The Post Insurrection. Part IX. The waiting upon justice edition.

 

March 15, 2024

March 19, 2024

Trump, who represents that his assets are vast, is not able to post a bond covering the full amount of a $454 million civil fraud judgment against him during appeal and has related the same in a filing in court.  He's seeking not to have to post bond.

If the Court does not grant him relief, execution on the judgment could start immediately.

Cont:

Donald Trump is suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos over comments made in the last This Week episode in the Nancy Mace interview.

April 25, 2024

As Trump sits in a New York courtroom on charges of election interference for paying porn figures not to reveal his dalliances with them, while a married man, a host of figures were indicted in Arizona for an attempt to seat false electors.

May 1, 2024

Trump was fined for violating a court "gag" order in a contempt of court ruling in his hush money trial.  He was further warned that he may be jailed in a future contempt ruling, should this conduct repeat.

The same court is allowing him to appear at his son Barron's high school graduation, which apparently would be the first time that he would attend one of his children's high school graduations.

Elise Stefanik filed an ethics complaint against Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, in a move that itself lacks moral ethics.  Stefanik should be ashamed, but the concept of shame is sadly lacking currently.

May 30, 2024

Trump was convicted on all 34 Counts in the New York election interference case.

The claims that it was a political prosecution and featured a rigged jury will start any second now.

June 6, 2024

The Georgia election interference case, which is one of the more significant ones, has been stayed while an appeal goes forward on whether prosecutor Willis may remain on the case, and so human foibles will end up causing this case not to be heard prior to the election, probably.

Willis should step aside to let t his matter go forward.

July 15, 2024

To the general amazement of the legal community, the classified documents case has been dismissed on the basis of the Special Prosecutor having been appointed in violation of the appointments act.  The Special Prosecutor is going to appeal, but there's no way an appeal will be heard prior to the election.

This is frankly bizarre.

August 3, 2024

The criminal case against Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election shall resume.  It's been stayed for 8 months pending the outcome of the Supreme Court opinion on immunity, which the Judge will now have to figure out how to apply.

August 28, 2024

A new amended indictment has been filed.

September 7, 2024

Not related to the insurrection, but to Trump's legal problems, his sentencing in the hush money case has been delayed until after the election.

Frankly, this makes no sense.

November 25, 2024

Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested that all charges against President-elect Trump be dropped in the Federal case.

The progress of official justice in this mater was horrifically slow, which in part is why we now have somebody as President Elect who should have stood trial well over a year ago.

And hence, as Justice shall not come, and the guilty shall go free, we conclude this trailing thread.

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The Post Insurrection. Part VIII. The tangled web edition.

Tuesday, November 23, 1909. The Uprising of the 20,000

Approximately 20,000 Yiddish-speaking young women launched a strike in the New York garment industry.

Mount Aspiring (referred Tititea), the highest peak in New Zealand at 9,957 feet (3,033 m), was climbed for the first time.

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Sunday, November 21, 1909. Demanding Nicaraguan reparations..

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Friday, November 18, 1774. Ellis and his island.

Samuel Ellis, residing at 1 Greenwich Street in Manhattan, bought Oyster Island, where he built a tavern and collected the oysters.

Today, the island is known as Ellis Island.

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Thursday, November 17, 1774. First City Troop.

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Thursday, September 25, 1924. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and the New York Governor's Race.

 

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Wednesday, September 24, 1924. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum arrived in South Dakota

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Tuesday, September 5, 1944. The USSR declares war on Bulgaria.

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WORDS AT WAR episode #62 Sept 05, 1944; "The Veteran Comes Back" for Johnson's Wax.

The USSR declared war on Axis aligned Bulgaria.

Bulgaria had not attacked the USSR, but had supported Nazi Germany.  It had declared war in 1941 on the US and UK, which was a fairly safe, it seemed, thing to do. Really, the Soviet Union should have declared war on it earlier, for that reason, although the delay bade sense for strategic reasons.  It had also participated, albeit to a limited extent, in the war in the Balkans, for its own territorial reasons.

The Battle of Turda began in Romania.  Hungarian forces allied with the Germans joined in the action as the Hungarian army began to act in opposition to its government's desire to get out of the war, out of a fear of Soviet invasion.

