DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 6, 2024
When Is A Bond Not A Bond? When it’s not valid in the State of New York. Watch the video:
The video explains the details behind NY AG Letitia James’ objections to the $175 million bond that TFG filed against the $454 million judgment in the tax fraud case. Turns out the company that posted the bond, Knight Specialty Insurance, doesn’t have enough assets to meet the NY requirement for a bonding company to make such a large bond.
Here’s the best part. Knight Specialty has argued that they don’t have to meet the NY requirements because — ahem — they are NOT A LICENSED NY BONDING COMPANY. Sure, that will work.
Judge Engoron has scheduled an April 22 hearing to discuss.
Trump Really Doesn’t Want The Hush Money Case To Go To Trial. Last-minute desperation. Will it work?:
Former President Donald Trump is demanding a new judge just days before his hush-money criminal trial is set to begin, rehashing longstanding grievances with the current judge in a long-shot, eleventh-hour bid to disrupt and delay the case.
Trump’s lawyers — echoing his recent social media complaints — urged Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan to step aside from the case, alleging bias and a conflict of interest because his daughter is a Democratic political consultant. The judge rejected a similar request last August.
In court papers made public Friday, Trump’s lawyers said it is improper for Merchan “to preside over these proceedings while Ms. Merchan benefits, financially and reputationally, from the manner in which this case is interfering” with Trump’s campaign as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Explain To Me Just How RFK Jr’s Candidacy Hurts Biden. He’s shaped his appeal to the nuttiest of the RWNJ’s. AKA Trump’s base. Here’s but one example:
On March 23, Steve and Tracy Slepcevic hosted a fundraiser for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the San Diego area. Tickets started at $575, and those who paid $2,750 were to be treated to a “private sunset reception” before RFK Jr. would chat with the assembled and pose for photos. It was hardly surprising that the Slepcevics were supporting Kennedy, given that Tracy is a long-time anti-vaxxer prominent within the autism community. But the personal politics of the Slepcevics illuminate the weird currents propelling Kennedy’s White House bid, for the pair have hobnobbed with QAnoners, Christian nationalists, election deniers, and other pro-Trump extremists. Steve, who has a checkered past as a businessmen that includes an arrest (but not a conviction) for allegedly defrauding victims of Hurricane Katrina, was in the crowd of Trump devotees outside the Capitol on January 6.
Last year, Tracy Slepcevic published a book called Warrior Mom about her years raising a son with autism that she blames on routine childhood vaccines. The book was endorsed by Kennedy and championed by Michael Flynn, the disgraced former national security adviser for President Donald Trump who has become a QAnon-friendly Christian nationalist and a leader within the far-right patriots movement. The Kennedy campaign sells signed copies of the book for $150 a pop. Tracy has been an ally of Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vax nonprofit that Kennedy ran before entering the 2024 contest. In November, she spoke at CHD’s annual conference in Savannah, Georgia, where she hawked her book and palled around with Kennedy, a longtime peddler of Covid and vaccine misinformation. On Facebook, she declared, “Had a great time at the CHD conference in Savannah with some amazing people…I’m so blessed to be on this journey with each and every one of them.” In promoting her book and activism, she has shared platforms with Stew Peters, a far-right anti-vaxxer who has been tied to QAnon advocacy and has spread (according to the ADL) antisemitic tropes, and with Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced scientist who wrote a discredited paper linking autism to vaccines.
What am I missing here? Seems to me the only D’s who might support his campaign would be those who have Rip Van Winkled since the ‘Sixties. The, uh, 1960’s, for you newbies.
Ron Poliquin In Hall Of Fame? He may not be Delaware’s Worst Lawyer, but were there a Hall of Fame for such, he’d be on the short list for induction. However, we’re talkin’ ‘The Honorable RGP’ going into the Dynamite Champion Wrestling Hall Of Fame:
So how does Poliquin envision his persona as a real life attorney operating The Poliquin Firm in Dover?
“I always tell potential clients, ‘I don’t ever claim I’m the best attorney, but I am the best attorney for certain situations,’” he said.
“Ultimately, I find being an aggressive and tenacious advocate for my clients puts them in the best situations to make the right decision for their case — whether that be settlement or trial.”
Hmmm, reminds me of an ancient post of mine. An excerpt:
If elected, Poliquin could become the first Delaware public official to have shared a bill with Women’s Oil Wrestling and taken part in an event featuring “VIP Couch Seating With a Personal Waitress” for $20. Seriously. It’s in the article. Ladies and Gentlemen: Your Republican Family Values Candidate. Although, to his credit, he keeps his unibrow neatly-trimmed (he’s a lawyer, after all).
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