mothra wrote on Sep 25
th, 2024 at 8:42am:
Trump and Vance face criminal charges over Springfield hoax
An Ohio law allowing citizens to file criminal charges is being used to target former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over their comments about Haitians in Springfield.
According to Fox 8, the Haitian Bridge Alliance filed criminal charges against the two Republican candidates at Clark County Municipal Court on Tuesday.
"The criminal charges stem from the devastating harm of Trump's and Vance's baseless fearmongering that legal Haitian immigrants to the Ohio town are eating their neighbor's pets," Chandra Law Firm said.
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Alliance's cofounder Guerline Jozef sought the "immediate arrest" of Trump and Vance for disrupting public service, making false alarms, committing telecommunications harassment, committing aggravated menacing, and violating the prohibition against complicity.
"The Haitian community is suffering in fear because of Trump and Vance's relentless, irresponsible, false alarms, and public services have been disrupted," lead counsel Subodh Chandra said in a statement. "Trump and Vance must be held accountable to the rule of law. Anyone else who wreaked havoc the way they did would have been arrested by now."
"There's nothing special about Trump and Vance that entitles them to get away with what they've done and are doing," the attorney added. "They think they're above the law. They're not."
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/trump-and-vance-face-criminal-charges-over-... Nice
The Chandra Law Firm says the nonprofit used a state statute allowing private citizens to "file an affidavit charging the offense committed."
The following charges were filed:
Disrupting public service — by causing widespread bomb and other threats that resulted in massive disruptions to the public services in Springfield, Ohio;
Making false alarms — by knowingly causing alarm in the Springfield community by continuing to repeat lies that state and local officials have said were false;
Committing telecommunications harassment — by spreading claims they know to be false during the presidential debate, campaign rallies, nationally televised interviews, and social media;
Committing aggravated menacing in violation — by knowingly making intimidating statements with the intent to abuse, threaten, or harass the recipients, including Trump’s threat to deport immigrants who are here legally to Venezuela, a land they have never known;
Committing aggravated menacing — by knowingly causing others to falsely believe that members of Springfield's Haitian community would cause serious physical harm to the person or property of others in Springfield; and
Violating the prohibition against complicity — by conspiring with one another and spreading vicious lies that caused innocent parties to be parties to their various crimes.
The charges were filed in Clark County Municipal Court.
Nice try, Greggery. In any other country, those charges would stick.
The US, however, has its First Amendment. JD and the big fella are technically free to drum up as many death threats as they like.
It would be better if they were sued in the civil courts. There, plaintiffs could show damages. The First Amendment does not apply to injured parties, as Rudy's case showed. It
apply to states prosecuting under criminal law.
Here, all Don and JD need to do is appeal to the Supreme Court and get a free pass - if the lower courts don't knock it back first. That would be our constitutional scholar Panther's argument, and in this case he'd be
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