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BumRushDaShow

(143,526 posts)
Sat Sep 21, 2024, 07:39 PM Sep 21

Donald Trump gets key date pushed back in Hillary Clinton RICO appeal despite complaints about 'further delay'

Source: Law & Crime

Sep 21st, 2024, 11:52 am


A federal court of appeals on Friday gave former president Donald Trump more time to file a key document in an effort to resuscitate his failed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton in which he accuses her, and several others, of rigging the 2016 presidential election against him.

In March 2022, Trump filed a massive racketeering (RICO) lawsuit against Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., former FBI director James Comey, and other named defendants. The original petition alleged a conspiracy in which the parties worked toward “a nefarious scheme to discredit, delegitimize and defame” the then-first time candidate Trump.

Now, in the waning days of his third bid for public office, the underlying lawsuit is long-since dead and gone – dismissed as “frivolous” and “hyperbole” by a district court in Florida in September 2022 – but remains on appellate life support in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

In a terse order, Trump-appointed U.S. Circuit Judge Kevin C. Newsom gave Trump an opportunity to stretch the process a bit further – and to opine about the issues at stake in the appeal at length.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/donald-trump-gets-key-date-pushed-back-in-hillary-clinton-rico-appeal-despite-complaints-about-further-delay/



Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25169811-judge-grants-delay-clinton-trump-rico-11c

Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25169811/judge-grants-delay-clinton-trump-rico-11c.pdf
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Donald Trump gets key date pushed back in Hillary Clinton RICO appeal despite complaints about 'further delay' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 21 OP
These so called "justices " BlueKota Sep 21 #1
What a ridiculous case! Accusing her of "rigging" an election which she LOST ??? Jack Valentino Sep 21 #2
Because the things they were saying hurt his feefees. Justice matters. Sep 21 #3
The federal court system sucking up to the convicted felon. chuckle republianmushroom Sep 22 #4
Clinton affirmatively indicated she did not oppose the extension. onenote Sep 22 #5
I expect in 99% of cases BumRushDaShow Sep 22 #6

Jack Valentino

(1,468 posts)
2. What a ridiculous case! Accusing her of "rigging" an election which she LOST ???
Sat Sep 21, 2024, 08:02 PM
Sep 21

In what world does this make sense?

DonOLD's World, of course!!!!

(Hey, that sounds like a good name for a new show for him---
community-access cable TV from a basement bathroom at Mara Lagoon,
if he ever gets out of prison after he loses this election!)

Justice matters.

(7,563 posts)
3. Because the things they were saying hurt his feefees.
Sat Sep 21, 2024, 11:50 PM
Sep 21

While he was plotting with Cohen and Pecker to actually rig the election in his favor and got criminally convicted for rigging it on 34 counts a jury found him guilty of 34 times.

The convicted felon is weaker than a snowflake.

republianmushroom

(17,983 posts)
4. The federal court system sucking up to the convicted felon. chuckle
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 10:14 AM
Sep 22

44 months and counting (includes foot dragging)

onenote

(44,772 posts)
5. Clinton affirmatively indicated she did not oppose the extension.
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 11:27 AM
Sep 22

“On the basis of the representations Appellants make in their present motion, Appellee Clinton does not oppose the present extension request”

Buried in the article.

BumRushDaShow

(143,526 posts)
6. I expect in 99% of cases
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 11:59 AM
Sep 22

"it happens". It is par for the course.

Unfortunately the prosecution of a former President ends up highlighting what are usually "the norms" of legal proceedings and is magnifying them.

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