An opinion (Bankston) as to what would be considered within the realm of reasonable as to punitive damages:There will also be a phase for punitive damages:
Jury finds Alex Jones caused $4 million in damages to two Sandy Hook parents | CNN Business
Right-wing talk show host Alex Jones will have to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim a little more than $4 million in compensatory damages, a jury decided Thursday, capping a stunning and dramatic case that showcased for the public the real-world harm inflicted by viral conspiracy...www.cnn.com
So what difference will it make now? Kavanagh is appointed/confirmed for life. Even if he is impeached it would take 60 votes to remove him. That won't happen-my guess is 'Ole Kavie knows where every single Republican Senator bones are buried
For starters, it could lead to new protocols wherein the FBI needs to do its own investigating of judicial nominees prior to or alongside White House direction. Per Mr. Wray, letting the White House run the show has been the norm with judicial nominees? Based on the clips, it sounds like Senator Whitehouse does intend to move forward on some process in a month; but it's just a clip so I don't know what that planned process is. I googled the topic to see if there was a corresponding article, but I didn't find anything more informative.
And both parties deny knowing anything about the transactionsThe Kleptocrat Who Bankrolled Rudy Guiliani’s Dive for Dirt on Biden
Fresh reporting illuminates the role that Dmitro Firtash played in funding the operation that would end in Trump's first impeachment
The Kleptocrat Who Bankrolled Rudy Guiliani’s Dive for Dirt on Biden
Fresh reporting illuminates the role that Dmitro Firtash played in funding the operation that would end in Trump's first impeachment.newrepublic.com
"For the past few years, as Rudy Giuliani gallivanted around the world looking for any kind of conspiracy that could help then-President Donald Trump remain in office, one question hung over Giuliani’s rambles: Who actually paid for his travels?
Thanks to a report in this week’s New York Times, we have a better idea. Giuliani’s paymaster wasn’t his client, nor was it any of the other Americans in the conspiratorial cabal working to help Trump steal the 2020 election. Instead, Rudy’s benefactor was the pro-Putin oligarch who stood at the center of Trump’s first impeachment—and who arguably stood to gain most by Trump retaining the White House: Dmitro Firtash.
As the Times reported, text messages and interviews revealed that the company overseen by Firtash—a Ukrainian kleptocrat currently awaiting extradition to the U.S. on bribery-related charges—footed the bill for much of Giuliani’s travels. Not only did Firtash’s company pay for Giuliani’s stay in at least one luxury hotel, but it paid tens of thousands of dollars for Giuliani’s flights around the world, including one trip on a private jet that cost a staggering $36,000.
At a minimum, these revelations confirm what was long suspected: A post-Soviet oligarch connected to multiple members of Giuliani’s team was also financing his travels. And it looks like Giuliani was able to obtain Firtash’s scratch with relative ease—a single text message would often do the trick. “Running into money difficulties on trip to London,” Giuliani wrote to Firtash’s translator, referring to an upcoming meeting with the oligarch’s associates. Voila, private planes and luxury hotels were at Giuliani’s disposal in short order.
The news that an oligarch wanted in the U.S. for various and sundry crimes was secretly funding the American president’s lawyer would, in a perfect world, be a scandal unto itself. But the revelations regarding Giuliani and Firtash—an “upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime,” per the DOJ, and a Putin ally to boot—go much further than Gulfstreams and gilded hotels, and point directly to just how open, and corruptible, the Trump White House was.
Orange Is the New Black, I guess.
They were found not guilty because so much drive for the assassination was by FBI informants. If the FBI informants were just silent observers or go along people it would have been different. Instead the FBI people were the ones going “kill her! Kill her!”
