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I sat at the Livingston table for this 2013 trial while a Moore descendant sat at the other table.Trial Before Christmas The Trial in Photos Hint: the good guys won in the real trial. No idea what Hallmark will do with it. First showing tonight: Hallmark Channel, Saturday, Dec 17, at 8 p.m.

The current situation in Washington is, in the language of poker, a bluff. The Democrats are bluffing; they have only weak cards in their hands. They actually have nothing against Trump. That's all they have ever had. <...> The conclusion is unequivocal: the Democrats want Trump's impeachment, but only in virtual form, only on a TV screen, since they are guaranteed to lose a rigorous legal or political trial.Democrats went all in: they decided not to recognize the results of the 2016 elections and embarked on a new, unprecedented in America path — the path of a permanent palace coup.However,...

KYOTO — A group of international lawyers opened a mock Iraq war tribunal in Kyoto on Saturday, putting U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on the dock. Legal experts posing as prosecutors read out a mock indictment in front of an audience of about 400 people at Kyoto's Silk Hall, accusing Bush and Blair of waging the war in March 2003 and Koizumi of supporting it. (Kyodo News)

Zelikow Warned White House Counsel That Unless Rice Testified in Public, Photo Would '...Be All Over Washington in 24 Hours' NEW YORK, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Last Monday morning 9/11 commission executive director Philip Zelikow faxed a photograph to the White House counsel's office with a note saying that if the White House didn't allow national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify in public before the commission, the photograph would"...be all over Washington in 24 hours," Newsweek has learned. The photo, from a Nov. 22, 1945, New York Times story, showed presidential chief of staff Adm. William D. Leahy, appearing before...

We don't need a "commission" to find out how 9-11 happened. The truth is in the timeline: PRESIDENT CARTER, DEMOCRAT In 1979, President Jimmy Carter allowed the Shah of Iran to be deposed by a mob of Islamic fanatics. A few months later, Muslims stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran and took American Embassy staff hostage. Carter retaliated by canceling Iranian visas. He eventually ordered a disastrous and humiliating rescue attempt, crashing helicopters in the desert. PRESIDENT REAGAN, REPUBLICAN The day of Reagan's inauguration, the hostages were released. In 1982, the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed by Muslim extremists....

Bush, Blair, Koizumi tried in mock war crimes tribunal in Osaka Sunday, February 1, 2004 at 17:40 JST OSAKA - Japanese civic groups on Sunday held a mock war crimes tribunal to try the leaders of the United States, Britain and Japan in connection with alleged crimes against Iraq, which is still reeling from the effects of the U.S.-led invasion last year. About 500 people gathered in a hall in Osaka for the first public hearing in Japan of the International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq, which is being held in various countries. The mock trial is targeted at U.S. President...

A close call for an accused Santa 'If you want good gifts, you must acquit' 12/14/2002 By SELWYN CRAWFORD / The Dallas Morning News FORT WORTH - In a standing-room-only courtroom filled with chants of "Free Santa" and "If you want good gifts, you must acquit," a jury Friday found St. Nick not guilty - by a whisker. The charge: speeding in a school zone. The overwhelming reason for acquittal: Testimony revealed that an impostor - Santa Pause - stole the jolly old man's sleigh from in front of an East Fort Worth residence. But the verdict didn't come...

May 28, 2002 Galaxy Room Student Union, University of Texas TESTIMONY OF CYRIL BOYNES, JR. SPECIAL ADVISOR FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, the CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY,(CORE)Good Day, Ladies and Gentlemen: Today, I come before you to offer testimony on behalf of the Peoples and governments of the People's Republics of Chad and Cameroon with respect to their support for the Chad/Cameroon Pipeline Project. I have spent a lot of time in Cameroon over the past years and recently spent time with the United Nations Ambassadors of both countries in New York City. During that time they severally reaffirmed to me their...

REVIEW AND OUTLOOK When Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bathtub, overnight a chorus of pundits, shrinks and child-care experts emerges avowing that home-schooling has obviously driven her to it. But when a team of home-schooled Tennessee teens wins a national competition that rewards thinking on your feet, nary a peep is heard, except from their hometown paper, the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In recent years, homeschoolers have been disproportionately represented in spelling and geography bees. But their victory this month in the National High School Mock Trial Championship, held in St. Paul, Minn., is more intriguing still,...

REVIEW & OUTLOOK Home Improvement Even in a mock trial, home-schoolers win. Friday, May 17, 2002 12:01 a.m When Andrea Yates drowns her five children in a bathtub, overnight a chorus of pundits, shrinks and child-care experts emerges avowing that home-schooling has obviously driven her to it. But when a team of home-schooled Tennessee teens wins a national competition that rewards thinking on your feet, nary a peep is heard, except from their hometown paper, the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In recent years, home-schoolers have been disproportionately represented in spelling and geography bees. But their victory this month in the...