Or more likely claim executive priviledge the same way Dick Cheney did and just
not answer to any charges.
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It's ok now Trump can just pardon himself.
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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 9:18 PM
Subject: [blind-democracy] President-Elect Trump Goes to Court in Fraud Civil
Suit This Month
Gerstein writes: "Before Donald Trump raises his right hand to take
the oath of office in January, he's set for a less-auspicious
swearing-in: taking the witness stand in his own defense in a federal
court civil trial over alleged fraud in his Trump University real
estate seminar program."
The trial Monday after Thanksgiving is just one of a plethora of
lawsuits and threatened suits Donald Trump was entangled in during the
campaign.
(photo: Getty)
President-Elect Trump Goes to Court in Fraud Civil Suit This Month By
Josh Gerstein, Politico
10 November 16
The Republican nominee will have to juggle his legal headaches as he
prepares for the White House.
Before Donald Trump raises his right hand to take the oath of office
in January, he's set for a less-auspicious swearing-in: taking the
witness stand in his own defense in a federal court civil trial over
alleged fraud in his Trump University real estate seminar program.
Trump faces a legal ordeal no president-elect has ever encountered:
juggling
defending himself before a jury with preparing for the vast challenges
a political novice will face in assuming the presidency.
And the class-action case set for trial the Monday after Thanksgiving
is just one of a plethora of lawsuits and threatened suits Trump was
entangled in during the campaign-litigation that doesn't seem likely
to disappear anytime soon and might even intensify with Trump headed
to the White House.
In addition to several suits over Trump University, Trump has
threatened lawsuits against a dozen or more women who've accused him
of sexual impropriety in recent months-and several of those women have
threatened to countersue if he comes after them.
There's also a New York state investigation into his charitable
foundation and a reported federal investigation into some of his
advisers' ties to Russia.
Beyond that, there's litigation that Trump himself launched, like the
pair of suits against celebrity chefs who backed out of plans to open
restaurants in his new luxury Washington hotel.
However, the most immediate challenge for Trump is a Trump University
class-action lawsuit set to begin jury selection Nov. 28 in San Diego,
with Trump called as a witness by both sides and certain to face sharp
questioning about his venture's marketing practices.
Adding to the drama, the trial will bring Trump face to face with U.S.
District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel. During the campaign, Trump
triggered widespread outrage by arguing that Curiel's Latino heritage
made the judge irredeemably biased against him. The GOP presidential
hopeful also called the judge "Mexican" and "Spanish." He was born in Indiana.
Curiel has made only passing reference in public to Trump's attacks,
noting in a written opinion that Trump had "placed the integrity of
these court proceedings at issue."
Trump's lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, has signaled that he may try to
delay the trial further. However, Curiel denied a recent effort by
Petrocelli to push the trial back and seems intent on getting it
completed before the inauguration.
In addition, the suit set for trial later this month has been pending
for six years and some of the plaintiffs are elderly.
A good indication of whether the trial will go forward as planned is
likely to come Thursday afternoon, when Curiel is scheduled to hear
arguments on what kinds of evidence and questions will be off limits
during the trial.
At the hearing, Curiel is also scheduled to consider whether Trump's
campaign trail statements will be fair game at the trial and whether
all references to allegations about his "personal conduct" should be
off limits, as his lawyers' have urged.
Because it's a civil case and not a criminal one, Trump is not
required to be present throughout the trial, although as it stands now
he would have to be in the courtroom to testify for his side and the
plaintiffs. He already gave two depositions in the case while he was
campaigning.
There are actually two pending federal suits: the one set for trial
this month involves Trump University students from California, Florida
and New York, addressing claims that the program violated those
states' tough laws against defrauding consumers and the elderly. The
other case is national in scope and invokes a federal racketeering
statute.
Attorneys pressing the suits against Trump on behalf of former Trump
University students say the program fraudulently advertised that
instructors were hand-picked by Trump and that students would learn
the real estate mogul's "secrets." Even calling the program a
"university" was a fraud, the lawsuits contend.
Trump's lawyers say claims that students would be told Trump's "secrets"
or
that he was personally involved in selecting teachers were, at worst,
marketing "puffery" not intended to be taken literally.
The other pending suits involving Trump's businesses could also head
to trial after he's in the White House. In a 1997 case involving
President Bill Clinton and a woman suing him for sexual harassment,
Paula Jones, the Supreme Court ruled that a sitting president is not
immune from litigation over actions taken before he took office.
The high court did say deference to the president in terms of
scheduling would be appropriate, though not a deferral until he leaves office.
"Although scheduling problems may arise, there is no reason to assume
that the district courts will be either unable to accommodate the
President's needs or unfaithful to the tradition-especially in matters
involving national security of giving 'the utmost deference to
Presidential responsibilities,'" Justice John Paul Stevens wrote. "We
have confidence in the ability of our federal judges to deal with both
of these concerns."
