CURRENT EVENTS - April

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superrific said:
The judge should have the ability to refuse to accept the settlement.
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Maybe this is a type of claim I’m not familiar with, but typically judges only have to approve settlements in class actions or qui tams. There may be some jurisdictions in which a judge has to approve a notice of dismissal, but in the ones I’m familiar with, parties to a civil case can do pretty much whatever they want to settle.
 
nycfan said:


Gotta figure out who has standing to sue if Trump settles with his own IRS here.
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If one cot dam cent of my taxes goes into that fat slob’s pockets as a result of this frivolous sham lawsuit, I’m going to rage the fuck out… and then write a sternly worded letter to my local representative.
 
lawtig02 said:
Maybe this is a type of claim I’m not familiar with, but typically judges only have to approve settlements in class actions or qui tams. There may be some jurisdictions in which a judge has to approve a notice of dismissal, but in the ones I’m familiar with, parties to a civil case can do pretty much whatever they want to settle.
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Didn't Dale Ho refuse to accept the DOJ's motion to drop the charges against Eric Adams?

Here's how I see it. If Trump just has the DOJ transfer $10B out of the Treasury, that is embezzlement and everyone can and will be prosecuted for that.

The only way to make it not embezzlement is to get the judicial stamp of approval. I mean, it still might be but the judicial order insulates it to some extent. But in order for it to be a judicial order, the judge has to approve. The judge doesn't have to sign his or her name.
 
superrific said:
Didn't Dale Ho refuse to accept the DOJ's motion to drop the charges against Eric Adams?

Here's how I see it. If Trump just has the DOJ transfer $10B out of the Treasury, that is embezzlement and everyone can and will be prosecuted for that.

The only way to make it not embezzlement is to get the judicial stamp of approval. I mean, it still might be but the judicial order insulates it to some extent. But in order for it to be a judicial order, the judge has to approve. The judge doesn't have to sign his or her name.
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Judges definitely have more control over the disposition of criminal cases. The issue with the embezzlement point is someone would have to charge them. Trump controls all those people, too.
 
lawtig02 said:
Judges definitely have more control over the disposition of criminal cases. The issue with the embezzlement point is someone would have to charge them. Trump controls all those people, too.
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What's the SOL on embezzlement? Probably more than the remainder of Trump's term. Make him pardon people, and then challenge the pardons as invalid because corrupt. Make the Supreme Court -- which might even be differently constituted by then, but assuming it's still the same -- make them declare that an obviously corrupt pardon resulting in a $10B extraction for the president is unreviewable. I'll bet the popular support for the Supreme Court would crater to almost nothing, and that's when we can get rid of it and start anew.
 
nycfan said:
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“… GOP officials have continued to talk up the boost this year in refunds, which for weeks now have been around $350 higher than in 2025 — an increase of around 11 percent in all.

But Trump and other senior Republicans had laid the groundwork for taxpayers to expect a much bigger check, vowing that refunds would grow by $1,000 — with an average all the way past $4,000. Instead, average refunds fell below $3,500 by the start of April, according to the IRS’s most recent filing season statistics.

Republicans do have positives to sell, after using the megabill to put in more than a half-dozen new or expanded tax benefits.…”
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We don't make enough to recieve the big benefits. We got some scraps that were left over.
 
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