jerrymahoney

I come from a family of over-achievers. And they for long time have wanted nothing to do with me as I am not an over-achiever just plain old sometime achiever. Early on, I was asked if my moving to Thailand maybe had something to with that? I said: Heck. For some of them, it's been so long, they might even realize I'm gone.

What parties?

When I first moved to Thailand and had no transport, I used to hang out in a farang bar. But I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I know nothing about footie, so I soon abandoned that source of entertainment

From the Washington Post article linked earlier: Attorneys for Donald Trump on Monday asked U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to disqualify herself from presiding over Trump’s federal election obstruction case, saying Chutkan appears to have prejudged the former president’s guilt based on statements she made in past cases involving Jan. 6, 2021, riot defendants. The question raised in the recusal motion is not that anything the judge said is incorrect but whether it is prejudicial. The response from the prosecution is due Thursday Washington DC time.

If, after the prosecution responds to the defense motion for recusal and the defense submits their response to that, if the Judge decides not to recuse herself, then the Trump defense can appeal. There is precedence for these kinds of recusal motions at both the appellate and Supreme Court level.

Because the motion for recusal is based upon writings and verbal comments the Judge has said before Trump was served with the indictment.

That may be true. But the issue in this particular topic is what the Judge has said; not what Trump has said.

Trump demands recusal by Judge Chutkan in D.C. Jan. 6 trial Motion says Chutkan’s statements at sentencings for Jan. 6 defendants implied Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics professor at New York University School of Law, said views that a judge expresses at the sentencing of one defendant “cannot be the basis for recusing them in the case of a different defendant.” “Judges are expected to form views after hearing evidence,” Gillers said. “That’s the nature of the job. And judges are trusted not to let those views bias them against other defendants.” But Charles Wolfram, a scholar of legal ethics at Cornell University, said that comments made by a judge in one case can create an untenable appearance of bias in another. “I think it’s close to the line,” Wolfram said. “It’s a plausible argument for Trump to be making.” However, the law leaves it up to the judges themselves to decide after hearing from both sides. Chutkan gave prosecutors until Thursday to respond to the motion, and Trump’s defense until Sunday to make any reply. If Chutkan refuses the request, Trump’s defense lawyers may appeal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/11/trump-chutkan-recusal-jan-6-judge/ https://archive.ph/v97yf

Either way Ms. Enigma and nobody's Casey DiSantis

FYI The Very Private Life of Melania Trump The former first lady has mostly retreated from public view — and steered clear of the campaign trail — while her husband fights to return to the White House and faces increasing legal peril. Updated July 27, 2023 What she has not done, despite invitations from her husband, is appear on the campaign trail. Nor has she been at his side for any of his court appearances. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/us/politics/melania-trump-2024-campaign.html https://archive.ph/oBpME

Those years were not always easy for me -- I'm having a much easier time now.

Judge rejects Meadows effort to move election case from Georgia to federal court in big win for Willis - 09/08/23 6:05 PM ET A federal judge has rejected former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s attempt to move his charges in the Georgia election interference case to federal court. The ruling was a broad rejection of arguments from Meadows that his case should be heard in federal court because he was acting in his capacity as chief of staff at the time. Meadows filed an appeal of the ruling to the 11th circuit just hours after Jones’s decision. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4194977-judge-rejects-meadows-effort-to-move-election-case-from-georgia-to-federal-court-in-big-win-for-willis/

Trump lawyers move ‘insurrection’ clause lawsuit aiming to bar him from the ballot to federal court Updated 5:09 AM GMT+7, September 9, 2023 DENVER (AP) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump moved a lawsuit seeking to bar him from running again for the White House from state to federal court in the first step of what promises to be a tangled legal battle that seems destined for the U.S. Supreme Court. The initial state judge in Denver assigned the case recused himself for an unspecified conflict of interest, and then Trump’s attorneys on Thursday moved the case to federal court — asserting that the matter should be adjudicated at the federal level since it raises a constitutional issue. The plaintiffs in the case will argue it should first go back to state court, but both sides anticipate that ultimately the top echelons of the federal system will have to consider the issues the lawsuit raises. CREW said it will ask a federal judge to return the case to state court. It has also requested a speedy ruling on the issues before Colorado’s Republican primary ballot is finalized on Jan. 5. https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-amendment-insurrection-ban-ballot-lawsuit-de06bca85bfe233368d6c6f6042c7290

I would say the answer is dependent upon if or how much you annoy persons who set up functions and advertise on this list: https://phangan.events/

It does get tiresome when one or more of the same half-dozen or more posters respond to your almost every post and feel they deserve some reply or answer ... then get perturbed when I say i just don't have or want to have the time to follow-up with every one of them.

