NY has a very Opaque Court System.
Opinion: New York’s complex court bureaucracy shields judges from accountability Judges are less accountable to the public than to court administrators who arbitrarily shuffle them around to different courts and issue secret memos to guide their interpretation of the law.
Court administrators, who wield power to control where judges are assigned, have both directly advised judges in New York on how to interpret the law and have created administrative work-arounds around certain laws – such as with the recent bail reform – which have tacitly communicated to judges their view of how such laws should be interpreted.
Because court operations, like much of government work, happen largely in private and off the record, neither the public nor academia have been able to pay close attention to these institutional mechanisms of the court system.
Data and other information about the court system is also in short supply, and where it does exist, it tends to be limited to information about individual judges’ decisions, as opposed to systemic data that would inform the public in an accessible way about the internal incentives that affect judicial decision-making, as well as how judges are selected in the first place, or how and why they are moved around the court system.
The lack of transparency around court administration has allowed New York’s court system to metastasize into an impenetrable “courteaucracy” that’s far more confusing and multi-layered than other states’ court systems.
Currently, judges effectively serve for as long as they want, without any meaningful or public evaluation between their terms.
it’s also passively supported by the inability of anyone outside the judiciary, including elected officials with legal responsibilities in the judicial selection process, to penetrate the black box of court administration.
Judge Vincent Del Giudice’s time on the bench illustrates what happens when these dynamics come together. Del Giudice has spent 22 years as a judge, all of them served as an “Acting” Supreme Court Justice, despite the fact that he has never been elected or appointed to the Supreme Court – and despite a record that, upon inspection, shows that he is an extreme outlier on multiple concerning metrics.
He is a radical, but he has been on the bench for 22 years and gets shuffled around. He answers to know what but the judge administrators who can move him here or there.
Here is how the scam works:
First, a governor has nominated him three separate times – in 2002, 2005, and 2015 – to a little-used court called the Court of Claims, which exists only to hear lawsuits against the State of New York. Second, the state Senate has confirmed him each of those times. And third, the court administration reassigned him to the Supreme Court in 2002, and it has not changed his assignment since.
And this is how they push radical judges into position of power without any accountability from voters.
The ongoing lack of accountability for judges like Del Giudice, whose errors and excessive sentencing other judges repeatedly have to correct, is made possible by the lack of transparency around judicial actions, judicial administration and judicial selection. Elected officials keep appointing Del Giudice despite his record, and the Office of Court Administration is seemingly happy to keep him presiding in Supreme Court, no matter how many lives he ruins. On top of all this, his most recent term expired in 2022, but neither the court system nor the political actors responsible for appointing judges seem to care that he’s still on the bench.
It's even worse than you can imagine:
We see this same lack of transparency and accountability to the public elsewhere in the court system, including in the court administration’s issuing of secret memos that reduce due process rights, in the same administration’s refusal to release updated data on drug courts, in administrative work-arounds that undermine legislation, in county political party leaders deciding judicial nominees behind closed doors, in judges only publishing a fraction of their opinions and much more.
New York's judicial system is opaque and who actually appointed Merchan is well hidden. Who decides decisions is hidden. Who TOLD Merchan to make those decisions is hidden.
Trump is highlighting the incredible corruption of the ACTING judge system of New York.
Can a president be a convicted felon?
The answer is, simply, yes.
A convicted or imprisoned felon can not only campaign for president and other federal offices, but also be elected.
He can be sitting in a jail cell and still elected president.
However, it causes a situation that the Supreme Court will likely need to address and likely get the issued zipped past the NY court of appeals.
Can a president pardon himself?
Yes, but complicated because it's NEVER been done before.
Can a president pardon himself of state crimes?
More complicated. The MSN screams NO, but actually it's never been tested before. Legal experts aren't sure if he can't or can't because no president has ever tried. The SC has never settled it.
Even though they scream and say the state charges would be stuck on him forever that is not true.
But here is the bigger issue:
If Trump is sitting a jail cell in a NY state prison and he is elected as President, then he can't be held in a state-run prison. That would give one state too much leverage. The other states would say "HEY! One state cannot lock up the President!"
The State of New York would be holding the President-elect/ President as a prisoner.
It's a major constitutional crisis that would have to be settled by the SC. You can't have one state holding a federally elected official as its hostage.
In New York they call their trial courts "Supreme Courts". Merchan is actually a trial court judge. If he happens to be the trial court judge of a very specific area of New York then he will end up with all these cases because of where they happen.
Above the trial courts is the appellate division and then the final court in the state of New York is the Court of Appeals.
Trump can be a felon and still elected president. Trump could be in a jail cell and STILL elected president.
However, if he becomes president his appeals could be fast-tracked past the New York Court of Appeals and straight to the Supreme Court. This is very rare, but the SC would likely take it due to the risk of a constitutional crisis.
