Pinning this one and removing the others as it was first and has the most engagement.
If you’re trying to keep track of where we’re at in the Trump prosecutions:
Updated 07/15/2024
New York
34 state felonies
Stormy Daniels Payoff
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest
Trial
Conviction <- You Are Here Guilty, all 34 counts.
Sentencing - Originally scheduled for July 11, 2024, now delayed until September 18th following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Presidential immunity.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/trump-sentencing-date-delay-proposal/index.htmlWashington, D.C.
4 federal felonies
January 6th Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - The trial, originally scheduled for March 4th, had been placed on hold pending the Supreme Court ruling on Presidential Immunity.
The Supreme Court ruled that the President does enjoy limited immunity for “official acts”, it now returns to lower court to determine what, if any, of his acts leading up to 1/6 were “official”.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/politics/supreme-court-donald-trump-immunity/index.html
Conviction
SentencingGeorgia
10 state felonies
Election Interference
As of 3/13/24 - Judge McAfee cleared 6 charges, 3 against Trump, saying they were too generic to be enforced.
As of 3/15/24 - The case may proceed, but either Fulton County DA, Fani Willis and her office or Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade must remove themselves due to the appearance of impropriety.
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
All 19 defendants have surrendered.
Trial - October 4th, 2024 hearing has been set to determine if Fani Willis can remain on the case.
Three defendants, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, and bail bondsman Scott Hall, have all pled guilty and have agreed to testify in other cases.
Conviction
SentencingFlorida
40 federal felonies
Top Secret Documents charges
Investigation
Indictment
Original indictment was for 37 felonies. 3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - The trial had been set to begin May 20, 2024, but was subsequently delayed indefinitely by the judge, and has now been dismissed outright under the claims that the prosecutor was not Constitutionally appointed.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-tosses-trump-documents-case-ruling-prosecutor-unlawfully-appointed-2024-07-15/
The expectation is that this will be appealed and the Judge removed from the case.
Conviction
SentencingOther grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, or the Arizona fake electors, have not been announced.
The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again resulting in a demand for $10 million is not listed as it’s a civil case and not a crimimal one. He was found liable in that case for $83.3 million.
There had been multiple cases in multiple states to remove Trump from the ballot, citing ineligibility under the 14th amendment.
The Supreme Court ruled on March 4th that states do not have the ability to determine eligibility in Federal elections.
You are a patriot
Trump Appointed Judge Aileen Cannon just made it LEGAL to share TOP SECRET SCIF DOCUMENTS with LITERALLY anybody in the World including our Enemies! But it’s JUDGE MERCHAN’S DAUGHTER we need to worry about!
War Thunder players are going to be so stoked!
Nope. She just said it was ok for trump. Rules for thee.
So he got away with it, like everything else. What lesson is this supposed to teach the nation?
The Roberts court is a joke and obviously delaying any rulings they can until after the election to protect the wealthy and powerful from the law everyone else is restricted under. Cannon just takes the stupidity one step further.
All hail the oligarchs /s
Court is on recess until October at this point, and even when they’re back in session, the Court holds off on announcing rulings until June, that’s standard practice.
Sounds good let’s shut down and recess all industries until October not just justice.
What a fucking joke
I’ve been reading European news outlets for the past few days. They don’t even acknowledge Biden anymore. He’s barely mentioned. Everyone is debating and discussing how to deal with the next Trump term. The assassination attempt has really confirmed to them that Trump will 100 percent be the next president. Felonies and all.
It has not. No poll shows that at this point. It’s a false narrative.
I didn’t say anything about what the polls say or don’t say. I just said that the Europeans are preparing for a Trump presidency and Biden’s stock is quickly devaluing there. That’s all.
As a European I can confirm that you’re full of shit on this one.
I’m not. The media outlets are full of strategies for a new Trump term. Probably because of recent events. It may moderate eventually, but right now it’s all about Trump in the US coverage.
Well we also give more atention to hurricanes than clear skyes
The autocratic dictatorship is imminent and I don’t have a current passport. Not sure what the future holds.
