Posted on 09/04/2024 9:00:08 AM PDT by libstripper
Trump's hush-money sentencing is scheduled for September 18 in Manhattan. But his lawyers plan to throw a monkey wrench that could delay things until well after Election Day. That legal maneuver is massive and has a name: presidential immunity. Donald Trump's rap sheet is a work in progress these days.
Under the former president's current court schedule, he will greet Election Day as a sentenced felon.
But legal scholars predict Trump is about to use his new presidential immunity powers to execute an unprecedented legal maneuver, one that will delay his hush-money sentencing, now set for September 18, until well after voters cast their ballots.
Two days before his sentencing, Trump, they predict, will seek something never before allowed in the appellate courts in New York or in most states for that matter: an interlocutory appeal.
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but, but, i wanted to vote for a convicted felon IN jail.
some american dreams continue to be out of reach.
Merchan is finding out that his IQ combined with the DA’s doesn’t even match what Trump’s legal team deposits in a commode on a routine basis.
As unprecedented as trying a federal case in state court, after multiple federal prosecutors had said there was no case?
As unprecedented as having a state legislature change the statute of limitations retroactively to let a 30-year-old case go forward, a case in which the plaintiff couldn’t remember the year in which the offense occurred?
There is nothing “unprecedented” about interlocutory appeals.
They are disfavored, but happen with regularity.
Maybe Trump can get Joe Biden to serve his time? Joe owes him something for letting Harris be the candidate in a world of joyous, word salads and high-pitched squeals. They told him he owes that to Trump, but what Joe really owes nobody knows, not even Joe.
The is a case that never would have happened if DJT weren’t running for POTUS - in fact the whole point of it is their claim, whether accurate or not, that he did this to gain political advantage.
To me the whole thing is blatantly wrong and selective prosecution. An accountant coded fees paid to a lawyer as legal expenses...oh the horror! And then there is the congressional slush fund they use to pay off inconvenient people with OUR money!
bkmk
And then the payments were made in 34 installments, which is why there are 34 felony counts. That is just disgusting on top of disgusting
I thought a Clinton appointed judge already denied this and said it stays in state court.
As unprecedented as trying someone for 34 felonies without ever telling the defendant what the felonies were (even after the jury announced its verdict)?
Yeah, unprecedented like that.
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