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Via Anna Bower:

“Family members of trial participants must be strictly off-limits,” Manhattan prosecutors write in a new filing in #Trump’s hush money/interference case.

“Defendant’s insistence to the contrary bespeaks a dangerous sense of entitlement to instigate fear and even physical harm to the loved ones of those he sees in the courtroom.” #legal

Read the filing: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24527768/20240401-people-filing-re-extrajudicial-statements-filed.pdf

Apr 1, 2024 at 8:26pmWeb
Show threadLaffyApr 1, 2024
2/ Link https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/politics/manhattan-district-attorney-trump-judge-gag-order?cid=ios_app
Show threadLaffyApr 1, 2024

3/ Via emptywheel:

Me, 8:45: It's not Merrick Garland's job to do something about Trump's incitement of violence: it is Judge Merchan and Alvin Bragg.

Alving Bragg, 9:08: Doing something.

Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.Apr 2, 2024
@GottaLaff It was brilliant of Bragg (or someone in his office) to frame it as "Trump attacking the judge's family will discourage witnesses from cooperating with the justice system" rather than simply "we're currying favor by asking that you protect your daughter even though she's an adult political activist whom a conservative candidate might legitimately attack." 10/10 no notes.
Show threadLaffyApr 2, 2024
@msbellows I love hearing that! I think he’s off to a good start.
Show threadSpockoApr 1, 2024
@GottaLaff
I just wrote a piece about the DOJ's failure to deal with threats, and since I'm an activist, what can be done based on successful actions.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/04/01/a-600-increase-in-threats-hey-doj-where-are-the-arrests-spockosmastodon-online/
A 600% increase in threats! Hey DOJ, where are the arrests? @[email protected] - Digby's Hullabaloo

Jena Griswold, the Colorado Secretary of State was on Chris Hayes talking about the threats she got and revealed that there was a 600% increase in threats to her and staff. 600% WTF? That day, she received an email declaring: “We are coming for you bitch.” Another person emailed, “If you have kids, I hope they get murdered

Digby's Hullabaloo
Show threadLocksmithApr 1, 2024

@spocko @GottaLaff If justice will not do anything to shut his mouth, then it is fair game for the other side, the prosecution, to say whatever they want against any member of TFG's, right?

Take the high road? This ship has sailed.

Show threadArtemesiaApr 1, 2024

@locksmithprime @spocko @GottaLaff

The idea is to get the conviction, not score rhetorical points. Attacking him outside of court feeds his martyr narrative which gooses fundraising. Not to mention creating grounds for appeal.

And no, one party violating a court's rule does not permit the opposite party to break that rule.

Show threadLaffyApr 1, 2024
@artemesia THANK you. I just had this convo yesterday with someone, but you said it better. @locksmithprime @spocko
Show threadLocksmithApr 2, 2024
@GottaLaff @artemesia @spocko I however feel one side cannot continue playing by the rules while the other side constantly punches below the waist line and suffers NO consequence. NO consequence.
Show threadLocksmithApr 2, 2024
@GottaLaff @artemesia @spocko I tend to feel about this issue the same I feel about dealing with bullies. Dialogue, reason and good manners never worked with bullies during the history of humanity. One can only reason with bullies after the bullies are disabled on the ground with a couple of broken bones and a rearranged face. But I reckon I exaggerate.
Show threadLaffyApr 2, 2024
@locksmithprime This isn’t a schoolyard. We’re out talking about “manners.” We’re talking about rule of law, getting reversed, etc. @artemesia said it better than I did. @spocko
Show threadLocksmithApr 2, 2024
@GottaLaff @artemesia @spocko I understand. We need to ask ourselves whether the other side cares about the rule of law, and whether this rule of law will persist in the future. It did on Jan 6. Barely. Barely.
Show threadLaffyApr 2, 2024
@locksmithprime @artemesia @spocko We know the answer. They don't care at all. That doesn't mean we do what the thugs did on J6, nor does it mean we ignore the rule of law because they did.
Show threadLocksmithApr 2, 2024
@GottaLaff @artemesia @spocko What you say cannot be contested. Even though I feel divided, I know your way is the correct path.
Show threadLaffyApr 2, 2024
@locksmithprime I appreciate that. @artemesia @spocko
Show threadStu Duerson, machina exo deusApr 1, 2024

@locksmithprime @spocko @GottaLaff

In a personal sense, it works.
In the legal playground, that's toxic.

Show threadLocksmithApr 2, 2024
@skydog @spocko @GottaLaff As long as the legal arena continues working, and it seems to be one that continues working in this land, then yes I agree.
Show threadOtownKimApr 1, 2024
@spocko @GottaLaff We have a functioning DOJ?? 🙄
Show threadSearingTruthApr 1, 2024

@GottaLaff

"After a time it becomes like this my friends.

Even happiness is somehow just small joy, as little hauntings appear to one side or the other, or at times all around.

The power of evil lay not in its stature, but its persistence. And its ability to dampen every joy with uncertainty and an almost unconscious dread.

Until withdrawal our lilting pose, with blindness the gaze.

People of the past did not fall because they were less than we are.

They fell because they were exactly as we are."
SearingTruth

Show threadRiaResistsApr 1, 2024
@GottaLaff doing the same thing over & over again, expecting different results.
#TerroristTrump won’t stop until he’s forced to stop.
#LockHimUp
Show threadLaffyApr 1, 2024
@RiaResists Yep
Show threadNonya Bidniss 🥥🌴Apr 1, 2024
@GottaLaff Justice for we, but not for he
Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Apr 1, 2024
@GottaLaff Fear and physical harm are of course exactly what he aims for. Such are the ways of fascists.
Show threadLaffyApr 1, 2024
@Eetschrijver 100%