Posted on 05/19/2024 4:39:13 PM PDT by Libloather
A federal judge ruled against Jack Smith in the ‘election interference’ case against Donald Trump.
The judge restricted Smith’s actions after Trump’s legal team accused Smith of violating a stay order.
Trump’s team appealed to determine if he’s covered by presidential immunity.
The judge agreed with Trump’s team, restricting further substantive pretrial motions.
However, the judge refused to hold Smith and his prosecutors in contempt due to unclear restrictions.
"The court agrees … diligent defense counsel will need to conduct a preliminary review of each substantive motion the Government files in order to know whether they need to take further action. While that is not a major burden, it is a cognizable one,” Chutkan wrote.
“Accordingly, the court will adopt Defendant’s recommendation that the parties be forbidden from filing any further substantive pretrial motions without first seeking leave from the court,” she wrote.
“Any such motion for leave to file shall state whether the proposed motion is ancillary to the pending appeal and so requires a timely response or other action before the mandate is returned,” she added.
In a separate case, a judge removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from a 2020 election case over political bias and personal involvement with a special prosecutor.
(Excerpt) Read more at stateofunion.org ...
Where is Traitor Robert’s position on ‘Rat Lawfare?
There are no ‘Rat Lawfare Judges?
Meritless Attorney Generals?
This is the big news in this story.
According to a thread last week, Slay reported this already but much of what I see from them seems to be less than reliable.
Willis was removed by a judge in a separate case not related to Trump.
But as always, there is a howeveer woven in to the decision:
However, the judge refused to hold Smith and his prosecutors in contempt due to unclear restrictions.
“The court agrees … diligent defense counsel will need to conduct a preliminary review of each substantive motion the Government files in order to know whether they need to take further action. While that is not a major burden, it is a cognizable one,” Chutkan wrote.
So we all know why Chutkan refused to hold Smith & his prosecutors in contempt, but tell me what could be unclear about the stay's instructions? Sounds like that may have been intentional to see what the defense attorney's might miss.
More shenanigans in the corrupt D.C. court system.
It is also a big lie. No one removed Willis from the case. They only allowed for Trump to ask to have her removed from the case.
“Georgia Court of Appeals allows Trump appeal to have Willis removed from “
Therefore I wouldn’t trust anything from this source.
“In a separate case, a judge removed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from a 2020 election case over political bias and personal involvement with a special prosecutor.”
utter nonsense ... georgia appellate court just agreed to hear the issue ... could be months before a decision is made ...
This is old news.
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