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Ex-DOJ Official Burns Trump’s ‘Nonsense’ With Bold Prediction
8Apr By adminNo Comments
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Ex-DOJ Official Burns Trump’s ‘Nonsense’ With Bold Prediction

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Ex-DOJ Official’s Bleak Forecast For Mark Meadows After ‘Total Body Slam’ Ruling
19Dec By adminNo Comments
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Ex-DOJ Official’s Bleak Forecast For Mark Meadows After ‘Total Body Slam’ Ruling

A federal appeals court’s decision against Mark Meadows is “to put it mildly, a total body slam,” according to former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal.Monday’s ruling rejected a bid by Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, to move his Georgia election interference case to federal court, affirming a federal judge’s decision in September.A transfer to federal court would have allowed Meadows to seek dismissal of the charges, and would have complicated the Georgia racketeering case against Trump and more than a dozen other defendants over efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.In an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Beat” on Monday, Katyal noted that the ruling from a three-judge panel on the of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals was authored by the court’s chief judge, Wi...
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Neal Katyal Says ‘1 Key Thing Missing’ From Trump’s Trial
7Nov By adminNo Comments
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Neal Katyal Says ‘1 Key Thing Missing’ From Trump’s Trial

Obama-era acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said Donald Trump “covered a lot of ground” with his attacks on lawyers, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron while taking the stand in his civil fraud trial in New York on Monday.“But for all of his attacks, there was one key thing missing from Trump’s testimony, which is any semblance of a colorable defense, and that is Donald Trump through and through,” Katyal told MSNBC’s Charles Coleman.“It’s bloviating, it’s distraction and the like, and that’s why you say this kind of crazy, the antics and behavior,” Katyal added.Katyal said Trump was “not acting like any litigant I have ever seen in any courtroom, let alone someone who’s a former high-ranking government official.”Trump was “rude, he was obnoxious, he was tr...
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