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.
..... Snip.....
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Didn’t Biden say something like “We have bombers” that could be used on the States?
Trump should remind New York of that, if so.
In either case, history has already judged, and those who refuse to see will never see.
The immediate rejoiner to the “convicted felon” slur is a reminder that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and, indeed essentially all our Founding Fathers, were “convicted felons” according to the British.
Being convicted by a tyranny is a good qualification for President. A badge of honor.
If they can use the law to do this to Donald Trump, to make up a crime and never announce the charges, to deny him a unambiguous verdict against, to try for Federal crimes that weren’t, in state court, and to use a judge whose family was on the ‘take’ and ‘donated’ illegally to political causes, they can Railroad anyone in America and the Constitution means nothing.
No fair trial, there should be no doubt that this should be taken by the SCOTUS immediately now.
Transfer to Federal Court and attack it in Constitutional grounds like selective prosecution and not telling the defendant the charges against him.
Americans, especially male, Caucasian Americans do not stand a chance in this country’s far left “courts” run by single digit I.Q. “refugee” judges from below the border. These “judges” get their orders from their massas in the DNC.
Pure Evil.
If Trump is sentenced, he will officially be a ‘convicted felon’ which is why Merchan is trying to move forward with the sentencing.
As POTUS TRUMP is a convicted felon heres a thought. POTUS walks with Jesus Christ he was also a convicted felon les we forget. That is a great team to walk with....
Yup. Another refugee beaner out to lynch a Caucasian American gringo president.
Why didn’t Trump lawyers act faster getting SCOTUS to stop this BS?
While this is technically true, it also allows for immediate appeal. This travesty will be thrown out.
Of course, makes me scared for the nation, that such a crap case can be brought and won. What chance do WE have?
This is what happened regularly in the former Soviet Union.
SCOTUS is the last stop...Appeals court comes first...
Great question, shanover!
....saw on Fox news this morning that John Yoo, a very talented attorney, said basically that at this point, there appears to be very little, if anything, that Mr. Trump can do..but in reality, the American public spoke quite loudly on November 5th that it would not matter if Mr, Trump is labeled as a felon....MAGA....!!!
I don’t think Merchan gets away with it. The sentencing will be postponed or dismissed.
Our truckers can do something. They can stay home.
They will use “convicted felon” to switch directions in an argument. I will laugh when they try that. To be “convicted” by those clowns is a badge of honor.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.