The entire pride movement kicked off with the Stonewall Riots:
Early on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 1969, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons rioted following a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 43 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. This riot and further protests and rioting over the following nights were the watershed moment in the modern LGBT rights movement and the impetus for organizing LGBT pride marches on a much larger public scale.
The Stonewall Inn and all the gay establishments in the area belonged to the mafia. The mob and the gay pride movement are deeply tied to each other.
The original Stonewall Inn was founded in 1930 as a speakeasy on Seventh Avenue South. It relocated in 1934 to Christopher Street, where it operated as a restaurant until 1966. Four mafiosos associated with the Genovese crime family bought the restaurant and reopened it as a gay bar in early 1967. The Stonewall Inn was a popular hangout for gay men, particularly for youth and those on the fringes of the gay community.
The Genovese was one of the BIG FIVE and it owned the entire gay community from top to bottom in New York City.
The Stonewall Inn, the center of the entire pride movement, had no running water. Glasses were never cleaned. The conditions were grotesque and yet very wealthy patrons went there all the time.
They could have afforded closed door parties with drug and liquor if that is all they wanted. It's clear they went to these places because there was something they need THERE.
Why did the mafia own the bar?
In 1966, young Genovese family member Tony Lauria purchased the Stonewall Inn, then a low-earning 'straight' bar and restaurant. "Fat Tony," as he was known, renovated at low cost and reopened the Christopher Street club as a gay bar, controlling everything from the jukebox to the cigarettes. He bribed New York's Sixth Police Precinct with around $1,200 a month to turn a blind eye to the goings on at the establishment.
Fat Tony was able to cut corners on safety and hygiene. Bartenders did not have access to running water behind the bar, so often served drinks in dirty, used glasses; many Gay Rights groups blamed the Stonewall for a 1969 outbreak of hepatitis among its patrons
The connection between the Pride Movement and the mob go deep.
https://themobmuseum.org/blog/the-gay-rights-movement-and-the-mob-stonewall-50/
THE STONEWALL UPRISING 50 YEARS AGO WAS A REBELLION AGAINST THE MAFIA, TOO
Nearly 50 years ago, on June 28, 1969, LGBT people – led by drag queens – rebelled against a raid by the New York Police Department on the Stonewall Inn gay nightclub. For two nights, gay men and women fought back against the police until they withdrew. “Stonewall” later became seen as perhaps the most important symbolic event in the modern LGBT rights movement.
Less well known is that the turbulent nights of June 28-29, 1969, were very much a rebellion against the Mafia, as well. The Stonewall was secretly owned by Matthew “Matty the Horse” Ianiello, a high-level caporegime (captain) in the Genovese crime family who held hidden interests in a series of gay bars and porn stores in the Greenwich Village and Times Square neighborhoods. Mob-run gay bars were notorious for charging high-prices for lousy, watered-down drinks from bootlegged liquor
It was a place to get "young" people drugged up and drunk.
https://www.villagepreservation.org/2019/06/24/the-mob-and-the-roots-of-the-stonewall-uprising/
Articles try to pain it like the mob lost its grip on the gay pride movement, but I doubt that. The mob doesn't let go of cash cows.
Another fallout from the Stonewall riots was that the mob would lose its crushing grip on the gay community.
Yeah, that's just the "story".
All these companies pay to pride causes because it's just a form of legal "extortion". You better pay or your business will be ruined and accused of homophobia. Pay up or ELSE.
Very good points.
I'm bringing back this post to remind anons of the history of this photo.
It first appeared on 03/26/2017 in a NYT article
(ignore error in my comment where I wrote 4/26. It was 3/26).
217 days later Q START began (Q's first post).
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=26&m1=3&y1=2017&d2=28&m2=10&y2=2017&ti=on
It reappeared on Drudge on 10/09/2022 (1808 days after Q start).
That was 600 days before Trump's guilty verdict on 5/30/2024.
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=9&m1=10&y1=2022&d2=30&m2=5&y2=2024&ti=on
From and including: Sunday, 9 October 2022 To and including: Thursday, 30 May 2024
Result: 600 days It is 600 days from the start date to the end date, end date included.
Or 1 year, 7 months, 22 days including the end date.
Or 19 months, 22 days including the end date.
Very interesting stuff!
Panic in DC
It links to this video:
Excellent connection on the importance of Armenia and Iran.
What I find interesting is that they usually only do big shorts when they know something is going to collapse.
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/wall-streets-naked-swindle-194908/
On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who —made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen. The mystery figure spent $1.7 million on a series of options, gambling that shares in the venerable investment bank Bear Stearns would lose more than half their value in nine days or less. It was madness — “like buying 1.7 million lottery tickets,” according to one financial analyst.
But what’s even crazier is that the bet paid.
