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Any election lawyers out there — is it legal for Canadians to cross the border and help drive people to the polls? I live close enough to help in Niagara Falls or Buffalo or Rochester areas and could likely corral a few friends.
by open sky
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 08:51 PM PDT
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Donald Trump’s bumbling personal attorney Alina Habba is the latest member of Trump’s legal team to face real legal peril. Habba allegedly played a crucial role in a recent ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Mar 19, 2024 at 01:45 PM PDT
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A cartoon by Jeff Danziger. Campaign ...
by Jeff Danziger
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on Sat Feb 17, 2024 at 03:54 PM PST
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Offering the following without comment: Jeannine-High Priestess of Defeating Boebert reposted Daniel Uhlfelder @DWUhlfelderLaw FEC records show that between January 1, 2023, and June 30, 2023, Donald Trump's Super PAC, SAVE AMERICA, made payments to...
by teacherken
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on Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 03:22 PM PST
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There have been several articles on Daily Kos recently about the ridiculous defenses being argued by Donald Trump’s current attorney. One thing that many of us seem to have overlooked is that a good attorney is unlikely to want to work for Donald...
by Perlinator
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on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 03:58 PM PST
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From Guttmacher Institute email: In a new comment published in The Lancet, experts Ann Starrs, Alex Ezeh, Gilda Sedgh and Susheela Singh outline the collective work needed to advance sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for all by 2030....
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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Justice Arthur Engoron is a human being like the rest of us. Today he’s facing down intractable evil. Something most of us will never have to experience in our entire lives. Dictator Trump’s sociopathic lawyers are attempting to bait Justice Engoron to...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 11:46 PM PST
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Anti-Clinton lawsuit leads to another harsh rebuke for Team Trump Trump's lawyers are playing him for a fool and laughing all the way to the bank. Basically, they do whatever Trump wants, even if hopelessly stupid, even if presiding judges sanction...
by mcornelison
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on Wed Sep 20, 2023 at 10:24 AM PDT
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I admit that I did not watch Meet The Press this morning as they could not have launched with a worse person to lie and ramble. However, CNN has a quick recap of what happened when new host Kristen Welker interviewed TFG. Somehow, in his deranged...
by Sarkazein
50 comments
on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 12:01 PM PDT
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I just saw/heard an argument for TV cameras for the Trump's attempted coup case from Glenn Kirschner that I had not heard before. The� fourth charge �speaks to Trump's attempt to deny the exercise ...
by Dem
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on Fri Aug 04, 2023 at 03:03 PM PDT
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Yesterday The Former Guy (TFG), former Pres*dent Donald Trump, was indicted on four felony charges for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election. With these latest charges, Trump now has three simultaneous criminal indictments against him....
by redtravelmaster
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on Wed Aug 02, 2023 at 08:29 AM PDT
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Trump's campaign funds, both personal and PAC, are nearly broke. Over $40 million has been spent on lawyers for Trump and his mob of accomplices, in 2023 alone. Trump's lawyers are not any good at saving him from the prosecutors, but they are very good...
by mcornelison
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on Tue Aug 01, 2023 at 04:36 AM PDT
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A man with no law degree told Donald Trump that he had every right to keep those stolen classified documents.� The man in question is Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch .� This group styles itself as ...
by Merlin196357
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on Thu Jun 15, 2023 at 04:47 AM PDT
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I am just done with the conspiracy theorists about the 2020 election.� I don’t care what you say in a podium or on Fox “News” because you don’t have to prove statements to any standard or ...
by Dem
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on Sat Apr 01, 2023 at 01:42 PM PDT
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Arizona has seen its share of bogus lawsuits challenging the results of the midterm election after the predicted red wave was more like dribbling cat pee, and four of five key statewide races were won by Democrats. Most were razor-thin victories but...
by Mother Mags
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on Thu Feb 16, 2023 at 10:05 PM PST
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Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, both former election workers from Fulton County, Georgia, have been targets of Donald Trump’s ire since he lost the presidential election fight in Georgia. As a result of Donald Trump’s campaign of...
by darkonc
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on Thu Jan 12, 2023 at 09:51 PM PST
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I have a question and I think a good one. I know what under seal means. I have adopted 4 children. I also know that a high profile case such as this President taking top secret documents and filing for a Special Master to get into court may have other...
by Vetwife
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on Mon Sep 05, 2022 at 11:57 AM PDT
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Rolling Stone Magazine is running with the story that Trump has ordered his lawyers to get those top secret documents back.� Essentially, it confirms what the New York Times wrote about Trump ...
by Merlin196357
373 comments
on Wed Aug 24, 2022 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks has officially been dismissed from a civil lawsuit brought against him by a fellow lawmaker alleging Brooks had a direct role in inciting the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Thu Mar 10, 2022 at 01:29 PM PST
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Continued:
Corporations, Lawyers, and Laws
Lawyers are hired not to protect the corporations and keep it within the law, but rather to know the laws and how to break them without getting caught.
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by Ronald England
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on Thu Feb 17, 2022 at 06:00 AM PST
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