Summary
New York judge Juan Merchan denied Donald Trump’s request to delay his sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, set for January 10, 2025, just 10 days before his inauguration.
Trump argued for a delay based on pending immunity appeals, but the court rejected the claim, citing repetitive arguments and delays caused by Trump himself.
Prosecutors noted the timing avoids potential legal complications during his presidency.
The judge plans to sentence Trump to an unconditional discharge, leaving him a convicted felon without further punishment.
The case involves hush money payments from 2016.
Guess which of these sentences aren’t in the article.
“The current schedule is entirely a function of defendant’s repeated requests to adjourn”
“Merchan said in his ruling Friday that he did not plan to jail Trump and that he was likely to sentence him to an unconditional discharge, meaning he would remain a convicted felon but would have no other punishment”
“We are not to blame for flushing democracy down a shit riddled toilet”
How the fuck can we ever take our courts seriously again?
“Sentencing”
Right.
I still don’t understand how a convicted felon loses the right to vote for president but can still be eligible to run for that office.
Because if felons were unable to be elected the Republicans would try to pre-emptively jail their opponent in every single election. It’s one of few checks against corruption that I believe is still working properly.
Why does Trump even give a shit at this point?
Doesn’t a felony conviction make related civil suits against you much easier? I can think of a lot of people who would love to take a chunk out of his fortune.
That no longer matters, because the President is immune to civil suits. Since they seem so reluctant to throw him in jail, I’d be shocked if he even bothers to show up to the hearing.
Yeah, the American people fucked up big time if they thought that there were any remaining guardrails keeping Trump accountable. We just made him a king, and if you disagree he could publicly order you to be murdered and suffer zero consequences because the courts and congress are incapable of holding him accountable.
The President is only immune from civil suits for actions taken while he was president. These felonies precede his term and are actionable.
You are right about him being functionally a king once he is back in office though.
Lock him up before he takes office
lol, good one
They’ve already said there will be no punishment, so why does this even matte? It’s almost like the news wants us to be angry.
I wonder why that is….