You and me both.
Run for local or state office.
And get killed by maga crazies
Arm up, particularly a pistol, apply for CCW. The right will continue their stochastic violence and seemingly random mass shootings, targeting poc and lgbtq. Go vote for gun control absolutely, but your votes not gonna save you when someone storms a mall and starts spraying because they’re part of a violent cult.
A vast majority of Democrat representatives live out their lives without getting killed by MAGA crazies. I think most of them though are willing to take that risk for what they believe in. Do you believe in something greater than yourself that would prompt you to take that risk?
If push comes to shove your passport is only the first step. You would need to actually find a country to take you, and countries don’t hand out citizenship like candy unless you’re rich. Without a second citizenship, you would be very restricted in where you can work.
Your best bet is if your parents or grandparents came from abroad, some countries have blanket policies to have 1st or 2nd generations come back to their ancestral homeland. It very much varies by country, you would have to do your own research. It might be worth doing as a last resort.
I may look into the other genealogical direction. My daughter has skills that are globally in demand and she’s probably more upset about America than I ever could be. Maybe there’s a bring your parent along program out there somewhere.
I’m fifteen years out from viable retirement. If I can hold on that long, there are several places I could go on my own accord.
I’ve never seen someone get so many free passes for the stuff he does.
Most governments around the world and their politicians regularly get away with even war crimes. This isn’t anything new.
This is less a “free pass” so much as all things going to plan.
Cannon is a trump appointed croney who has been delaying the trial and doing everything in her power to protect trump. And now the supreme court gave them an out and she instantly took it.
This is literally what republicans have been working toward for decades. Immunity by corrupting the government at every level.
Doesn’t it kind of feel as if this has reached some sort of end game here? Previously, it has always felt like - yeah, they play dirty, but they keep their bullshit contained to reasonable levels. But recently, it’s just been one absolute blatantly democracy-shattering decision one after another.
Well, yeah, because they think they are confident in the outcome now.
Because we played right into their hand, the have been telegraphing this for years. All of their bullshit has been slowly ramping up for years, slowly getting more unreasonable but compared to everything else they’ve done it’s really not that much worse. Now that they were able to completely set the field they can move on the they’re end game. And I’m not sure we can stop them now.
If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked- if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non- Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C?
- They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 -by Milton Mayer
Yes, because they are a) at the tipping point where they control enough institutions so the pieces fall together now, and b) someone came along who’s actually used all those pieces and everyone could see how absolutely unprepared and completely helpless the system and the political opponent was. They realized they don’t need to tiptoe around anymore.
There’s been a concerted effort to infiltrate and influence politics by conservative Christians for years. I think events like the Brook Brothers riot emboldened dropping the thin veil of the Democratic process as they saw you can literally steal an election and no one will do anything about it. The real test of what the people will tolerate is only beginning, I fear.
America is fucked, because nobody rises up.
Well, one guy did, and he was about an inch away from succeeding.
Wind took it.
Too bad.
If at first you don’t succeed…
Honestly for a long time I was really hopeful that the fact that he was doing it out in the open and everyone could see that he was abusing the hell out of every little loophole he could find, and creating some new ones, would mean that we’d start closing those loopholes when he was out of office and we might even see an era of reform.
He’s been out of office for 4 years and all the courts have managed to do is LEGALIZE HIS MISCONDUCT! I feel like I’m finally starting to except our collective fate and now there’s nothing left to do but watch it burn down around us.Yeah, thought the same.
And it’s not only that, a few things occurred or are in the midst of happening ( at the worldwide level ), that i was sure wouldn’t be possible, because no one would do that shit and/or people would not let it happen.
But, boy was i wrong…
Fucking filth
I spent 3 years and half a million dollars getting a law degree…and it make me feel good to know that everything I learned there doesn’t actually fucking matter. All I needed to learn was that if you are appointed by an authoritarian Cheeto, the law is what you make it.