Of course, if Trump's keen on cutting back some of his legal thicket,
he could simply drop some of the cases he's filed, like the suits
against the restaurateurs. He could forgo his plans to sue his female
accusers. And to make the Trump University cases he could do something
he has long vowed not to do: swallow his pride and pay up.
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The trial Monday after Thanksgiving is just one of a plethora of
lawsuits and threatened suits Donald Trump was entangled in during the
campaign.
(photo: Getty)
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82 President-Elect Trump Goes to Court in Fraud Civil Suit This Month
By Josh Gerstein, Politico
10 November 16
The Republican nominee will have to juggle his legal headaches as he
prepares for the White House.
efore Donald Trump raises his right hand to take the oath of office in
January, he's set for a less-auspicious swearing-in: taking the
witness stand in his own defense in a federal court civil trial over
alleged fraud in his Trump University real estate seminar program.
Trump faces a legal ordeal no president-elect has ever encountered:
juggling
defending himself before a jury with preparing for the vast challenges
a political novice will face in assuming the presidency.
And the class-action case set for trial the Monday after Thanksgiving
is just one of a plethora of lawsuits and threatened suits Trump was
entangled in during the campaign-litigation that doesn't seem likely
to disappear anytime soon and might even intensify with Trump headed
to the White House.
In addition to several suits over Trump University, Trump has
threatened lawsuits against a dozen or more women who've accused him
of sexual impropriety in recent months-and several of those women have
threatened to countersue if he comes after them.
There's also a New York state investigation into his charitable
foundation and a reported federal investigation into some of his
advisers' ties to Russia.
Beyond that, there's litigation that Trump himself launched, like the
pair of suits against celebrity chefs who backed out of plans to open
restaurants in his new luxury Washington hotel.
However, the most immediate challenge for Trump is a Trump University
class-action lawsuit set to begin jury selection Nov. 28 in San Diego,
with Trump called as a witness by both sides and certain to face sharp
questioning about his venture's marketing practices.
Adding to the drama, the trial will bring Trump face to face with U.S.
District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel. During the campaign, Trump
triggered widespread outrage by arguing that Curiel's Latino heritage
made the judge irredeemably biased against him. The GOP presidential
hopeful also called the judge "Mexican" and "Spanish." He was born in Indiana.
Curiel has made only passing reference in public to Trump's attacks,
noting in a written opinion that Trump had "placed the integrity of
these court proceedings at issue."
Trump's lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, has signaled that he may try to
delay the trial further. However, Curiel denied a recent effort by
Petrocelli to push the trial back and seems intent on getting it
completed before the inauguration.
In addition, the suit set for trial later this month has been pending
for six years and some of the plaintiffs are elderly.
A good indication of whether the trial will go forward as planned is
likely to come Thursday afternoon, when Curiel is scheduled to hear
arguments on what kinds of evidence and questions will be off limits
during the trial.
At the hearing, Curiel is also scheduled to consider whether Trump's
campaign trail statements will be fair game at the trial and whether
all references to allegations about his "personal conduct" should be
off limits, as his lawyers' have urged.
Because it's a civil case and not a criminal one, Trump is not
required to be present throughout the trial, although as it stands now
he would have to be in the courtroom to testify for his side and the
plaintiffs. He already gave two depositions in the case while he was
campaigning.
There are actually two pending federal suits: the one set for trial
this month involves Trump University students from California, Florida
and New York, addressing claims that the program violated those
states' tough laws against defrauding consumers and the elderly. The
other case is national in scope and invokes a federal racketeering
statute.
Attorneys pressing the suits against Trump on behalf of former Trump
University students say the program fraudulently advertised that
instructors were hand-picked by Trump and that students would learn
the real estate mogul's "secrets." Even calling the program a
"university" was a fraud, the lawsuits contend.
Trump's lawyers say claims that students would be told Trump's "secrets"
or
that he was personally involved in selecting teachers were, at worst,
marketing "puffery" not intended to be taken literally.
The other pending suits involving Trump's businesses could also head
to trial after he's in the White House. In a 1997 case involving
President Bill Clinton and a woman suing him for sexual harassment,
Paula Jones, the Supreme Court ruled that a sitting president is not
immune from litigation over actions taken before he took office.
The high court did say deference to the president in terms of
scheduling would be appropriate, though not a deferral until he leaves office.
"Although scheduling problems may arise, there is no reason to assume
that the district courts will be either unable to accommodate the
President's needs or unfaithful to the tradition-especially in matters
involving national security of giving 'the utmost deference to
Presidential responsibilities,'" Justice John Paul Stevens wrote. "We
have confidence in the ability of our federal judges to deal with both
of these concerns."
Of course, if Trump's keen on cutting back some of his legal thicket,
he could simply drop some of the cases he's filed, like the suits
against the restaurateurs. He could forgo his plans to sue his female
accusers. And to make the Trump University cases he could do something
he has long vowed not to do: swallow his pride and pay up.
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