Recent content by Fantine

Manchin never said "how high" to anyone in the Senate. For a while he was jokingly called "President Manchin" because nothing, absolutely nothing, could be passed without his OK. Along with Kristin Sinema. he was a power broker courted by everyone, and he reveled in his power.

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Most of it will go to the lawyers. Now they have to appeal 34 felony convictions, a $450 million dollar tax and insurance fraud judgment, and a $73 million rape judgment. And his followers persist in believing in him, sacrificing to get him out of troubles of his own making. What kind of...

He is still caucusing with Democrats. The majority will not change.

I am wondering whether Mr. Trump's conviction will give the less ideological members of the Court to take limits on presidential immunity more seriously. I recognize two are unreachable, but last week the Court was evaluating the case based on their faith in the relative integrity of our 46...

At Newark or LGA they're probably just flash mobs looking to alleviate boredom between flights

When all the 'evidence' of this alleged immorality and corruption comes from conspiracy theorists and other unreliable sources, your astonishment surprises me. We are just discerning critical thinkers evaluating information that comes from journalistically ethical sources whose media is fact-based.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Absolutely yes on both, but Merchan ran a very tight ship and was assiduous in his application of the law. He ran the trial exactly as someone who has $50 million of defense lawyers questioning his every move. "No fair" does not impress appeals courts.

Criminal appeals in state courts can--when certain conditions are met--be appealed to the Supreme Court, after all other appeals are exhausted, but: "The Supreme Court will only take an appeal where there is a claim that the defendant’s federal constitutional rights were violated, and writs of...

The maximum sentence is 4 years plus a $5,000 fine for each count. If this criminal gets off with a slap on the wrist, would not every person ever convicted of a felony, many spending years in a jail, be angered at the injustice of someone with 34 convictions receiving a slap on the wrist? Why...

God bless America. Even $50 million dollars of legal representation can't fool a twelve-member jury when the truth is owned by the prosecution.

Many convictions are appealed. Murderers on death row go through a number of appeals, and do not stop until their last appeal is exhausted. Throughout the trial, commentators said that Judge Merchan was conducting the trial in such a way that would make successful appeals virtually impossible...

If the USSC wants to keep its power, it needs to have the trust of the people. Right now Trump is doing well in the polls, but when those June decisions start rolling out with the deciding votes from justices who've taken many millions in patronage and had spousal involvement in insurrection...