A federal judge threatened to kick Donald Trump out of court Wednesday after the former president made repeated comments within earshot of the jury hearing a civil defamation trial against him.
Trump muttered that the case is a “witch hunt,” among other similar comments, according to a lawyer for the writer E. Jean Carroll, who is suing Trump over derogatory comments he made about her while he was president.
The episode prompted a stern rebuke from U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who repeatedly tussled with Trump and his lawyers during a testy courtroom session Wednesday morning.
“Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited, and it can be forfeited if he is disruptive, which is what has been reported to me,” the judge said.
Mr. Trump has the right to be present here. That right can be forfeited, and it can be forfeited if he is disruptive…
Doesn’t that make it a privilege?
Exactly. A right shouldn’t be able to be revoked, otherwise by definition it’s not a right.
Then you have no rights. All freedoms granted you can be taken away for committing the right crime.
Sure, that’s true, that’s why there are different types of rights, look up natural rights versus things like inalienable rights. At the end of the day all rights are just ideas and concepts, but still, I think calling it a right and threatening to take it away in the context of his trial is no bueno
You’re confusing the word revoked with the word forfeited. He’s forfeiting it by disrupting the court. It’s like the right to remain silent when you’re arrested. The officer arresting you can’t revoke it and make you answer or say anything, but you can choose to forfeit it and start talking.
You want Trump to lose in court ASAP
I want Trump to lose against diabetes ASAP
We are not the same
I hope for nothing contagious: his sycophants would deliberately infect themselves to be more like him and end up causing a rabies pandemic
I can see how that would be bad, but somehow I just can’t stop feeling like that would benefit the world so much more than it would harm it.
You want Trump to lose against diabetes ASAP
I want Trump to lose, on the toilet, against a perforated colon and prolapsed rectum ASAP
We are, well, kinda the same, so hi-five friendo
Honestly I don’t think Trump should be kicked out of court. I say let him ruin his case and insult the judge until he’s found guilty for contempt of court as well.
He’s already well past what would be considered contempt of court for literally any other living human being. They’re giving him as much rope as is possible for two reasons, one being so that absolutely no one can argue a mistrial, and the second being that he continues to attempt to hang himself with every length of rope let out to him. May as well let him continue.
so that absolutely no one can argue a mistrial
This is the part that people keep missing. Judges go into “Super Professional Mode” when these things happen and run their court so by the book that it’s impossible for anyone to complain bias/unfair treatment.
I dont think the people who, and I say this with certainty, WILL compmain its unfair care at all. Even the ones with political power will spin it and have half the country believing that the most lieniant judges of all time are what ‘anti conservative bias’ looks like. It’s like moving the overton window on justice. Republicans after this will believe unless the judge lets a republican defendent sit in their lap and bang the gavel dismissing their own case it is bias. And that’s going to linger every time you try and punish law breakers who they like. Those people make it on juries and when they dont they use bomb threats.
This lawless former president is a disgusting degenerate just like his cult followers.
While “former president” is a correct title, the media should really use “petulant man-child” instead. Far more accurate .
