Tea at Trianon: Judge Sets Trump’s J6 Trial Date

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, September 1, 2023

Judge Sets Trump’s J6 Trial Date

From Breitbart:

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has scheduled the trial date for former President Donald Trump’s federal case, alleging he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results, for March 4, 2024 – a day before Super Tuesday. The Associated Press reported on the Chutkan decision Monday morning in Washington, DC, after she denied Trump’s legal team’s request for a Spring 2026 date. March 4 comes a day before more than a dozen states hold their causes or primaries, marking one of the most momentous days of the presidential primary process.

“The public has a right to prompt and efficient resolution of this matter,” Chutkan said Monday, according to the AP.

“Setting a trial date does not depend and should not depend on the defendant’s personal and professional obligations,” the judge also remarked, as Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported. “Mr. Trump, like any defendant, will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule.”,Prosecutors under Special Counsel Jack Smith had been seeking a trial date in January, weeks ahead of the Iowa Caucuses. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), who has endorsed Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, was quick to weigh in, slamming the move as “Straight up election interference.” (Read more.)