"... effectively ending efforts to hold him criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election.... A motion seeking to end the prosecution was filed Wednesday morning by Pete Skandalakis, the executive director of the state’s nonpartisan prosecutor council. The case was once seen as one of the most serious legal threats to Mr. Trump, because state criminal convictions are not subject to presidential pardons. Mr. Skandalakis... shredded the case originally brought by Fani T. Willis.... He asserted that
'it is not illegal to question or challenge election results.'... He added that the idea of pursuing a case against a sitting president in Georgia was impractical...."
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"Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump/The president has now seen three criminal cases against him dissolve since he was re-elected last year" (NYT).
This was the case that produced the magnificent mugshot that Trump has from the start used to his advantage.
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The judge is totally wrong in this. It absolutely is illegal to challenge election results if you’re a Republican.
Glad to see Georgia came to it's collective senses eventually.
So much BS. It's like the Russia Russia Fake insurrection liars are actual Soviets.
Doesn't help the J6 people who were convicted and served jail time.
All the demorales say,
"We coulda had him any day,
We just let him get away."
Out of kindness I suppose.
So is it just me or does the prosecutor's make just mean "lacks scandal" in Greek?
make = name. Ugh.
Think these charges would been dismissed if Trump had not been reelected? Ah no.
Time to go after Fani, Jack Smith, and Fat Alvin
Doesn't help the J6 people who were convicted and served jail time.
No, it does not. Also, the people who lost time, capital, and their lives.
Achilles nailed it at 11:33!
And the first comment to boot.
Shouldn't have given us an update on the pleasure-filled travails of this case's Porgy and Bess? Where old Nathan (Wade) rescues old Bess (Fani) from the clutches of Crown and Sportin' Life (i.e., the evil white system trying to keep these fine-upstadning colored folks down).
Hannio: Perfect! This is exactly right, it is perfectly legal to question or challenge election results. It would be nice if this put an end to the era of lawfare but I'm afraid that it is too late.
Charges will reinstated in about 3 and a half years.
As these cases go away in other states, Wisconsin and the Jim Troupis prosecution might be the final one left standing.
Where’s Kak? I’m waiting on the TDS interpretation.
So we're stuck with Trump forever? You know he'll never give up the office. My cousin told me that.
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Shouting Thomas said...
"Where’s Kak? I’m waiting on the TDS interpretation."
He's busy helping the Sedition 6 spread their insurrection to "save muh DEMocRaCy" (TM)
This is the ultimate payoff for Trump. Bravo. An incredible feat he didn't break a sweat.
How is this an "activist judge," Howard? Did he invent or acquiesce to a "novel legal theory"? Did he claim broader jurisdiction than he has?
I always like to note in these faux election theft posts that AlGore attempted to steal the 2000 election. As the NY Times itself had to admit after exhaustive investigation, the ONLY method of counting votes which could result in an AlGore win in Florida in 2000 was the one and only one his lawyers proposed and argued to have implemented. THAT was attempted theft of a presidential election.
What Trump did was say, during a phone call about vote counts, that he needed 11k votes found in order to win, while the postelection vote counts and recounts were underway.
And if Georgia wants to have people believe their vote counts are NOT corrupt, I would suggest they never pull any BS moves like they did in the vote counts in 2020.
Howard said...
Activist Judges We Like
You Can have a cookie for trying.
This was the case that produced the magnificent mugshot that Trump has from the start used to his advantage - very, very successfully.
Yes.
Fani be careful when you sit
You know how easy it was to beat you
Fani be careful when you sit
Dat ass all that you got
and it will hurt a lot (ooh)
h/t Bee Gees
Howard always hates that taste in his mouth. Crow or shit, makes no difference…
Jamie said...
How is this an "activist judge," Howard? Did he invent or acquiesce to a "novel legal theory"?
Actually, this is the same Judge that accepted the original novel legal theory that Fani Willis brought. And isn't it interesting that despite the NYT headline, they never actually mentioned Judge Scott McAfee by name? You would think, with a headline like that, they would at least mention his name, even if they don't explain that it is the same Judge that presided over the case this entire time.
Are the walls still closing in? Are the walls reversing? In a holding pattern until January 2029? I would bet the latter.
The Commies hate Trump so much they will want to put him behind bars even as a private citizen.
Good. It was a totally bogus case anyway.
All of the Ahabs who went after the Great White Whale now stand sadly on the beach, watching as their vessels sink beneath the waves.
You got me all wrong, Iman. I want Trump to win bigly for America. I just doubt the prospects.
Jamie drives with a heavy foot 😎. I don't know and I don't care to know what an activist judge even is. I've just seen the term slathered on thickly by all sorts of people on all sides of the debate
Activist judge? Isn't the deal that no reasonable prosecutor would touch the case?
Howard: “…… I've just seen the term slathered on thickly by all sorts of people on all sides of the debate.”
Really? I haven’t seen many, if any, on the R side. They occasionally step in after the screwball judges on your side stop Trump from arresting murderers and rapists.
"Great [Orange] Whale."
How about trying fani for legal malpractice
Example of activist judge.
No one had ever been prosecuted for thought crime before
"Kai Akker said...
So we're stuck with Trump forever? You know he'll never give up the office. My cousin told me that."
My elderly aunt gets news from the paper, and tv. Intelligent but ignorant, in a quivering voice said she was afreaid Trump wants to rule the world.
Couple weeks later, starving children, etc.
What about the 34 felonies status? Done, or postponed?.
“ Are the walls still closing in? Are the walls reversing? In a holding pattern until January 2029? I would bet the latter.”
If I had to bet, I would say that in 2029 the Democrats will rehabilitate Trump and invite him to all the parties and say how evil Vance is, and how he should be nice like Trump. It worked for Bush.
Jamie drives with a heavy foot 😎.
Not according to my kids!
Since we are very likely only about 13 months away from a Democratic House voting to impeach Trump for the 3rd time, with the Seditious Six trolling even as we write for another Vindeman, I wouldn't get too excited about their past failures. The Democrats are as hopeful as Wiley E. Coyote.
Example of activist judge.
…makes me wonder where the money they were collecting was going…
"Find 11,780 Votes , , , "
Real, veteran, moderate prosecutor Skandalakis, and real, brilliant defense attorney Steve Sadow, versus Fani Willis and her crew of buffoons. I didn't always agree with both men, but they are normal adults, and normalcy won. How far we have fallen with Fani and her ilk. But it's a delight to see 2,000 plus Times commenters pee themselves in the the comment thread and will now pout and make asses of themselves this Thanksgiving.
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