PBP: Free Jim Comey! Free Tish James!

Subscribed, not because I expect to offer any useful insight or guidance about the legal issues but because, as you've suggested, this is as much about America being a functioning democracy as the legal 'weeds'.

 

Notice he's not prosecuting Merrick Garland

 

Watched this. Unfortunately on YouTube it is twice as long with the ads. What I found interesting is I made a joke yesterday about them making their motion to dismiss but asking the judge to sit on it because they wanted to witness first hand this USDA disbarr herself. Today I learned that that is an actual thing….that you really can request that the judge merely take the motions under advisement until trial. Joyce mentioned that Comey may wish to do this.

 

How long until judges who rule against him are "reassigned" , retired, or impeached?

I mean, he's already firing DAs until they do what he wants.

Or maybe that's procedurally too complicated (I know impeachment is a long shot for now)?

 

1. Never
A. Trump can’t reassign judges.
B. If they retire, they retire, what’s your point?
C. Even if the House impeaches them, the Senate will never convict.

2. Trump has never and can never fire a district attorney. DAs are agents of counties, not the federal government.

 

If it was fascism Comey's family would've been disappeared.

Trump's also gotten a lot of losses in courts.

 

You knew full well he was referring to US attorneys even if he didn’t know the term. You don’t have to be a dick every post Dave. There is only room for one American Brummie here

edited because I probably should have tagged brummie just in case he doesn’t think that part was funny.

@American Brummie

 

Is Fascism-lite better?

 

I agree. If it was fascism they’d start publicly attacking the courts. And encourage their foot soldiers to find second amendment solutions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/federal-judges-threats.html

 

Not yet!

 

Oh, it's not a dick he's being. This behavior leans XX, with no malice or sexism intended or implied on my part.

 

Even Hitler had to start at the “The thin end of the wedge” this is a test for him. If he can force this as far as his “Volksgerichtshof” (Scotus) then look out !!!

 

Maybe Brummie and I should have a

 

Or anyone responsible for stealing the 2020 election

 

Besides already being mentioned, you seem to lack imagination. Let me help:

If a judge is forced to retire, they can be replaced with a pliant judge and a willing Senate, to give him favorable outcomes. How would they be forced to retire? Does that need spelling out?

Im assuming all judges have a local boss, a senior judge, that handles assignments or something. Getting a friendly judge in that role could help put favorable judges for regime cases, once they've confirmed enough.

Right?

 

Yes, it does.

 

Bro…I defended you once. Don’t make me look stupid for doing so. This isn’t how it works at all. And there is no mechanism to make it work that way. Now….could he ,arch the military or ICE or some other federal law enforcement agency in there and start rounding up judges? Sure. But the idea that he could procedurally do something like this is just silly.

 

Well that's comforting at least. So much they are doing procedurally that it's nice this isn't one of them.

 

I understand what you're saying but I think you're rather missing the point. As I always say, Hitler didn't START by gassing jews, communists, socialists, gypsies, etc. That only came later so the question 'Is it fascism YET' is a fair one.

Also, fascists don't always follow a particular playbook, (like disappearing someone's family, for instance), so the idea it can't be fascism isn't correct.

 

It depends what you mean by 'procedurally'.

If judges start getting more death threats, (and particularly if some of those threats are carried out), there could be an exodus of judges that aren't 'Trump-compliant' from the legal system.

Sure, the procedures wouldn't change but the people applying them would and even the people that remain would be cowed in much the same way media corporations changed their approach to allowing criticism of the administration.

This comes back to my basic point that people are looking at how Hitler did it but don't really understand the full history or the context.

 

It is fascism. And F Jim Comey.