Trump Trial
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Would somebody on Trump's team please go to the Sups for a writ of certiorari and get this resolved. As I heard yesterday, If Merchan grants the prosecution's request and defers until Trump is out of office, the NY appellate court can't hear the case until Trump is sentenced.
Article III Project Head Wants Accountability for ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ Against Trump
Article III Project founder and president Mike Davis emphasized that New York authorities’ postponing Donald Trump’s sentencing illustrates how political the whole case was from the start in exclusive comments to PJ Media.
Davis, a Republican legal expert, has repeatedly called out the judges, DOJ officials, and DAs involved in the many and various lawfare cases against Trump. Now, corrupt Judge Juan Merchan and Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg admitted that Trump’s sentencing in the case involving alleged “hush money” payouts and records falsification has been indefinitely delayed. Davis sees this as a vindication not only of Trump but of all those who consistently exposed the corrupt lawfare.
Davis stated, “The postponement of the sentencing in New York proves that this case was always about Democrat lawfare and election interference.” If the case were legitimate, why keep delaying the sentencing?
Davis added, “This is not new, but now the American public is seeing what we were proclaiming for years. Democrat operatives who brought cases like this one must face financial, legal, and political consequences for their criminal conspiracy against President Trump's rights.”
On Wednesday, Trump's legal team followed through, filing their letter with the court asserting that the case should be dismissed pursuant to the Constitution, the Presidential Transition Act of 1963, and the interests of justice and requesting leave to file a formal motion to dismiss to that effect.
In pertinent part, the letter reads:
Earlier this week, I suggested that Judge Merchan was trapped between a sentencing rock and a political hard place. He adroitly handled the political hot potato by tossing it to the future. CNN ran the story yesterday headlined, “Trump’s hush money sentencing is postponed indefinitely, judge says.” Dismayed Democrats immediately signaled distress.
The gist was that Judge Merchan has no intention of sentencing Trump before his Inauguration. So the earliest it could happen is after Trump leaves office, which means there won’t be any last-minute, ‘Hail Marx’ long-shot jail sentence to save the Democrats from the coming Trump Administration. It was surprising how many prominent Democrats came unglued, obviously hoping against hope and logic that Judge Merchan would somehow lock Trump up for years over a misdemeanor bookkeeping error.
For example, ranting Representative Adam Schiff (D-Ca.), called it “justice denied”:
MSNBC’s far-left legal commenter Joyce Alene (1 million followers) wailed that yesterday was a very sad day for her idea of the rule of law:
Trump’s team called it a “decisive win” for the President. At this point, all the judge plans to do is consider whether to dismiss Trump’s case entirely or put it on ice for four years. So that’s a wrap; absent some surprising development nobody saw coming, the Trump lawfare campaign has ground to an inglorious and ineffective halt.
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The gist was that Judge Merchan has no intention of sentencing Trump before his Inauguration. So the earliest it could happen is after Trump leaves office, which means there won’t be any last-minute, ‘Hail Marx’ long-shot jail sentence to save the Democrats from the coming Trump Administration. It was surprising how many prominent Democrats came unglued, obviously hoping against hope and logic that Judge Merchan would somehow lock Trump up for years over a misdemeanor bookkeeping error.
For example, ranting Representative Adam Schiff (D-Ca.), called it “justice denied”:
MSNBC’s far-left legal commenter Joyce Alene (1 million followers) wailed that yesterday was a very sad day for her idea of the rule of law:
Trump’s team called it a “decisive win” for the President. At this point, all the judge plans to do is consider whether to dismiss Trump’s case entirely or put it on ice for four years. So that’s a wrap; absent some surprising development nobody saw coming, the Trump lawfare campaign has ground to an inglorious and ineffective halt.
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Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Judge Upholds Trump’s Sentencing in Hush Money Case but Signals No Jail Time.” The short version is, Judge Juan Merchan entered an 18-page stinker of an order denying the Trump team’s latest motion to dismiss, but ended up almost apologetically advising that he doesn’t think he will sentence Trump to any jail time.
Judge Merchan oversaw the only criminal case against President Trump that got anywhere, the case fueling all the crazed “convicted felon” campaign rhetoric. Last year, in a legal first, a New York jury found President Trump guilty of the victimless crime of ‘falsifying’ his internal business records since his bookkeeper wrote “legal expenses” on checks made out to Trump’s lawyer.
But Judge Merchan has judiciously taken his time in sentencing the President-Elect. Until Trump is sentenced, he cannot truly be said to have been “convicted,” not really, which is driving Democrats batty. On the other hand, Trump’s appellate rights are limited until the Court issues what’s called a “final order,” defined as when the court has nothing further to do in a case.
Although Trump could have faced up to four years in prison, the judge realized the impracticality of imprisoning a President-Elect. So the court indulged in a little judicial baby-splitting. The order suggested that at a January 10th sentencing hearing, Judge Merchan would issue an “unconditional discharge,” meaning Trump would become a convicted felon but without any punishment, including incarceration, fines, or public service, so as to get everything wrapped before Trump is sworn in on January 20th.
Merchan wrote that a rare unconditional discharge “appears to be the most viable solution to ensure finality and allow defendant to pursue his appellate options.”
The Times speculated that President Trump might just accept the verdict and move on, but based on the President’s posts, he is not planning to take it lying down (nor should he) and appeals are sure to follow.
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