117th United States Congress: #CancelGate

[Salodin]

A wife can't be forced to testify against her husband

Don't think this counts if the testimony is about something that happened before they were married

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[archibaldcrane]

Don't think this counts if the testimony is about something that happened before they were married

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No, doesn't matter

[NynJa]

In Canada she could still be subpoenaed to testify for stuff prior to marriage.

Another reason Canada > U S A

[Salodin]

No, doesn't matter

Not necessarily

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/l...al-privileges/

Mueller & L. Kirkpatrick, 2 Federal Evidence § 5:39 (4th ed., July 2018 update).
Not surprisingly, however, a defendant cannot prevent a witness from testifying against him by marrying the witness in a “collusive marriage”:

[W]e conclude that since defendant’s wife’s testimony concerned matters prior to the marriage, the privilege against the testimony of a spouse is inapplicable . . . [so as] to eliminate the possibility of suppressing testimony by marrying a witness. Here, as the Government has noted, the marriage took place one month after defendant’s indictment. As the Advisory Committee [to proposed Rule 505] concluded, the prevention of collusive marriages justifies such an exception[.]

United States v. Van Drunen, 501 F.2d 1393, 1397 (7th Cir. 1974). But see In re Grand Jury Proceedings (86-2), 640 F. Supp. 988 (E.D. Mich. 1988) (both marital privileges applied even though couple married after husband was under criminal investigation, because there was persuasive evidence that the couple would have married anyway).

Although there is wiggle room for him to get away with it depending on the circumstances of their relationship, as also mentioned.

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[archibaldcrane]

https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/st...410710530?s=19

[Gredival]

And no credit will be given to Pelosi or Biden for deciding to go with pushing the budget first

[archibaldcrane]

People are slurping Pelosi up and down about this, there's boss lady memes, sunglasses, all the trappings of wine-lib twitter

[Day]

sick world

[archibaldcrane]

sick world

at least she actually did a good job here to deserve it, it's not easy to herd House members with only a 4-vote margin

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1430270448965758977

He doesn't even live in GA. He is a resident of Westlake, TX.

[Lokus]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1430270448965758977

He doesn't even live in GA. He is a resident of Westlake, TX.

As long as he's an inhabitant of the state at the time of the election, it's all gucci.

[Melena]

Democrats should have a field day with this though since it turns out his wife voted in Georgia despite living in Texas

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[Mertron]

and then he’ll win anyway

[Buffy]

A wife can't be forced to testify against her husband

That was my point

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1430727522963046401

[archibaldcrane]

Interesting

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/...271488001?s=19

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/timnelson_mpr/st...350819330?s=20
https://twitter.com/timnelson_mpr/st...584624129?s=20

[Gwynplaine]

It's not finalized but the new redistricting map in Colorado would make Lauren Boebert's district much more competitive and make her less likely to be re-elected to the delight of planet Earth.

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/0...-map-proposal/

Colorado’s nonpartisan redistricting commission has proposed a congressional map that would create a new swing seat in the northern Denver suburbs and lump conservative firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert into a Boulder-based solidly Democratic seat currently held by liberal Rep. Joe Neguse.

[Kaslo]

[Cyn]

Bra-a-a-a-azzers.