Cheetoh Mussolini
Cheetoh Benito or Mango Mussolini or Il Douche
I’ve been collecting names for the bastard for awhile. We have…
Adolf Twitler
Benedict Donald
Cheeto Benito
Cheeto In Chief
Cinnamon Hitler
Comrade Cheetolino
Con-Hair
Despot Cheeto
Diaper Don
Draft Dodger Don
The Fanta Menace
Hair Furher
Il Douche
King Mierdas
The Manchildian Candidate
Mango Mussolini
Orange Julius Caesar
President Gold Man Sucks
Prima Donald
Pumpkin Pinochet
Tangerine Toddler
Tangerine Tyrant
Trumplethinskin
Tweeto Toupee’to
The White Pride Piper
I’m totally going to jail for this if he gets reelected.
The Fanta Menace has a certain ring to it
King Mierdas gave me a giggle.
Pumpkin Pinochet and President Gold Man Sucks were new to me. Nice collection.
Is there away to fit “Out of his element Donnie” in there?
Führer
ftfy. Alternatively, you can write it as
Fuehrer
Solid list though!
“The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty.” - David Frum
You pretty much learn this, but then you find your way into camp A that attempts to hold up this system, or Camp B where you attempt to use this system to destroy itself…Camp B is struggling right now.
I was wondering how much this Trump fuckery is going to effect legal precedent since precedent seems to matter quite a lot in the legal system. Or do you think most judges are going to straight up just say Trump gets more legal rights so precedent set by him doesn’t matter?
Precedent is dead thanks to chevron overturned. Supreme court took a massive shit on it
They don’t give a shit about precedent. They are fascists appointed by an insurrection leader. They will make decisions that benefit Christian nationalism without regard to anything else.
They’re not the only Judges though. If a otherwise normal judge was given an argument in court that brought up the precedent Trump set, laws start to fall apart. I’m worried that many laws will become almost unenforceable no matter who the judge is.
The problem is the backboard that was a rational supreme court no longer exists.
That’s a goal. Laws should only be enforced if it is against a member of the out group.
Members of the out group are allowed to argue precedent too, and like I said not every judge is going to be a fascist, so I’m still worried many laws are going to be unenforceable against anyone.
not every judge is going to be a fascist
For now
I suggest listening to the podcast Strict Scrutiny. They do a fantastic job of breaking down the way the current Supreme Court has just thrown out nearly every well established precedent. And it pretty much is based upon their own individual ideology and not based on any logical interpretation of the constitution.
If you spent half a million dollars for a degree a have a bridge to sell you
I have a friend who had a case before Cannon and told me that she was both one of the stupidest and the meanest judges she’s ever dealt with, which is saying something since she practices primarily in Florida. As a representative of the caliber of judges the Federalist Society has to offer, Cannon is pretty damning… and if we get four more years of Trump, the federal bench is going to be stacked with jurists even worse than her.
2016-2020 - how far can I go placing terrible judges that’ll do my bidding
2024 - damnit, I could have gone even further the first time.
We are dangerously close to an emperor has no clothes moment in regards to the rule of law. When people digest that the law is whatever it needs to be to suit the needs of the moment, they’ll operate as if there is no law and they’ll be right. I fear we are already past the point of no return.
All for Donald fucking Trump.
When the supreme law of the law, the Constitution, is nullified the Great American Experiment ceases to exist - we are there. The war has already begun.
So much for the legitimacy of our courts and laws
It’s almost like Clarence Thomas is acting in the best interests of a foreign power trying to attack and ruin our country
the law is what you make it.
Did you thought law was somehow divine before? Laws were always made to serve those who rule since their inception.
The headline should say “Corrupt Judge dismisses Trump documents case”
“Corrupt trump-appointed judge dismisses slam dunk trump case”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Washington — The federal judge overseeing the case alleging former President Donald Trump mishandled sensitive government documents after leaving the White House has dismissed the charges against him.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
The original article contains 37 words, the summary contains 37 words. Saved 0%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
The fascist in chief is having the best week he could for his 2024 run. I’m glad I won’t be seeing any of my maga relatives any time soon, they must be insufferable right now.
He’s had several good weeks on the trot.
