Opening Arguments

OA421: Trump Evades Justice on Emoluments in 1st Term

There's no sugar coating it: the wheel of justice was so f***ing slow it couldn't do anything to Trump in 4 damn years. Come on in and hear the breakdown of the breakdown of justice.   In our second segment we discuss even more crimes that Trump was shown to be guilty of in the Mueller Report. Yes, the Mueller Report. It was NOT total exoneration, or really any kind of exoneration, as it turns out.   Links: <a href="https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/2EFD382E65E33B3C852585070055D091/$file/19-5237-1827549.pdf"> Tatel, weakest emoluments case</a>; covered in <a href="https://openargs.com/oa361-dc-sides-with-trump-in-emoluments-case/"> OA361: DC Sides with Trump in Emoluments Case?</a>; and <a href="https://openargs.com/oa391-republicans-are-still-trying-to-break-the-government-part-eleven-billion/"> OA391: Republicans Are Still Trying To Break the Government, Part Eleven Billion</a>; <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-5/153526/20200909171543473_20-5%20Blumenthal%20v.%20Trump%20Opp.pdf"> DOJ opposition to cert</a>; DC &amp; Md v Trump discussed on <a href="https://openargs.com/oa386-the-opening-arguments-amicus-brief/">OA386: The Opening Arguments Amicus Brief!</a>; interlocutory appeal <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1292">28 US Code § 1292 - Interlocutory decisions</a>; <a href="https://www.citizensforethics.org/lawsuit/crew-v-donald-j-trump/">CREW v. Donald J. Trump</a>; lost initially <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/02160340/2017-12-21-103-MTD-Op.-Order.pdf"> Case 1:17-cv-00458-GBD Document 103 Filed 12/21/17</a>; won after 1.5 years <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/03160142/2019-09-13-111-Opinion-1.pdf"> CERTIFIED COPY ISSUED ON 09/13/2019</a>; <a href="https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2019cv1278-86"> Leopold/Buzzfeed FOIA Lawsuit denied</a>; <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume1.pdf">Less Redacted Mueller Report</a>; <a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume2.pdf">part 2</a>; <a href="https://openargs.com/oa324-trumps-9-crimes-and-misdemeanors/">OA324: Trump's 9 Crimes and Misdemeanors</a>

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