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nocturnal_traveler posted...

I know this would violate Trump's right to a fair trial, but maybe this trial should be one without a jury. Not only is it incredibly difficult to find someone without a set opinion of Trump, but if they're going to allow him and his allies to intimidate jurors, then Trump doesn't deserve a fair trial.

A bench trial is a thing where one would have a fair trial, but Trump would never agree to that.

https://twitter.com/stewartbishop/status/1780991533795119370

Next week is a busy week in Trump's legal woes.

• All week except wednesday: Criminal trial continues
• April 22nd: Hearing in the NY civil fraud trial over whether the company that put up Trump's bond can actually do so legally and properly
• April 23rd: Hearing over gag order violations in the Manhattan criminal trial
• April 25th: SCOTUS oral arguments for his presidential immunity appeal in the January 6th case

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1780954575920320623

https://twitter.com/lawofruby/status/1780961142711414902

Yeah, so we've gone from 7 seated jurors to 5.

https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1780957450189033560

Looks like the judge is going to decide all of this on Tuesday or maybe in the days after Tuesday's hearing on the matter. What's the over/under on how many more times Trump will violate the gag order until then?

Mearcstapa posted...

Doesn't the phrasing make sense?

This is the prosecution asking the judge why Trump isn't being held in contempt, correct?

According to her explanation, it's for Trump to explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt for numerous gag order violations.

https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1780955636081078681

I'm assuming she either meant "should now be held in contempt" or "should be held in contempt."

Edit: She clarified:

https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1780956217973838194

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8f196ebd.jpg

https://twitter.com/joycewhitevance/status/1780726164648046960?s=46

Hes not going to stop doing this stuff until he gets some serious consequences

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1780715522570740064

name_unknown posted...

so called moderate GOP still voted to impeach
Susan Collins and her like vote with the radicals

From what I understand, the Senate was voting on whether to reject the impeachment articles from the House or accept them and hold a trial. They voted to reject both of them, while Republicans wanted to hold the trial. Then some moderate Republicans were at least signaling that they would vote against impeachment after the trial is held.

I always do mine right away, regardless of whether I have to pay or I'm getting a refund. I typically have to wait until mid February because that's when Etrade releases their documents, though.

Motion to delay until after the election failed

Motion to delay to May 1st fails

Now they want to delay until after the election?

If Mayorkas committed such a high crime and misdemeanor, why are they wanting him to serve another ~7 months?

The senate voted to kill one of the articles of impeachment... Now Republicans are saying they want to delay the trial until May?

https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1780673583104082208

Zwijn posted...

Duolingo is a good intro but if youre serious about it its honestly not the right tool.

https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/s/1FPX0l3REL

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/s/9MWuczrNR2

I'm gonna take it in stages for right now. I'll likely move on to other tools once I feel like I've got what I can get out of Duolingo.

KaZooo posted...

I've approached this by learning sentence structure first. Particles seems to need some practice.

Hiragana and reading is a bit secondary atm. Figure I'll learn naturally like a kid first wouldn with any language - speaking

Yeah, that's seems to be the way that Duolingo is approaching it, but there are certain parts of the lessons where they ask you to either write a character or they give you a part of a character and ask you to complete the rest.

I'd be fine if I just struggle through that and continue on, but the perfectionist in me wants to get all of those right, lol

Touch posted...

Is Duolingo fun/effective? Was thinking about using it to learn languages also.

I'm doing well with it so far. I'm obviously pretty early on, so I'll have to see how well I progress over the next year or so. I have a friend who has been doing Duolingo for a couple years now and he says he can understand how to read and write pretty well in Japanese and can hold conversations.

If I do well with Japanese, I'll probably also do Spanish and Portugese.

Cocytus posted...

Will you use it?

Once I get comfortable with basic phrases and conversation, I'll probably go to a restaurant and order in Japanese. Once I start getting almost fluent (or at least be able to have some basic conversations), I'm gonna take a vacation and go to Japan.

I'm about 9 or so days into lessons on Duolingo. I'm at the point where I feel like I need to understand how to at least all of the characters in hiragana, so I'm gonna start working on drilling through that separately.

Umbreon posted...

Nor did the maga folks get any board shutdown. That's just Fandom wanting to be the white bread of neutrality when it comes to anything remotely political.

Of course had full bans been given out to more of the people celebrating terrorism, it would have sent a much stronger message.

They most definitely got a board shut down after January 6th.

ClayGuida posted...

