Trump files frivolous motion to delay hush money trial
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Also, dog barks at squirrel:
Sometimes, the validity of a motion can be best determined by its omissions and elisions. In this case, Trump’s lawyers devote nearly all of their 35-page motion to the fine details of Ms. Merchan’s extensive consulting practice, none of which seem to be in dispute. Tellingly, they make almost no mention of the actual New York law of recusal. When they finally get around to the specific legal provisions — totaling only about five pages of discussion — they quote them quite misleadingly.
For example, the motion claims that disqualification is required by a court rule when “the judge knows that a close relative ‘has an interest that could be substantially affected by the proceeding.’” This is a disingenuous misstatement of the rule itself, which limits the relationships mandating recusal to “the judge’s spouse or minor child residing in the judge’s household.”
While an adult daughter is obviously a close relative, it is nonetheless a relationship specifically excluded from the rule on financial interests, which Trump’s motion does not even purport to address.
The recusal motion also charges that Judge Merchan recently gave a media interview violating another court rule. Judge Merchan began the interview by saying “he wouldn’t talk about the case.” He did, however, note that his preparations were “intense,” and that he was striving “to make sure that I’ve done everything I could to be prepared and to make sure that we dispense justice.”
“There’s no agenda here,” he added. “We want to follow the law. We want justice to be done. That’s all we want.”
Although Merchan’s anodyne statements were not remotely prejudicial to Trump or biased against him, the recusal motion charges that he violated the court rule prohibiting “any public comment about a pending or impending proceeding.” Once again, the motion simply ignored essential language: “This paragraph does not prohibit judges . . . from explaining for public information the procedures of the court.”
Trump is constantly getting away with things that would land an ordinary person in jail, such as for example continuing to attack on social media a judge and an AG who were just threatened with murder by someone who was serious enough about it to get arrested:
A New York man has been charged with sending death threats to the state attorney general and the Manhattan judge who presided over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case.
Tyler Vogel, 26, of Lancaster, sent text messages late last month threatening New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron with “death and physical harm” if they did not comply with his demands to “cease action” in the Trump case, according to a complaint filed last week in a court in Lancaster, a suburb east of Buffalo.
State police said in the complaint that Vogel used a paid online background website to obtain private information about James and Engoron and that this “confirmed intentions to follow through with the threats were his demands not met.”
Vogel has been charged with two felony counts of making a terroristic threat and two misdemeanor counts of aggravated harassment.
Somebody is going to get killed before this is all over.