Simply at some point after the Supreme Court docket declared that presidents are above the legislation and might principally commit no matter crimes they’d like as long as mentioned crimes are a part of their “official” duties, a Manhattan decide delayed Donald Trump’s legal sentencing within the New York hush cash case. That sentencing was scheduled to happen on July 11, and now it gained’t occur till September 18. Fairly candy deal for the previous man!
In late Could, Trump was discovered responsible of 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information to cowl up a cost made to porn star Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election. On the time, it appeared like maybe the one legal case towards the ex-president that may end in precise accountability, on condition that the others—the federal circumstances over election interference and labeled paperwork, in addition to the Georgia election case—would possible not go to trial till no less than after November, in the event that they ever did. However due to the Supreme Court docket, that small measure of accountability might quickly vanish, on account of the completely insane ruling that presidents are “immune” from prosecution for official acts taken whereas in workplace—together with, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned in her dissent, an act like ordering Seal Staff 6 “to assassinate a political rival.” (To be clear, nothing within the Structure imbues the president with these kingly—nay, emperor-worthy—powers; the Court docket’s conservative justices merely determined to upend some 250 years of historical past as a result of they seem to have a mushy spot for a man who has pledged to be a “dictator” on day one among his potential second time period.)
Hours after the Court docket’s ruling, attorneys for Trump despatched a letter to Juan Merchan, the decide overseeing the hush cash case, asking for permission to file a movement to scrap the responsible conviction and for him to delay sentencing whereas contemplating that request. Prosecutors didn’t object to the ask, and Merchan granted it Tuesday afternoon.
You is likely to be questioning to your self how Trump might use Monday’s Supreme Court docket determination, which pertains to acts taken whereas holding the workplace of president, to nix a responsible conviction over a criminal offense that came about earlier than he had the precise job. Kinda looks like whole bullshit, you would possibly say. Fortunately for Trump, although, his buddies on the excessive court docket seem to have accounted for that.
Per The New York Times:
Good occasions. Whereas it’s at it, perhaps the Court docket ought to simply print Trump a literal get-out-of-jail-free card, as that’s what Monday’s determination apparently permits him to do.
