Holy Shit - Judge Chutkan - Slobby had no divine right of kings😀😀😀

[malaise]

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has denied a request by lawyers for Donald Trump to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment that alleges the former president sought to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens,” Chutkan wrote in the ruling. “It is well established that the First Amendment does not protect speech that is used as an instrument of a crime.”

The ruling is a blow to Trump’s efforts to avoid prosecution in the federal election interference case, which is set to go to trial in March.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-denies-trumps-presidential-immunity-bid-to-dismiss-2020-election-case

Second ruling on his absolute immunity bullshit.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Good! I wonder what other desperate moves tRUMP will make next? Personally, I wish that Courts and such

start fining tRUMP big time, for abuse of the judicial system, when they shut down or dismiss his failed lawsuits. He's been accused of this.

[malaise]

2. I am so sick of this miscreant

Seriously

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Yes. I am thinking that a lot of other people besides you and I are sick and tired of this monster.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Slowly, the Empower is getting his clothes

removed. It's not going to be a pretty sight.

[malaise]

4. Will be for us

Down he goes - it is going to be something else

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. You wanna see the Emperor with no clothes?

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. OK, lets see this clown fully exposed. Slobfather indeed.

[JoseBalow]

15. Forgive me

The Emperor Has No Balls

The five statues were installed in Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle in 2016.

--snip--

The statues, made using clay and silicone, depicted the former president with abdominal obesity, an "old man saggy butt", varicose veins, a "constipated" expression, a micropenis and anorchia, and were titled The Emperor Has No Balls on engraved plates at the base; they were commissioned from Joshua "Ginger" Monroe, a Las Vegas artist who designs monsters for haunted houses and horror films. The Cleveland statue was in the Coventry section of Cleveland Heights; it was taken down within an hour. The New York statue, in Union Square, was removed early that afternoon; the New York City Parks Department made a statement that it "stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small". A bystander bit a piece out of the hair of the San Francisco statue, which was in the Castro District; it was removed early the next day, at a cost of about $4,000 because of damage to the sidewalk. The Seattle statue, which was in Capitol Hill, was claimed by a vintage store, No Parking on Pike, and the Los Angeles statue, on Hollywood Boulevard, by a local art gallery, Wacko, both before authorities could remove them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Has_No_Balls

[usaf-vet]

22. Now that is one form of free speech I fully support. How long before Trumps files a lawsuit to get them removed?

[CTyankee]

31. "No matter how small"

Geez, this one's practically non-existent...I don't see any such "erection."

[Harker]

33. So, you're an erection denier! n/t

[bdamomma]

6. Judge Chutkan

that (metaphorical) rope around his neck is getting tighter.

The wheels of justice has to move a little faster. Get this thug convicted

[Lucinda]

8. As expected. Still made me smile...

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Ocelot II]

9. Memorandum at the link. It's a thing of beauty.

Long but worth the read. https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2023cr0257-171

[Hermit-The-Prog]

32. Thank you!

[Deuxcents]

10. I have no doubt that tfg will throw something into his pleadings

I don’t get how the attorneys can keep this nonsense up even tho it’s their duty to fight for their client but they have to know by now that he’s not gonna win this one. Nor the next two or three as he’s got years of criminal activity and 91 charges to prove that he’s guilty

[CTyankee]

30. I wanna say this guy is gonna lose big time, but I'm still nervous...

[spanone]

11. 👍🏼..K&R..👍🏼

[republianmushroom]

12. about time

34 months and counting

[usonian]

13. The image on the DailyBeast page suggests a medical problem that "might come in handy"

[NH Ethylene]

23. A new look for him.

He looks like he is shooting for pitiful and stricken. He has something up his sleeve, likely another losing plea for mercy.

[llmart]

29. It's probably just gas...

from eating all that greasy food. Maybe they should hurry up with jailing him so he can start eating better.

[malaise]

27. Frail and ailing

I care - NOT

[wryter2000]

28. You can get out of a conviction on account of sickness?

If so, he’s in no shape to run for president or serve in the office.

[NowISeetheLight]

14. Strange Reminder

I read this and thought of In Living Colors Men on Film snaps. Granted I've had a few drinks though but I think the judge just SNAPPED TFG big time.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Slobby is King of Bullsh*t

[ancianita]

17. Someday Judge Chutkan should be confirmed to the Supreme Court based on the

scope, depth, and precision of her ruling documents.

Perhaps after Thomas is impeached and removed in 2025.

Great OP! Thanks!

[Faux pas]

18. K n R

[H2O Man]

19. Recommended!

[ancianita]

20. As with Trump's other appeals, the DC Appeals Court will rule pretty quickly on this.

[democrank]

21. Trump is well on his way

to seeing how divine he’ll look in his jumpsuit fit for a king.

[Mysterian]

36. He'll flee to Russia

Putin can use Trump to foment treason among his deluded followers.

[Blue Owl]

24. King Colostomy Bag

[malaise]

25. Howling with laughter

😀😀😀

[underpants]

26. 👑

Love it

[Initech]

34. Excellent! Fuck you Fox, Steve Bannon, megachurch pastors, the Heritage Foundation, and the rest of the MAGA Taliban!

The government is not entirely yours, no matter how much garbage your talk show host overlords fill your heads with. Go fuck right the fuck off.

[malaise]

35. THIS

Rec

[Hermit-The-Prog]

37. "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men"

From the ruling (link from Ocelot II, reply 9, above):
[ Emphasis added ]

Most importantly, a former President’s exposure to federal criminal liability is essential to fulfilling our constitutional promise of equal justice under the law. “The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men.” Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 163 (1803). As the Supreme Court has stated, that principle must govern citizens and officials alike:

No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the exercise of the authority which it gives.
United States v. Lee, 106 U.S. 196, 220 (1882).

Perhaps no one understood the compelling public interest in the rule of law better than our first former President, George Washington. His decision to voluntarily leave office after two terms marked an extraordinary divergence from nearly every world leader who had preceded him, ushering in the sacred American tradition of peacefully transitioning Presidential power—a tradition that stood unbroken until January 6, 2021. In announcing that decision, however, Washington counseled that the newfound American independence carried with it a responsibility. “The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.” Washington’s Farewell Address, S. Doc. No. 106-21, at 13 (2d Sess. 2000), available at https://perma.cc/E5CZ-7NNP. He issued a sober warning: “All obstructions to the execution of the laws,” including group arrangements to “counteract” the “regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle.” Id. at 14. In Washington’s view, such obstructions would prove “fatal” to the Republic, as “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” Id.

In this case, Defendant is charged with attempting to usurp the reins of government as Washington forewarned: The Government alleges that, with the help of political associates, he “spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won,” and “pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results,” all because he “was determined to remain in power.” Indictment ¶¶ 2, 4. In asserting absolute executive immunity, Defendant asks not for an opportunity to disprove those allegations, but for a categorical exemption from criminal liability because, in his view, “the indictment is based solely on President Trump’s official acts.” Immunity Motion at 27–28. That obstruction to the execution of the laws would betray the public interest. “If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny.” United States v. United Mine Workers of Am., 330 U.S. 258, 312 (1947) (Frankfurter, J., concurring in the judgment).

[malaise]

38. Nailed it

Perfect for the Slobfather

[Hermit-The-Prog]

39. I think Judge Chutkan is pissed at slobby

Any judge worthy of the bench would be at least annoyed that traitortrump seeks to subvert law and courts.

[electric_blue68]

40. Thank You, Judge Chutkin.