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Law Professor Nails Why Judge Merchan Is Sentencing Trump on January 10
townhall.com ^ | January 03, 2025 10:35 PM | Matt Vespa

Posted on 01/04/2025 7:24:19 AM PST by airdalechief

President-elect Donald J. Trump will be sentenced on January 10, but there will be no jail time, not that was ever a concern. The laws and statutes got so contorted that even CNN’s Elie Honig, the network's chief legal analyst and former assistant US attorney, couldn’t defend it, aptly calling it a total disaster of a case. In essence, Trump only got convicted because Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his team perverted the rule of law.

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Jonathan Turley .. Jan 3, 2025 @JonathanTurley ...

Judge Merchan just set Trump for a sentencing shortly before his inauguration. As some of us predicted, he is indicating that he will impose an unconditional discharge without jail or probation...

...we will also finally be able to see an appeal of his case. While there are low expectations for the New York court system, the sentencing will allow the full array of alleged errors by Merchan to be placed before appellate judges.

It’s a consolation prize for the anti-Trump lawyers who tried repeatedly and failed to nail Mr. Trump. Bragg’s team even tried to postpone sentencing until 2029, which was laughably transparent. That was never going to happen. Then again, Turley added that when an appeal is filed, which is likely, all of Merchan's reported misdeeds will be laid bare. Trump’s communication team didn’t hold back, with Steven Cheung, incoming White House communications director, taking a blowtorch to the judge: today’s order by the deeply conflicted, Acting Justice Merchan in the Manhattan DA Witch Hunt is a direct violation of the Supreme Court’s Immunity decision and other longstanding jurisprudence. This lawless case should have never been brought, and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed. President Trump must be allowed to continue the Presidential Transition process and to execute the vital duties of the presidency, unobstructed by the remains of this or any remnants of the Witch Hunts. There should be no sentencing, and President Trump will continue fighting against these hoaxes until they are all dead.

1 posted on 01/04/2025 7:24:19 AM PST by airdalechief
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To: airdalechief
We do not care because the actual crook is leaving, half brain-dead, but he’s leaving.

Word.

2 posted on 01/04/2025 7:26:52 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Likely the lame stream media will be able to say ‘convicted felon’ Donald J Trump instead of ‘president’ and not be liable. I really don’t like these entities.


3 posted on 01/04/2025 7:36:08 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: airdalechief

Can Trump sue for equity in Justice so that this never happens again.

Merchan and Bragg need to be examples, just as Nifong became in the Duke LaCrosse case.


4 posted on 01/04/2025 7:38:12 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: airdalechief

Yesterday I posted:

“This could just be an action by the judge to attach the “convicted felon” label onto Trump before he is inaugurated”

Today I see that Jonathan Turley agrees with me.

Remember a jury verdict without action by the judge does not convey the label of “convicted felon” onto a person.


5 posted on 01/04/2025 7:40:30 AM PST by ChronicMA
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To: airdalechief

Law professor Jonathan Turley nailed why Judge Juan Merchan wants to get this wrapped on January 10. It’s to give the liberal media the talking point they’ve salivated over for months: Trump is a convicted felon, and now he’s being sworn in as one on Inauguration Day:


They will lose more than they gain on this one.

Wasn’t George Washington convicted by the English?


6 posted on 01/04/2025 7:40:35 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: chajin

bump


7 posted on 01/04/2025 7:43:43 AM PST by Loud Mime ("The Real Constitution" on Amazon. We are not right wing - we are constitutional centrists.)
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To: airdalechief

I do not respect the authority of Merchan or Bragg. They have shown themselves to be corrupt. They must be held to account.


8 posted on 01/04/2025 7:45:03 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Wasn’t George Washington convicted by the English?

If you find out, let me know.

I would LOVE to use that in response to some brain dead liberal drone parroting the party line.

9 posted on 01/04/2025 7:48:46 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: airdalechief

“there will be no jail time”

The corrupt POS wouldn’t lie, would he?


10 posted on 01/04/2025 7:55:25 AM PST by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: bk1000

And that other creepy judge Engoron. All three (Engoron, Bragg and Merchan) sound like evil ingredients in a witch’s soup.


11 posted on 01/04/2025 7:56:21 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: tired&retired

we can snap the media into shape in 5 minutes. Abc is disney for example, then there is GE and amazon and so forth. Just stop using their crap and they would be on their knees. Unfortunately, the avg american these days is too addicted and weak to follow along. They need their dancing with the stars and their doritos


12 posted on 01/04/2025 7:59:06 AM PST by Strict9
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To: PeterPrinciple; metmom

All of the Founding Fathers were liable to be hanged by the British if they were caught.


13 posted on 01/04/2025 8:00:20 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possiWe neve hear of gambling paying off $billioble.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
Wasn’t George Washington convicted by the English?

Also Benjamin Franklln had to undergo a reaming in the British courts.

14 posted on 01/04/2025 8:03:08 AM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: airdalechief

does this mean that the gag order will finally be lifted?


15 posted on 01/04/2025 8:06:12 AM PST by joshua c
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To: tired&retired

Merchan and Bragg should be tried, convicted, and sentenced for giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.


16 posted on 01/04/2025 8:09:56 AM PST by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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To: airdalechief

I’m still wondering what Trump should have written in his book besides attorneys fees.....”To attorney For dealing with well known hooker/whore/trash who is blackmailing Trump.”


17 posted on 01/04/2025 8:16:43 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: airdalechief

Merchan is a refugee thug. He should recuse himself from “judging” Americans. We have enough AMERICAN Judges to judge Americans in AMERICAN COURTS. Deport his butt and deport his daughters Marxist butt with him. Adios Juan!


18 posted on 01/04/2025 8:16:43 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Does anyone know the difference between an FBI "Special Agent" and an "Un-Special Agent"? )
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To: airdalechief

Give him 10 years with sentence to begin immediately. Oh please please please! Im pretty sure I have enough popcorn for the event.


19 posted on 01/04/2025 8:17:18 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: bk1000

Bragg has made lots of enemies, and the worm always turns on these folks. Just like it will for Fani in Georgia. Prosecutors will be looking for the bones that are buried.


20 posted on 01/04/2025 8:22:54 AM PST by Eli Kopter
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