Trumps not winning in November barring something insane happening. Even then, I doubt trump has a shot. Too many in his own base don't want him as president.

People don't realize how much smaller his base is today than it was November 2020.

I'm just hoping they don't just fall in line and vote for him in November any way. Seeing how much the GOP has turned the reigns over to Trump after... all this... Is worrying to me.

tremain07 posted...

This trial is a real nail biter

if Trump gets convicted, it doesn't matter if he's sentenced to prison it's the end of his presidental ambitions as it will definitely help in getting him convicted in the other 3 criminal trials against him, Biden will win.

If Trump gets acquitted, he'll win as the narrative will immediately shift that Trump was right all along and these are sham trials designed to try and take him down as the media will definitely pump that narrative and the populace will believe it

If Trump gets a hung jury, no real change because a hung jury does not mean this case goes away, it simply means that it has to be retried.

I'm a bit worried about one of the jurors admitting they know some of the central park 5 being seated because that alone could give Trump's legal team a leg to stand on for appeal, which could result in an acquittal, I don't think right wing media homed in on this yet to start throwing rage fits and Trump hasn't complained about it on his dying website yet.

I think the one who said he knew some of the Central Park 5 was just a prospective juror and would likely be dismissed.

I was hoping the January 6th case would be the first to trial. Hopefully it will at least still happen before the election, but we'll see.

I rarely post on the NFL and NBA boards. So I might come back every once in a while to have discussions during the NFL and NBA seasons, but I definitely wouldn't be visiting daily any more.

Revelation34 posted...

Fandom didn't even own Gamefaqs in 2021.

Yeah, but those types of people started ruining discussions on other boards after the MAGA board was shut down

I'm gonna go ahead and assume that people cheering on the insurrection on January 6th, 2021 was really what started us down this path. That was when that MAGA board, or whatever it was called, got shut down. I'm assuming the MAGA folks who didn't get banned mostly migrated to the politics board and then CE. And then they got the politics board shut down so they either left or went to CE.

And now CE is made private.

CableZL

EPR-radar posted...

"So you want my opinion on Trump. OK. Do you want the the unabridged version (all week), the abridged version (all day) or the executive summary (one hour)?"

Judge: You're dismissed

https://twitter.com/stewartbishop/status/1780349040372105293

https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1780364225636118823

https://twitter.com/KatiePhang/status/1780351314293035424

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2f429594.jpg

Bussin' Q

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1780324796951146655

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1780321817288192246

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1780316270111408230

UnsteadyOwl posted...

I don't know how this works. If a defendant is acting out in court and refuses to follow the judge's directions can they be barred from the courtroom during their own trial?

Yeah. The most recent example of this that sticks out in my mind is the Darrell Brooks murder trial. The judge repeatedly had him sit in a separate room all by himself. The judge was muting and unmuting him as necessary.

https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1780305180036087985

Barely starting jury selection and Trump is already misbehaving.

https://twitter.com/sfoguj/status/1780299882374517165

I really wish Dominion and Smartmatic would force these cases to trial instead of settling. And if they do settle, make the settlement public. They seemingly have all of the leverage you could ever have in a defamation lawsuit, but they keep settling.

Deleted my previous post because it was satire.

I switched to FreeTaxUSA last year and I'm never using TurboTax again.

TheGoldenEel posted...

so are all the prospective jurors the most milquetoast people imaginable

They're still going through the jury selection process

Smallville posted...

Is this true?

There's an announcement about this on the board announcements.

Furthermore, while we understand the passion surrounding political discussions, we believe it is essential to maintain a focus on gaming-related content. As such, we are implementing a measure to turn the Current Events private. Every user who has visited GameFAQs in the last year and who currently has access to the board will retain access to the board. No additional users will be allowed to view or post on the board going forward. Additionally, any user who is placed in Purgatory (which is always an administrator/staff decision) will permanently lose access to the board. Additionally, political topics outside of CE will be banned.

So even Trump accusing other people of being low energy has been projection all along

https://twitter.com/TylerMcBrien/status/1780252191871107130

He's gonna be sleeping every day, isn't he

BlazinBlue88 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80747601

Yeah, I saw that topic after seeing this one. Not sure how I missed all that all this time

Smallville posted...

Hey they got rid of politics flair on ce, so politics is not allowed anymore?

From what I understand, politics is only allowed on CE now.

I'm just now finding out that CE was made private. Wow. I'm late, lol

I'm just now realizing CE was made private

wow