Mandatory
Oh ffs.
Trump lawyer wants to suspend the trial during his “sabbath” because it’s “mandatory” for him.
David Schoen, 62, has written to senior figures of both main parties in the US Senate asking for an agreement that the trial [be] postponed from 5.24pm on Friday until Sunday so that he can observe the Sabbath. In the letter, reported by the New York Times, the lawyer apologises for any inconvenience, adding that “the practices and prohibitions are mandatory for me … so I have no choice.”
Blah blah blah. Mandatory according to whom? A particular version of the imagined sky daddy. He might as well say it’s mandatory for him to take two days off to say prayers to Elmer Fudd.
The request presents managers of the trial with a scheduling dilemma. To complete the trial by sundown on Friday would require breakneck speed that could appear unseemly; to delay it until Sunday might push the proceedings into the following week that had been earmarked as a Senate holiday.
Never mind that, imagined sky daddy makes the rules.
I wonder what day is the Sabbath for those who pray to Joe Pesci?
Sounds like a tactic.
I might believe it if there was some basis in reality, but it sounds like an excuse. That’s probably the whole defense though, making excuses for Donnie Dipshit, for which there are none. He needs to be nailed to the wall.
Attached is a handy guide for following along with the impeachment proceedings.
http://farcornercafe.blogspot.com/2021/02/t-rump.html
Why would that change anything? The lawyer is attempting to claim that the trial date ought to be changed because he signed on to a client’s trial despite knowing he had a scheduling conflict. But all that means is that the lawyer is incompetent, as he signed on to a client with a known trial date despite having a prior commitment at that time. The remedy for this is for the lawyer to refund any monies already paid, and withdraw from proceedings.
And this is assuming the claimed Sabbath observance is real and not ginned up as a convenient excuse. I can’t image that it is real though – imagine a high paid lawyer signing off from all work every Saturday!