Judge tosses Trump's $15B defamation suit against New York Times, Penguin Random House
A judge has tossed President Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and Penguin Random House, and gave Trump's lawyers 28 days to refile.
It is scary that the last line of defense against authoritarianism is the judicial system.
Yep, because the Tribunal of Six is the final (legal) court of appeal in the country.
The checks are fraudulent and the balances have been tampered with.
No the last line is the citizens but they seem content to sit back and watch their democracy collapse.
If it comes to the citizens, we're all gonna have a bad time.
There are some people doing some stuff. But definitely not at the scale nor intensity required.
"There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order"
There's another line after that, but people don't like talking about it.
More scary that it's down to lawyers. Not the judges.
I've read good things about the lawyers at Democracy Forward https://democracyforward.org/
I get what you are saying and totally empathize with the sentiment given a modern context, but that is the purpose of judiciaries and why the US federal goverment structure was designed the way it was.
What's surprising is not that it's the last line of defense, it's that we've been pushed to the fucking brink.
USA fell off the brink last November. Everything going on now is the falling down bit while people hope someone else is stacking pillows at the bottom. But pillows got real expensive lately and a new Trump headline just dropped.
It's always been the judicial system. In Nazi Germany, the courts were incredibly close to blocking the concentration camps. If they had, we'd have had a very different history
Good thing conservatives haven't packed the courts. Oh wait.
"As every lawyer knows (or is presumed to know), a complaint is not a public forum for vituperation and invective -- not a protected platform to rage against an adversary."
You have to be a really shit lawyer to work for Trump.
It would be great if the lawyers actually faced consequences for such blatant abuses of their profession. Lawyers are supposed to have standards they adhere to which are obviously not being followed. These lawyers know what they are doing is wrong and are doing it intentionally, their Bar association really should not tolerate this behavior.
I loved that quote! 😄
And this was a court they cherrypicked for presumed favorability.
I love that we still get some moments like this.
The judge gave them a page limit, too.
It's almost like it was frivolous.
He has admitted doing it because it drains their resources.
We need slap laws everywhere.
Headline tomorrow: "Trump appeals decision against New York Times, suit remains."
Well that was fast
Stormy Daniels: "I've seen faster."
Always good to see the Orange Nazi lose.
Not a loss. The judge just kicked it back as it was a load of whining and shit. If he can make a real grown-up suit out of it, it'll be back on.
nazi rapist. Don't forget the rape. He's trying to make it go away, so don't forget it!
The paint of the suit was the damage caused by it. Not winning.
Hey if we never do anything about it they know they can keep doing it.
Well the judge threw it out at lightspeed, that's something
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