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Which doesn't mean a manufactured "boy band" can't turn out to be good (see The Monkees). That said, whatever one thinks of their music, The Beastie Boys do not come close to qualifying as a boy band.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1783527654970236975 Alito: "If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election and knows that a real possibility after leaving office is not that the president is going to be able to go off into a peaceful retirement, but that the president may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?" Michael Dreeben, representing the U.S.: "I think it's exactly the opposite, Justice Alito. There are lawful mechanisms to contest the results in an election."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1783522633763496098 Alito: "Did I understand you to say, 'Well, you know, if he makes a mistake, he makes a mistake. He's subject to the criminal laws just like anybody else' You don't think he's in a peculiarly precarious position?" Michael Dreeben, representing the U.S.: "He's under a constitutional obligation ... he's supposed to be faithful to the laws of the United States and the Constitution of the United States." "And making a mistake is not what lands you in a criminal prosecution."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1783518878892442005 Justice Sotomayor: The president is only explicitly mentioned in a few federal statutes. "Justice Barrett made the point that if we say a president can't be included in a criminal law unless explicitly named, then that would bar the Senate from impeaching him for high crimes or misdemeanor because that means that he's not subject to the law at all."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1783515113741287765 Justice Jackson tells Trump's lawyer that he seems to be "worried about the president being chilled." She argues that, in reality, a "really significant opposite problem" would emerge: "If the president wasn't chilled, if someone with those kinds of powers, the most powerful person in the world with the greatest amount of authority, could go into office knowing that there would be no potential penalty for committing crimes, I'm trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into, you know, the seat of criminal activity in this country."

Uh Oh!

You don't get a change of venue because the political party of potential jurors is not to your liking. At least I've never seen a change of venue granted for that reason or anything close to that reason.

Like who, Alan Dershowitz?

Hardcore, who used to go by Recliner Pilot has said this before in this forum, despite the confession of the actual perpetrator and no DNA evidence linking them to the crime.

Fun Fact: Nothing in the Constitution requires a trial judge to schedule around religions.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1782809646161448987 David Pecker testifies that, following his 2015 meeting with Trump and Cohen, he met with former National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard. Pecker outlined the arrangement and described it as "highly private and confidential." Pecker asked Howard to notify the tabloid's West Coast and East Coast bureau chiefs that any stories that came in about Trump or the 2016 election must be vetted and brought straight to Pecker — and "they'll have to be brought to Cohen." Pecker told Howard the arrangement needed to stay a secret because it was being carried out to help Trump's campaign. @NBCNews

I would say that pleading guilty to a crime probably constitutes losing a case. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-okeefe-avoids-jail-time/ James O'Keefe Avoids Jail Time James O'Keefe, who is best known for bringing down the community-organizing group ACORN by posing as a pimp, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully entering federal property, but he avoided jail time, according to reports.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1782803062043668980 David Pecker is testifying about an August 2015 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Trump and Michael Cohen — as well as Hope Hicks, who came in and out of the room. Pecker says he received a phone call from Cohen that "the boss wanted to see me." Pecker says it was there that he agreed to help Trump. "I said what I would do is I would run or publish positive stories about Mr. Trump, and I would publish negative stories about his opponents." @NBCNews

And falsifying business records in New York is a crime. https://criminaldefense.1800nynylaw.com/ny-penal-law-170-10-falsifying-business-records-in-first-degree.html#:~:text=Under this statute%2C a person,or remove any such record. NY Penal Law § 170.10: Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree Under this statute, a person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree if they, with the intent to defraud, make or cause a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, or alter, destroy, conceal, or remove any such record. The enterprise can be any type of organization, including corporations, partnerships, non-profit organizations, and government agencies.

Project Veritas put out edited video interviews that were deliberately misleading and they refused to release the unedited interviews to disprove the claims made against them (particularly by some folks who were interviewed, who said the questions shown in the interviews were not those actually asked of them nor what they were replying to).

James O'Keefe tweet, so no credibility to the accusation based on his body of work with Project Veritas.

And it was here.

I understand enough about Marxism to know that the Antifa anarchists have nothing to do with it. If you ask an Antifa member, "Are you a Communist?" They will answer, "No, I am anti-fascist."

From WaPo: The charges: Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.