They might all fail and Trump is found guilty on all criminal charges in the 4 current cases. Won't get any tear from me. But unless there is some sort of plea bargain or dismissal of charges, all these cases have a long way to go before that eventuality.

I have never said your 'get away with it' line -- just that the criminal cases against Trump may be more difficult than the slam-dunk fans think. And I'll say it again: I don't really care what happens with the criminal cases against Trump so long as he is not re-elected as President in 2024.

Well I just gave you the reference to Professor Richman in case you have any more minor corrections to make. Verbatim from NY Times with no editorial from me. And for the article as a whole, corrections can to mailed to corrections<at>nytimes.com

My thoughts courtesy the late Shel Silverstein: "Nothing to do?" Nothing to do? Nothing to do? Put some mustard in your shoe, Fill your pockets full of soot, Drive a nail into your foot, Put some sugar in your hair, Place your toys upon the stair, Smear some jelly on the latch, Eat some mud and strike a match, Draw a picture on the wall, Roll some marbles down the hall, Pour some ink in Daddy's cap--- Now go upstairs and take a nap.

Jan. 6 Rioters Have Been Held to Account. That Might Be the Easy Part. With leaders of the far-right groups that helped drive the attack on the Capitol sentenced to long prison terms, attention is shifting to the fraught process of prosecuting Donald Trump. Sept. 6, 2023 To be sure, none of the charges Mr. Trump is facing accuse him of encouraging or inspiring the violence at the Capitol. At worst, the Washington indictment claims that as chaos broke out at the building on Jan. 6, Mr. Trump “exploited the disruption” to further his goal of stopping the election certification. The Justice Department spent considerable effort searching for links between the White House and the rioters and, at least so far, has never publicly established any direct ties between the boots and the suits. What remains to be seen is whether prosecutors find a way to bridge their inquiry into the Capitol attack to their investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn his electoral defeat. “We have the fraud charges and we have the seditious conspiracy charges,” said Daniel C. Richman *, a former federal prosecutor and a law professor at Columbia University. “But what we don’t yet have is any link between the two beyond vague inferences and thoughts.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/enrique-tarrio-trump-jan-6.html https://archive.ph/FXeXh * From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Richman Following the June 8, 2017 public hearing at the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Richman confirmed to reporters that he was the person former FBI Director James Comey had instructed to reveal the contents of Comey's memos detailing conversation with President Donald Trump. Richman and Comey are longtime friends, and Richman's faculty page describes him as an advisor to Comey.

Ross Perot Often Credited for Costing Bush ’92 Election AUSTIN, Texas -- It's been written and said more times than anyone can count that H. Ross Perot cost George H.W. Bush the 1992 Presidential Election. "It would be a mistake to say the 19 percent he drew were all Republican voters who would have voted for Bush had Perot not been in the race," said Crocket. "His presence in the campaign getting 19 percent of the vote in '92 demonstrated disaffection by a lot of people with both major parties. But he probably fairly drew evenly from both candidates,” said Crocket. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2019/07/09/ross-perot-often-credited-for-costing-bush--92-election

Yes. The 1992 George H.W. Bush re-election campaign mantra of calling Bill Clinton "The failed governor of a small state" didn't work.

Clinton blasts Bush as "failed president' Published Aug. 2, 1992 Bill Clinton on Saturday called President Bush the "failed president of a big country" as he sought to blunt expected Republican attacks on him as a "failed governor from a small state." Republicans have been hitting the "failed governor" theme for months and the Democrats are expecting the Bush campaign to use it, perhaps this week as it launches its television advertising. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1992/08/02/clinton-blasts-bush-as-failed-president/

My post was merely to denote the notoriety of Lin Wood as Vernon Unsworth's defamation attorney. Wood was also the attorney for Richard Jewell in the Atlanta Olympic bombing case which made him famous. And again that article was posted verbatim with zero changes from me.

OOPS my error. I forgot to put in the link to the CNN article which I posted verbatim except for the TRIVIA comment: https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-georgia-indictment-09-08-23/h_159be1a32b9c0cc1c6a162627ff2a34f#:~:text=Special grand jury recommended charging right-wing lawyer Lin Wood&text=The special grand jury in,and he has denied wrongdoing.