The Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department in New York heard emergency arguments this afternoon on President-elect Donald Trump’s request to block his sentencing in the hush money case, which is scheduled for Friday before Judge Juan Merchan. The court denied Trump’s motion for a stay.
Catch up on Josh Kovensky’s coverage from the courthouse below:
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The Appellate Division of the First Judicial Department in New York heard emergency arguments this afternoon on President-elect Donald Trump’s request to block his sentencing in the hush money case, which is scheduled for Friday before Judge Juan Merchan. The court denied Trump’s motion for a stay.
Catch up on Josh Kovensky’s coverage from the courthouse below:
There are laws, but no justice.
So far, it appears the judge is saying exactly the right thing, that the president-elect doesn’t have immunity and Trump’s actions were not official acts. I don’t see how any court disagrees with those points, so I suspect NY will turn these appeals down. You can bet that the Trump team is going to push to file with the Supreme Court and try to get a stay granted…that should not happen, this is wholly within state law in NY. They may do it anyways and push arguments back past Jan 20th in the hopes that Merchan just gives up.
Merchan needs to send a message. Sentence fat boy to the maximum (which I believe is 6 months per charge, or 17 years in jail) then suspend that sentence to begin on January 21, 2029. That’ll give the fat fuck something to think about for the next four years.
If there was ever any doubt that the law is written for the privileged and powereful recent developments in all of the Trump cases should help us understand the fallacy of the current concept of " justice" The courts are so corrupt and inept that a man got away with an attempted coup against the government they supposedly serve and they took obvious and overt steps to make sure he prevailed.
I don’t know where else to talk about this since we can’t comment directly on the Editors’ Blog, so I’m going to talk about it here. Josh shared TPM reader JB’s thoughts about Democratic messaging, namely, that Democrats should repeat over & over in straightforward language TCF’s malfeasant plans. TCF is going to pardon the cop killers of January 6, for example. So I just Xittered my Representative (a Dem) and my two idiot Senators (both Rs) to say, “TCF is going to pardon the January 6 cop killers. Please talk more about that.” I hate Xitter, but this seems like a worthwhile way to interact on that xitty platform