Posted on 11/11/2024 10:15:42 PM PST by 11th_VA
The judge in US President-elect Donald Trump's New York criminal case will decide Tuesday whether to throw out his conviction, potentially handing him a major legal win as he prepares to take office again.
Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in May after a jury found he had fraudulently manipulated business records to cover up an alleged sexual encounter with a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.
Trump, due to be sentenced on November 26, may receive a reprieve if Judge Juan Merchan decides to dismiss the case following the Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immunity...
Ahead of the election, Trump's lawyers moved to have the case thrown out in light of the Supreme Court decision, a move which prosecutors have firmly rejected.
If Merchan throws out the case on that basis, there will be no sentencing of Trump, 78.
If he does not, Trump's legal team would almost certainly seek to oppose or delay any sentencing, insisting it would interfere with Trump's role as commander-in-chief once he is sworn in on January 20.
< >'A severe blow'
An editorial in the Kansas City Star newspaper called for the judge in the case to "do what was once unthinkable -- force a president-elect to take the oath of office in a jail cell."
"The surreal scene, while certainly shocking for the rest of the free world to witness, would send an unmistakable message -- the rule of law still applies in America." …
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
You so that Merchan and we gonna have your boy Joey in a jail cell so quick it’ll make your head spin.
You want to imprison a President, or even a President-elect, the first step must be impeachment/removal from office. So in the case of a President-elect, you'd have to wait.
If they were throwing out the money (not the case) we should have gathered some fluttering currency we saw in the air.
Unless you came over the border illegally …
Or belong to the rat party.
That's blindingly obvious.
He would show up outside the prison to surrender and say, "If Democrats can do this to me with their lawfare, they can do it to you."
Kathy Hochul wouldn't be able to pardon him and stop the bleeding fast enough.
I am drained by the election. I feel relief, overwhelming relief that we’ve won. Honestly, I’m not taking any of this horrible lawfare seriously anymore. To me, the jury spoke loudly last Tuesday, by thoroughly and completely acquitting Donald Trump of any and all charges.
If this fool of a judge is going to sit there and say Trump must report to jail... well I guess there won’t be any unification then. I’ll revert to being super-angry again and I’m sure everyone else will as well.
wetback? He came over here illegally on his own two feet and they allowed him to be a judge?
Guessing Merchan doesn’t want to see his daughter on trial.
this guy has already blinked twice
i think he realizes he has been left with the hot potato
The case has so many gross legal flaws that in an actual rule of law, sentencing would be stayed pending appeal, the case would be voided on appeal, and then the case would be dropped.
There was never any basis for this case other than spite and deception.
If New York attempts to arrest and jail President Trump on this preposterous "conviction", the civil war goes hot pretty quickly. Yes, that would mean shooting. A lot of shooting. This one's not going to end well for anyone. I hope the Democrats and their billionaire sponsors are not that short-sighted.
The worst thing NYS and NYC can do is to put Trump in jail because then they would be stuck with the operating costs of the executive branch of the Federal government. Which of course would mean the most intense anal exam of a political organization ever seen in The United States.
The Phony Baloneys of Federal law enforcement who would be scrambling to save their jobs would absolutely destroy NY politics and probably By extension the deep state too.
It would prove that America is a banana republic.
Since we're now a banana republic, I say that Trump directs his DOJ to charge and imprison the daughter of the "Wetback Cur".
15 or so years should be good - just long enough so Joo-wan misses out on grandchildren.
Juan is PURE EVIL! He will NEVER let this go.
I believe Merchan not "will" but "must" dismiss.
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