The odds of getting this lucky are impossible. The only way someone went this in on shorting Bear Stearns is they knew what was about to happen.
It was the same story when Soros broke the Bank of England through shorting.
Soros was critical of the Bank of England's actions, but he wasn't alone in betting against the pound. Although he began betting against the pound quietly at first, accumulating around a $1 billion position, he soon became more outspoken.
Soros used his hedge fund, Quantum Fund, to borrow billions of pounds from various banks and sell them for other currencies, such as German marks or U.S. dollars.
However, these measures weren't enough to counteract the massive selling pressure from Soros and other shorts
These hedge funds don't just randomly place risky bets unless someone in the "know" gave them a heads up. The narrative went that Soros was a marketing "genius" who was just so good at "reading" things.
No, they were tipped off. That's why they made these massive bets.
For them to get caught flat-footed on Gamestop (again) and copper means they thought they got fed bad intel and they fell for it. They were told to go all in like usual and they did, except this time it didn't pay off.
Imagine placing a Bear Sterns style bet that it will collapse only for it to skyrocket.
I didn't know this until now, but copper is called "Dr Copper" (like Dr Pepper) for it's role in diagnosing the economy.
Copper, often referred to as “Dr. Copper” for its historical role as a bellwether of economic health, is now experiencing a transformative surge in demand, reminiscent of oil’s dominance in previous decades.
Traditionally, copper has been a linchpin in various industries, including manufacturing, construction, and electronics
Copper is special because of its role as a barometer of the global economy.
Last year there was suddenly a push to strip "Dr Copper" of its PhD.
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/10/19/why-it-is-time-to-retire-dr-copper
The red metal no longer tells investors much about the global economy
Now the end may be nigh for the most illustrious of all such physicians: Dr Copper.
Copper, a metal crucial to the construction of all manner of fittings, pipes and wires, has earned its nickname on Wall Street owing to its role as a bellwether for the health of global industry.
Interesting how hard in one year they turned on "Dr Copper".
Great take, fren!
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - The copper rally turned ugly this week, morphing into a ferocious short squeeze on the U.S. contract operated by CME Group (CME.O), opens new tab.
The premium over the London Metal Exchange (LME) copper contract ballooned to more than $1,000 per ton, an unprecedented disconnect in Atlantic pricing.
ME has raised margins, opens new tab to calm the market wildness.
The yawning arbitrage should facilitate a re-direction of physical metal towards the United States but it may take time, leaving shorts little immediate option other than to roll positions forward at painful cost.
Shorts have been crushed by a wall of investment money surging into the copper market. More will follow.
CME short-position holders have been caught standing in the path of an investment freight train.
Commodity traders Trafigura and IXM are reported to be diverting metal to the United States to cover positions.
Both are big players in the physical copper market but small relative to the amount of fund money entering the market on the long side.
https://www.marketindex.com.au/news/the-copper-short-squeeze-is-happening-morgan-stanley
Morgan Stanley believes copper is currently in the midst of a “short squeeze”. A short squeeze occurs when traders who have either borrowed copper and sold it with a view to buying it back at a cheaper price, or who have used derivatives to simulate such a trade, scramble to exit their positions to avoid further losses stemming from the rising copper price.
The goal of these funds is to physically transfer copper into the USA to meet their short obligations. In theory, these trades are worked out in advance to come out profitable for the hedge fund regardless of moves in the copper price across the markets being arbitraged. But it appears that some funds miscalculated their ability to transfer copper into the US given that both Russian and Chinese metal cannot be delivered to COMEX.
s a result, these funds are being forced into the futures market to purchase the necessary contracts to cover their exposure. Translation: the sum of all these shenanigans is pushing the copper price higher.
Meaning the very short sellers being hurt by the squeeze have to make their own squeeze worse to try and cover their bets.
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Drudge turned Black and White on 1/12/2023 with Lisa Marie Presley's Death:
The change happened sometime between Thursday Jan. 12 and Friday Jan. 13, first with a black and white photo announcing the death of Lisa Marie Presley, with photos accompanying other stories remaining in color.
Drudge had turned black and white 2 times before when asked why this was the answer:
“We have clearly entered a historic era. It’s feeling like The Roaring 20’s this autumn with tech valuations at such hysterical heights. The socials, like Instagram Live, are alive with the spirit of Warhol. The sound of the atom splitting is looming over Korea. What’s old is new. So, black and white and read all over!” -Matt Drudge, Aug. 2017
Roaring Twenties = Roaring Kitty
Felix the Cat is often a symbol of the Roaring Twenties. The character lost it's popularity right before the Great Depression in 1928.
Most of the early Felix cartoons mirrored American attitudes of the "Roaring Twenties".
