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Anonymous wrote:Yes Lindsay Graham already lost that battle all the way up to the Supreme Court, although that was for the Speech and Debate clause of the Constitution, not executive privilege.

Pretty sure Meadows already lost on claiming executive privilege for the Jan 6 committee. I can't see what additional grounds he could get it moved to Federal court.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/supreme-court-lindsey-graham-georgia.html

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/politics/trump-aides-executive-privilege-meadows/index.html

This is not an executive privilege claim. It’s federal officer removal. It is based on a statute (28 USC 1442) and requires the defendant be a federal officer “acting under color of” federal office, and have a plausible federal defense.

He is charged for participating in the phone calls and text messages to Georgia officials pressuring them to throw out the election results and declare Trump the winner and for sending them all the crazy election fraud theories with no supporting evidence or law in an attempt to justify the demand to blow up democracy.

None of that is remotely related to his official government duties. They are fraudulent campaign activities that he is supposed to be barred from doing while working in the White House.

Thank you for posting this. Hallelujah.

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Yeah, I don’t know what she was thinking. Smith did it the right way and narrowed it to Trump to get the best chance possible for a speedy trial. She guaranteed hers will take years when she indicted so many people and charged RICO. Dumb move.

What dumb move? This isn't a political trial. It's a criminal trial. They take as long as they take.

Except it won’t ever happen if he gets elected again.

That is uncharted waters. No one really seems to know the answer to whether a sitting president can be tried in state court for crimes committed prior to becoming the president.

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Yeah, I don’t know what she was thinking. Smith did it the right way and narrowed it to Trump to get the best chance possible for a speedy trial. She guaranteed hers will take years when she indicted so many people and charged RICO. Dumb move.

What dumb move? This isn't a political trial. It's a criminal trial. They take as long as they take.

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Yeah, I don’t know what she was thinking. Smith did it the right way and narrowed it to Trump to get the best chance possible for a speedy trial. She guaranteed hers will take years when she indicted so many people and charged RICO. Dumb move.

What dumb move? This isn't a political trial. It's a criminal trial. They take as long as they take.

Except it won’t ever happen if he gets elected again.

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Yeah, I don’t know what she was thinking. Smith did it the right way and narrowed it to Trump to get the best chance possible for a speedy trial. She guaranteed hers will take years when she indicted so many people and charged RICO. Dumb move.

What dumb move? This isn't a political trial. It's a criminal trial. They take as long as they take.

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Yeah, I don’t know what she was thinking. Smith did it the right way and narrowed it to Trump to get the best chance possible for a speedy trial. She guaranteed hers will take years when she indicted so many people and charged RICO. Dumb move.

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Yeah, I don’t know what she was thinking. Smith did it the right way and narrowed it to Trump to get the best chance possible for a speedy trial. She guaranteed hers will take years when she indicted so many people and charged RICO. Dumb move.

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Anonymous wrote:What happens is a lot of the MAGAs realize they have been duped, get mad at the "system" and never vote again. Combined with abortion hopefully getting settled by a pro-choice house and senate so as to never be an issue again, leaves the GOP without a voting base until it figures out a new platform.

Oh, hey, they have a new platform: Anti-Trans Hate!! Trans folk overrunning schools and kidnapping your children!! You read it here first, folks!!

Yeah, this seems to be the next big "issue" for the right.

Hopefully, Covid has killed off more or their voters than the GOP thought.

Aren't you a gem?

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Anonymous wrote:The Fulton County, Georgia, court's website briefly posted a document appearing to detail several criminal charges against Donald Trump this morning before taking the document down without explanation.

The document was dated Aug. 14 and named Trump, citing the case as "open."

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Anonymous wrote:What happens is a lot of the MAGAs realize they have been duped, get mad at the "system" and never vote again. Combined with abortion hopefully getting settled by a pro-choice house and senate so as to never be an issue again, leaves the GOP without a voting base until it figures out a new platform.

Oh, hey, they have a new platform: Anti-Trans Hate!! Trans folk overrunning schools and kidnapping your children!! You read it here first, folks!!

Yeah, this seems to be the next big "issue" for the right.

Hopefully, Covid has killed off more or their voters than the GOP thought.

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Anonymous wrote:Meadows is trying to get the case moved to federal court. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/15/politics/mark-meadows-fulton-case-federal-court/index.html

There is no legal basis for granting this.

Well, Meadows actually was a federal officer at the time of the alleged activity. It's not a slam dunk, but he does have grounds.
However, not sure it would even make a difference. The Atlanta federal courthouse still pulls from the Atlanta metro.

I think it's a stretch to say that conspiring to overthrow an election was part of his official duties.