This charge was created specifically to target President Trump.
That makes this whole thing a bill of attainer.
I was looking at that pesky constitution thingie, and I found this:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Things that make you go hmmmmm
Very disappointed with Trumps lawyers, again and again.
Other than being young cute hipsters I think they are pretty worthless. They don't fight they just GOP their way through outrageous, illegal assaults on their client.
Trump has a huge blind spot when picking his defense team. Hope it's better going forward, or he will get no justice/revenge following all the illegal stuff done to him over the past decade.
See VDH's latest for a superb summary.
Maybe VDH should be on his defense team.
In a just world, a country with laws, this would be like a 20lb sledge hammer coming down on all the players.
One can only hope there is a glimmer of justice left.
The special extension of the Statute of Limitations that the NY Legislature passed that was applied to the “crime” Trump was charged with sounds to me a lot like an Ex Post Facto Law.
IANAL, but couldn’t that be used to invalidate Trumps “conviction”? (And perhaps charge Merchan and the NY legislators with acting against the US Constitution.)