Earlier this month the Department of Justice admitted in court that the grand jury that charged Comey did not review a copy of the final indictment
  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
    36·
    9 hours ago

    It sucks that we’re living through a legit fascist takeover, but at least the fascists are collectively as dumb as a sack of wet hammers.

    • bagsy@lemmy.world
      15·
      6 hours ago

      We must continue to fight the wet hammers at every opportunity. We can never relent, we must make their progress difficult or impossible.

      They are incompetent, but the piles of money that push them forward is limitless, which means their efforts will also be limitless.

  • falseWhite@lemmy.world
    69·
    13 hours ago

    That’s what happens when you pick your cronies based on their looks and sycophantic tendencies, instead of experience and knowledge.

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      People debasing themselves and ruining their careers is basically mandatory. Each is hoping for a more important government job or contract after. And if that fails there is always hate-blogging and Fox news.

    • Kirp123@lemmy.world
      68·
      13 hours ago

      She was the only one stupid enough to actually try and go for it. All the other prosecutors they asked refused, I think some even resigned. She’s a different kind of stupid I guess.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        261·
        12 hours ago

        She’s a different kind of stupid I guess.

        She’s going to get a dozen book deals from conservative publishers. She’ll land a talking head spot on FOX News. She’ll hook up with Steven Mnuchin’s cousin or get Baron Trump’s baby in her or just marries a party mega-donor. Maybe she runs for AG in Virginia in 2029 and rides in on a Republican reactionary wave after President Pete Buttigieg shits the bed. If nothing else, they’ll be posting jerk-off material of her on Grok for the next twenty years. I’m sure there’s a way to monetize that.

        If you think that’s stupid, you’re thinking she’s playing a different game. Her card is punched.

      • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        24·
        12 hours ago

        Their version of career skills progression is: “I’ve been faking it and making it. Based on what I’ve learned, I’m going to fake it even harder, to increase my making it.”

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        3·
        11 hours ago

        The others were real lawyers, and didn’t want to risk their law licenses. But she’s not a real lawyer, with a mind-boggling case of Dunning-Kruger, so she was too stupid to know that most judges don’t decide cases based on which side has a lawyer that might let them fuck her if they let her win, even though they know she won’t.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Well I mean in this case, her lack of competency and credentials were a per-requisite. No one with skills in law would have even considered attempting these cases.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      12 hours ago

      Okay, but in their defense, Lindsey Halligan is an absolute smoke-show. She’s going to make a great replacement for Jeanine Pirro in another two years.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    131·
    11 hours ago

    The best part was that after Comey’s case was dismissed, the Goldigger Whore Press Secty promised that this wasn’t over, then Comey’s lawyer (who is an actual real lawyer, not like the DoJs lawyer) announced that the statute of limitations has run out, and they can’t touch him.

    Basically: Case over, go fuck yourself.

    • lando55@lemmy.zip
      3·
      10 hours ago

      So when they say “dismissed without prejudice”, does that mean they can in theory be file charges again, but really they can’t because SoL has lapsed?

      • homura1650@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Correct. In theory, there is a law that grants an extension to the statute of limitations in cases where an indictment is filled in time, and subsequently dismissed.

        However, it is not clear if that is applicable here because one of the problems here was that prosecutor messed up the grand jury so badly, that there is a reasonable argument that Comey was never actually indighted.

        This isn’t likely to come up, because the other result was a ruling that Trump cannot keep on appointing interim US Attorneys, so the prosecutor to bring charges would either need to be Senate approved, or court appointed.