Posted on 01/06/2025 9:40:32 AM PST by Macho MAGA Man
President Trump on Monday morning launched a legal challenge to halt Judge Juan Merchan’s sentencing in the lawfare hush money case.
If Trump is sentenced, he will officially be a ‘convicted felon’ which is why Merchan is trying to move forward with the sentencing.
Trump will be sentenced in Alvin Bragg’s lawfare hush money case on January 10 before his inauguration.
“This court finds that neither the vacatur of the jury’s verdicts nor dismissal of the indictment are required by the Presidential immunity doctrine, the Presidential Transition Act or the Supremacy Clause,” Judge Juan Merchan wrote last Friday.
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In a court filing Monday, Trump’s attorneys argued that Merchan “will lack authority to proceed with sentencing” because Trump is still appealing Merchan’s earlier ruling that the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision does not apply to the New York hush money case.
“Forcing a President to continue to defend a criminal case — potentially through trial or, even more dramatically here, through sentencing and judgment — while the appellate courts are still grappling with his claim of immunity would, in fact, force that President ‘to answer for his conduct in court’ before his claim of immunity is finally adjudicated,” defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove wrote.
Trump’s attorneys said it did not matter.
“It is of no moment that the Court has suggested an intention to impose a sentence of unconditional discharge. While it is indisputable that the fabricated charges in this meritless case should have never been brought, and at this point could not possibly justify a sentence more onerous than that, no sentence at all is appropriate based on numerous legal errors — including legal errors directly relating to Presidential immunity that President Trump will address in the forthcoming appeals,” the defense said in Monday’s filing.
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Merchan and his daughter should share a cell
I know I shouldn’t care about them but I am really incensed when the Joy Reid and others push the “convicted felon” slurs.
I admit this allows them to rent space in my head free.
But I still really hate it.
If Trump actually gets sentenced by Judge Merchan so that he technically becomes a convicted felon, and then later your liberal friend throws it in your face and gloats about Trump’s felony conviction, you can just say this: “Yep, you’re right, he’s officially a convicted felon now...he kind of reminds me of Mahatma Gandhi.”
And Nelson Mandela, eh
Gee Moe I wonder of Judge Juan Merchan received any hush money?.
Good one.
He and Joe have something in common. The diaper thing.
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