E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for battery and defamation

Source: CNN

[div class"excerpt"] Ex-magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll sued former President Donald Trump for battery and defamation under a new New York law that allows adults alleging sexual assault to bring claims years after the attack.

Carroll filed the lawsuit Thursday, the first day that civil lawsuits can be brought under the new law, the Adult Survivors Act, which gives adults a one-year window to file a claim.

The lawsuit is the second Carroll has brought against Trump, but the first to seek to hold him accountable for battery for allegedly raping Carroll in the dressing room of a New York department store in the mid-1990s. The lawsuit also alleges a new defamation claim based on statements Trump made last month.

Carroll is asking a judge to order Trump to retract his defamatory statements and award compensatory, punitive and exemplary damages in an amount to be determined at trial.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-battery-defamation-lawsuit/index.html

"Thoughts and prayers" from Donald Trump's lawyer...

The People's Choice...

" And he's not gay, so I said, phew..."

I have been married for 34 years and have just discovered that my wife...

…does not think that mashed potatoes are an essential part of thanksgiving dinner.

Herschel Walker accuser comes forward with fresh relationship claims

Source: The Guardian

The second woman to allege that she was pressured into having an abortion by Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee in Georgia’s hotly contested US Senate race, on Tuesday presented previously unseen letters, audio recordings and pages of her personal diary that she said were evidence of their relationship, which he has denied.

At a press conference in Los Angeles organized by her lawyer, Gloria Allred, the anonymous woman known only as Jane Doe came forward anew with a raft of fresh materials. She said she was doing so because when she first aired her allegations last month “and told the truth, he denied that he knew that I existed”.

The alleged new evidence of the relationship between the woman and the former college football star included a voicemail recording in which Walker was purported to say to her: “This is your stud farm calling, you big sex puppy you”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/22/herschel-walker-us-senate-abortion-relationship

Court Appears Ready to End Special Master Review in Trump Files Inquiry

Source: New York Times

A federal appeals court panel signaled on Tuesday that it is likely to end a review of a trove of government documents seized this summer from former President Donald J. Trump, a move that would greatly free up an investigation into his handling of the material.

At a 40-minute hearing in Atlanta, the three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit seemed to embrace the Justice Department’s position that a federal judge had acted improperly two months ago when she ordered an independent arbiter to review the documents taken from Mr. Trump’s Florida compound, Mar-a- Lago.

Through their questions, the panel expressed concern that Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who appointed the so-called special master, had acted without precedent by ordering a review of the seized material. The panel also suggested that Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, had overstepped by inserting herself into the case and trying to bar the government from using the records in its investigation into whether Mr. Trump had illegally kept national security records at Mar-a-Lago and obstructed the government’s repeated efforts to retrieve them.

The hearing on Tuesday was the latest development in the protracted legal fight over Mr. Trump’s handling of nearly 13,000 government documents and photographs, including some that were marked as highly classified. It came days after the Justice Department appointed a special counsel, Jack Smith, to oversee both the documents investigation and a separate inquiry into Mr. Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/us/trump-special-master-review-mar-a-lago.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

If you want to tell yourself that Jack Smith won't do a serious job, fine....

…but skip over the lazy argument that “Trump Administration prosecutors didn’t do a serious job, so Biden Administration prosecutors won’t either”.

Tomorrow at 4 PM Alaska Time...

RCV will be calculated for Peltola and Murkowski. Not expected to change the outcome.

Before you get excited about the Supreme Court ruling on Trump's tax returns...

1. YOU won’t be seeing them. They’re still private, unless introduced as evidence in a criminal proceeding.

2. There is no current evidence that he’s cheated on his taxes.