Ever seen that scene from Liar, Liar where Jim Carey objects, and says “Because it’s devastating to my case!”?
This is that scene, but actually being attempted in a real courtroom. This has got to be the most desperate thing I have ever seen.
Did Trump’s lawyer call him a mustard-stained napkin ? 🤣
”It is one thing to indict a ham sandwich. To indict the mustard-stained napkin that it once sat on is quite another,” the lawyers wrote.
Devastating legal argument, and beautifully written.
I don’t quite get how this statement applies to their argument? Their argument appears to be that the DA doesn’t have “authority”?
I couldn’t really figure out what they meant, but apparently it is a reference to a famous statement made by a former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Sol Wachtler, who said a DA could get a Grand Jury to ‘indict a ham sandwich’.
The grand jury system is generally a joke. It’s just a smoke screen for prosecutorial discretion. The DA can present whatever they want (and leave out whatever they don’t want) and there’s no due process to the defendant since they haven’t actually been indicted at that point.
That said, I hope every grand jury and regular jury viewing evidence against trump does their individual responsibility and throws the book at him.
Take a cue from us and make him ineligible. Trust us, we’ve defeated the other Trump.
