New York judge denies motion from Trump and family to dismiss $250 million lawsuit
Source: CNN
A New York state judge on Friday denied motions from former President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump to dismiss the New York attorney generals $250 million lawsuit, finding some of the arguments frivolous.
Judge Arthur Engoron had previously rejected several of the Trumps legal arguments when he imposed a monitor on the Trump Organization last year.
On Friday, in a written order, he ruled that the Trumps repetition of the arguments was frivolous.
Reading these arguments was, to quote the baseball sage Lawrence Peter (Yogi) Berra, Déjà vu all over again, the judge wrote.
Engoron had considered imposing sanctions on the Trumps lawyers but decided against it.
Sophisticated defense counsel should have known better, the judge wrote, adding, In its discretion this Court will not impose sanctions, which the Court believes are unnecessary, having made its point.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/politics/new-york-judge-trump-250-million-lawsuit
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,865 posts)Hopefully on the next go-around sanctions and fines will be imposed.
Evolve Dammit
(16,747 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,375 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,865 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,929 posts)my 'read' of his decision was that he could have (maybe SHOULD have) placed sanctions on the attorneys involved, but felt that they had their 'smack-upside-the-head' enough and would just stop already.
But then again, I also thought that once IQ45 vacated the White House we'd never hear of him again.......
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,865 posts)He's suffered zero consequences so far from everything he has done. Including taking classified documents from the White House. Something like that would have landed ordinary citizens like you or me in jail very promptly. Meanwhile, the DOJ seems to be pussy-footing it around what they need to do.
ARREST THE SOB!! TAKE HIM TO JAIL! TREAT HIM EXACTLY AS YOU WOULD ANY OTHER CITIZEN WHO TOOK CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS HOME.
MyOwnPeace
(16,929 posts)but I surely DO agree with what you just stated - ARREST THE SOB ASAP!!!!!!!
republianmushroom
(13,623 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,232 posts)Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)with bigger pockets than you, eh, IQ4.5?
The government isn't some mom-and-pop contractor in South Jersey who sunk everything into their business and struggles to stay afloat and can afford only so much legal action before they have to cave. The government has hundred of billions to back them up. They can not only get real lawyers to work for them--they can outlast your grifting heiny.
You're getting to learn how all those people you sued into silence are feeling, Darth Tax eVader, and you've had that lesson coming to you for far too long.
Sucks to be you, scumbag.
MissMillie
(38,568 posts)(It's only 9 pages)
The judge doesn't sanction the lawyers, but I got the sense that he felt that the legal smack-down he did on their arguments and the embarrassment involved should be enough.
He really spanked them.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,375 posts)Here is a link https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23565828-trump-motion-to-dismiss-denial
TFG and his attorneys were lucky to not be sanctioned
BOSSHOG
(37,077 posts)If you dont know where youre going youll end up someplace else.
Kinda like trump and his lawyers. They think theyre going towards a dismissal and away from jail cells.. they dont know where theyre going, ergo I defer to that great philosopher Yogi Berra, they will end up someplace else.
And to close Friday evening on a light note:
Yogis wife asked him what cemetery he wanted her to bury him in. Yogi replied, surprise me.
And then Yogi told Kevin McCarthy, when you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Night, Yall
whistler162
(11,155 posts)FakeNoose
(32,663 posts)NYS judges won't have any part of it!