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There were a couple of stories worth noting on the Trump legal front yesterday. To start, the state of Missouri had filed a silly lawsuit in which it demanded that the gag order in Donald Trump's criminal fraud case be set aside, and the sentencing be postponed until after the election. The reasoning behind the suit was that the "right" of Missourians to hear from presidential candidates was being violated by the New York proceedings.
If this is true, then it would seem that the defendant should have been Trump. After all, it is his actions that led to a situation where he cannot be "heard" by Missourians. Anyhow, you might have noticed that we keep referring to the lawsuit in past tense. That is because the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, by a vote of 7-2. The two, of course, were Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who never heard a conservative-friendly legal argument they didn't like.
Meanwhile, way over in Arizona, former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis signed a cooperation agreement with prosecutors in which she agreed to turn state's evidence in that state's fake electors case. Trump is not one of the defendants there, so this doesn't affect him directly. However, it does mean the case is back in the headlines, and that whatever truths Ellis has to share will likely come out before the election.
And someone who IS charged in Arizona is Rudy Giuliani. This is the same Rudy Giuliani who is facing all sorts of legal issues, not to mention financial ruin. The more of Giuliani's co-defendants in Arizona who flip, the more pressure there is on him to do the same, before he's the one left holding the bag. And if he flips in Arizona, he'd probably flip in Georgia, too, where Trump IS one of the defendants. So, Ellis' plea deal is ultimately pretty bad news for the former president. (Z)