The majority will not grant total immunity but will likely issue guidelines for the lower court to use based on an expanded factual record.
So this case should not probably impact the election. It should have been drafted more narrowly and filed much sooner.
Anyone who deals with the courts knows they move like glaciers. This is why I always advise my friends not to sue.
We lawyers are the real beneficiaries of legal disputes.
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The majority is showing their partisan bent by using the immunity issue as a delay tactic for Trump.
Try the case. Get facts on the record. If there is a conviction, Defendant Trump can appeal. Like any other defendant. The appellate courts can then have both actual jury instructions and a trial record to render an opinion about the scope of presidential immunity.
But here we have the Court ruling on crazy hypotheticals, none of which are part of the record.
The Court didn’t need oral argument to rule that Presidents do not enjoy blanket immunity.
Completely disingenuous horseshit today.
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You view the prosecution of Trump to be politically corrupt, without ever considering the underlying allegations that formulate the need for prosecution.
The argument yesterday should have been about the allegations in the indictment, whether if proven, are protected by presidential immunity. Yet, Alito et al played a disingenuous game of suggesting that any prosecution of a former President is corrupt.
We understand that your viewpoint is that Donald Trump is above the law, that the very person whom the Constitution entrusts with enforcing the law is not bound by the rule of law.
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If the jury believes the Stormy payoff was to keep her quiet to help Orange win the election and that the false business entries were to cover up the payments, yer boy is in a world of hurt.
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cases are stronger, but they may get convictions out of this one also. And those can’t be pardoned or dropped by an Orange DOJ.
You make it sound like they are just trying to make anything stick...as if this were somehow political.
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help Oranges election chances by a front man, that’s a felony.
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Rather than misdemeanor business records modification in aid of election fraud, which makes it a felony assuming there was provably clear intent.
Oh, that's right, the feds didn't think they could convict on election fraud.
So, unprovable intent to possibly alter business records after the election to cover up unprovable fraud.
This is a farce. You are gargling Bragg's backwash even arguing about this. Sad.
The money was paid to fraudulently cover up the relationship to aid his election. You think they will believe Cohen paid it out of the goodness of his heart to Stormy after taking an out a mortgage to do it? You think they won’t believe those entries were to repay him? Get a grip man. Best he can hope for is a hung jury.
Incredible!
Why didn’t he just pay for the NDA and book it honestly? Cohen was the front to pay the money to fraudulently influence the election and the false business record was to cover it up. That’s the crime. He wasn't gonna honestly book he paid hush money. The enhancement is that he got the loan from Cohen to make it appear that he didn’t pay it to fraudulently influence the election.
Don't get me wrong. I'm sure the jury is stacked with people who will buy that.
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And he didn’t do either by the way. He used Cohen’s money and then hid it with a false business record.