26 Jul 2024 7:46 am
Why the ruling is also bad for partisan *** bragg...
But those aren’t the only cases affected.
The Supreme Court also ruled that prosecutors can’t enter official acts as evidence.
Alvin Bragg’s rigged guilty verdict in New York was already on shaky grounds for multiple reasons not limited to incorrect jury instructions, the judge allowing prejudicial testimony into the record, Bragg using two misdemeanors where the statute of limitations expired to create 34 felonies, and the fact that Bragg has no authority to enforce federal campaign finance law.
But those appeals take time.
The immunity ruling gave Trump the ability to get the guilty verdict tossed in September.
Trump’s lawyers argued to Judge Merchan that he should vacate the verdict.
“The record is clear: DANY was wrong, very wrong,” Trump’s attorneys’ motion read.
“Be that as it may, Your Honor now has the authority to address these injustices, and the Court is duty-bound to do so in light of the Supreme Court’s decision,” the motion continued.
“In order to vindicate the Presidential immunity doctrine, and protect the interests implicated by its underpinnings, the jury’s verdicts must be vacated and the Indictment dismissed,” the filing added.
Why the ruling is bad for Bragg
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig laid out the case as to why the immunity ruling blew up Bragg’s verdict.
Honig wrote of the trial record that “it also included key events that happened after he took office: conversations with White House communications director Hope Hicks, tweets sent from the official White House account, and a financial-disclosure form required of the president.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling said it would take a very dim view of lower courts criminalizing presidential conduct, so the pressure is on the lower courts to comply with the ruling.
Merchan is a partisan activist, so Honig doesn’t think Merchan is likely to go along with the immunity ruling.
But Honig explained the New York Court of Appeals or even the Supreme Court is likely to throw this joke verdict out.
“But will the appellate courts — including, potentially, the Supreme Court itself — see it the same way? If communications between the president and DOJ are automatically immune, and talks between the president and vice-president are presumptively immune, are talks between the president and his White House communications director all that different?” Honig wondered.
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But those aren’t the only cases affected.
The Supreme Court also ruled that prosecutors can’t enter official acts as evidence.
Alvin Bragg’s rigged guilty verdict in New York was already on shaky grounds for multiple reasons not limited to incorrect jury instructions, the judge allowing prejudicial testimony into the record, Bragg using two misdemeanors where the statute of limitations expired to create 34 felonies, and the fact that Bragg has no authority to enforce federal campaign finance law.
But those appeals take time.
The immunity ruling gave Trump the ability to get the guilty verdict tossed in September.
Trump’s lawyers argued to Judge Merchan that he should vacate the verdict.
“The record is clear: DANY was wrong, very wrong,” Trump’s attorneys’ motion read.
“Be that as it may, Your Honor now has the authority to address these injustices, and the Court is duty-bound to do so in light of the Supreme Court’s decision,” the motion continued.
“In order to vindicate the Presidential immunity doctrine, and protect the interests implicated by its underpinnings, the jury’s verdicts must be vacated and the Indictment dismissed,” the filing added.
Why the ruling is bad for Bragg
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig laid out the case as to why the immunity ruling blew up Bragg’s verdict.
Honig wrote of the trial record that “it also included key events that happened after he took office: conversations with White House communications director Hope Hicks, tweets sent from the official White House account, and a financial-disclosure form required of the president.”
The Supreme Court’s ruling said it would take a very dim view of lower courts criminalizing presidential conduct, so the pressure is on the lower courts to comply with the ruling.
Merchan is a partisan activist, so Honig doesn’t think Merchan is likely to go along with the immunity ruling.
But Honig explained the New York Court of Appeals or even the Supreme Court is likely to throw this joke verdict out.
“But will the appellate courts — including, potentially, the Supreme Court itself — see it the same way? If communications between the president and DOJ are automatically immune, and talks between the president and vice-president are presumptively immune, are talks between the president and his White House communications director all that different?” Honig wondered.
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