butters
High on a Hill
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2009
- Posts
- 84,451
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=c28f318aba9341b2a57395915ca03702
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=c28f318aba9341b2a57395915ca03702After Engoron found Trump in contempt, the former and his legal team tried to cure it with signed affidavits attesting that there is no more information to provide.
Engoron found those documents too vague to pass muster.
“This Court finds that Mr. Trump has not yet purged his contempt,” the judge wrote on Friday. “The affirmations submitted by counsel for Mr. Trump are insufficient in that they fail to specify who searched for each respective request, at what time, where, and using what search protocols; it is not sufficient simply to attach a list of people who participated in the searches.”
Last week, Habba sharply criticized the judge in a statement, in which she vowed to fight the rulings on appeal.
“This Court has improperly held my client in contempt for a violation that he did not commit solely because the OAG declared it ‘insufficient’ without any basis,” she told Law&Crime last week. “The tactics employed by this Court, including the dramatic pounding of the gavel, the statements directed to our client from the bench, and direct comments to the press have reduced this hearing to the likes of a public spectacle. We will zealously prosecute our appeal of the Court’s improper application of both law and fact.”
On Tuesday, she did not find better luck with New York’s Appellate Division, First Department, which rejected Trump’s request for a stay.
The court’s two-page denial does not reveal its reasoning, quickly dispatching the denial and referring the motion to a “full bench determination.”