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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 04:55 PM Apr 2018

Trump Attacks On Justice Department Are At Heart Of Cohen Case

By Allegra Kirkland | April 17, 2018 4:43 pm

It’s not easy to convince a federal judge to view the law enforcement process as biased and illegitimate from the outset. But that’s essentially the case that lawyers for President Trump and Michael Cohen are trying to make before U.S. Judge Kimba Wood.

Through their attorneys, the president and his longtime fixer are claiming that the current atmosphere of “toxic partisan politics” means Justice Department prosecutors can’t be trusted to sort through the reams of material that federal agents seized from Cohen to determine which are covered by attorney-client privilege. Meanwhile, they’re insisting that they aren’t impugning the government’s integrity.

Prosecutors counter that any questions about DOJ’s impartiality are the result of attacks leveled by Trump himself.

In their court filings and oral arguments, Trump and Cohen’s attorneys criticized last week’s raid as overzealous and suggested that Trump’s own Justice Department may be biased against him.

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Trump Attacks On Justice Department Are At Heart Of Cohen Case (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP

Lol.. Your Honor, we'd like this dismissed on the grounds that the DOJ is treating us like criminals Volaris Apr 2018 #1

Kinda like KKKris KKKobach leftieNanner Apr 2018 #2

I really really REALLY want there to be an audio transcript of that trial somewhere... Volaris Apr 2018 #3

An audio transcript would be great fun leftieNanner Apr 2018 #5

"...any questions about DOJs impartiality are the result of attacks leveled by Trump himself." BoneyardDem Apr 2018 #4

Volaris

(10,272 posts)

1. Lol.. Your Honor, we'd like this dismissed on the grounds that the DOJ is treating us like criminals

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:19 PM

Apr 2018

And we think that's unfair.

Your Honor: Well now, why would the DOJ have reason to believe that about you, do you think?

We'd like very much not to answer that question, your honor, on the grounds that doing so would probably violate our 5th Amendment Rights...

This judge is gonna have herself a goddamn Field Day with these legal eagles, ain't she? Cohen and his lawyer are about to get a crash course in Law from the best teaching tool since nuns with rulers: an angry State.

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)

2. Kinda like KKKris KKKobach

Reply to Volaris (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:34 PM

Apr 2018

Who chose to represent Kansas over the "voter fraud" bullshit himself. The judge gave him a talking-to. He must have done law school by the Cliff Notes!

Volaris

(10,272 posts)

3. I really really REALLY want there to be an audio transcript of that trial somewhere...

Reply to leftieNanner (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:45 PM

Apr 2018

When SC justices get someone they think is an idiot, they can't say it, but you can HEAR IT in their voices, and on occasion it's damn funny to know that someone is about to get their ass handed to them by one of their Betters (and that goes for the justices I don't usually agree with, as well. An asskickings an asskicking, it doesn't care which side your on).

It would be fun to listen to Koback get a beating for being an idiot

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)

5. An audio transcript would be great fun

Reply to Volaris (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:50 PM

Apr 2018

But I would have loved to see that smarmy face and creepy smile drop to the floor. The smug ones always fall hard.

BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)

4. "...any questions about DOJs impartiality are the result of attacks leveled by Trump himself."

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:48 PM

Apr 2018

IOW making up shit and whining about it later. Classic case of believing one's own lies.

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