Former President Donald Trump seems to have a talent for hiring ridiculous lawyers and on Wednesday those lawyers upped the ante by angrily demanding a stay of the enormous civil fraud judgment. This foolishness ranks right up there with Alina “I’d rather be pretty because I can fake being smart” Habba, who has done even sillier things like ganging up with Eric and Lara Trump and a merry band of evangelicals to sing Donald Trump’s praises. She and her tangerine client have also done an excellent job of antagonizing Justice Arthur Engoron, who presided over the civil fraud case and likely enjoyed implementing the massive fraud judgment after the hell these two put him through.
But this latest stunt in which Trump’s “angry” attorneys requested the 30-day stay left MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, a former off-air legal analyst for Rachel Maddow “shocked.” So she began posting on social media to explain some of the newer events in the fraud case, where Trump has been found liable for fraud and was ordered to pay $355 million. As Raw Story notes, there has been much speculation about how Trump will pay the absolutely staggering fee.
But this isn’t what Rubin is concerned about. Instead, she’s focusing on the fact that the ex-president’s lawyers had earlier asked Justice Engoron “for time to submit a proposed counter-judgment even though it should be a relatively plain statement of the injunctive relief Engoron ordered plus some math to fill in the pre-judgment interest.”
So Rubin, in response posted that “Judge Engoron tells Team Trump, via email, that they need to state specific objections to the AG’s proposed judgment by 5 p.m.”
UPDATE: Judge Engoron tells Team Trump, via email, that they need to state specific objections to the AG's proposed judgment by 5 p.m. 2/
— Lisa Rubin (@lawofruby) February 21, 2024
“I have compared the language of the attorney general’s proposed judgment to the language of my february 16, 2024 decision and order, and the former exactly tracks the latter (except for the addition of defendants’ addresses and blanks for interest amounts)” Engoron wrote in the EMAIL.
That, Rubin notes, is when Trump’s lawyers became feisty, responding to the judge’s email by “demanding” a stay.
“defendants respectfully submit that the concerns raised in their letter of today’s date about the attorney general’s unilateral submission of a proposed judgment to the clerk of the court, stating that it is made ‘on motion,’ merit full compliance with the cplr and the uniform civil rules for the supreme court and the county court,” their reply states. “should the court decide that the standard processes set forth in the cplr and the uniform civil rules for the supreme court and the county court do not apply in this case, and proceed to enter the attorney general’s proposed judgment, defendants request the court stay enforcement of that judgment for thirty (30) days.”
I guess this is how you become a clown car attorney — by acting belligerent when the judge presiding over the case has already made up his mind that everything lines up, all the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed and he has therefore made up his mind, so you respond by throwing a tantrum (no matter how legally worded it is — this is a tantrum, folks), and that is what Trump’s attorneys are doing.
Rubin definitely reacted strongly.
“trump’s lawyers, angry that judge engoron is apparently not going to allow motion practice on reducing his opinion to a formal judgment, demands a 30-day stay of any entered judgment instead. shocked,” the former litigator posted.
But Trump’s attorneys have acted as though they rule the roost all during the time they have worked for him. They are simply doing whatever they can to drag this out. That’s really all this is for. Not a single one of these attorneys is a legal Einstein but they are shuffling the cases like a deck of cards and then throwing them into the air to see where they all land.
Really, to me, that’s about how organized these clowns seem.
If I were Judge Engoron I would tell them all to line up and kiss my lil blue ass.
wondering when they will trigger sanctions or disciplinary action. is that what they’re after?
I think you’re being overly kind with your shuffling the cards analogy. It’s more like they’re TRYING to shuffle the cards and accidently wind up creating the old game we called “52 pick-up.”
Stoopid is as stoopid does! When your client is caught red handed with a trove of documents in a lost cause, you don’t allow him to harass the very judge making the decision. You then don’t join him in harassing the judge! But, I never went to law school. I’ve only been dragged into several courtrooms in front of various judges, so what do I know?
Apparently considerably more than the “lawyers” hired by dingleberry.
You know, it’s amazing how we look at Trump’s various lawyers and have to wonder, “How in the hell can real people actually be dumber than Forrest Gump?”
These miss-informed, “Lawyers”, must have, a long while back, found a magic ring their box of candied corn, rubbing it last month, while intoning the magic words, “Make me a REAL Lawyer”, they immediately reported to Trump’s Den of Inequity, located somewhere in the bowels’ of the Trump Tower, where they donned their black hoods and capes, lighting black candles and promising Trump total control of his new King-dumb, making Trump pee his pants, yet again …