Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 21, 2020 17:53:58 GMT -5
Sleazy move by trump. Cohen's hearing before a judge to be released from prison is Thursday. Michael Cohen Claims in Suit He Was Imprisoned to Stop Trump BookPresident Trump’s former lawyer said in court papers that officials returned him to prison to prevent him from finishing a book that paints the president as a racist. Michael D. Cohen says it was no secret that he was writing a jailhouse tell-all book about his former boss, President Trump. He spent hours at a stretch working on his manuscript in a prison library before he was released on furlough in May because of the coronavirus. Then, earlier this month, federal officials abruptly sent Mr. Cohen back to prison because he balked at signing an agreement that would have let him stay at home with a key restriction: He would not have been allowed to publish his book before the November elections. Now Mr. Cohen has responded with a lawsuit claiming that the government has violated his First Amendment rights by returning him to custody and interrupting his writing. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan on Monday night, asked a judge to once again release Mr. Cohen and let him to serve the remainder of his three-year sentence back in home confinement. Michael Cohen Claims in Suit He Was Imprisoned to Stop Trump Book
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dondub
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Post by dondub on Jul 21, 2020 18:44:52 GMT -5
Watch out for the suicide team Michael.
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kadee79
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Post by kadee79 on Jul 23, 2020 12:38:06 GMT -5
A judge has ruled that he has to be released by noon tomorrow....no link, just saw it in passing.
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lynnerself
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Post by lynnerself on Jul 23, 2020 15:36:20 GMT -5
CNN link A federal judge ordered Michael Cohen to be released into home confinement after finding the government had sent him back to prison in retaliation for a tell-book he was writing about President Donald Trump. "The purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory, and it's retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media," Hellerstein ruled. "In 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people and looking at terms and conditions of supervised release, I've never seen such a clause," Hellerstein said.
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 23, 2020 16:16:02 GMT -5
If Cohen needs any help with the book and getting it published before the election I am more than ready to assist.
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happyhoix
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 23, 2020 19:00:33 GMT -5
CNN link A federal judge ordered Michael Cohen to be released into home confinement after finding the government had sent him back to prison in retaliation for a tell-book he was writing about President Donald Trump. "The purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory, and it's retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media," Hellerstein ruled. "In 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people and looking at terms and conditions of supervised release, I've never seen such a clause," Hellerstein said.
I hope Barr gets sued and disbarred for all the sleazy shit he's eagerly done for this president, including this petty shit.
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countrygirl2
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Post by countrygirl2 on Jul 23, 2020 22:59:32 GMT -5
Maxwell and Cohen better have eyes in the backs of their heads.
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