unpretty:

i watched this morning’s livestream at work because i couldn’t help myself, reynal (alex jones’ shitty lawyer) really did try to file for a mistrial and ask the judge to move that bankston should delete the entire phone backup he was sent. it turns out that reynal actually DID email back “please disregard, i will send you a new one” but

• that is not how that works
• you have to specify exactly what you are claiming is privileged, and why
• you have to send back new versions of the documents with the privileged content redacted and marked confidential
• reynal didn’t do any of that and just assumed bankston would be a bro and delete because he said “oops”
• reynal never even sent him the new documents
• all of the documents he is trying to get locked down are things that should have been produced over a year ago anyway

it turns out that what alex jones’ lawyers sent was. basically their whole shared drive. norm pattis’ entire computer. there was over 300GB. the medical records were for a different trial, in connecticut, and reynal shouldn’t have had them in the first place.

the judge told him that if he wants to go through and retroactively mark specific files as confidential, he can go through the normal process for that. reynal wanted another ten days and she said “no???” he complained about how many documents they would need to go through in a short amount of time. she pointed out that if they’d produced these documents a year ago they’d have plenty of time. if someone wants to subpoena the documents there’s nothing she can do about it and that’s a him problem.

the judge. literally thought he was joking about the mistrial. she tried to give him an out to say that he was joking. he was not. she told him to stop bringing up mistrials because that’s not how this works.

anyway that is my update

normal-horoscopes:

Alex Jones explained for non USAmericans:

Alex Jones is an infamous radio conspiracy theorist who has been a persistent element of American politics for the last 30 years. His radio show, Infowars, uses the tagline “tomorrow’s news today” as Alex claims his information comes from a pantheon of secret sources within the nonexistent shadow government.

Infowars got it’s big break in the early 2000s with 9/11. Alex claims to have predicted the attack beforehand, even though Osama Bin Laden had been all but outright stating his desire to commit a terrorist attack for months if not years beforehand. Alex also claimed that the UN was behind 9/11, claiming that it was done to destabilize the dollar. The Infowars guest on the day of 9/11 was actually Joe Rogan. That’s not actually relevant, it’s just a fun fact.

Throughout the years, Alex has been a dangerous radicalizing voice in America. He has claimed that every mass tragedy like a terrorist attack or school shooting has been a false flag, generally stating that the tragedy was engineered by the government to strip Americans of their gun rights. Recent court documents reveal that at its peak, Infowars was making 800,000$ profits a day.

He has been sued before, but has generally managed to skirt by on settlements and technicalities.

In 2012, a 20 year old named Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people in the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Alex claimed that no children died, and that the grieving parents and community members were actually paid actors. He has said equally reprehensible shit in the past, and nothing has come of it. But this time, Alex didn’t stop there. He has been harassing the victims for nearly eight years now, claiming that the parents were agents of the deep state, even going so far as to dox the public addresses of the parents of the victims, and even send “reporters” (read, dangerous armed white supremacists) to their houses. The entire time he was doing this, he was running commercials for his brand of vitamin supplements.

The victims of his harassment are currently suing Alex for defamation. The trial is not going well for Alex. Alex is currently on lawyer 12. Alex’s lawyers have proved themselves to be so incompetent, so unprepared, so blatantly disrespectful to the American legal system, that the judge has handed down what’s called a “default judgement”. Which essentially means “the court has decided that even if you are actually innocent, the court will legally be considering you guilty because of your rampant disrespect for the legal process.” A default judgement was described by one of the lawyers as “approximately as rare as a football game being called on account of unicorns.”

The firm that took the case for the victims side is doing so for free. They have extensively studied Alex and his history, and are currently in the middle of what could be described as a surgical disassembly.

On August 3rd, Alex’s lawyer turned over nearly 2 years of Alex’s phone records. These texts contain DEEPLY incriminating evidence. The victims lawyers asked Alex’s lawyer “hey, we can use these right? Like these are admissible?” And either out of ignorance, incompetence, or potentially even intentionally, Alex’s lawyer said yes.

It doesn’t stop there.

Alex was instrumental to the January 6th coup attempt that happened here recently. One of the victims lawyers was heard on a hot mic saying that they intended to turn the evidence over to law enforcement, heavily implying that Alex may have implicated himself in some nigh-treasonous crime.