greatly decreased the amount of oil it buys from Russia. There are multiple reasons for this and the video touches on them. At the same time, although India had initially claimed neutrality in Russia's illegal invasion and war with Ukraine, in the past month numerous sharp eyed persons have begun noticing (and posting photos of) 155 mm artillery shells being used by Ukraine that bear unmistakable evidence that they have been supplied to Ukraine by India.
My impression is India did not want to pick a side to back until which side would win became more clear. At the same time there was a financial incentive to buy Russian oil and oil products at a huge discount while waiting to see which side would win the war. Clearly India has decided the winner of the conflict will not be Russia.
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The artist is in the background
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Junk mail, paper towels, news papers
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This blog is inspired by another blog about nature. These scenes are from around my community. I see this everyday. I need to update these which will happen next summer.
I got this picture on national tv years back.