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Judge in Trump’s civil fraud trial faces bomb threat ahead of closing arguments (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nassau County police on Thursday have responded to a bomb threat at the home of Judge Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told NBC News.

The threat comes hours before closing arguments in the trial are scheduled to begin, with those arguments still expected to proceed.

A bomb squad was called to Engoron’s home and was investigating Thursday morning; it is unclear whether Engoron was home at the time.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The question is whether their fear of the next week overrides their fear of next year.

Lots of judges seem to be trying really hard to dance around actually doing their jobs (Engoron is not one of them).

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Lots of judges seem to be trying really hard to dance around actually doing their jobs

This is largely because you can only appeal a verdict based on mistrial. You need to be able to show the appellate courts that your original trial was unfair in some way. If the appellate court rules that your trial was fair, then the verdict stands and your appeal is tossed.

Judges are bending over backwards to be patient with him, because they don’t want to give him any way to weasel out of it on appeal. Essentially, if they arrive at a guilty verdict, they don’t want him to be able to claim that the court was biased against him. When the appeals court goes back and looks at the trial, all they’ll see is the judge being patient with him at every single step. So his complaint against the judge won’t hold any water. These judges are playing the long game, by putting up with his shenanigans in their court they ensure he can’t try them anywhere else. Basically, they want their verdict to be as ironclad as possible, so he has no hope of getting out of it by crying to the judge’s superiors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well, some judges are sympathetic, and owe their careers to people who want Conservative Ideology, Trump or not, conserved. The Federalist Society.

They're called "Conservatives" for a reason. They don't want anything to change.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

There are other reasons to appeal a decision

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They owe favors. And apparently, all it takes is a Tweet, or Xcretion, to get you SWATed.