I had hoped that the Supreme Court would euthanize this mad dog of a case, but it was a longshot and I agree with Professor Turley’s analysis. Judge Merchan immunized himself, barely, from Supreme Court intervention when he announced that he would sentence the President to Conditional Discharge. That is non reporting probation. It is the lightest sentence possible to receive in a felony case. Trump will now be able to appeal the Kangaroo Court’s case in its entirety, and I have no doubt that this lawfare insult to American jurisprudence will eventually be overturned in toto.
Barrett and Roberts were Trump’s biggest mistakes in judicial appointments. Bah. Turley’s points may indeed be well taken, but they are only minor consolation. The entire sentencing exercise is one more blatantly political move in a long and scandalous succession of them, in an obviously broken state judicial system. But Barrett and Roberts are still trying to make the media love them. Sigh.
The Democrats and their Media will howl that “no one is above the law”, the People will agree and support full investigations in the the corrupt, malignant, disgusting pure law-fare actions that have taken place.
Is it too obvious to state that this whole exercise has been a total waste of time and money. And all those involved have not even realised this?
Trump was at the late Jimmy Carter’s funeral today conversing and smiling with his adversaries who were probably the ones pulling strings behind the scenes to pin this court case on him.
And yet, Trump had not a care in the world about this never ending court case. Not a single care. He will be sworn in on January 20 as scheduled in everyone’s diary…
The larger problem here is that in the highest court of the land we have three justices who are willing to do whatever it takes to hurt their enemies, and two who are more concerned about their media profile than the law. The rest of the government views the law as “whatever you can get away with without the supreme court slapping you down.”
That is why we are not currently a nation of laws.
I am hard pressed to explain why this isn’t a royal screw-up by the Court. Turley explained in a Fox News clip about Barrett taking a centrist/left-tolerant stand, this is her prerogative as a jurist. Appellate courts wish refraining from intervening. …Or, …Federal courts don’t want to intervene in State matters.
OK, I get it, we want the legal process to work. Yet … we’ve seen justice play out in New York for over a year now. Between Trump and Penny, New York prosecutions look more like lawfare than Justice. …and four Justice felt they should have stepped in.
They should have stomped on this after the election result was clear.
Seems to me that Barrett ought to be reminded that she isn’t an Appellate justice now. She and her colleagues are THE Court. They set the example.
They’ve basically allowed a precedent whereby the average citizen may suffer Judicial harassment, so long as the punishment won’t be a real concern.
For now.
Prudence would have punted this down the calendar until it had to be suspended by his second term in office.
Not much prudence left in NYC liberals.
Why would we believe such a dishonest court that the sentence planned will be the actual sentence. Trump has the option to be sentenced remotely. He ought to do so, from a state that will tell NY to pound sand if it tries to extradite him.
The libs have been way too quiet leading up to inauguration. There is some dirty disruptive nonsensical cleverer-than-thou trick in the pipeline. Could be a rough 10 days.
Agree generally with the sentiments expressed here, though it seems essential to point out that, while Barrett was indeed appointed by Trump, mainly to keep a promise on life issues and ignoring warning signs in other areas, Roberts was appointed by Bush the Younger who, like his father, was very prone to judicial mistakes. (Given that leftists were calling Bush a fascist at the time, like they subsequently did the last ten years to Trump, I could understand the confusion.) To compound the error, Bush appointed Roberts as associate justice only after the failure of Miers, who likely would have been even worse, and then altered the appointment to chief justice upon the death of Rehnquist, subsequently picking Alito for the original opening. How differently might the last twenty years have turned out if Alito had instead been chief justice?
DP, thanks for the correction. For some reason I had it in my head that Roberts was also a Trump product, when obviously he has been there much longer. Senior Moment. 😂
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Hi, Frank. Roberts was Dubya’s mistake, and a bad one.
When this stupid conviction reaches the Supreme Court on appeal, it will likely be overturned 5-4. Roberts will join the dufuses.
Now that this is settled, it will be nice to have a great response to “Your guy is a convicted felon.”
“Yeah, so guilty that NO penalties were imposed – and the judge wished him godspeed!!”