Pecker, friend of Trump, would buy exclusive rights to the stories of his lust interests, housekeeper, and doorman... and then not run the stories.

Now under ordinary circumstances that seems like a perfectly legal thing to do, and probably is, BUT

Trump was running for the presidency, the timing of the contracts was such as to keep the stories from damaging his campaign, and thus they amounted to in-kind contributions in violation of Federal campain finance laws.

If President Donald Trump were impeached, "the American people would revolt," Guliani said. "You'd only impeach him for political reasons, and the American people would revolt against that".

Recall that just day before yesterday Guliani was defending Trump against the ramifications of the Cohen confessions with the line that there were no charges filed against Trump.

There MUST be official criminal charges, in my view, to remove that talking point from the lips of trumplodytes, because they're just that stupid to think that "unindicted co-conspirator" doesn't equate to high crimes and misdemeanors.

and that with these convictions America is pulling through the orange disaster and will be stronger for it. There's a strong chance none of that would have happened without Rosenstein's non-partisan move to do the right thing.

When all is said and done he deserves a Medal of Freedom.

I'm feeling more optimistic with every flip.

This should have been about a half hour verdict on all counts.

Instead, they get to go home, party, watch movies, have weekend camping trips, and then come back to the courtroom for free lunches while getting time off from their jobs.

ANY jury for any case this high profile and important should have been sequestered from the get-go.

because the information they sought from the Russians was not the sort of thing intended by "other thing of value" written into that statute. But even if it WAS intended then the statute, itself, is unconstitutional because there can be no restriction on a citizen merely seeking and receiving information.

To which I'd say to Mr. Dershowitz's face "you're not very smart in your old age, are you?"

His theory is laughably full of holes.

Everybody wants to be considered among the smart people, right?

That slogan alone, while a troll, would win millions of flips.

This country is so divided now it's like two religions. There seems to me little chance that that other side would serve correctly on juries. I gather that from my daily interactions: THEY JUST DON'T CARE if laws were broken; all they care about is winning against what they see as the moral evil in this world: "liberals". Their ends will justify their means... Republican criminals must walk free because they share the same religion.