I don't know which grounds are easiest to appeal on, but Trump's Constitutional rights to due process seem like they were clearly violated by not knowing what the underlying predicate crime was until the jury instructions and then not even having to unanimously agree on one.
Yeah it was posted here yesterday, this guy just cleaned up the formatting and made it easier to read.
A lifelong democrat assigns the cases.
Supposedly the 50 year contract between the United States and Saudi Arabia to sell Saudi oil in USD exclusively ends June 9th.
The Trump prosecution seems like one of those things that needed to happen before happenings commence.
With 5 months before the election it shouldn't be too long of wait until covert operations become overt.
The Supreme Court could expand the scope of their upcoming Presidential Immunity ruling given the ridiculousness of this trial. Since these charges were from 2017, they could fall under that.
Trump could also appeal to the Supreme Court on the grounds his constitutional rights were violated, but I read the Appeals Court needs to hear the case first.
Not only that, but this is the first time ever that a state prosecutor has charged violations of federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime. Probably because state prosecutors have no business charging federal election laws.
I've seen the suggestion that egregiousness of this verdict will likely expand Supreme Court's coming ruling on Presidential Immunity. Since these charges are from 2017, they could fall under the scope of their ruling.
Whatever happened to Biden's planned address to the nation following the verdict?
From what I understand, only 4 of the 12 needed to agree on something.
Of course, but it goes to your point about precedence.
Apparently his lawyer said on Watters that Trump is still under gag order.
I saw a X post from some media person this morning lamenting that Biden had his Philadelphia campaign event or whatever it was and CNN/MSNBC gave it no coverage focusing on the Trump trial instead.
I can't remember who it was, but I did see one of the lawfare bigwigs saying this verdict is proof that Trump committed election fraud in 2016.
Normally a paper crime would just be probation, and that could be the case. But with the sentencing 4 days before the convention, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried sending him to jail just to screw with the nominating process.
From what I've read, an appeal isn't likely to be heard until after the election.
Four days before the GOP convention.
Reaching a verdict means it's not a hung jury.
That probably means guilty, imo.
Guilty of what, now that's another story, lol.
Yeah apparently it's NY law, which seems ridiculous, but the instructions are also 55 pages long!
Not to mention an assault on due process.
One of the three predicate crimes is violations of federal election campaign law yet Merchan wouldn't allow former FEC Chair Brad Smith to testify about it for the defense.
The Judge didn't even give the jury written copies of his instructions, let alone transcripts of testimonies.
Among the 3 areas of crime the Judge instructed the jury to choose, one of them is violations of federal election law.
The Judge also wouldn't allow the defense to call former FEC Chair Brad Smith to testify how Cohen's payments weren't campaign contributions.
What a clown.
Did they do this to put pressure on Alito and Thomas to recuse from Trump's Jan 6 cases? Even if not, it'll be held up by the left as more reason they should.
This is from 6 months ago, doesn't name the project and is listed under the satire section of the website. Lame click-bait.
Great idea. In any case, they should move it up, if Merchan is going to jail Trump, make him (as an illegal Biden donor) be the one to jail the opposing parties official nominee for president.