Comments on: 60 Minutes Goes Black–Who Does It Protect?

By: bmaz

bmaz — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:43:27 +0000

With the modern court reporter’s setup, that should not have been a problem. Non-certified quick transcripts can be produced almost immediately from the computer file produced as the reporter makes the chicken scratch. A secondary reporter could make any necessary corrections. Quite frankly, most modern setups not only allow for quick transcripts, they, in fact, even allow for instantaneous real time transcripts, with somewhere around 98% accuracy, to appear on video screens for the judge and respective counsel (and be temporarily saved) as the live testimony is given right there in the trial courtroom. This delay still doesn’t fly.

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:31:32 +0000

Yes. It had been 2, but was muscled off somehow by Fox about 10 years ago.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:49:35 +0000

Court recorder apparently died,

MISTRIAL

motion to dismiss, based upon depriving a person’s right to a FAIR TRIAL

By: BlueStateRedHead

BlueStateRedHead — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:41:26 +0000

Court recorder apparently died, according to comments on last night Kos diary. nothing more was said than that.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/24/193628/369

There was a complementary diary on Fuller,

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/24/192656/515

Back to lurking.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:32:37 +0000

I wonder if they are really going to be so audacious as to argue that it is simply to costly to comply with the Constitution…

if we can’t afford democracy HERE, why are we wasting money to defend it over there ???

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:24:34 +0000

so why is a DEMOCRAT trying to sell this bullshit for bushco ???

The staffer didn’t like it when I pointed out that the “bluedogs” are welded to bush’s ass

tried to tell me about all the times my congresscritter opposed george. YES she did

this whole conversation was a JOKE

By: bmaz

bmaz — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:20:04 +0000

You know, they have whined about all the burdensome man hours necessary to make a warrant application (and no, it is not that bad if you are freaking set up to do that regularly, which they are); I wonder if they are really going to be so audacious as to argue that it is simply to costly to comply with the Constitution…

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:15:57 +0000

never try to bullshit a bullshitter

somebody shoulda warned that staffer …

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:10:20 +0000

Seems to me, only if they were thinking of substitution and someone decide to say you had to PayGo the settlement too.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:09:10 +0000

… would “pay-go” ever come up ???

Not that I see, unless they are arguing that the Administration cannot afford the money to operate under the law. OR that they have figured out that the Administration gave indemnity agreements and that there would pretty much have to be a tax increase to pay for the liability that Bush assumed in the taxpayer’s names.