SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️

JD/MBA. Widower. Touring on my bike, reading every S.Ct. opinion.
Fan of the Red Sox, Cubs, Blackhawks & Chicago Symphony.
Getting more open minded. 🐯

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@WhiteHouse Then why are you so focused on destroying national unity?

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Here's the entire opinion, which recounts in great detail Trump’s horrific conduct.

The evidence in favor of E. Jean and the jury's verdict was far beyond overwhelming.

https://t.co/p4xwl3DOwo

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Here is just a small portion of what the district judge said in one of his meticulous opinions discussing and explaining and denying Trump's post-trial motions:

“The proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm. 

“Mr. Trump’s argument [against the damages award] therefore ignores the bulk of the evidence at trial, misinterprets the jury’s verdict, and mistakenly focuses on the New York Penal Law definition of “rape” to the exclusion of the meaning of that word as it often is used in everyday life and of the evidence of what actually occurred between Ms. Carroll and Mr. Trump.

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“The definition of rape in the New York Penal Law is far narrower than the meaning of ‘rape’ in common modern parlance, its definition in some dictionaries, in some federal and state criminal statutes, and elsewhere.

“The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape.’ Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.

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“The definition of ‘rape’ in the New York Penal Law—which the jury was obliged to apply in responding to Question 1 on the verdict form—requires forcible penetration of the victim’s vagina *by the accused’s penis.*
Accordingly, the jury’s negative answer to Question 1 means only that the jury was unpersuaded that Mr. Trump’s penis penetrated Ms. Carroll’s vagina. It does not mean that he did not forcibly insert his fingers into her—that he ‘raped’ her in the broader sense of that word which, as discussed above, includes any penetration by any part of an accused’s body (including a finger or fingers) or any other object.

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“The trial evidence of the harm to Ms. Carroll as a result of being assaulted and digitally raped supports the jury’s $2 million award as reasonable compensation for her pain and suffering. Ms. Carroll testified in detail with respect to the physical, emotional, and psychological injury she suffered after the incident with Mr. Trump. She expressed that in ‘the seconds, the minutes following [the assault] . . . my overwhelming thought was I had died and was somehow still alive.’ She testified that when she called Ms. Birnbach immediately after the assault, ‘I had not processed it. I had not processed what was going on. I felt the hand jammed, and I felt the back of my head hurting.’ The night of the assault, she testified ‘[m]y head hurt, my vagina felt pain.’ In relation to the specific act of being digitally raped, Ms. Carroll testified that it was ‘extremely painful,’ ‘a horrible feeling,’ ‘unforgettable,’ and that the day after the assault she ‘felt [her] vagina still hurt from his fingers.’”

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

What this means is that the jury verdict that determined that @realDonaldTrump had sexually abused my friend E. Jean Carroll by penetrating her vagina with his fingers, and therefore had defamed her by denying that he had done so, will stand as a final and conclusive judgment.

The highly respected district judge who tried the case, the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan, correctly stated multiple times that the jury's finding of sexual abuse under New York law meant that, in common parlance and under the law of most jurisdictions, Donald Trump was found to have raped E. Jean.

So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact:

DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@WhiteHouse Did you people fail High School Social Studies?

How do you not understand that when the Supreme Court rules on a CONSTITUTIONAL issue, you cannot reverse the ruling via legislation.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@DemocraticWins It isn't amazing at all. Sane lawyers have been calling for such an amendment since the ruling was issued.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@Suzierizzo1 You miss the point. That was a case of statutory interpretation. Congress can repair their error.

It has nothing to do with Barrett's personal situation.

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

Let me be really clear about what just happened.

The head of the U.S. Postal Service sat in front of the United States Senate and said the quiet part loud: no voter list, no mail ballots. Full stop.

You don’t get to look away from this one.

This is a proposed rule. It’s being fought in court. But the fact that it was said — that a federal official openly threatened to withhold your ballot — that matters.

Your vote is yours. Not the administration’s. Not USPS’s. Yours.

Stay informed. Stay loud.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@WhiteHouse @PressSec Arrests are not convictions, and given Pirro's pathetic record, I suspect not a single one of these arrests will result in a conviction... or even a trial.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@hwinkler4real 1453

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal.

Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

That job needs to be audited to find how much money was stolen.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@RepThomasMassie You are a Libertarian. I respect that.

But objectively, you really aren't a MAGA Republican.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@FoxyGamer_cb Fortunately, I did not!

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@DrNeilStone Consider the concept of RealPolitik.

As the Trump Administration has proven, sometimes people make ethical compromises for power.

And consider, the Sec. Defense already has his Nazi tattoo, too.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@RepNancyMace Despite the fact that SCOTUS has already declared it unconstitutional under the 8th amendment.

Coker v. Georgia, 483 U.S. 584

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@WalshFreedom Here's a concept to think about.

I agree, Platner is terrible.

But is Susan Collins any better? Is aiding and abetting the Trump administration not equally immoral?

My take is we have two profoundly unethical people as candidates. So I choose the less hypocritical option.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

@Acyn Checked the White House lately for sexual predators, Ted?

Any comment on the adjudication that Trump committed a sexual assault against E. Jean Carroll??

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

A lot of people ask why Generation Jones insists on being its own thing.

After all, we’re usually lumped in with the Boomers.

The answer is simple.

We may have been born during the Baby Boom, but we did not have the same formative experiences as the older Boomers, and we did not have the same upbringing as Gen X.

We were the bridge generation.

The oldest Boomers remember where they were when President Kennedy was assassinated. Many of us do not. Kennedy was buried on my first birthday.

They were old enough to remember the optimism of the early 1960s, the moon landing as teenagers, and the cultural revolutions as participants.

Most of us arrived too late for that.

Likewise, Gen X grew up with personal computers, video games, cable television, and a world that was already becoming digital.

We didn’t.

Generation Jones grew up in a world that was almost entirely analog.

We used rotary phones.

We looked things up in encyclopedias.

We learned the Dewey Decimal System.

We used card catalogs.

We balanced checkbooks by hand.

If you wanted directions, you unfolded a map.

If you wanted to know something, you went to the library.

If you missed your favorite television show, you missed it.

There was no streaming service waiting for you.

But unlike previous generations, we didn’t stay there.

We had to adapt.

We watched computers move from climate controlled rooms into offices and homes.

We learned on mainframes and Wang systems.

We used Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect.

We fed giant floppy disks into computers that had less computing power than today’s coffee maker.

We learned email.

Then the internet.

Then cell phones.

Then smartphones.

Then social media.

And now artificial intelligence.

Most generations learn one world.

Generation Jones learned several.

That’s what makes us different.

We are one of the last generations that remembers life before digital technology became part of every waking moment, but we were young enough to adapt and thrive as it arrived.

We didn’t just witness the technological revolution.

We had to reinvent ourselves to keep up with it.

Every decade brought another transformation.

Every decade required new skills.

Every decade demanded adaptation.

Perhaps that’s why so many Generation Jones people are independent, resilient, and skeptical of anyone claiming the world has always been the way it is now.

We know better.

We’ve lived through too many versions of it.

Generation Jones isn’t defined by what we were born into.

We’re defined by everything we had to learn along the way.

[SleepyT11 🐯🌻⚖️ @T11Sleepy]

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