The US Supreme Court won’t intervene in a contempt order by a state trial court. Trump will have to exhaust his state legal remedies before starting in the local federal district court to begin that avenue.
>> The US Supreme Court won’t intervene in a contempt order by a state trial court.
Not as long as the penalty is a fine.
But if Merchan tries to JAIL him, damn straight USSC will step in.
He’s a President of the United States, and the putative candidate up for election in six months. That changes everything.
But as President Trump himself says, “We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”
Not always the case. They may make an exception when the process is prejudicial.
I disagree. President Trump can file an immediate petition for writ of habeas corpus in U.S. district court. If he is falsely imprisoned, it becomes a federal matter under the U.S. Constitution. False imprisonment immediately becomes a violation of your U.S. constitutional rights.
The judge here has the burden to demonstrate the necessity for the immediate imprisonment of the leading candidate for the U.S. presidency. That this judge cannot even specify a law Trump has violated to cause him to be the defendant in a criminal trial, the judge’s summary imprisonment of Trump would be naked tyranny for the entire world to see.