Leaving this up for the moment, but Walter got there first. :) I wanted to highlight the Hannity angle, but will take down if advised that’s the right thing to do.
bubbanomics and First Amendment, I salute you. This one’s for you. After all, plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery!
Reminder to have your Foxsickness bags in hand before watching:
Quoth Seannie back in May:
It is now Day 352 of Robert Mueller’s Witch Hunt™, still zero evidence of any collusion, no evidence of any wrongdoing, and yet the investigation goes on and on and on, and it got really bad today. A federal judge, courageously standing up to this totally out-of-control Witch Hunt, in what is the biggest, or single biggest beat-down I have ever seen in my life by a judge during a federal court hearing … a US District Judge, his name is T.S. Ellis III, utterly rebukes the entire special counsel investigation, ….
A federal judge just confirmed everything we have been saying on this show for months, … Now during a speech the Pr*sident was giving at the NRA, he reacted to Judge Ellis’s stunning reprimand and beat-down of Team Mueller….
… I gotta stop, but, you know, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Well, yesterday, which, if I used all my fingers right, I reckon was Day 419 of Robert Mueller’s Witch Hunt™, I’d say a Stunning Reprimand and Beat-Down was indeed delivered. The following is an excerpt from Judge T.S. Ellis III’s order regarding Paulie Manafort’s motion to Please Send Me Back To That Awful Detention Center I Was Complaining About In My Last Motion:
On July 6, 2018, defendant filed a motion to continue which detailed the trials and travails of his detention at the Northern Neck Regional Jail:
Heh.
As demonstrated by the above-quoted language, defendant’s ongoing detention at Northern Neck was one of the primary grounds for defendant’s motion seeking to continue the July 25th trial date.
Earlier this morning, an order was entered requiring the United States Marshal to transport defendant from Northern Neck to the Alexandria Detention Center to facilitate defendant’s pretrial preparation. This Order was intended to eliminate one of the primary concerns in defendant’s motion by housing him at a facility near his attorneys and his family.
At 5:00 p.m. this evening, however, defense counsel filed a motion opposing defendant’s transfer from Northern Neck to Alexandria, despite having just complained about defendant being housed at Northern Neck.1 …
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1 It is surprising and confusing when counsel identifies a problem and then opposes the most logical solution to that problem. The dissonance between defendant’s motion to continue and motion opposing transfer to Alexandria Detention Center cannot be easily explained or resolved.
Ouuuuuuch. The good Judge is just warming up, though.
In the motion, defense counsel states that “issues of distance and inconvenience must yield to concerns about [defendant’s] safety, and, more importantly, the challenges he will face in adjusting to a new place of confinement and the changing circumstances.” Def’s Motion Opposing Transfer, July 10, 2018. However, defense counsel has not identified any general or specific threat to defendant’s safety at the Alexandria Detention Center. They have not done so, because the professionals at the Alexandria Detention Center are very familiar with housing high-profile defendants including foreign and domestic terrorists, spies and traitors.
Emphasis added. Yes, that is, indeed, what the good Judge wrote.
All of those defendants were housed safely in Alexandria pending their respective trials and defendant’s experience at the Alexandria Detention Center will presumably be no different. Moreover, defendant’s access to counsel and his ability to prepare for trial trumps….
...his personal comfort. Additionally, the decision to move the defendant to the Alexandria Detention Center will actually avoid the discomfort of long commutes during trial days.
Accordingly, and for all these, reasons,
It is hereby ORDERED that defendant’s motion opposing his transfer to the Alexandria Detention Center (Doc. 116) is DENIED.
(snip)
Can’t wait to see Sean’s opening monologue tonight!
I conclude with the the words of commenter occamscoin over at Josh’s joint:
I must confess to a twinge of schlammerfreude.