If the police got the search warrant and they didn’t lie to the judge to get the warrant, then they didn’t break the law.
Now the judge giving a warrant , that is up to the appropriate authorities to figure out if the warrant was properly authorized.
If the judge handed over a warrant that shouldn’t have been signed, and it becomes a violation of the first amendment. That judge has a HUGE problem.
But that is up to the attorneys to figure out. But we won’t see anything on that for several months. That sort of thing takes a long time. Justice usually goes slow.
While they eventually decided not to publish the story, The Record was investigating the restaurant owner for an old DUI conviction that would have prevented her 7-month-old restaurant from getting a very profitable liquor license. They were also investigating that she had been knowingly driving without a license - a fact that the local cops knew and refused to confront her about.
That may have something to do with the fact that the County Attorney's brother owns the hotel the restaurant was in and, if the restaurant made money, so too would the brother.
The Record was also investigating allegations that the Police Chief, who had been in office for just two months, had left his previous job due to numerous allegations of sexual assault. And the details about the people telling The Record about the sexual assault allegations were on one of the computers that the police seized.
I haven't heard any allegations against the judge as yet but it's early days yet. For now, it really looks like a shitload of greed and corruption - or, as they say in small towns, "go along to get along".
County Attorney Joel Ensby, whose brother owns the hotel where Newell operates her restaurant, was asked for [the probable cause affidavit] but said he would not release it because it was "not a public document". Source
So, if I'm following correctly, the Police Chief left his last job because of multiple sexual assault allegations, which was being looked into by the Record. And the owner of the restaurant (which only opened back in January] was trying to hide her DUI and illegal driving and was being investigated by the Record. And the County Attorney's brother owns the hotel and probably wants the restaurant to succeed to increase his profits. At this point. I think we're just missing the motive for the judge to have signed off on the search warrant ...
Garland said “we will follow up on everyone regardless of who they are”. We know now for a fact he was lying.
Every judge says they’re going to treat him like any other defendant. We are in the process of learning that they are lying.
I’m not saying Chutkan is going to obviously spike the case like Cannon or Judge Rittenhouse, I think she’s going to try to run a decent trial if it gets to that point.
But pre-trial punishment? Not a snowflake’s chance in hell. These judges all still want to be invited to cocktail parties and given country club memberships. The elite is loyal to the elite.
Part of the problem is that he wants badly for them to find him in contempt - to his followers it will be absolute proof that it’s a witch hunt. I can already read the headlines about how they locked him up to silence him and BS like that.
I’m not necessarily saying that means they still shouldnt do it, but there are more reasons than corruption to tread softly here
why would the opinion of his followers even matter tho? this is a court case, not an election. even if it were an election, they’d vote for him regardless.
The court absolutely needs to drag Trump back down to Earth and demonstrate that no one is above the law. At the same time, Judges are supposed to be impartial and part of Judge Chutkan’s statement, “It’s a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day” could be seen as prejudicial. Whether or not she acts in an unbiased way is an entirely separate issue. The appearance of bias will open the door to an appeal of any verdict against Trump.
Ya, Trump belongs in prison; but, it’s going to need to be done in the most scrupulous way possible to keep him from wiggling out of accountability.
Because, by pushing the ideal we do make progress. It’s easy to look at our current situation and bemoan the fact that we aren’t there yet, and we still have progr ess to make. But, the truly false statement is “we make no progress towards making it true”. Pick up a history book and spend some time critically reading. What happens today is a far cry from even 50 years ago,. Is it perfect? Not even close. But it is better. Throwing up our hands in defeat, because we aren’t there yet, serves only to allow things to stagnate. We are pushing forward, but yes, progress is painfully slow. It always has been, and probably always will be. But, that doesn’t mean we should stop pushing.
All ideals are false. The entire point of ideals is to strive to change the world to meet them.
And whether those efforts see fruition this year, this decade, or even in your lifetime, is beside the point. Ideals are a multigenerational project, with all the ups and downs that implies.
If anyone is aware of a legal defense fund specifically for this, please share. Dollars and cents will serve the journalists better than thoughts and prayers.
He may be doing this intentionally. He and his team may be looking for a judicial reaction in order to use it as grounds to move the trial to another location citing unfair bias.
Speeding up the trial would be a good move. The judge still needs to be careful so that she doesn't give grounds for appeal. I vote for huge fines.
Imagine being a cop raiding the home of a 98 year old woman as she sits there crying and thinking, “I’m doing a good job. This is the right thing to do.” Then after she dies later that day from the shock of what you just did, you think to yourself, “well, that’s what she gets for being a liberal.”
Imagine being a cop raiding the home of a 98 year old woman as she sits there crying and thinking, “I’m doing a good job. This is the right thing to do.”
Stories about police abusing their authority and breaking the law have become like stories about mass shootings. They happen constantly, everyone wrings their hands, but no one is willing to actually do anything about the problem.
It’s what the poorly titled “Defund the Police” movement was/is about. The police serve no other purpose than to harass people and enforce the will of rich and politicians. So they need to be vastly scaled back.
Unfortunately, we elected a president who pledged to raise their funding. They’re not only corrupt, violent, and out of control, they’re getting rewarded for it.
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