Felix the Cat's Popularity After the 1920s. Following the roaring success of the 1920s, the journey of Felix the Cat took several turns through the decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_the_Cat
Drudge returns to colored photos on 5/12/2024.
Roaring Kitty returns with a meme on 5/12 and triggers a SQUEEZE.
GameStop shares rallied dramatically on Monday after “Roaring Kitty,” the man who inspired the epic short squeeze of 2021, posted online for the first time in roughly three years.
The post, a picture on X of a video gamer leaning forward on their chair as if to indicate he’s taking the game seriously, marked Roaring Kitty’s first post on the platform — or on Reddit— since 2021. The post has garnered 63,000 likes in 13 hours.
Very interesting.
I'm wondering about that.
Star Wars is often red vs blue.
Dark vs light
Personally, I never made it into a CIA front group, though I tried hard enough. I was “unwitting,” in spook-speak. “Witting” was what the agency called people in the know. They first tested and recruited them into high positions in the student world, then administered a surprise security oath before telling them they were part of the CIA.
Those who "know" the secret meanings were called "Witting".
The author talks how they CIA front group used one called NSA to do its dirty work. Although the author doesn't say it directly, it's very obvious that the CIA likes to use the name of its enemies and rivals to do its dirty works.
For example, if Fred hates Todd then Fred opens up a "punch a puppy" foundation under the name of Todd's Puppy Beaters so that Todd gets all the blame. This is a common tactic with clowns.
So be careful with why they named an organization the way they did. It's often their way to make you blame the wrong person and the wrong group.
Another figure I met at the turn of the 1960s was Allard Lowenstein, who had attended every NSA conference since the group’s inception and had obscure but real connections to State Department and CIA powers behind the scenes.
This is not the NSA, but they made damn sure to muddle the waters and make it easy to confuse the two.
She was “one of the few women in the NSA-CIA club,” Paget writes, noting that “Steinem, who knowingly cooperated with the CIA, is sensitive today about her work with the Agency.”
Not the NSA.
telling the inside story of how the Central Intelligence Agency corrupted the natural and democratic growth of students’ rights movement by infiltrating the National Student Association (NSA) and directing it to its Cold War ends.
But they sure make it easy to confuse the two. The (not) NSA was a CIA front that did a lot of dirty work.
A graduate of Smith College, her name was Gloria Steinem. This was one year before she worked at the Playboy Club in New York City and six years before she wrote “A Bunny’s Tale” in Show magazine and described herself as an “active feminist” in 1969.
She was a CIA asset.
John Warnock Hinckley's brother, Scott Hinckley (Neil Bush's friend), went to Vanderbilt University (founded by Cornelius Vanderbilt). The family members continued to donate huge sums to the university, but despite their involvement, it was actually the Rockfellers who have given the most to Vanderbilt University. They did it through 3 methods, but the biggest was the GEB (General Education Board).
The GEB's head (created in 1902) was the famous Vanderbilt Alum, Wallace Buttrick, who made sure Vanderbilt got a lot of that sweet, sweet taxpayer money.
Hinckley's brother, Scott, graduates from Vanderbilt. His dad just happens to found an oil company of 20 employees with the name Vanderbilt. Later they move the business to Denver and they move to live in Evergreen, Colorado where lots of rich people live.
They also rub shoulders with Neil Bush and other elite in the Denver area.
The Hinckley's business ran into financial problems until the "Reagan" shooting and then suddenly it started to do very well after that.
Also after the shooting the CIA identified Hinkley's gun (they claim within 16 minutes) as coming from the Rocky's Pawn Shop that is on Elm street and very close to where JFK was assassinated.
1:07 -- The Pentagram appears
It placed 6th in everything.
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/bambie-thug-sixth-eurovision
Bambie Thug finishes sixth at Eurovision, Ireland's highest finish in 24 years Bambie Thug's "Doomsday Blue" earned a combined 278 points from jury and public voting to finish in sixth place at Saturday's grand final.
3:10 -- ends with CROWN THE WITCH
Interesting name choice on Bambi:
https://greatawakening.win/p/17rlw4IUXH/the-disney-movie-bambi-was-based/c/
Bambi's creator (the book the Disney movie is based on) wrote one of the most graphic works of child pornography of the 18th century.
Trump's always been good at the court room fights. Building anything In New York even in the 70s required working through endless red tape. He knows how to do this dance.
I see a lot of leftists though who desperately want to believe that he's upset. He lives rent-free in the heads of the narcissists.
I overheard some of them giggling (Yes, giggling) about how much they hate him and making up all sorts of weird names for him. They have to believe he is miserable or they will be miserable.
The moment someone points out that he looks happy it's like throwing holy water on these people. They freak and go into a rage and start insisting "YOU'RE WRONG!".
I don't understand how grown adults can act like that. They just can't let go of obsession with him.
I never posted this graph, but I feel like it's relevant now.