That photo looks like she’s trying to escalate to the second level of Starbucks manager.
U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, appointed by Bill Clinton, so expect that to be their next angle of attack.
Who had Justice by Sheer Stupidity on their Bingo card for 2025?
It’s not entirely surprising. This administration has some of the worst representation that I have ever seen.
The vast majority of their victories in the courts have been due to corruption.
Everyone
lol. Those Wikipedia editors are fast.
Edit: now it’s a less spicy “disputed”
They are fairly well known for their distinct lack of fucking around. That is until they decide to fuck around, which is another matter all to itself.
I mean the “editors” are everyone including me and possibly you and my 8-year old and…
They’re volunteers but they have a big group of editors that maintain and fact check several pages. And you can’t discredit the effectiveness of volunteers because literally every admin/mod on Lemmy are volunteers
…gun wielding furries who serve their local communities and grant miracles to the needy?
Looks like it was tweaked to say “disputed” instead of “unlawful,” since I imagine the Trump admin will try to fight this.
Trump always hires C and D tier lawyers because they are the only ones that are willing to work with him. Given that he is president, this carnival of mediocrity often works against weak or unprepared victims. Taking on law experts at the top of their field, who can call on friends who are also the very best at their craft, and assigning someone with no prosecutorial experience just because she makes his peen feel funny, seems ill advised.
the A list attourneys used to work for him, but you see, he has a terrible habit of refusing to pay people for their work (unless they are connected to the russian mob, at least, whom he always pays on time and in full), so most of the top tier lawfirms basically said fuck trump and stopped offering to represent him.
not out of some moral duty, but simply because his documented history of not paying.
The C and D lawyers, though, they are ambulance chasing scumbag scammers. Just being near him and getting on Camera is enough payment for them, so they go through the motions dutifully doing everything he wants… secure in the knowledge once he collapses, They’ll be able to use their association for the next 10+ years to fuck over the everyday idiots that come to them.
The cases were dismissed without prejudice, meaning they can be refiled at a later date.
Five days after the post, Halligan, who had no prosecutorial experience, presented the Comey case to a grand jury. The presentation came days before a five-year statute of limitations on the charges was set to expire.
How does the statute of limitations work after a case is dismissed? Are they still allowed to refile?
IIRC, an indictment that’s thrown out for procedural errors has 6 months from the SoL expiration to fix the indictment, so long as the original indictment was made before the SoL expired.
With the question of whether or not the grand jury actually agreed to indict or just the foreman, the more interesting question is whether or not there even is an original indictment to be fixed.
As with many issues surrounding this administration, I don’t know if we have precedent on something like this. The way they stack up their fuckups on top of each other and make everything legally hazy means they’re either the worst attorneys in America or are really clever. Or, more likely, someone really clever knows how to use one of the worst attorneys in America in an attempt to buy 6 more months to come up with something to justify charging Comey.
Also, they can also now pretend he did something wrong but got off on a technicality. Now that it’s thrown out on procedural grounds, they don’t have to show their lack of evidence.
There was no true bill returned by the grand jury, and nobody in charge with legitimate authority to bring an indictment anyway, so that’s two reasons that there was no indictment. So in the case of Comey, since the statute of limitations was two days from expiring when the non-charges were brought, DOJ is shit out of luck.
They’ll probably take another run at Tish James, though.
I agree that they won’t be refiled, and that MAGA will probably act like it’s some conspiracy, that the rulings were fake or something, just like any election that MAGA doesn’t win must be fake.
One other reason that they won’t be refiled is that these cases have now been analyzed in public pretty thoroughly now. Any lawyer who is offered the job now knows for sure how high profile it is, and as a result, how likely they are to face some consequences for their actions.
Now now. One big reason they might still be refiled is the need for a distraction. ^Trump diddle little kids^ NEW GRAND JURY PULLED IN COMEY CASE!!
You’re giving way too much credit to the reasoning behind these moves.
These are just about ego of one man, and control.
It really depends on whether Trump remembers he hates Comey and James and starts barking orders to just get it done and if he remembers later that he barked those orders.
Obligatory I am not a lawyer, but in my reading of the applicable statute, the indictment can be refiled within 6 months of the dismissal, and not an additional 6 months after the statute of limitations expires. While this might seem similar to what the other posters said, this allows prosecutors to prepare on a much longer timescale (6 months vs the ~week they had for the original indictment after Trump fired the AG for the District) AND also allows them to continue to refile even if the indictment is dismissed again (e.g., their incompetence results in another dismissal).
The bigger point is whether there was an indictment at all, if the person who brought it had no legal authority to do so, and if the whole of the grand jury didn’t actually vote on it anyway.
There are about eight grounds for dismissing the whole case. There won’t be coming back from all of them.
I believe they still have to abide by the SoL. So… By Monday or something?
Correct. Bringing the charge didn’t reset the timer or a criminal case could be near perpetual by simply being dismissed and refiled.
Good question. There must be some limit, otherwise you could use refiling as a loophole to keep extending the limitations forever.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that loophole is in our laws
Time to disbar Halligan.
Actually, I bet this saves her from any consequences. She wasn’t supposed to have the job in there first place, so all of her unforced errors don’t matter.
They should, but she has the magic ® after her name. So it’s just “Oopsies!”, and then she can go on with her day.
If she knew she wasn’t legally appointed, and did the job anyway, that’d be a major ethics violation.
So are the illegal jury instructions, the tampering with the indictment, the lying to the trial judge (Bondi did that too), and probably a few more.
Ha ha!
