Judge rejects delay on Trump civil fraud fines

Just the News ^ | 2/22/24 | Ben Whedon

[CFW]

Judge Arthur Engoron has rejected a bid from former President Donald Trump's legal team to delay payment of the roughly $355 million in fines and $100 million in interest stemming from New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James's civil fraud case.

"You have failed to explain, much less justify, any basis for a stay... I am confident that the Appellate Division will protect your appellate rights," Engoron wrote to Trump attorney Clifford Robert in an email CBS obtained.

Trump on Wednesday asked Engoron for a 30-day extension to pay the sum, asserting that "[g]iven that the court-appointed monitor continues to be in place, there is no prejudice to the Attorney General in briefly staying enforcement to allow for an orderly post-Judgment process, particularly given the magnitude of Judgment."

[Dr. Franklin]

I think the judge is in the bag, but the lawyers aren't doing a great job either.

From what have seen, most judges are in the bag, and the ones who aren't are elitists who don't care about individual rights. Trump is learning that as a political leader hostile to the elite, he is a target. Laws are ignored by judges all the time. The judges think they are the law. They don't apply the law, and frequently don't even bother to declare the law. It's all about who the judge is, and who the parties are. Law means nothing anymore in the U.S. It's just something lawyer and judges manipulate to serve the purposes of the elite. People are learning this slowly.

[kiryandil]

[Chgogal]

Dillatante Joe supports Soviet/CCP style political persecution. Anyone who supports this outrageous ruling is either a dupe or an Enemy of Freedom. Period.

[Chgogal]

You are a kind and generous Freeper.

[joesbucks]

Funny. You had to sic them on me.

[kiryandil]

You've been flying under the radar for too many years.

Your glory days of sticking the stiletto between the ribs of any effective conservative may be drawing to a close...

[joesbucks]

There was an old timer here, Howlin- rest her soul, that had a posse she would sic in people who were getting to her. They used to call them her harpies. You one of them?

[kiryandil]

You're not getting to me.

I'm getting to you, Democrat boy.

[joesbucks]

Well since I’m not trying to get to you, you’ve again missed the mark. And other than living rent free. I mean, why would anyone sic their posse on me?

[kiryandil]

I don't have a posse like that.

BTW - Howlin was way after my time - FR class of July 1999.

I didn't bother with her. and she didn't get after me.

[Mr. K]

Thank you! That was the term I was looking for and had not heard in a long time “bill of attainder”