A Sunday Morning Update: Rudy Giuliani's Supposed Witnesses, As To His Florida "Homestead" Argument, Owe Answers By This Wednesday In Manhattan...

Since none of these supposedly-favorable witness for Mr. Giuliani have answered the motions made by the two Georgia election workers, despite repeated opportunities to do so, the able USDC Judge Liman in Manhattan entered an unusual Saturday order, compelling them to comply with various subpoenas by this coming Wednesday.

It is highly unlikely that these witnesses will be enough to establish that Mr. Giuliani had, by 2023, abandoned his residence in New York, and taken up permanent residence in Florida. As such, the Florida condo too may be sold to pay the $148 million plus interest he owes the election workers. That's where this is headed -- and here's the full text docket order entered just yesterday:

. . .Having received no response to Plaintiffs' motion to compel from third-party subpoena recipients Dr. Ryan and Mr. Goodman, the Court grants Plaintiffs' motion to compel at Dkt. No. [159]. Dr. Ryan and Mr. Goodman have until Wednesday, December 18, 2024 at 5 p.m. to produce all responsive documents in their possession, custody or control, or show cause why they should not be held in contempt for violation of the Courts order. Plaintiffs shall serve copies of this order on the third parties by alternate means as permitted by the Court's December 10, 2024 order, and file proof of service on the docket.

(Signed by Judge Lewis J. Liman on 12/14/2024). . . .

This is one of those slow motion train-wrecks that is hard to look away from -- once you know it is unfolding. He was purportedly a hero to New Yorkers after 9/11 -- styled as "America's mayor".

But some of us knew better. We knew him before that, as a particularly cruel AUSA, and as a political opportunist, once he was leading City Hall. A guy who personally jailed entirely peaceful Democratic protesters, when the RNC came to the Big Apple, for a convention. Many of those, for over a week.

He plainly spat upon the freedom to dissent peaceably in the late 1990s -- so it is somehow fitting that his own "freedom" from excessive possessions is being delivered to him, in the Manhattan courts -- for his own intemperate, lawless and libelous speech. Speech that nearly got these two Black women. . . lynched, down in Georgia. Onward.

Separately, as a small footnote -- his brief, in the Second Circuit, appealing the foreclosure orders, is now due in late February: ". . .Rudolph W. Giuliani Brief due date as 02/21/2025. Joint Appendix due date as 02/21/2025. . . ." Now you know.

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