Sweden barred entry into its country of fleeing Nazis, something significant in light of Finland stepping out of the war.

The U.S Army captured Namur and Chareroi.

In Italy, the U.S. Army captured Lucca.

Hitler reappointed Rundstedt as Commander in Chief West.

French spy Gustave Biéler was executed by the Germans.  Born in  France, he immigrated to Canada as an adult, and joined the SOE during the Second World War.

Pro Nazi Štefan Tiso became the Prime Minister of Slovakia.  He'd press for the "final solution" in Slovakia.

He was sentenced to live in prison after the war, dying in prison in 1959.

The U-362 was sunk in the Kara Sea by a Soviet minesweeper.

The governments of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg agree to the form the Benelux Customs Union.

An earthquake at Cornwall Ontario damaged buildings there and into New York.

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Monday, September 4, 1944. Reaching Antwerp.

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Sunday, August 28, 1774. Mother Seton.

 

St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton SC was born in the Colony of New York, in the city by that name.  Her prominent parents were protestants, as the overwhelming majority of those in the thirteen lower colonies were, with her mother being an Anglican daughter of an Anglican priest.  She married William Magee Seton, a wealthy 25 year old businessman, at when she was 19.  Both she and William were devout members of Trinity Episcopal Church.  Upon the death of her father in law, the family took in their six young in laws which added to their five children.

The undeclared war with Republican France that was fought on the seas between 1798 and 1800 rendered the merchant family bankruptcy, showing as an aside why the later War of 1812 was unpopular in New England, which depended upon trade with England.  In 1803 William was sent to Italy to convalesce due to tuberculosis but died in the British city of Leghorn where he was quarantine.  She was introduced to Catholicism while in Europe by Flippo and Antonia Filicchi, her husband's business partners, and converted in New York on March 14, 1805.  She began to become involved in education and then became a nun, founding a congregation dedicated to the care of children and the poor.

She died in 1821 at age 46.   Two of her daughters predeceased her.  A third, Catherine Seton, entered the Sisters of Mercy and is being considered as a candidate for a cause of Sainthood.

She was canonized in 1975.

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Saturday, August 27, 1774. Resolution of the First North Carolina Provincial Congress.

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Lex Anteinternet: 18-year-old bodega cat stolen in Queens

Lex Anteinternet: 18-year-old bodega cat stolen in Queens

18-year-old bodega cat stolen in Queens

Truly, he's a bit of a chonker.

18-year-old bodega cat stolen in Queens

Friday, August 5, 1774. Kidnapped Irish cargo.

The ship Needham landed in New York from Newry, England, with indentured servants as its cargo.  They immediately protested that they'd been kidnapped in Ireland and treated badly on the trip, whereupon they were freed.

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Thursday, August 4, 1774. A letter from Adams.

Labels: 1820s, 1824, Central America, Costa Rica, Diplomacy, El Salvador, Federation of Central American States, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, United States

Wednesday, August 2, 1899. Newsboy strike ends.

 

August 2, 1899: “Newsboys’ Boycott Over”

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Monday, July 31, 1899. Homeward bound.

Wednesday, July 27, 1774. A Resolution.

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Tuesday, July 26, 1774. First armed move in Lord Dunmore's War.

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Wednesday, July 26, 1899. Newsboy Leader Quits.

July 26, 1899: “Newsboy Leaders Quit.”

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Tuesday, July 25, 1899. The Great Meet of the Newsboys.

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Tuesday, July 25, 1899. The Great Meet of the Newboys.

I haven't been covering it, but the summer of 1899 featured the Newsboy Strike in New York City, which was directed at the Hearst newspapers.

July 25, 1899: “Great Meet of Newsboys”

It was not the only newsboy strike in US history, but it is remarkable as a youth lead labor strike.

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Friday, July 21, 1899. Ernest Hemingway born.

Labels: 1890s, 1899, Illinois, Personalities, The written word

Blog Mirror: After the Verdict

 After the Verdict

Courthouses of the West: The Jury.

Courthouses of the West: The Jury.: 

The Jury.

