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SupportSanity's JournalWas it Alvin Bragg or was it Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz?
Remember this?
CNN Sun March 6, 2022
Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, two senior prosecutors on the team, resigned last month – one day after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg informed them that he wasn’t prepared to move forward with criminal charges. The resignations followed weeks of internal debate and discussion over the strength of the evidence against Trump and whether it could pass the hurdle of proving a crime.
So two top prosecutors are told by Alvin Bragg to stop what they are doing. Bragg disagrees with Vance and halts everything --investigation, grand jury. The two top prosecutors register their objections to all this by resigning.
Fast forward to today. The case went forward and was successful.
My question is: What was different between then and now as far as Vance's vs Bragg's case? Was it the same thing just delayed?
Because I've been thinking that if we had been able to get a conviction back then how different (and possibly easier) things might have been to keep that going.
I'm open to thoughts from people who are aware of the nuts and bolts of Vance's and Bragg's cases.
Be gentle. I'm not a lawyer or even close. But I am curious.
Thanks.
Historic $35M fine announced against company that surrendered 4,000 beagles
The fine is the largest ever for animal welfare and clean water violations.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/historic-35m-fine-announced-company-surrendered-4000-beagles/story?id=110788173
Sent from my phone and unable to copy text from article.
Cat roams university campus for 4 years, gets doctoral degree
https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/05/19/universitys-beloved-campus-cat-earns-honorary-doctorate-litter-ature/Cute story. Doing this from my phone and can’t copy the article.
Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict
Source: CNBC.COM
The Trump campaign said it nearly doubled its single-day fundraising record after a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty in his criminal hush money trial.
The Republican’s presidential campaign said it raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors following the verdict finding Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Nearly 30% of those donors were brand new to the Trump donation site WinRed, senior campaign advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a press release.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/trump-campaign-donations-record.html
Is this the real GOP plan to kill Social Security?
A Washington Post opinion article titled :
Americans are having too few kids. The GOP made the problem worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/01/fertility-rates-record-low-reproductive-care?itid=sr_1_99c611fb-ad52-4183-9ac1-930dfc0c5ed2
I saw the title of this opinion piece and it made me think. If the republicans can't kill Social Security through votes, is the real goal of anti-abortion legislation to kill Social Security through attrition?
(bold is mine)
If you can read this, thank an unarmed teacher
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signs into law bill allowing armed teachers
Gov. Bill Lee signed into law Friday a controversial bill to allow school teachers and staff to carry guns in school.
The law goes into immediate effect.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/26/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-signs-arming-teachers-bill-into-law/73467826007/
EU Parliament 'ready' for requests to lift MEPs' immunity in Russian influence probe, says Metsola
(Note: MEP is an abbreviation for Member of the European Parliament: a politician who has been elected to represent an area of their country in the European Union)
Speaking in Strasbourg ahead of the final plenary of the mandate, Metsola touched upon allegations members of her parliament received cash from a Kremlin-backed network to spread Russian propaganda in Europe.
Authorities in Belgium, the official seat of the European Parliament, have opened a judicial investigation into the claims, after Czech authorities first foiled a suspected propaganda operation in March.
This is an update to news previously posted on DU:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/113341328
link to this post on euronews.com:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/04/22/eu-parliament-ready-for-requests-to-lift-meps-immunity-in-russian-influence-probe-says-met
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