Yup…..
You read THAT Right…..
These guys have the balls to a judge ?
We ‘ll tell YOU what we want YOU to do?
Huh?
Maybe they’ll piss the judge off enough to get Trump ‘put in’ just to show who runs the court and justice system….
Senate Republicans are warning New York Judge Juan Merchan not to sentence former President Trump to prison or house arrest or take any other action that could disrupt the likely GOP nominee’s ability to campaign ahead of the November election….
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Republican senators acknowledge that legal experts say it would be highly unusual for Trump to receive a prison sentence for a class E felony and that he would most likely be allowed to remain free pending his appeal to higher state courts.
But they’re nervous about what may happen, because Merchan wields a lot of discretion over the terms of the sentence and they felt he tilted the trial against Trump’s team.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said it would be a “further abuse of power” to incarcerate Trump or sentence him to home confinement.
“I’m very troubled by what I see in the way the courts have been weaponized,” he said. “It used to be there were some institutions in America, namely the FBI, the Department of Justice and the courts, which were regarded as out of bounds for overt partisan politics, but unfortunately that’s changed, and not for the better.”..
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Trump’s legal team would push hard to defer any sentence until he completes his appeals, which likely would drag on past Election Day.
An analysis by Norm Eisen, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, found that only 1 in 10 cases of first-degree falsification of business records in New York resulted in imprisonment. His findings were first published in The New York Times….
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Some New York legal experts note, however, that Merchan, the judge, has a reputation of being tough on white-collar criminals.
Trump warned over the weekend that the public would reach a “breaking point” if he were imprisoned or confined to his home, acknowledging “it could happen.”…
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Some Republican senators have predicted the Supreme Court would overturn any criminal conviction of Trump…
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But legal scholars say they don’t expect nation’s highest court to get involved in a state criminal matter, pointing out that Trump’s conviction doesn’t raise any obvious constitutional concerns.
“The most likely answer is the Supreme Court is going to do nothing,” said Ilya Somin, a professor of law at George Mason University whose research focuses on constitutional law.
“There is no procedure for a case like this to go directly from a state trial court to the federal Supreme Court. There just isn’t,” he said. “So far, at least, there isn’t really an issue of federal law here. You can try to concoct one, but that’s another obstacle to getting it to the Supreme Court at all.
“At the very least, I think the federal Supreme Court won’t do anything unless and until this gets all the way to the New York state supreme court, or whatever is the highest New York court that would make a decision,” he said.
Barbara McQuade, a law professor at the University of Michigan who specializes in criminal law and procedure and previously served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said there’s no chance of the U.S. Supreme Court stepping in to wipe out Trump’s conviction or to stave off a prison sentence before the election.
“I see zero chance of the U.S. Supreme Court intervening in Donald Trump’s conviction before the election…