The entire time I've been a lawyer. . . well, no, well before that, I've been told that one of the "greatest" things about "the world's greatest judicial system" is that it uses juries.

Most legal systems do not, and those that do, have tended to pick it up from the English Common Law system, often through American influence.  Save for Louisiana, we use the English system, and the English system has long used juries.  

The system has evolved over time.  Originally it was an effort to gather those from the area where an event occured, and was truly a jury of peers. The danger was that they actually knew you, and therefore may be inclined to judge your guilt or innocence based on that, which was part of why it was conceived of as a good system. Over time, while it was still supposed to be a jury of your peers, they were picked, through the voir dire process, for their fairness.

I'm not about to say that juries always get everything right. They don't.  But lawyers are taught to respect the process and the juries, and for good reason.  Frankly, more often than not, juries are right.  Not always, but holding them in contempt is wrong.

The jury that found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies this past week in Manhattan was made up seven men and five women, and included two attorneys, a software engineer, an e-commerce sales professional, a security engineer, a teacher, a speech therapist, an investment banker and a retired wealth manager.   That is a highly educated jury, and frankly that probably truly is a jury of Trump's peers.  Leaving two lawyers on the jury is bizarre, as lawyers only rarely make a jury panel, although I've known one who did.  I've been called for jury duty once and did not get picked, as I didn't expect to be.  Having two lawyers on the panel is phenomenal.

It'd be interesting to know how that occured.  Trump's defense team may have thought that the lawyers would regard the charges as strained in regard to election interference, which a lot of legal analysts did.  They may have, instead, helped the jury wade through the piles of stuff they had and arrive at the conclusion which they did.

Anyway you look at it, they arrived at the opinion they arrived at, and that needs to be respected.

Which Wyoming's elected officials are not.

The jury has been slammed by all of our Congressional delegation, two of whom are lawyers, the Governor and the Secretary of State.

It's tragic.

Wyoming makes frequent recourse to the courts as a state, and now it's attacking the judicial system.  There's utterly nothing whatsoever to question the nature of this jury on.  It appears to have been well qualified for its role.  There's no reason to suspect that New York's legal system is deficient in any way.

It's inexcusable to attack the jury.

Monday, May 13, 1974. 55

Congress rejected a bill by Kansas Senator Bob Dole to allow states to raise the speed limit above 55.

American and Canadian Mohawk's began the occupation of the abandoned Moss Lake Girl Scouts camp near Old Forge, New York.

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Sunday, May 12, 1974. Divorce Italian Style.

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Sunday, March 8, 1874. The Death of Millard Fillmore.

Millard Fillmore, the 13th President of the United States, and the last Whig President, died at age 74.

Formally cited frequently, and perhaps unfairly, as the worst President in U.S. history, his position in that contra honorific has been firmly supplanted by Donald Trump, who stands to very likely be the last Republican President in U.S. history.  Unlike his blowhard, crude fellow New Yorker, Fillmore was a personally honorable man who suffered much personal tragedy in his life.  He was a lawyer by trade, and not a wealthy man.

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February 24, 1874. Honus Wagner born.

Blog Mirror: This Day in History: Annie Moore, first at Ellis Island

 

This Day in History: Annie Moore, first at Ellis Island

Blog Mirror: Have they no sense of decency?

A Robert Reich item about Elise Stefanik:

Have they no sense of decency?

The descent of Stefanik has been epic.  It hardly makes sense, at least in the case of a person who has any integrity at all. Starting off as a centrist, she's turned into a Trump hack.

This effort to sanction the court and the court's clerk is shocking.

Stefanik is really playing with fire here. There's at least a halfway decent chance she'll be sanctioned for filing such a bogus challenge. And if the country survives the next election, long term she's going to have the same sort of reputation that Joe McCarthy now has, save for the fact that she'll fully deserve it and McCarthy only partially did.

Unlike McCarthy, Stefanik is a mother. What a legacy for that child will be left.

A headline you don't expect to see.

This was at one time very common:

 Last operating prison ship plans to close in New York

I didn't realize it happened at all anymore, and it sounds like it was intended to be a temporary measure here.