It’s interesting to think it’s taken a long time before a President was able to so obviously expose the cracks in the American constitution. It took someone entirely without shame or integrity to do so, but he did it during his first term and his second is going to be even more abusive. How does America fix this system going forwards? With the country so divided and polarised, it feels like another civil war might be the only way to solve that, but a civil war is unthinkable. But then so much else that was unthinkable has already happened in recent years.
americans will still firmly believe “it’ll never happen in this country” even as roving bands of newly deputized trump gestapo squads are going door to door demanding to know where your loyalties lie
Fascists and records are a disastrous combination. With our massive surveillance problems we could be in serious trouble.
obviously expose the cracks in the American constitution
out of curiosity, what exactly did he do to “obviously expose the cracks in the American constitution”.
For instance the fact that you can stuff the supreme court with marionettes and then the country is yours.
Oh, suddenly she can move quickly on something when there’s political cover.
Unbelievable corruption.
The “liberal media” is not “tripping over themselves to talk about this like it’s some complicated issue”.
The Washington Post called bullshit:
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ruling is a remarkable win for Trump, whose lawyers have thrown longshot argument after longshot argument to dismiss the case. Other courts have rejected similar arguments to the one that he made in Florida about the legality of Smith’s appointment.
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Cannon’s decision comes as Trump is preparing to be formally nominated as the Republican presidential nominee in this year’s election, with the Republican National Convention beginning in Milwaukee on Monday.
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The legal theory that Smith was illegally appointed and funded has generally been considered far-fetched. Trump’s legal team didn’t adopt the argument in court until conservative legal groups pushed it.
“objectivity” is bullshit and will end up getting hundreds of millions of people killed.
Nowhere do they explicitly connect this to her political ideology. That’s exactly my point, they’re soft-selling it.
The liberal media (no quotes needed, they’re corporate neoliberal) refuses to actually call a spade a spade.
This is not a critical article, this is just them shrugging and being like “Oh, well, it seems like tenuous grounds for dismissal but thems the licks.”
Without intent to offend, perhaps neutral reporting isn’t for you. They reported all the facts and leave you to come up with your own opinion, which is a mark of high-quality journalism.
They are a news agency. They are not here to tell you what to think of the news. You want your news to tell you what to think. I want my news to tell me what happened and give me the information necessary to form my own opinion.
If they said explicitly or implied that she did this because of her ideology, even if that is likely true, that would not be unbiased.
There is no such thing as neutral, unbiased reporting. Believing that there us is a mark of media illiteracy. Making the choice not to duscuss the obvious conflict of interest is a choice, it is a form of bias. Journalists cannot be unbiased, that’s not a possibility with the job.
We should not be allowing a dismantling of our democracy because “you have to be fair to bothsides”.
On the one side, this man is accused of murdering 30 people. On the other side, he’s been called a lover of puppies. Let’s meet in the middle and say he’s a bad driver.
This is an important detail often missed when discussing journalism, objectivity, bias, and, unfortunately, integrity. It’s a necessary piece of fabric that has been fraying for years. As another lemmy post some month ago put it, with the loss of the Cronkite era folks lost faith in the fourth estate. The tragedy is that the stratification of news by party and by medium is that anything right of CNN, most of the fringe blogosphere, and nearly all of the AM stations is that they are presenting opinionated hot takes as journalistic facts. Moreover, this tends to galvanize an already consitent voter base. It seems like without an emotional appeal to resisting consrvative ideologues the rhetoric and relative baseline just keep slipping.
“Maintaining an aura of objectivity” is itself blatant pro-fascist bias!
This sounds like a constitutional question for the Supreme Court, right?
Absolutely, we know that they will decide bases on the time-honired precedent of which side provides the biggest RV as a “gratuity”
John Oliver offered a pretty big RV but Thomas didn’t take him up on it.
That’s because it wasn’t a motor coach. Clearance Thomas has standards.
It was, actually. Blew the rest of the season’s budget on it too lol
He has to weigh that against the luxury fishing vacations.
Now that’s not fair, there are also hunting vacations.
