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Here’s What Could Happen If Trump Is Found Guilty in the Stormy Daniels Case
PJ Media ^ | 05/29/2024 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 05/29/2024 9:46:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: ProudDeplorable
If the Supreme Court intercedes and acquits Trump, the Democrats will contend Trump is illegitimate and was protected by the SCOTUS. . .

I like that just fine, don't you? Trump can ask them publicly if they'd like some cheese with that whine.

41 posted on 05/29/2024 10:38:17 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Hambone 1934

What happened of this clear case of election interference?


42 posted on 05/29/2024 10:38:31 AM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: dpetty121263

” leave New York City on his plane and go back to Florida”

Oh Merchan would love that. Biden would get in on the action too and send US Marshalls to execute him, I mean arrest him (deadly force authorized) and take him to Rikers.


43 posted on 05/29/2024 10:48:48 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: God luvs America

Both


44 posted on 05/29/2024 10:49:59 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: CraigEsq
“Trump could seek a direct appeal to the Supreme Court.”

No he can't. Why does everyone think this is an option?

Because there are people who put some legalese, that they heard while watching Matlock, in a sentence and, just like that, they are instant lawyers.

45 posted on 05/29/2024 10:56:15 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: CraigEsq

the rest of that statute you left out

(b)For the purposes of this section, the term “highest court of a State” includes the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.


46 posted on 05/29/2024 10:57:47 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

“the rest of that statute you left out
(b)For the purposes of this section, the term “highest court of a State” includes the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.”

Yes, I left it out as completely irrelevant since we’re not in the District of Columbia.


47 posted on 05/29/2024 10:58:33 AM PDT by CraigEsq (,)
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To: CraigEsq

What about writs of Habeus Corpus? What about cases in which a federal Constitutional right has been violated by the state court - thus not able to be adjudicated by a state court?

These are 14th Amendment Due Process violations. That’s federal - specifically a petitioner’s case against the State of New York.

I don’t know exactly how it works with appeals, and I’m not a lawyer so I’m out of my comfort zone here, but if Trump was to sue the State of NY for violating his 14th Amendment rights, Article III of the Constitution says that the US Supreme Court would have original jurisdiction in the case. Is that not true? Or would the issue of whether it is an appeal versus a new case make a difference?


48 posted on 05/29/2024 10:59:20 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: ProudDeplorable
The Democrat sliming of the Supreme Court after they stopped the recounts in Dec. 2000 had an effect. The courts were afraid to do anything about election fraud in 2020. So they are unlikely to stick out their necks for Trump in 2024. Particularly not John Roberts.

The Democrats must have been confident that the verdict in the Bragg case would not be overturned before the election or it would hardly have been worth having the trial.

49 posted on 05/29/2024 11:00:09 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: CraigEsq
(b)For the purposes of this section, the term “highest court of a State” includes the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

\/

.... so.... not

” end of story “

. you're quite the piece of....work.

50 posted on 05/29/2024 11:00:37 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Are we in the District of Columbia?


51 posted on 05/29/2024 11:02:41 AM PDT by CraigEsq (,)
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To: joethedrummer
Michael Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels. Trump has never admitted to an affair (and I believe him). It wasn't established that Trump even knew about the payoff before the election. Ultimately he is being prosecuted for signing some checks to Michael Cohen--and he may not have known about the payoffs when he signed the checks.

The defense wanted to remind the jury that an NDA is not illegal but Merchan denied them the opportunity.

52 posted on 05/29/2024 11:04:28 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind

Plus Merchan allowed the prosecution to testify that the mysterious “underlying crime” was a valid charge.


53 posted on 05/29/2024 11:05:43 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: CraigEsq
relevant or not it wasn't the end of the story / statute

nice weasel kung fu you got there

/-)

so who to listen to who..

you ?

or all the biggest lawyers in the country

even the democrat ones...

...hmmm..

you lose

i hope the narrative control cubicle doesn't dock your doughnut sprinkles for that.

/-)

54 posted on 05/29/2024 11:06:22 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: butterdezillion

You can appeal a decision from the highest court of a state to SCOTUS on constitutional grounds. But it has to be federal - a state high court is the end of the road for state law issues.

Yes - Habeas Corpus could eventually get to the SCOTUS. After State Court appeals are exhausted, a writ is filed in Federal District Court, appealed to the Circuit Court, then to the Supreme Court. And I’m a little rusty (not a constitutional attorney) but I think it is only for sentences of incarceration (the Latin means “produce the body”).

Finally, no, a person suing a state does not get you to the Supreme Court. That happens ALL THE TIME. New York has its own court set up for just that purpose, the Court of Claims. Only States suing each other have original jurisdiction before the Supreme Court, which is quite rare.


55 posted on 05/29/2024 11:06:26 AM PDT by CraigEsq (,)
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Joe Biden in FEC sponsored Presidential Debates said it wasn’t his son’s laptop and his son made no money and had no Chinese Deals.

How is that Not Election Interference?

How does that not violate Campaign Violations?

He suborned Intel peeps to support his Election Interference Lies.


56 posted on 05/29/2024 11:09:33 AM PDT by OakOak (Misinformation Campaign on your TV)
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To: SeekAndFind

If he’s convicted, Mecham will impose strict conditions for pre-sentencing release. Most likely Trump will be confined to Trump Tower except doctor visits. The Court can impose some pretty aggressive restrictions on electronic device access too. Trump could be delivering his RNC acceptance speech over the phone.


57 posted on 05/29/2024 11:13:20 AM PDT by only1percent
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To: Snowybear

Exactly. The prosecution is supposed to prove crime occurred beyond a reasonable doubt, not just say here’s some evidence, these are the possible crimes that could’ve occurred, Don’t worry if you’re not sure, you all don’t need to agree, just as long as the majority does.

I’ve never heard jury instructions that allow a guilty or not guilty verdict without a union animus decision.


58 posted on 05/29/2024 11:14:27 AM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Organic Panic

Think they know better...would be the biggest mistake ever made by a Democrat...


59 posted on 05/29/2024 11:25:26 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: CraigEsq

The actual text of Article III says, In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.”

Why would that not apply to Trump suing the State of NY for violating his 14th Amendment right to due process?


60 posted on 05/29/2024 11:30:34 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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