Law & Order: New Jersey Democrats
A Manhattan federal judge has blocked prosecutors from introducing text messages related to a 2019 debate about aid to Egypt in the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez — exchanges the government has called “critical” to their case.
US District Judge Sidney Stein agreed with the New Jersey Democrat’s defense team Friday that allowing the messages between an Egyptian government official and Menendez co-defendant Wael Hana into evidence would violate the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, which holds that members of Congress cannot be held criminally or civilly liable for actions related to their legislative duties.
Stein also ruled that prosecutors could not introduce another exchange from 2022, in which Menendez’s wife Nadine allegedly forwarded a link to Hana about two military sales to Egypt worth about $2.5 billion, writing, “Bob had to sign off on this.”
h/t Melinda Romanoff
This is uncanny. You have to ask how Menendez does this EVERY single time. I think, maybe, when he was playing around with underage kids in Haiti he picked up the fundamentals of VooDoo.