New York State cannot prove that it is credit worthy, having the ability to promptly pay $467 million in cash.
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley believes Trump’s predicament is a form of “mob justice”........in order to get another judge to look at “what I’ve done to you, you’ve got to come up with half a billion dollars just to appeal.”
It’s like a judge saying, “I’m going to take your house away, but you can appeal my decision.
You just have to sell your house in order to do it.”
On occasion, the Supreme Court has intervened in state actions, on punitive damages, when damages become so high they deny someone due process of law.
“This is falling into that extreme category, in my view. I find it appalling.”
“It shocks the conscience that you have to pony up this type of money just to get someone to look at what you believe, and I believe, is an excessive ruling by this judge,” Turley concluded.
Nor can he.