The Convictions of Donald J. Trump: lol

[MrWookie]

Chili? Charlotte? Avon? Irondequoit?

Sorry, just listing off some local towns that aren’t pronounced at all like people not from there think.

[akm]

The way god intended.

[goofy]

“Chili” is a town? lol. No I always forget because it’s a super generic town name.

[MrWookie]

Yes, it is, and it’s pronounced CHAI-lye.

[Krayz]

@Danspartan

Took back roads from rochester to Binghamton now. All farm country. Google made some interesting choices. Def drove through 100 miles of boonies.

That’s unfortunate. The drive through the finger lakes and Ithaca is nice. Next time you do it stop at Letchworth.

[Krayz]

@goofy

small town near Rochester, I always forget the name

Next time report back so I can tell you how to secretly judge his childhood town.

[eyebooger]

@MrWookie

Yes, it is, and it’s pronounced CHAI-lye.

That’s Versailles, Kentucky level awful.

[MrWookie]

Charlotte made the long list of names we were considering for our first daughter, but we ruled it out when we realized we couldn’t get over how it was pronounced there: shar-LOT

[eyebooger]

There’s a Charlotte in Vermont pronounced the exact same way.

[commonWealth]

@eyebooger

That’s Versailles, Kentucky level awful.

ver-SAILS?

[Danspartan]

@Danspartan

Sign tally
Trump 1
Biden 1

Got one for the good guy on the way out of Binghamton.

Recollecting better we saw way more in 2019 and 2020, though those were both in September.

But it also means a lot had been taken down.

Hopefully it’s not all just stealth.

[gman42]

@eyebooger

That’s Versailles, Kentucky level awful.

One one hand this sort of bothers me, along with cities like Cairo (KAY-ro) IL, but then nobody bats an eye at the wonderful Spanish pronunciation we give to the city of Lawss An-ju-less. Anglicizing place names ain’t nothing new, it’s just a matter of what you’re used to hearing.

[goofy]

https://x.com/HBRabinowitz/status/1799016865941111241

Stories like this are very until you remember she’s gonna be on SCOTUS if Trump wins

Several attorneys who have practiced in front of Cannon – and who spoke to CNN for this story – pointed to her isolation as one explanation for her conduct. Cannon’s solitary post in the Fort Pierce courthouse, one that rarely sees high-profile action, deprives her of the informal, day-to-day interactions with more seasoned judges who sit at the other courthouses and could offer her advice, the lawyers told CNN.

They also said Cannon’s lack of trial experience, both as a lawyer and a judge, is apparent. In her seven years as a Justice Department attorney, Cannon participated on the trial teams of just four criminal cases. And on the bench, she’s only presided over a handful of criminal trials – and Huck took over one of them.

…and also this explanation is pretty sympathetic to her? Like “oh no, she’s not a partisan hack, she just doesn’t know what she’s doing”. I dunno, it really seems like she’s a partisan hack who knows exactly what she’s doing!

[LouisCyphre]

https://x.com/TheDailyShow/status/1800951513075921073

[riverman]

Porque no los dos

[Surf]

@Jman220 was wondering with Trump and so much of his past group of associates being felons, are they allowed to hang out/work with each other? Like do the conditions related to them not being in prison require them to avoid associating with other felons or something

[Jman220]

A normal condition of probation in NY is not associating with other felons. No idea how that’ll work in practice with Trump.

[commonWealth]

@Jman220

No idea how that’ll work in practice with Trump.

Lol… He’ll do whatever he wants and in like 20 years after he dies they’ll finally rule he shouldn’t have been allowed to.

[goofy]

All the pikachus

Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Aside

Shortly after Judge Aileen M. Cannon drew the assignment in June 2023 to oversee former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case, two more experienced colleagues on the federal bench in Florida urged her to pass it up and hand it off to another jurist, according to two people briefed on the conversations.

The judges who approached Judge Cannon — including the chief judge in the Southern District of Florida, Cecilia M. Altonaga — each asked her to consider whether it would be better if she were to decline the high-profile case, allowing it to go to another judge, the two people said.

But Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, wanted to keep the case and refused the judges’ entreaties. Her assignment drew attention because she has scant trial experience and had previously shown unusual favor to Mr. Trump by intervening in a way that helped him in the criminal investigation that led to his indictment, only to be reversed in a sharply critical rebuke by a conservative appeals court panel.

The chief judge — an appointee of former President George W. Bush — is said to have made a more pointed argument: It would be bad optics for Judge Cannon to oversee the trial because of what had happened during the criminal investigation that led to Mr. Trump’s indictment on charges of illegally retaining national security documents after leaving office and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.
…
Rather than letting Judge Reinhart handle that lawsuit, as would be the normal procedure, Judge Cannon chose to decide the matter.

Shocking legal experts across ideological lines, she barred investigators from gaining access to the evidence and appointed a special master, although she said that person would only make recommendations to her and she would make the final decisions.

lol that’s so good. The chief judge of the district was like “you fucked up the last one so bad, please don’t put us through this again” and Cannon said “hahahaha nope, fuck off”

[L.Washington]

Tbf she was dead-on in her assessment that nothing matters and the only consequence for her taking the case is that she’s a lock to be elevated if and when Trump returns to the White House.